Ms Geyer began teaching Portuguese as a heritage language on September 12, 1979, until she retired on November 30, 2020. Throughout this period, she served the Portuguese community in several German cities with exceptional dedication, merit and professionalism.<\/p>\n
The Medal of Merit recognizes individuals who, regardless of their nationality, make a valuable contribution to strengthen the affective and cultural ties that bind all Portuguese citizens, living in Portugal or abroad.<\/p>\n
For more information on learning Portuguese in Germany, please visit the following website<\/a> or contact Rui Vicente de Azevedo. To read more about the event, please see the original news source<\/a> on the Cam\u00f5es Institute website.<\/p>\n From left to right: Embassador Francisco Ribeiro de Menezes, Isabel Geyer, Secretary of State Berta Nunes, and Rui Vicente de Azevedo, Coordinator of Camoes Institute network in Germany.<\/p><\/div>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last month, Isabel Geyer, a teacher of the Camoes Institute\u2019s extensive heritage language network (rede EPE), received the Portuguese Medal of Merit in recognition for over forty years of service to the Portuguese community residing in Germany. The Medal of Merit of the Portuguese Communities (Medalha M\u00e9rito das Comunidades Portuguesas) was awarded by the Portuguese […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,59],"tags":[45,38],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-teaching","tag-awards","tag-camoes-institute","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9cul2-gT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/files\/2021\/12\/32773-1-e1638614215719.jpg?resize=500%2C242\")