Lithuania

Key Findings overall

The Lithuanian law allows and promotes plurilingualism (individual multilingualism). Still, the efficient implementation of the European Strategy for Multilingualism is a challenge which lacks institutional coordination and cooperation as well as well-defined distribution of the responsibilities.

Promising initiatives and pilots

Since 2010, the Languages Ambassador’s Awards initiative has been promoting multilingualism in Lithuania. This annual initiative is coordinated by the Education Exchanges Support Foundation in partnership with other institutions (including the British Council) as part of the European Label programme. The title of Languages Ambassador of the Year has already been awarded to an individual (2010), a business enterprise (2011), and in 2012 a school will be rewarded. 

The organisers of the Languages Ambassador’s Awards seek to contribute to the understanding that investment in language learning pays off at both individual and business level, and to encourage the strategic planning at state level of the investment in language teaching.