At the end of December 2023, Mercator European Research Centre will start a new project: Read with Multilingual Early Education.

Read with MEE wants to advance key literacy skills and equitable educational opportunities for young multilingual children (2-6 years old), especially those belonging to a national, regional, migrant, or refugee minority. It will promote inclusion of their linguistic skills in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC).

The project addresses a gap in inclusive multilingual literacy development and aims to:

a) increase knowledge about inclusive multilingual literacy development;
b) support implementation and inclusion of multilingual literacy skills in ECEC and at home;
c) develop positive attitudes towards linguistic diversity and home languages.

The Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning (part of the Fryske Akademy) will coordinate this new Erasmus+ project. Partners in this new Erasmus+ project are: ATiT (Belgium), NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences and 8D Games (Netherlands), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), and the University of the Basque Country (Spain). The project is funded by The European Union.

More information follows soon.