Lost in translation? Not on this site!

Here’s some big news about TAXEDU’s micro-learnings: They’re becoming multilingual.
 

TAXEDU’s micro-learnings, which primary school teachers across Europe are using to design their lesson plans for taxpayer education, are becoming multilingual. These animated shorts are now available in Greek, Hungarian, Romanian and Polish. And Dutch is on the way!

The work is already ongoing to translate the micro-learnings into more than a dozen languages. The list of other languages currently in development includes Bulgarian, Slovakian, Czech, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Swedish, Spanish, Croatian and Portuguese.  

Special micro-learnings for teens and young adults will also be translated into as many as 10 EU languages.

Led by the European Parliament for a pilot phase, and now by the European Commission (Directorate General for Taxation and Customs) in close collaboration with the national administrations, ensuring the linguistic diversity of the TAXEDU site has always been of paramount importance for the web-portal’s developers. Not only does it fit nicely with the wider tradition of unifying the EU, it is also necessary to reach out to as many Europeans as possible.

TAXEDU’s multilingual expansion is largely driven by the support received from representatives of national authorities across Europe. They have been providing valuable input since the start of this ambitious project.

As for the objectives of the TAXEDU web-portal, and the micro-learnings in specific, these are mainly aimed to contribute to the fiscal education of the next generation of European taxpayers.

It provides all European citizens – young and old – important information on the breadth of services and facilities made possible through tax (education, healthcare, etc.).

So, stay tuned! TAXEDU’s short animations will soon be speaking to millions of Europeans in their own languages.