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Gilvan Müller de Oliveira, professor of Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina from Departamento de Língua e Literatura Vernáculas (DLLV) and from Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística (PPGL), was present in an international conference promoted by UNESCO and entitled Multilingüismo en el Ciberespacio: Lenguajes Indígenas para el Empoderamiento, realized on 27 and 28 November, at San José (Costa Rica). Prof. Gilvan presented brazilian experiences in promotion ofplurilingualism with the presentation “Políticas linguísticas para el multilingüismo y formación universitária del profesorado indígena en Brasil”, in which he explained about intercultural bilingual degrees offered nowadays by many brazilian public universities as privileged foruns for digital inclusion of brazilian languages, in the way proposed by UNESCO, through its conexion to various linguistic policies in Brazil. The presentation was part of “Sesión 3: Panel – Marcos legales con respecto a las políticas en educación” and counted with the presence of participants from Costa Rica, Honduras, Peru, Guatemala and United States.

For further information about the conference, click here.