Tuesday 21 February 2023, 12:30-13:30 / Palais des Nations, Room XXVII / Hybrid 

Celebrate International Mother Language Day with us! 

Discover the necessity of multilingual education and how it can shape the future. 

On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, we invite you to take part in a thought-provoking discussion on the importance of multilingualism in education for fostering diversity and multicultural identity. We are pleased to welcome experts from UNESCO and UNIGE. Find the full programme below.  

The event is hybrid and open to the public:   

• To participate in person: registration is mandatory-

• To participate online: Zoom link to join: https://unog-un-org.zoom.us/j/91710811337?pwd=aXpRQnZUOUtzTmJFcmhQY0MzMUNJUT09

  Meeting ID: 917 1081 1337 - Passcode: 346389

PROGRAMME

• Welcome and Opening Remarks - by Mrs. Kira Kruglikova, Director of Division of Conference Management, and Chair of the Multilingualism Action Team, UN Geneva 

• Keynote – by Mrs. Maki Katsuno-Hayashikawa, Director, Division of Education 2030, UNESCO Headquarters 
   

• Keynote – by Prof. Francois Grin, Director, Research Group “Economics, Languages and Education”, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (FTI), University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 
   

• Experience sharing – by a language teacher at the Center for Learning and Multilingualism at UN Geneva 
   

• Keynote - by Mrs. Isla Gordon, Principal of Campus des Nations, ECOLINT (International School of Geneva), Switzerland & Dr. Eowyn Crisfield, specialist in multilingual education and lecturer at Oxford Brookes University

• Panel discussion and Questions & Answers – moderated by Mrs. Kira Kruglikova. 

In room, the Center for Learning and Multilingualism (CLM) will have an information stand on language courses at the UN Geneva, and will offer you tips to learn languages.