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<td class="contentheading" width="100%">Partnership for Diversity 2007 Conference: still a few places left, but hurry </td>
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<div>Bruxelles - Brussels, Tuesday, 11 September 2007<span class="small"> by Davyth Hicks </span> </div>
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<div>EBLUL have announced that there are a few places left for Partnership for Diversity 2007, their flagship conference to be held in Vich/ Vigo di Fassa in the Ladin-speaking area of the Italian Alps. PfD 2007 will this year explore issues in minority language broadcasting. The conference held on the 28th September will gather a host of experts in the field, broadcasters and academics, to the spectacular Alpine setting of Vigo di Fassa, Trentino, north Italy, set in the heart of the Ladin-speaking region.
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<div>In a press release EBLUL said that: "In the last decades some considerable barriers to the widespread access of RML and smaller state language communities to broadcast media have been removed. The change from analogue to digital and the opportunities to broadcast via the web have each brought new possibilities.
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<div>"Access to media is a key marker for a language community; it sits alongside educational opportunity in assisting self- esteem in our young people, and indeed is of key importance in the maintenance of self esteem among the young, many of whom in RML communities will not have had access to the full panoply of education in their own languages."
<br><br>EBLUL continued that: "We have had a great response with delegates set to arrive from across the globe, there are still a few places left but people should hurry and make their reservation as soon as possible."
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<div>The conference is timely - Eurolang readers will know that problems in the domain of broadcasting for regional or minority languages (RMLs) continue and despite some successes in this field and new opportunities, such as digital TV enabling greater RML access to TV, there are still a host of problems, continuing restrictions, and cross-border issues.
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<div>The conference is being hosted by Trentino region, and will be held in the Ladin Institute in Vich / Vigo di Fassa in the Trentino region of northern Italy. (Eurolang 2007) </div><br>
<div><br><a href="http://www.eblul.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=126&Itemid=57" target="_blank">PFD 2007 details (Programme, Reservations and Travel)</a><br> </div><br></td></tr></tbody></table>
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