14.00 – 15.00 Registration and sandwich
15.00 – 17.00 Introduction to Zoom Interpretation, EFNIL General Assembly
18.00 – 20.00 Reception –  Standing buffet and drinks
Welcome address by local authorities

Paolo D’Achille, President Accademia
Sara Funaro, Mayor of Florence – to be confirmed
Paolo Squillacioti, Head of OVI
Sabine Kirchmeier, EFNIL

08.15 – 09.00 Transport Bus: Hotel > Accademia

Session 1 – Introduction to the conference main theme (Chaired by Cecilia Robustelli)

9:00 – 09:30 Welcome speeches: President of the Accademia della Crusca, Kezia Pellinghelli, European Parliament, Sabine Kirchmeier, EFNIL
09:30 – 10:00 Alessandro Lenci: Title to be announced
10.00 – 10.30 Britta Schneider: Title to be announced
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

Session 2 – Theme A: Media and language standards (Chaired by Sabine Kirchmeier)

11.00 – 11.20 Margrethe Heidemann Andersen, Thomas Hestbæk Andersen: The Danish Language Council in a changing political and media landscape: contemporary developments
11.20 – 11.40 Darius Ivoska: The Future of the Lithuanian Language: Between Media Influence and Societal Choice
11.40 – 12.00 Ola Karlsson: How to standardize linguistic norms in the media when nobody has the mandate to decide
12.00 – 12.20 Henna Makkonen-Craig: The role of media language in the development of Finnish in the 2020s.
12.20 – 12.50 Discussion
12.50-13.50 Lunch by courtesy of the Accademia della Crusca
14.00-14.30 Event: Guided tour of the Accademia

Session 3 – Theme B: The effect of AI on language standards and vocabulary (Chaired by Andreas Witt)

14.40 – 15.00 Jutta Ransmayr: AI as proof-reader? Potential effects of AI on non-dominant varieties of pluricentric languages – a case study with Austrian media texts
15.00 – 15.20 Piotr Pęzik: Towards Semantic Bleaching: On the De-Generative Impact of GenAI on Language in the Media
15.20 – 15.40 Svetla Koeva: Current Processes in the Language of Bulgarian Media
15.40 – 16.00 Discussion and questions
16:00 – 16:20 Break

Session 4 – Theme C: Media, multilingualism and minorities I (Chaired by Kozma Ahačič)

16.20 – 16.40 Isabelle Elena Tamba: Shaping Words, Shaping Minds: Media – The Living Laboratory Of Romanian Language
16.40 – 17.00 Anna Gazdik: Media Use of Minority Languages in Austria
17.00 – 17.20 Olena Ivanovska: The Use of the State Language in Ukraine’s Media Sphere: Between the Priority of the State Language and Multilingual Reality
17.20 – 17.40 Discussion and questions
18.00 – 18.30 Transport Bus: Accademia > Hotel
19.00 – 19.30 Tramvia from the Hotel to Santa Maria Novella and short walk to the restaurant
20.00 – 22.00 Conference dinner in town

Session 5 – Theme C: Media, multilingualism and minorities II (Chaired by Željko Jozić)

9.00 9.20 Giorgi Alibegashvili, Tinatin Bolkvadze: The Languages of Media in Georgia
9.20 – 9.40 Sjef Barbiers: A Macroscope for the Dutch Language and Society
9.40 – 10.10 DG SCIC: To be announced
10.10 – 10.30 Discussion
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

Session 6 – Master ‘s Thesis Award (Chaired by Ari Páll Kristinsson)

11.00 – 11.20 Announcement of the winners
11.20 – 11.40 Stef Accou: TIPA: Typologically Informed Parameter Aggregation
11.40 – 12.00 Martina Magrin: Languages on the Wall. Promoting Plurilingualism in the Schoolscape through the Progetto Lingua Madre of the Centro Studi Immigrazione of Verona
12.00 – 12.20 Laura Moreno: Access to Healthcare for Dutch-Speaking Patients in Brussels – A Comprehensive Investigation of Linguistic Barriers in a Multilingual Context

Closing Session – Conclusion

12.30 – 13.00 Sabine Kirchmeier: Conclusion of the conference
13.00 – 14.00 Sandwich lunch/packed lunch
14.00 – Social Program
14.00 – 15.00 Tramvia from the Hotel to Santa Maria Novella and short walk to Piazza della Signoria
15.00 – 16.00 Visit of Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio