QUESTION:
Languages for the eTwinning Portal and Gateway on school education
At page 40 of the Tendering Specifications, under the task related to
B) European gateway on school education, a list of 23 languages for
the Portal is provided:
The gateway shall be multilingual. Navigation and static elements
should be available in Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English,
Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak,
Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.
The provision for the eTwinning Portal is instead related to the
following 26 languages (page 26):
The public portal shall be available in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech,
Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek,
Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish and Turkish.
Question: Can you please confirm this information is correct (23
languages for the Gateway, including Irish and 26 for the eTwinning
Portal, including Icelandic)?
ANSWER:
Concerning the languages for the eTwinning Portal and the Gateway on school education, the
information has to be corrected as follow:
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The eTwinning portal shall be available in 25 languages (no Icelandic needed):
On page 21 of the tendering specifications (8. Multilingualism and Translations), the list of languages
is correct.
On page 26 of the tendering specifications (16. Public portal), Icelandic was included by mistake and
it has to be erased by the list.
On page 27 of the tendering specifications (18. Twinspace), Icelandic was included by mistake and
had to be erased by the list.
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The Gateway on school education should be available in 23 languages, including Croatian but
not including Irish.
On page 40 of the tendering specifications, the paragraph on languages should read:
"the navigation and static elements should be available in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese,
Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish".