The first event will take place on 9, 10 and 11 October 2026 at the Barcelona trade fair complex at Montjuïc, covering an area of 14,000 square metres

The event will include many activities for professionals from the industry, there will be a B2B area for doing business, and the fair will be more international: studies and projects from more than 35 countries are expected to take part

The new format will raise the profile of the videogame industry in Catalonia even further, strengthening the presence of Catalan as it will bring together all the players in the sector 

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SGÔR - the 2nd International Symposium on Minoritised Language and Football, promoted by Plataforma per la Llengua and the European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI) - demonstrates football's potential as a tool for cohesion and language promotion

Experts, clubs and researchers highlight the value of informal and leisure spaces for promoting the social use of languages

Plataforma per la Llengua is promoting the 2nd International Symposium on Minoritised Languages and Football on 16 and 17 March at the Barcelona History Museum in El Born, with the cooperation of the European Center for Minority Issues

Experts, clubs and researchers from all over Europe will analyse the use of languages in professional football, youth football and sports media: registration open

Football is one of the social phenomena with greatest capacity to affect culture and communication, making it a key tool for normalising languages

The former vice-president of Futbol Club Barcelona Elena Fort, and representatives of RCD Espanyol and Girona CF, will take part in a symposium that will look in depth at the experiences of CE Europa, Sant Andreu, CE Júpiter, Vila-real CF and CE Atlètic Balears, as well as Frisian, Silesian, Kashubian, Welsh and South Tyrolean clubs 

The organisation informs the rapporteur of statements by PP leaders urging "friendly" governments to halt the recognition of Catalan in the EU

The UN special rapporteur is in Brussels on an official visit to examine how the European Union treats regional and minority languages

The organisation urges the Spanish government to take advantage of the European strategic rethink to achieve official status for Catalan

Plataforma per la Llengua demands that language-based hate speech should be recognised as a form of discrimination, as the first step to finding a solution to it, and issues a reminder that these attacks are not occurring in isolation 

The organisation wants moderation systems on technological platforms to protect speakers of minoritised languages  

Maria de Lluc Muñoz, Plataforma per la Llengua's officer responsible for international affairs, is taking part in the 18th session of the Forum on Minority Issues in Geneva on Thursday and Friday

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The two resolutions, presented by Plataforma per la Llengua, have been approved at the General Assembly of the European Language Equality Network (ELEN), which took place last weekend in Barcelona

The motion approved calls on France to guarantee universal access to bilingual public education from nursery to baccalaureate; to replace short initiation sessions with structured lessons; to take on more teachers; and to recognise Catalan as a baccalaureate examination subject

The ELEN European network has 174 member organisations representing 50 languages from 25 different European States

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Plataforma per la Llengua has attended a forum organised at Leeuwarden/Ljouwert (Frisia, Netherlands) by the European Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity (NPLD) and the Coppieters Foundation

The congress allowed us to find out about experiments to promote minoritised languages in the audiovisual field by institutions, festivals, media, and Frisian, Irish, Sard, Basque, Welsh, Faroese and other cultural promotion bodies

FUEN has agreed to support the amendment of various articles of the Judicial System Act, ask the courts to guarantee the effective equality of Catalan in the legal system and call on the European Commission to investigate the violation of language rights in this area

Plataforma per la Llengua, the only body from the Catalan-speaking territories in the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), promoted the resolution at the organisation's 69th Congress, held at Bozen-Bulzan-Bolzano in South Tyrol

It is the first FUEN congress where Plataforma per la Llengua has taken part as a full member and it also elected Olivia Schubert as the new president of the main organisation in Europe that protects national and language minorities

On Friday in the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review, Spain pledged for the first time to protect the rights of its native language communities

This April, Plataforma per la Llengua achieved a historic milestone: four States (including Austria and Ireland) made recommendations to Spain to improve the rights of language minorities

Òscar Escuder, president of Plataforma per la Llengua, spoke this afternoon at the UN Human Rights Council to call on Spain to work to put these recommendations into practice to ensure that the future of the Catalan language is not endangered

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On Thursday and Friday, the closing sessions of Spain's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) took place in Geneva. The review cycle continues on Monday with a general session in which Òscar Escuder, president of Plataforma per la Llengua, will participate

Plataforma per la Llengua, which was present at the session dedicated to Spain, notes the commitments made and urges the Spanish State to implement them immediately

This April, as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council, four states (including Austria and Ireland) called on Spain to commit to the rights of linguistic minorities

In these past few months, Plataforma per la Llengua has been in contact with representatives from several states to inform them of the violations of linguistic rights in Spain, as detailed in a report presented in October