The Government of the Azores and the North American Portuguese Teachers Association (APPEUC) will organise the 22nd Meeting of Portuguese Teachers from the United States and Canada in the city of Praia da Vitória, Terceira, from July 3 to 6.

Held under the theme "Sailing through the Seas of Portuguese Language," this meeting, which is held every two years, brings together about one hundred participants from the Azores, Mainland Portugal, United States of America, Canada and Bermuda.

The registration for the meeting is already open and will take place until May 5; it can be made through the website www.appeuc.org.

The 22nd Meeting of Portuguese Teachers from the United States and Canada aims to provide the teachers who daily teach Portuguese on the American continent with the new education approaches, through a privileged space designed to analyse and the debate the differences of teaching Portuguese in the U.S. and Canadian educational systems. Moreover, this initiative also calls the attention of teacher for the need of including other subjects in the curricula, such as the geography, history and culture of the Azores.

Likewise, we intend to promote the Portuguese sociocultural reality in its Atlantic dimension in order to create bridges that promote the exchange between students and teacher from the communities and the Azores as well.

This partnership between the Cabinet of the Regional Under Secretary of the Presidency for External Relations, through the Regional Directorate for Communities, and APPEUC falls under the activities promoted by the Regional Government for the preservation and dissemination of Azorean culture and Portuguese language as an intergenerational cohesion factor between emigrants and Azorean descendants. In addition, this initiative aims to bring them closer to the Azores, especially younger generations.

The meeting will be held on the island of Terceira in 2014. Previous editions have been held in the communities of the United States and Canada, Mainland Portugal and Bermuda.