In 2021, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning conducted a global landscape review of digital solutions for innovative and effective ways to support the literacy and learning opportunities for refugees, migrants, and internally displaced persons.
In the process of conducting its global landscape review of innovative technology in literacy and education for refugees and , migrants, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) found the LingvisPlay service of particular interest, and decided to highlight the solution in an in-depth story. This led to discussions on potential future collaboration.
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Collaboration
In 2022, Lingvis’ affiliate Språkkraft received funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers to arrange and host two conferences on Media and Informal Language Learning for Migrants in the Nordics. With the conference topic being in line with their work, UIL agreed to co-host the conferences together with Språkkraft.
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Suspilne
Suspilne is the public broadcaster of Ukraine, a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Thanks to the donation of Dusan Stojanovic and family as well as TGV+ Lingvis foundation is able to provide the LingvisPlay format to be used with Suspilne content.
RÚV ORÐ is a new, free, way to study Icelandic. Various TV content from RÚV, including news, is now available with interactive subtitles and language support to a language of your choice. It measures your progress as you learn too.
Mitt i and Lingvis share an interest in reaching the migrant target group in Sweden with local news and opportunities to develop the language skills needed for local media consumption. Spreading the service further and establishing partnerships with more municipalities is a shared goal.
Since 2020, Finland’s public service broadcaster Yle has successfully used the LingvisPlay format in order to turn its program content into dynamic language learning materials. The achievements of the service resulted in Yle extending the partnership after the initial two years.
SVT is the market leading television media provider and public broadcaster of Sweden. SVT Språkplay based on the LingvisPlay language support and learning format was the World’s first integrated language integration service, offering the daily updated full media range (approximate 14 000 videos) serving hundred of thousands of refugees and migrants in Sweden.
