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Languages open hearts and minds

 Challenge, 22 Sep 2025 - 26 Sep 2025, Porto, Portugal

Our school will also celebrate the European Day of Languages (EDL)! The Department of Languages will be organizing several interdisciplinary initiatives from 22nd to 26th September, such as a “photo wall” decorated with EDL motifs, posters according to the motto “Languages open hearts and minds” and a multilingual tongue twister challenge using Portuguese, English and French (…) among other activities. Students will also participate in the International Contest promoted by DEL. Join us and let’s celebrate EDL together!

Venue: Agrupamento de Escolas António Nobre (Show On Map)
Target groups:  Children Language teachers

Organizer: Departamento de Línguas
Estimated number of participants/people involved: 250
Address: Rua Aval de Cima, 128, 4200-105, Porto, Portugal
Contact Name: Etelvina Fontes
Website: http://www.ae-anobre.pt

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20 ideas for this year's European Day of Languages

Struggling to find ideas for an event for this year’s European Day of Languages? It can be challenging to organise events that are fun, inclusive, have an educational element and motivate a large number of people. Below are a few ideas to get your creative thoughts flowing, most of which are based on the principle of “starting small to go big”! 20 ideas for activities that can be carried in celebration of this year's EDL.

20 ideas for this year's European Day of Languages

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Vote for this year’s most innovative event!  

To add a further element of spice to the Day, anyone visiting the website can vote for what they regard as the most innovative EDL event. This can be due to its creativity, transferability or just because it truly represents the spirit of the Day. Voting will be open for one month, from 20 September – 20 October, with the winner to be announced in December. There will be a small prize for the organizer of the event which receives the most votes.

2024's 'most innovative event' is
Long live the European Day of Languages/ Vive la Journée européenne des langues

The event received 1900+ votes and was organised by Lycée Alfred Mézières de Longwy, France.

Congratulations to the winners!

We were greatly impressed by the creativity and great effort which went into organising the events submitted and would like to thank all organisers of EDL events in 2024.