Piccolingo

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Piccolingo European Commission Directorate-General
for Education and Culture Campaign for Early
Language Learning Conference on Early Language
Learning, Brussels, 24-25 September 2009
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"El niño tiene cien lenguajes, cien manos, cien
pensamientos, cien formas de pensar, de jugar y
de hablar, cien siempre cien formas de escuchar,
de sorprender, de amar, cien alegrías para
cantar y entender". Loris Malaguzzi (Cento).
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Our common belief

• The more parents know about the benefits of
  early foreign language learning, the better.

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Our main goal raising awareness among parents
Parents take the decisions. It is the parents
who choose which languages their children learn
and how.
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A European coalition for early foreign language
learning
Right from the start, creating awareness about
early language learning must involve all those
dealing with language learning, as well as
children and parents, on many different levels
and in many different ways. This is a cooperative
process that will lead to the creation of a
platform for actions. Existing organisations
have huge potential to create awareness once they
are convinced of the necessity and benefits of
acting together in a coordinated way. The
campaign will create the conditions for all of
the involved stakeholders to gain full ownership
of the messages and full recognition for their
actions.
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LINK UP

• Link up professional organisations all over
  Europe dealing with education, family, social,
  cultural and/or language issues
• Provide information on early foreign language
  learning opportunities, in particular by
  developing an Internet site in all European
  languages
• Disseminate existing content on early foreign
  language learning created by professional from
  all over Europe
• Support initiatives promoting early foreign
  language learning
• Raise media awareness about early foreign
  language learning

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www.piccolinguo.eu
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JOIN
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• Join the Piccolingo campaign!
• Your organisation is active in one of the sectors
  involving young children and their families,
  education, culture, welfare, media
• You are interested in helping to disseminate
  information on ELL
• You are prepared to share your know-how and
  working methods with other organisations and
  transmit mainstream messages

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Our dream!
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Our dream!
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• Piccolingo in action
• Local communities will have the opportunity to
  circulate information, to present and promote
  activities
• Exchanges of views and experience between parents
  and experts
• Testimonies and best practices as models or for
  promotion
• If you wish to be involved, our networking team
  will work with you

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Working groups will be created for each Member
State and will be defined as Local Promoting
Groups.The networking campaign coordination
team will maintain on-going contact with these
stakeholders and ensure that a minimum programme
of activities is drawn up.
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What can I do?
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What can I do? Here are a few examples of
possible activities that could fit into
'Piccolingo in action' in your community

• A cultural institute introducing parents and
  young children to language diversity during
  particular activities
• A child welfare association organising
  conferences on early language learning in a civic
  centre
• A local cultural association organising a
  multilingual storytelling event in a public
  library
• An immigrants association organising a
  multicultural event with immigrant families based
  on young childrens nursery rhymes from different
  countries
• A parents association organising a conference on
  early language learning at school
• A nursery school organising a multilingual event
  involving families
• Any of these activities could be organised as a
  totally new initiative, could be embedded in
  existing activities or could complement them.

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• A media publicizes the campaign website banner
  on its website,
• A press magazine uses the logo in a publication,
• A child welfare association organizes
  conferences on early language learning at a civic
  centre
• A local cultural association organizes a
  multilingual storytelling event in a public
  library,
• An immigrants association organizes a
  multicultural event with immigrant families based
  on young childrens nursery rhymes from different
  countries
• Two preschools make a twinning agreement with a
  joint project on language learning,
• A multinational company produces a leaflet on
  early language for its employees,
• A game manufacturer puts the campaign logo and
  a small leaflet on a game it sells for young
  children,
• A cultural institute makes a trial class for
  young children who are willing to learn a new
  language,
• A graffiti association organizes an event
  incorporating the idea of multicoloured mouths,
• A parents association organizes a conference on
  early language learning in the campaign website,
• Gift sets distributed to new mothers at health
  centres include a small leaflet on early language
  learning or a sticker with the campaign website,
• Public health centres in a given city print and
  distribute a leaflet on early language learning,
• A football club undertakes a commitment to
  announce the campaign on its website and ask some
  of their players to add testimonials,
• A public pre-school organizes a multilingual day
  and invites pupils families to attend,
• A European Commission civil servant at the DG
  EAC wears the campaign pin.

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The agenda
- Exhibitions are organized, illustrating what
young people already involved in early language
learning are doing. These could be done with
open-doors events in pre-schools or cultural
institutes with specific workshops. - Workshops
are arranged with parents involved in early
language learning, in which they present ideas
and suggestions and facilitate discussion with
other parents in the community. - Experts are
invited to present ideas and suggestions for
early language learning. - Activities such as
storytelling in different languages, nursery
rhymes etc. are presented in popular places
(e.g. library, shopping centre, central train
station, airport etc.). - Intercultural
activities are organized, in which families from
different cultural backgrounds present their
languages and traditions, for example.
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agenda
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• The networking team is here to help!
• A dedicated multilingual team is at your
  disposal to assist your participation in the
  Piccolingo campaign

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• Please do not hesitate to contact us for more
  information
• E-mail piccolingo_at_paueducation.com
• Telephone [phone]
• Address
• Muntaner 262, 3º
• (08021) Barcelona, Spain

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