More than 100 people attended the first Multiplier Event in Trieste

People attending conference in Trieste.

On April 13th 2023 the University of Trieste,
Department of Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies,
has led the event
“Spoken easy language: Harmonising voices from complementary worlds”.
This was the first Multiplier Event organized within the SELSI project.

The programme of the event included a keynote speech
by Leealaura Leskelä from Selkokeskus, the Finnish Centre for Easy Language,
as well as presentations on the results of Work Package 2, led by UNITS.

WP2 has surveyed Spoken Easy Language (SEL)
users and professionals in Europe
and enabled us to provide a snapshot of what they find useful –
with specific hints to the stance
of SEL actors in the project countries:
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, and Sweden.

The event also offered presentations on language simplification,
recommendations for easy spoken language in diverse settings,
and hands-on experiences.
It involved the participation of people with intellectual difficulties
who shared their personal daily experience with language.

The event featured experts from various backgrounds
such as academia, museums,
public broadcasting, and associations of end-users.

It was an excellent opportunity
to exchange knowledge, experiences, and best practices
to promote social inclusion through Easy Language.

The event was a great success

90 people participated on-site and
49 online participants reached 9 European countries and Australia.
28 different organizations attended the event.

The event was interpreted into English and Italian
by the interpreting students from the University of Trieste.
And it was held in Plain Language.

A poster session included 10 posters
in Standard, Plain or Easy Language
presented by 7 different organisations.

The venue of the event was accessible.
A graphic recording of the event
was also made available.
It was provided by Scribing.it.

The Multiplier Event was streamed online via Zoom.

Materials

ME1 Agenda
ME1 Book of Abstracts
ME1 Poster Session
SELSI: Project overview (Tatjana Knapp) | video | slides
Work Package 2: Needs and resource mapping (Elisa Perego) | video | slides
Work Package 2: Italy (Piergiorgio Trevisan) | video | slides
Work Package 2: Latvia (Irina Melnika) | video | slides
Work Package 2: Lithuania (Agnė Župerkaitė, Justina Bružaitė–Liseckienė) | video | slides
Work Package 2: Slovenia (Drago Brumen) | video | slides
Work Package 2: Sweden (Ester Hedberg) | video | slides
Language simplification and the SSLMIT: Multiple challenges, multiple initiatives (Katia Peruzzo) | video | slides
Easy and spoken language: What can we learn from research? (Floriana Camilla Sciumbata) | video | slides
Appunti sul tavolo di confronto sulla lingua facile [Points arising on Easy Language](Simone Belci) | video | slides
What’s in a name? A speech pathology perspective (Cathy Basterfield) | video | slides
Easy spoken language: Recommendations in Finnish (Leealaura Leskelä) | video | slides
Dall’opera al racconto [From artifacts to storytelling] (Cristina Gazzola) | video | slides
I sostegni per la partecipazione delle persone con disabilità intellettiva [Supporting the participation of people with intellectual disabilities] (Stefania Span) & Le esperienze dirette [Real life experiences] (Maurizio Sorbola and Marco Alprinci) | video | slides
Simplification in one-way communication: Mapping the use of (Spoken) Easy Language in European public broadcasting (Andrej Tomažin) | video | slides
Closing remarks (Tatjana Knapp and Elisa Perego) | video