Each summer, the Institut Ramon Llull collaborates with two courses at which foreign students can improve their Catalan language skills: the International Catalan Language and Culture Sessions and the Catalan Language University Campus. The aim of these courses is to allow university students from outside Catalan-speaking areas to improve their language skills and become immersed in Catalan culture.

In October Trànsit travels to Madrid in a project promoted by the Institut Ramon Llull to present Catalan culture. The initiative brings together a programme of events designed to allow people living in Madrid to sample the rich culture of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. With this project the Institut Ramon Llull continues its aim of bringing the latest tendencies in music and performing arts to the world capitals of culture. In September it travels on to Chicago in collaboration with the first Sonar event to take place in the United States.

The Catalan composer Salvador Brotons is to be one of the leading musicians at this year's Nürtingen International Guitar Festival, which takes place in this German town between 30th July and 7th August.
Brotons will conduct the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen in the premiere of his composition for guitar and orchestra, entitled "Mare Nostrum", with Àlex Garrobé taking the solo part. Salvador Brotons was the resident conductor of the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen from 1985 to 1991.

The novel Mira'm als ulls (Look Me in the Eye) by Sílvia Soler has just been released in English by the British publishing house Parthian, in a translation by Richard Thomson. This project has received the support of the Institut Ramon Llull, as part if its grant programme for translations.

The Translators’ House of Amsterdam and the Institut Ramon Llull organize a translation literary seminar from Dutch to Catalan and Catalan to Dutch from 14th to 16th October that will be hold at the Translators’ House of Amsterdam.

From 19th to 21st July, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Girona will host the International Conference for Catalan Teachers, an annual event organized by the Institut Ramon Llull in conjunction with the Vives University Network and the University of Girona.