The European Day of Languages will be celebrated on Thursday, 26 September - online and in the nine countries of the COLOURS university alliance, which is coordinated by Paderborn University. Participants can look forward to videos, quizzes, language cafés, etc. to help them discover the languages of the partner universities: German, French, Italian, Croatian, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Swedish and Spanish. The campaign, to which students, staff and interested external parties are cordially invited, is organised by representatives of the language centres and similar institutions at the nine COLOURS universities.
The online platform is ‘BloomHub’, which will go live on Thursday morning. Further information can be found on the event website: http://go.upb.de/edl
About COLOURS
Colours stands for ‘COLlaborative innOvative sUstainable Regional univerSities’. The initiative aims to promote social and technological innovation for citizens throughout Europe through strategic cooperation and to establish an inter-university campus. The universities are supported in their collaboration by 55 associated partners who are active as multipliers in regional innovation networks.
In addition to Paderborn University as the coordinating institution, the alliance includes the University of Le Mans (France), the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), the University of Ferrara (Italy), the University of Kristianstad (Sweden), the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa (Poland), the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek (Croatia), the Ventspils University of Applied Sciences (Latvia) and the University of St Kliment Ohridski Bitola (North Macedonia). Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University (Ukraine) is an associated partner of the alliance.
The European Commission has been funding COLOURS since the beginning of the year with around 14 million euros as part of the ‘European Universities’ initiative. Together, the members represent around 126,000 students and over 12,000 employees.
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