Together with the Center for Research and Documentation (
CED), Foundation to support
Esperanto and
interlinguistics, ESF (Esperantic Studies Foundation) invites proposals for research grants to assist scholars and graduate students in conducting and publishing research in such fields as
language planning, interlinguistics,
transnational language policy,
linguistic justice, and '
planned languages' (including Esperanto) 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. ESF continues to support the Esperanto edition of
UNESCO Courier, the
Conference on the Application of Esperanto in Science and Technology (KAEST), 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. ESF sponsors also 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. ESF also sponsored the creation of the documentary film
The Universal Language, and produced the video course
Esperanto—Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo (available on YouTube). 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 ==