Ordinance
on the National Languages and Understanding between the Linguistic Communities
(Languages Ordinance, LangO)

(Art. 16 let. a and b LangA)¹⁹

In or­der to pro­mote the na­tion­al lan­guages in the cur­riculum, the can­tons shall be gran­ted fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for:

a.²⁰

pro­jects to de­vel­op con­cepts and di­dact­ic aids for teach­ing a second and third na­tion­al lan­guage that are in­nov­at­ive or are rel­ev­ant to the com­mon edu­ca­tion policy goals of the Con­fed­er­a­tion and can­tons;

b.

pro­jects for pro­mot­ing the ac­quis­i­tion of an­oth­er na­tion­al lan­guage through bi­lin­gual in­struc­tion;

c.

pro­mot­ing skills in the loc­al na­tion­al lan­guage among chil­dren whose first lan­guage is not a na­tion­al lan­guage pri­or to start­ing primary school.