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Contest deadline: 12 noon, Tuesday 25 November 2025. Late entries cannot be accepted.
Who can enter? The competition is open to any young person aged under 18 residing in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
Full details on the contest and how to apply are available on the LIFELANGS website at https://lifelangs.com/logo-contest/
Logo Contest - The LIFELANGS project needs a logo!
LIFELANGS invite young people from across Ireland north and south to design a new logo for the Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the island of Ireland.
The winning entry will be used on the LIFELANGS website and in all of their promotional materials. The new logo will be used to promote the events organised by the project and in their publications.
About LIFELANGS - A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities:
‘LIFELANGS is a research project which is creating a centre dedicated to studying the languages and identities shared across different communities in Ireland. People in Ireland north and south, east and west, have expressed the desire for a more inclusive society, with a focus on better supporting language learning and promoting understanding between different cultures. Our goal is to help build a more inclusive and stronger future for everyone, where we will know more about each other and we will understand each other better. This is a collaborative project led by teams of researchers at Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin.
To achieve this, we will gather evidence about how people use different languages and live in different cultural settings. We will create a living observatory of shared languages and identities where people can contribute, learn, document, and share information/knowledges. Working together with local communities, we will collect data on how people of all ages learn and use languages—both spoken and signed—throughout their lives, in places like homes, schools, workplaces, and social spaces.’
LIFELANGS is supported by Ireland’s Higher Education Authority (HEA) through its North South Research Programme.
The LIFELANGS project is led by a team of researchers from the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences at Trinity College Dublin and the Centre for Language Education Research at Queen’s University Belfast. The team is led by two Principal Investigators, Professor Lorna Carson (TCD) and Dr Aisling O’Boyle (QUB).
Further details on the LIFELANGS project are available on their website at https://lifelangs.com/
For further information on the project or contest please email Professor Lorna Carson at CARSONLE@tcd.ie
