“The educational system can develop indigenous languages only in collaboration with language activists and the civil society at large” – this was one of the conclusions od the Forum of Finno-Ugric Language Activism, held on May 17-18 in Petrozavodsk (Republic of Karelia). The forum was also the closing event of the international project SANA 2019 which united civil society organisations of indigenous peoples from Karelia, Leningrad Oblast (Russian Federation), Estonia and Finland.