This month an exciting new project coordinated by the University of Groningen kicked off: CLADES!

The Erasmus+ funded project titled Critical Language Awareness, Democratic Engagement and Sustainability (CLADES) was launched in Groningen on 8-10 October and will run until August 2027. The kick-off meeting brought together the project consortium composed of 5 partner organisations: SOLIDAR Foundation (Belgium), The Comenius University (Slovakia), the University of Ghent (Belgium), the University of Gloucestershire (UK) & the University of Groningen (Netherlands; coordinators).

The partners met to begin their work aimed at increasing civic engagement and sustainability literacy through Critical Language Awareness (CLA). CLADES’ main objectives are (1) to develop understanding of language’s societal impact, targeting different educational contexts, (2) to enhance analytical skills for critical language evaluation as a means to increase media and visual literacy and critical, (3) to promote the use of one’s own voice and ethical communication to foster positive societal change.

Find out more about CLADES and how it will reach its objectives here.