E@I is an international youth

Youth

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 non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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 that promotes international

International

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 collaboration and communication and hosts education

Education

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al projects and meetings to support intercultural

Cross-cultural communication

Cross-cultural communication is a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavour to communicate across cultures.- Origins :The Cold War, the United States economy...

 learning and the usage of language

Language

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s and internet

Internet

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 technologies.

E@I had existed as an informal international work group since 1999, before it was officially registered in Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 in 2005. E@I's activities include development of educational website

Website

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s, such as lernu!

Lernu!

lernu! is a multilingual, Web-based free-of-charge project for promoting and teaching Esperanto. Its name is Esperanto for the command "learn." The site is run by E@I, an international youth organization, which started as a working group of the World Esperanto Youth Organisation.The site's content...

 and Slovake.eu, publication activities, such as producing book

Book

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s and DVD

DVD

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s, and organization of conferences

Academic conference

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 and seminar

Seminar

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s, such as the biennial KAEST or the Esperanto Wikimania in 2011. There is a specialist group within the organization dedicated to the Wikipedia

Wikipedia

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The Coordinator of E@I's activities is Peter Baláž (Slovakia). Some projects run by the organization have been subsidized by the Esperantic Studies Foundation

Esperantic Studies Foundation

The Esperantic Studies Foundation is a foundation which strives to solve international language problems. According to its website "The Esperantic Studies Foundation promotes research and teaching on Esperanto and on related issues of interlingual communication, especially in the context of higher...

 and the European Commission

European Commission

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's Youth in Action programme and EACEA

Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency

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. E@I is a member organization of the Council of Europe

Council of Europe

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's European Youth Foundation.