Training Institutes: Goals and Target Group
The Training Institutes take place once a year, every year organized by a different partner university. Their goal is to
- spread excellence outside LINEE
- reinforce integration between those who are already participating in the network
- disseminate the methodological and theoretical know-how, philosophy and results of the LINEE research activities among doctoral students.
They include lectures, guided self-teaching, seminars and colloquia.
The target group are doctoral students within LINEE as well as external doctoral students. The teaching staff includes LINEE's scientific staff, but as LINEE is a Network of Excellence, also external top experts and researchers with a background in linguistics or other relevant disciplines to bring forward interdiscplinary aspects. To ensure coherence, the contents of the Training Institute reflect the Thematic Areas in LINEE.
Next Training Institute: 21–25 June 2010, Prague
Doctoral students researching multilingualism in Europe will once again meet for the exchange of ideas and interact with renowned resource persons, both local and from abroad, in a number of different settings (e.g. lecture and seminar settings, poster sessions, informal encounters, meals).
The thematic areas are:
- Language, Culture and Identity
- Language Policy and Planning
- Multilingualism and Education
- Language and Economy
The resource persons are:
- Alexandre Duchêne, Université de Fribourg – Universität Freiburg, Switzerland
- Joseph Lo Bianco, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Melissa G. Moyer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Dick Vigers, University of Southampton, UK
Past Training Institutes
2009: Prague
The Training Institute in Prague on 22–27 June 2009 included lectures and seminars by
- Richard Baldauf,
- Miroslav Hroch,
- Aneta Pavlenko,
- Ingrid Piller,
- Leoš Šatava and
- Glyn Williams.
This Training Institute was open to LINEE PhD students and 3 DYLAN PhD students.
See program and papers provided by the tutors.
See the report on the Training Institute (written by Oliver Engelhardt and Tamah Sherman) with summaries of the talks given by the experts above. Will also appear in the journal Slovo a slovesnost in 2010.
For LINEE members: further papers are available in the VWE under the heading Workshops and Meetings (log in to see the link).
2008: Bolzano
The second LINEE Training Institute took place in June 2008 at the Free University in Bolzano.
2007: Brussels
You can download the management report of the 1st Training Institute held in Brussels 2007.
During the first Training Institute in Brussels 2007, the participants each wrote a paper and got feedback from the Training Institute's experts. See the list of papers for download.
Other Training Institutes and Symposia
PhD students working for the FP6 project DYLAN (Language Dynamics and Management of Diversity) are invited to participate in the Training Institutes of LINEE and vice versa. What is called "Training Institutes" within LINEE corresponds to the "Spring Schools" of DYLAN.
The next DYLAN Spring School will take place in 2010. For more information visit DYLANS's website, section "Spring School".
The latest DYLAN Spring School has taken place mid April 2008. Three PhD students from LINEE were invited. Read a succinct overview over the DYLAN Spring School 2008 on the DYLAN website.