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The project "Language Plurality: Nordic and Sámi Languages at the Faculty of Humanities" involves exchanges of teachers and students of bachelor, master and doctoral programmes between the Faculty of Humanities and the University of Bergen, the University of Iceland and the Sámi University. It aims to promote elective teaching of Nordic and small languages at the Faculty of Humanities and to raise students'' awareness of the linguistic and cultural situation in the North.
In the field of teacher mobility, the teaching stays of Norwegian and Icelandic teachers of Norwegian, Sámi, Icelandic and Old Norse languages are included, as well as shadowing of foreign teachers by their Czech colleagues. This will allow development and innovation of teaching practices for the students who do not study philology but who are taught languages in the framework of a wider education in humanities.
Student mobilities in this project are shorter and for different study stages. They will enable highly motivated Czech students to be acquainted with the Norwegian or Icelandic environment and work on their theses on a relevant topic. Visits of Icelandic and Norwegian advanced students in Prague will include language teaching assistance at the Faculty of Humanities, thus enabling them to gain pedagogical experience for further work.
Summary of project results
Summary of bilateral results
Through the exchanges with the Sámi University, the Czech students and teachers had the opportunity to see a unique example of how a minority has been able to engage in a national society, maintain its language, culture, and tradition, and develop its own education at a university level. It also helped the Sámi University to gain experience with international projects and university environment. A new Institutional Cooperation Project (ICP) has been designed thanks to the mobilities with the University of Iceland.