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Wednesday, 2012-05-02
21:12 - Chemistry resources for secondary school teachers
Managed by European Schoolnet on behalf of the European Petrochemical Association (EPCA).
Thursday, 2012-05-03
17:08 - Bologna Ministerial Conference (Bucharest, 26 April 2012): a renewed collective commitment towards a fully functioning European Higher Education Area
Education Ministers from the 47 countries participating in the Bologna Process met in Bucharest at the end of last week to review progress in Higher Education reforms and set prior...
Friday, 2012-05-04
21:54 - Youth entrepreneurship versus youth unemployment - Policy Brief on Youth Entrepreneurship
What role can youth entrepreneurship play in meeting the current youth unemployment challenge? What barriers do young people face when starting a business? How do the challenges va...
Tuesday, 2012-05-08
10:57 - Youth on the Move in Maribor
A four day Youth on the Move event was launched today in the Slovenian town of Maribor, which is the European Capital of Culture in 2012
11:01 - Comenius: Teachers work on ideas for future school partnerships
On 3-4 May, 270 teachers, headmasters and policy-makers from across Europe met in Brussels to discuss how teaming up with partners in other countries can help schools boost teachin...
16:39 - Erasmus hits new record with 8.5% increase in student exchanges
Twenty-five years after its launch, Erasmus has become the best known EU programme and the most successful student exchange scheme in the world. More than 231 000 students received...
21:00 - Call for Participation: Cultural Innovators Network
Goethe Institute in cooperation with Anna Lindh Foundation and the German Federal Foreign Office
Wednesday, 2012-05-09
16:43 - EUN online focus groups in May 2012, topic: Consumer Education in the curriculum
Teachers from post primary schools needed, from: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Spain, and The Netherlands.
Thursday, 2012-05-10
11:18 - Call for proposals: Cultural partnerships between Asia and Europe
An initiative that aims to support collaborative artistic and networking projects in the framework of the Asia-Europe dialogue. Art and culture organisations and networks of Asia ...
Friday, 2012-05-11
13:49 - Language Industry Conference: LIND-WEB Professionals in action
24 May 2012, Brussels — "Share, cooperate, grow"
Monday, 2012-05-14
13:48 - 'Generation 1992' campaign – you in the European single market
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the European single market decision, the European Commission launched an online communication campaign “Generation 1992".
Tuesday, 2012-05-15
10:46 - Council adopts a general approach on Erasmus for All
On Thursday 11 May, the Council of the EU adopted a general approach on the new integrated Erasmus for All programme proposed by the European Commission. This will replace the curr...
Wednesday, 2012-05-16
11:44 - De la Loire au Danube : traverser l’Europe à vélo !
Cycling across Europe along the Danube, the Rhine and the Loire valleys! Promoted by AEDE-France

Multilingual virtual keyboard – for a swift switch of languages

Do you remember your first visit to France or Belgium, when you tried for the first time in your life to type in English on an AZERTY keyboard?

How many times has it happened to you to stay long hours in front of a QWERTY keyboard, trying to produce a readable and correct text in Spanish, Polish or Arabic? Or even more, to write using several languages at the same time?
You have probably developed your own way to deal with all the difficulties coming from the various special characters, more or less effective … The European Union alone uses three different kinds of alphabet – Latin, Greek and Cyrillic - for its 23 official languages. Not to mention the dozens of diacritics – e.g.: Ł, ß, Š, Ű, - used for example in Slovak, German and Hungarian.
Luckily today's users can be spared much of this struggle with the help of a multilingual virtual keyboard. This is a simple tool, available online for free. It allows you to create texts in a language of your choice, without any need to install additional software.
You can find some examples at the following websites:

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