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For centuries, the Bersntoler community of the Fersina Valley in Trentino has had a special relationship with its Germanic language and with the languages of the neighbouring language communities. In the past, various practices and events have contributed to keeping the exchanges with nearby South Tyrol alive, among others, the itinerant trade of the ‘krumer’. Today, it is necessary to find new ways to foster exchanges. For this reason, the project ‘Bersntolerisch – dissemination among the public and in schools’ aims to enhance and disseminate knowledge of the Bersntoler culture and language. It also hopes to foster cultural exchanges between the minority language community of the Bersntol and South Tyrol. The collaboration between the Bersntoler Kulturinstitut and Eurac Research centres on creating and developing material related to the Bersntoler language for workshops on multilingualism to be held in schools in the province of Bozen/Bolzano.