Τhis year’s ECSPM symposium celebrated 10 years of development, expansion and enlargement as an organisation independent from the DG Education and Culture of the European Commission, which initially launched it.

Entitled “Actions for social justice in multilingual societies” (concept note here), the symposium was hosted by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) on May 15th and 16th 2025, and co-organised by the university’s MIRCo Research Centre. It took place at La Cristalera UAM centre and gave participants a unique opportunity to be altogether for a full two days to discuss issues of mutual concern and develop collaborations.

The symposium featured lectures, panel, and roundtable discussions addressing critical issues related to linguistic justice in social and educational contexts but also projects that the ECSPM is involved with. A link to a page with abstracts and bionotes is the bottom of this page.

Where available, PPTs can be accessed below (click on title of talk).

Welcome to the 2025 Symposium Bessie Dendrinos, ECSPM President

Keynotes
Challenges and theoretical and methodological proposals for a sociolinguistics committed to social justiceLuisa Martín Rojo, MIRCo Director, UAM
Theoretical and methodological proposals: epistemic and conscientization communitiesMaite Puigdevall Serralvo, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Panel: Equiling: the role of language in the construction of contemporary inequalities
Changing the sociolinguistic order: the experience of young Basque speakers in Bilbao Estibaliz Amorrortu, University of Deusto
Exploring youth agency and linguistic citizenship in participatory researchGabriela Prego, University of Santiago de Compostela
Bonding across linguistic inequalities: The experience of “Vincles”Joan Pujolar, Universidad Oberta de Catalunya
Coordinator: Jos Swanenberg, Tilburg University

Panel: Action research for social justice in education
To be uploaded, presentation by Ben Rampton, King’s College London
Language, education and forced migration in the Nordic context: Mobilizing educatorsChristina Hedman, Stockholm University
Participating to transform: the collective production of an intercultural bilingual education projet in chaco (Argentina)Virginia Unamuno,
Challenging linguistic inequalities: agency, conscientization, interaction and habitusMiren Otxotorena-Aranguren, UAM
Coordinator: Júlia Llompart, UAM

Keynote and presentation
La legislación como (in)acción: relevancia y límites de la Carta Europea para las Lenguas Regionales o Minoritarias
Fernando Ramallo Fernández, Universidade de Vigo
Case FinlandAnna Jungner-Nordgren, Senior Advisor in International and Nordic Affairs at the Swedish Assembly of Finland, Folktinget and member of the board of NPLD

Keynote and presentation
Language policy, social justice and multilingualism in Canada: Calls for inclusion and linguistic de-hierarchization in education and society Nikolay Slavkov, University of Ottawa
to be uploaded, presentation by Shelley Taylor, the University of Western Ontario

Recap and discussion by Clara Molina, UAM

Keynote
To be uploaded:  Language, anticipation, and the (un)making of futures: The university as a terrain of struggle – Miguel Pérez-Milans, University College London
Discussant: Eva Codó Olsina, UAM, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Multilingua

Panel: European University Alliances – Multilingual policies for research, academic collaboration and communication of research results
– Irini Tsamadou-JacobergerLanguage practice in EPICUR – University of Strasbourg, member of the EPICUR University Alliance,
Maria Luisa Pérez CañadoTowards a plurilingual and intercultural European University – University of Jaén, member of the NEOLAIA University Alliance
Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck, member of the Aurora University Alliance
Bernadette O’Rourke, University of Glasgow, member of the CIVIS University Alliance
Leader: Theodoros Marinis, University of Konstanz, member of the EUniWell University Alliance

Panel: The CoARA Multilingualism WG for linguistic justice in research and publishing
The CoARA multilingualism WG for linguistic justice in reearch and publishing Janne Pölönen, Chair of CoARA Multilingualism WG and Josep M. Cots, Universitat de Lleida
Q&A led by: Rafaella Lenoir, CoARA coordinator at UAM

Presentation of the Declaration for Multilingualism and future actions
Guðrún Gísladóttir, ECSPM General Secretary

Roundtable: The impact of language politics and policies on translation, interpretation, and cross-linguistic practices
Some reflections on the role of translation... – Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook, N.Y.
Presentation by Péter Szabó, Interpreter at the European Parliament
Multilingualism in asylum procedures: The case of Greece. The project, political challenges and opportunities (missed?) for a more inclusive societyEffie Fragkou, NKUA
to be uploaded, presentation by Maria Roccaforte, Sapienza University of Rome
Discussion led by: Héctor Grad, UAM

Roundtable: Implementing and ERASMUS+ Teacher Academy project
ERASMUS+ Teacher academies and multilingualism: Impact and sustainablilityEvdokia Karavas NKUA
to be uploaded, presenation by Monica Barni, Sapienza University of Rome and Silvia Minardi, President of LEND, Italian professional association for language teacher training
– to be uploaded, presentation by Andrea Young and Hélène Le Levier, University of Strasbourg
Facilitating multilingualism through digital and AI technologies in a Teacher AcademyBessie Mitsikopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
to be uploaded, presenation by Agnieszka Gadomska, SWPS University, Warsaw
In the kitchen … of European transnational projectsSílvia Melo-Pfeifer, University of Hamburg
to be uploaded, presenation by Gunhild T. Alstad and Marte Nordanger, University of Inland Norway
Coordinator: Andrea Young, University of Strasbourg

Recap and discussion led by: Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge