The Observatory of European and Mediterranean Languages (ODELLEUM) began its activity in 1994, under the acronym Cedelleu, as a documentation centre on European languages; it was directed at that stage by Dr Xavier Lamuela. In 2004, under the direction of Dr Josep Maria Nadal, it became an organisation geared towards the promotion of European minority languages and the dissemination and study of different linguistic aspects, related to these languages and recent immigration, with priority attention to the history of the ‘construction’ of languages as a fundamental identity phenomenon.From 2021, Dr Francesc Feliu took over the management of the organisation and it embarked on some new activities and redefined lines of work. Dr Nadal is currently honorary director.

The group’s main areas of research are:

• Promotion and dissemination of European minority languages, through the organisation of training activities on these languages, as well as the editing and publication of teaching or dissemination materials for these languages.
• Social development linguistics (SDL).ODELLEUM is the Spanish node of an international website that explores the economic, democratising, and social cohesion potential that apparently irrelevant languages can have in the world today.
• The standardisation of minoritised languages in multilingual environments, observing the problems of these languages linked to the processes of economic and cultural globalisation.
• Languages in the Mediterranean environment in the face of the migratory challenge Attention to and study of the management of linguistic (and emotional-linguistic) conflicts, proposing specific and practical action to accumulate knowledge of real situations and obtain a corpus of reference materials for scientific reflection. 

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