The Global Seal of Biliteracy offers a unique collaborative community partnership to provide live language interpreting services for tourists, refugee or immigrant newcomers, or for a special event like our recent collaboration with the 2022 World Athletic Championships held in Eugene, Oregon.

At the core of this experience is the ability for local bilingual residents to volunteer their language skills to assist visitors or newcomers in their language through either face-to-face support or an app-based text chat.
The Global Seal Experience includes partnering with a community to identify, test, and certify local bilinguals with one of three levels of language certification. Global Seal will also collaborate with the local community to design other supporting resources to connect non-English speakers to language services, transportation, medical assistance, local restaurants and shops, recreational opportunities, community resources, events, and maps.

For communities looking to expand their reach and explore new markets, identifying local linguistic talent and multilingual services is one way to attract and interact with international companies and organizations.

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Global Seal Experience - Eugene

Eugene, Oregon was host to the 2022 World Athletics Championships held at the University of Oregon. It was the first time the global event was held in the United States and #Oregon22 featured record-breaking performances by world class athletes representing 179 countries, 29 of which won at least one Gold Medal! The event boasted 146,033 in person attendees and a global television audience of over 1 Billion, making it the most watched world track and field championship on record. The Global Seal of Biliteracy was there to support this event in partnership with the local community. Together, we identified, tested and certified Global Guides in 30 different languages to welcome the world to Eugene. Global Seal Experience-Eugene provided language services at the airport, at the Riverfront Fest, and via text through a web-based app.