Poliglotti4.eu Closing Conference - One continent, many tongues: a spotlight on Europe's linguistic wealth

 OPENING

 Paola Donati, Director Teatro Due

 Massimo Mezzetti, Councillor, Emilia-Romagna Region Department of Culture

 Nicoletta Paci, Deputy Mayor of Parma

 Laura Ferraris, Councillor for Culture, City of Parma

 Uwe Mohr, Project Director Poliglotti4.eu                                 

 Dubravka Vrgoč, European Theatre Convention (ETC) President

 Laura Ferraris, Head of Department of Culture, City of Parma

 MULTILINGUALISM - A KEY TO INTEGRATION FOR EUROPEAN CITIZENS

 Panel discussion

 Biljana Srbljanović, Language Ambassador

 Jeroen Darquennes, Professor of German and General Linguistics, University of Namur

 Pascal Rambert, Artistic Director, Théâtre de Gennevillier

 Antonio Latella, Theatre Director and Professor of continuous education pragramme “Ecole des Maîtres”                          

 Moderator: Aleksandra Jovićević, Professor at the Department of History of Arts and Performance, La Sapienza University, Rome

 COFFEE BREAK

 PRACTICAL REFLECTION

 Semiotic Reading of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel by Christopher Sawyer-Luçanno

 MULTILINGUALISM IN PRACTICE                        

 Richard Simcott, Winner, “MehrsprachIch” competition

 Alexander Rawlings, Student, University of Oxford

 Sylvia Brandt, Language and Integration Department, Goethe-Institut Munich

 Moderator: Julia Kofler, Manager External Relations and Partnerships, British Council Brussels

 CONFERENCE LUNCH

 MULTILINGUALISM IN CIVIL SOCIETY AND PUBLIC EUROPEAN SPACES

 Table discussions- Exchange of best practice examples in early learning, adult learning, public institutions including public theatres

•  Early Language Learning

 Annick de Houwer, Chair of Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Erfurt, Germany

 Eowyn Crisfield, Director of Crisfield Educational Consulting, The Netherlands

 Cor van der Meer, Project Co-ordinator, Mercator Research Centre

•  Adult Language Learning

 Geoffrey Scaplehorn, Vice President of the EUCIS-LLL, European Forum for Vocational Education and Training

 Eilidh MacDonald, Project Manager, Language Rich Europe (LRE)

 Rosangela De Simone, Communication and Events, European College of Parma

 Francesca Operti, Project Manager, European Association for the Education of Adults

•  Public Institutions

 Benedetta Toni, Headmaster, European School Parma, Nursery and Primary School Cycle

 Birgit Lengers, Director Junges DT,  Deutsches Theater Berlin

 Moderator: Miguel Ángel Martín Ramos, Counsellor, Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste

 COFFEE BREAK

 THE ROLE OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY PLATFORM ON MULTILINGUALISM

 Bessie Dendrinos, Director, Research Centre for Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment (RCeL), Faculty of English, University of Athens

 Geoffrey Scaplehorn, Vice President of the EUCIS-LLL

 Seán Ó Riain, President of the Europa Esperanto-Union

 Teresa Condeço, Principal Administrator, Multilingual Unit, European Commission

 Moderator: Uwe Mohr, Chair of Civil Society Platform on Multilingualism

 Panel discussion

 Dubravka Vrgoč, President, European Theatre Convetion (ETC)

 Paolo Fabbri, Semiotician, University of Rome

 Paolo Leon, Advanced Course of Public Economy, University of Roma Tre

 Walter Le Moli, Theatre Director, Director, Graduate Programme of Visual and Performing Arts, IUAV University Venice

 Laura Boselli, DG Translation, European Commission

 PRESENTATION OF BEST PRACTICE EXAMPLE

 "You are In!" - Trilingual theatre performance by Holger Schober

 Fondazione Teatro Due Parma, z/k/m Zagreb, Deutsches Theater Berlin                                 

 PROJECT OUTCOMES, CONCLUSIONS AND CLOSING REMARKS

 Uwe Mohr, Director, Poliglotti4.eu

 Heidi Wiley, European Theatre Convention (ETC)

 Miguel Ángel Martín Ramos, Adviser/Counsellor, Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste

 Cor van der Meer, Project Co-ordinator, Mercator Research Centre

 Julia Kofler, Manager External Relations, British Council Brussels

 Francesca Operti, Project Manager, European Association for the Education of Adults

 Moderator: Martin Nuttall, Project Manager, ALTE