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

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

Paolo D’Achille, President of the Accademia della Crusca
Paolo Squillacioti, Director of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI)
Genoveva Ruiz Calavera, European Commission (SCIC)
Kezia Pellinghelli, European Parliament
Sabine Kirchmeier, President of 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 (abstract)
11.20 – 11.40 Darius Ivoska: The Future of the Lithuanian Language: Between Media Influence and Societal Choice (abstract)
11.40 – 12.00 Ola Karlsson: How to standardize linguistic norms in the media when nobody has the mandate to decide (abstract)
12.00 – 12.20 Henna Makkonen-Craig: The role of media language in the development of Finnish in the 2020s (abstract)
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 (abstract)
15.00 – 15.20 Piotr Pęzik: Towards Semantic Bleaching: On the De-Generative Impact of GenAI on Language in the Media (abstract)
15.20 – 15.40 Svetla Koeva: Current Processes in the Language of Bulgarian Media (abstract)
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 (abstract)
16.40 – 17.00 Anna Gazdik: Media Use of Minority Languages in Austria (abstract)
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 (abstract)
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 (abstract)
9.20 – 9.40 Sjef Barbiers: A Macroscope for the Dutch Language and Society (abstract)
9.40 – 10.00 Claire Lyse Chambron: Language policy, technological innovation and the media: challenges for language and multilingualism – the example of ARTE/ARTE+ Europe
10.00 – 10.20 Nina Teigland & Annvor Seim Vestrheim: Norwegian language under pressure? A mapping of Norwegian-language media available to children and young people (abstract)
10.20 – 10.40 Discussion
10.40 – 10.45 Address by Alessandra Petrucci, Rettrice Università di Firenze
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break

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

11.15 – 11.45 Announcement of the winners
11.45 – 12.05 Stef Accou: TIPA: Typologically Informed Parameter Aggregation (abstract)
12.05 – 12.25 Martina Magrin: Languages on the Wall. Promoting Plurilingualism in the Schoolscape through the Progetto Lingua Madre of the Centro Studi Immigrazione of Verona (abstract)
12.25 – 12.45 Laura Moreno: Access to Healthcare for Dutch-Speaking Patients in Brussels – A Comprehensive Investigation of Linguistic Barriers in a Multilingual Context (abstract)

Closing Session – Conclusion

12.45 – 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