Esperantic Studies Foundation

The Esperantic Studies Foundation, abbreviated ESF, is a non-profit organisation initiated in 1968 by Jonathan Pool, E. James Lieberman and Humphrey Tonkin, with the aim to further the understanding and practice of linguistic justice in a multicultural world, with a special focus on the study of interlinguistics and the role of Esperanto. The ESF's current president is Humphrey Tonkin.

The interlinguistic support fund

Together with the Center for Research and Documentation (CED), the foundation aims to support Esperanto and interlinguistics. The ESF invites proposals for research grants to assist scholars and graduate students in conducting and publishing research in fields such as language planning, interlinguistics, transnationalism language policy, linguistic justice, and planned languages (including Esperanto).[1]

The ESF has funded hundreds of different projects including the development of the educational websites lernu.net, a website to learn Esperanto and edukado.net, a website for teachers and learners of Esperanto, Tekstaro.com, a text corpus of Esperanto, Summer Esperanto Workshop in Europe (SES), North American Summer Esperanto Institute (NASK) to promote the continued study of Esperanto in the United States. The ESF continues to support the Esperanto edition of UNESCO Courier, the Conference on the Application of Esperanto in Science and Technology (KAEST),[2] as well as the postgraduate studies of interlinguistics and esperantology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland and the Chair of Esperanto and Interlinguistics at the University of Amsterdam.[3]

The ESF also sponsors a number of other events, including the Nitobe Symposia, a conference series on world language problems that bring together activists, academics and politicians, as well as a series of symposia on language and development in New York aimed at raising the awareness of the United Nations about the importance of language equality for human development and human rights.

The ESF has sponsored the creation of the documentary film The Universal Language, and produced the video course Esperanto—Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo (available on YouTube).

The ESF also helped to establish official Esperanto examinations in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Esperanto "Access To Language Education" Award

The Esperantic Studies Foundation,[4] Lernu.net[5] and CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium),[6][4] yearly present the Esperanto "Access To Language Education" Award, abbreviated ALE Award for the best non-commercial website offering outstanding resources for language learning.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Grants Available - Small Grants". Retrieved 3 August 2026.
  2. ↑ Happy Birthday, ESF!
  3. ↑ 50 years of excellence: honoring ESF, Esperantic Studies Foundation.
  4. 1 2 Esperanto Access to Language Education Award, Calico.org, 25 July 2007.  
  5. ↑ 2008 Esperanto "Access to Language Education" Award, credit University of California.
  6. ↑ CALICO is the most important American organisation in the field of computer assisted language learning (CALL).
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