Collaborations

MultiLX works with community organisations, schools, cultural institutions, artists, and practitioners across Europe. These collaborations place local knowledge and lived experience at the heart of our research.

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Case study 1

Multisemiotic Turin

Via Baltea Community Hub

Since 2014, Via Baltea – created in the premises of a former printing house – has been an urban regeneration project with a strong social and cultural impact: a community hub fostering collaborative cultural practices grounded in participation and activism. Within MultiLX, the hub has hosted language-creative workshops run by the Turin research group.

 
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MOSAICO

MOSAICO is an association that promotes intercultural dialogue and exchange, with a particular focus on young refugees and new Italian citizens. The Turin team works with MOSAICO to explore how young migrants and refugees use language and creative practices, including music, storytelling, and art, to contribute to the city’s linguistic and cultural landscape.

Porta delle Culture and El Kheir butcher shop

The Porta delle Culture Network coordinates more than 20 associations united by the goal of establishing a travelling Museum of Migrations (Museo delle Migrazioni) in Turin. It gives the MultiLX team insight into grassroots initiatives around Porta Palazzo and introduced the researchers to El Kheir, a halal butcher shop that offers a window onto everyday multilingual interactions in the neighbourhood.

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El Kheir, meaning “abundance” in Arabic, supplies Moroccan restaurants in the area and is run by Abdul, Yassin, and friends, who have become an important point of reference for local communities. The collaboration enables observation of everyday interactions with multilingual customers and provides insights into the multisemiotic practices of its clientele.

Fondazione Cantabile

Fondazione Cantabile is a collaborating partner in the Turin case study. Further information will be added as the collaboration develops.

Case study 2

Migration, belonging and cohesion in multilingual Berlin

YEKMAL

YEKMAL works throughout Germany for an open, diverse, pluralistic, and inclusive society, supporting people with migration and refugee histories to lead self-determined and equal lives. The organisation runs two bilingual kindergartens and is a recognised provider of youth welfare and support, with particular emphasis on Kurdish languages and cultures and multilingual language development.

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Yekmal Akademie

The Yekmal Academy for language, education, and research promotes multilingualism, cultural diversity, and educational excellence, with a focus on languages and identities that are less visible or affected by structural restrictions. It works closely with students, staff, partners, and the wider community to create positive change and strengthen diversity.

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Case study 3

Multimodal, multilingual, and digital practices of Swiss youth

Exploring multilingual classrooms across Switzerland

Collaboration with schools in Lucerne, Ticino, Graubünden, and Geneva reflects Switzerland’s federal structure and rich linguistic landscape, encompassing Alpine and urban regions and different educational and linguistic contexts. The collaboration is supported by the education departments of Kanton Luzern, Kanton Graubünden, Repubblica e Cantone Ticino, and République et canton de Genève (DIP).

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Lia Rumantscha and Pro Grigioni Italiano

Founded in Chur, Lia Rumantscha (1919) and Pro Grigioni Italiano (1918) promote Switzerland’s minority languages and strengthen its multilingual character. Lia Rumantscha promotes Romansh, while Pro Grigioni Italiano supports Italian-speaking communities in Graubünden and beyond.

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Art and education

Svenja Herrmann is a Swiss writer, poet, and learning therapist whose work focuses on language and creativity. Beat Küng is a Swiss visual artist and media educator based in Lucerne whose work connects art, photography, education, and participation.

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Case study 4

Language revitalisation in Santiago de Compostela

Semente Compostela Pre- and Primary School

Semente is a network of community-based Galician-language immersion schools dedicated to the care, renewal, and transmission of Galician linguistic and cultural heritage. Its educational project encompasses feminism, environmentalism, social justice, multilingualism, inclusion, and pedagogical innovation.

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Regueifa community

By the end of the twentieth century, the Galician tradition of improvised singing-in-verse known as regueifa was at clear risk of disappearing. The association ORAL in Vigo and activists around Semente School in Santiago de Compostela helped begin a revival movement teaching the art to children and teenagers.

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Partner schools include IES Marco do Camballón in Vila de Cruces and IES Basanta Silva in Vilalba. IES Basanta Silva hosted the first Campus de Regueifa in early 2025, a three-day gathering where teenagers from across Galicia came together to practise, learn, and share through regueifa. The team also works closely with Regueifa Tour, a group of five teenage girls with strong ties to Semente Compostela.

Case study 5

Sports, youth and languages in Catalonia

Òmnium Cultural

Òmnium Cultural is a non-profit organisation founded in 1961 to defend Catalan language, culture, and civil rights. With more than 180,000 members, it has become one of Europe’s leading cultural associations, promoting social cohesion, education, civic engagement, democratic values, and human rights.

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Club Esportiu Europa, Gràcia

Club Esportiu Europa, founded in 1907 in Barcelona’s Gràcia neighbourhood, is one of the historic names in Catalan football, with strong sporting, social, and community roots. MultiLX collaborates with the club in research on youth, language, and sport, including participant observation during its summer camp.

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Based at the Nou Sardenya Stadium, Europa is home to its senior team and a meeting point for members, supporters, and neighbours. Its youth academy trains hundreds of boys and girls every season, fostering respect, effort, solidarity, and a sense of belonging while providing an important setting for exploring linguistic diversity.

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Case study 6

The Kven language and youth in Norway

Kvääninuoret

Kvääninuoret, founded in 2008, is the largest Kven youth organisation in Norway, with more than 350 members. It is run for and by young people belonging to the Kven national minority and focuses on building community and meeting places, strengthening youth identity, and promoting the rights of Kven youth.

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Case study 7

Intercultural encounters through multilingual storytelling in Eastern Europe

Katalin Moldovai

Katalin Moldovai is a Hungarian-Romanian film director, screenwriter, and educator whose work explores the intersections of personal experience, social contexts, and broader cross-cultural narratives.

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Her films, including Without Air (2023), As Up to Now (2018), and Burok (2014), have received international recognition for their engagement with contemporary social issues. She is working with the Case Study 7 team to document Hungarian, Romanian, and Roma students’ participation in collaborative digital storytelling workshops.

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