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For anyone attending the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Leadership Conference tomorrow - or if you are simply interested in how your team can become more accessible - check out the guide below for a sneak peak of a few topics I will be presenting during a panel after lunch. This will be great! https://lnkd.in/g5jvbchG #accessibilitymatters #nonprofits #leadership #professionaldev

Calls: IPrA2025 Panel: "Speech And Multimodal Resources In Social Interactions Of Individuals Experiencing Communicative Barriers": Call for Papers: The panel is going to answer the following research questions: • What are the forms of adapted talk produced by individuals who experience communicative barriers and their co-participants? Which adaptations in social interaction can accommodate them? • What and how are situated multimodal resources mobilized to streamline interaction (e.g., to facilitate conversational turn-taking) and reach mutual understanding? We work on the assumption that individuals experiencing variou

Face-to-face interactions open a world where genuine connections foster rich, unscripted insights. Experience the depth of in-person research: https://hubs.la/Q02f6-tq0 #facetofacemrx #theyearofinpersonresearch #qualitativemeansquality

Communicators of EU policies and initiatives face key challenges from the changing attitudes of the electorate and the disrupted media landscape. Overcoming this and reengaging citizens requires fresh thinking and a new approach to #communications. 📰 Read our series of articles to find out more - https://bit.ly/3VDAHpf

We are super excited that the EU Commission has selected our innovative ILA-approach “Life Chances BAföG” as one of its #TSI2024 flagship projects and is now supporting its further conceptualization in Germany. This makes it the first BMBF project to receive funding through the EU Commission's #TechnicalSupportInstrument!! Today the winners were announced at a press conference by EU Commissioner Elisa Ferreira in Brussels: "Public Administrations are more and more expected to respond to emerging challenges and to deliver on common priorities, from the transition to a net-zero economy to the role of AI in an increasingly digital society. The TSI is there to help Member States to translate ambitious reform needs into action through valuable expertise and tailored support." As part of the TSI program BMBF is receiving tailor-made expertise with the aim of further developing Individual Learning Accounts in Germany. It does not come in the form of direct financial support but consists instead of the provision of high-quality consulting, expertise and knowledge and can take the form of strategic or technical advice, studies assessing reform needs, training, or in-country missions by experts. https://lnkd.in/drdAZKsY

Narratives Matter A few weeks ago, we ran our bi-monthly Crucial Conversations Clinic, where clients can drop in with challenges, and we work together as a group to explore them. This last one focused on sticky words - reflecting on language that harms and language that heals. We explored some of the challenges that regularly come up in organisations around EDI lexicons, how to ensure we're all on the same page about why we use the words we do, and how to repair when ruptures occur when language harms. It was a great session. Last night, I watched both BBC News and Channel 4 News sequentially. I'm stunned to see a barrage of harm still being done by sticking to the same narrative and the lack of challenge on both news channels. In a whole year, the narrative hasn't even vaguely shifted. It's a full-on genocide we are witnessing, not a war, conflict or humanitarian crisis. To see not one journalist challenge this was beyond shocking. Naming and humanising four dead IDF soldiers with full back stories and interviews about their lives whilst, without much commentary, showing images of apparently faceless and nameless people fighting for their lives in what remains of hospitals, with others being burned alive whilst sleeping, is WRONG and contributes to dehumanising, apathy and lack of compassion. Who is making these programming decisions? To see the worst violence I have ever witnessed being talked about like it was a game of battleships by emotionless British officials discussing strategies, defence, blaming the US for no resistance, the inferences that there's nothing people outside the region can do, the overarching dismissal of it being 'over there' where everyone is as bad as each other committing war crimes... We may feel we can do little to change these devastating outcomes, but we can avoid complicity in reinforcing a narrative that doesn't represent us at every opportunity we have. I appreciate how Dr Tanya Haj Hassan challenges and educates journalists on their use of language with so much power and impact.

ECOS 2024 - European Conference on Speech-to text Interpreting - you cannot participate in person? Register and participate online: https://lnkd.in/dsK-fFA6. Learn about the latest findings and developments of speech-to-text interpreting (STTI). I will be happy to share some thoughts on: "What makes intralingual interpreting “interpreting”? Definitions, opinions, and beyond in interpreting studies, professional practice, and international standards."

Ever wondered what role for expert knowledge in EU? How does Commission selects its sources, how often, and what is the function, role and influence of this expert knowledge? Joanna Mazur reflects the role of expert knowledge in #EUcompetitionlaw and the #DigitalMarketsAct. Author: Joanna Mazur Editor: K Tyagi #COMIPinDigiMarkts #competition #expertknowledge

Language barriers should never hinder effective healthcare communication. Our latest blog article explores how MiAid's multi-lingual support feature breaks language barriers, enabling accurate understanding and patient-centered care. Read it now to discover the importance of overcoming language barriers in healthcare. #MiAidApp #LanguageBarriers #HealthcareCommunication https://lnkd.in/g7VMvQuW

European Health Data Space EHDS is progressing well! The negotiations have been conducted in less than two years, after the presentation of the draft text by the European Commission in May 2022. The compromise text has been definitively approved in plenary session by MEPs on 24 April. This vote marks the end of the legislative process. The text is due to enter into force 20 days after its publication in the Official Journal of the EU, which is expected soon, hopefully before the end of this year. The implementation will take place gradually, within two to eight years, depending on the complexity of the provisions concerned. The launch and deployment of the EHDS will be really interesting : it is indeed the first of eleven European sectoral data spaces that are soon to be set up as part of the European Digital Decade strategy.