European University for Well-being (EUniWell): Projekt „Lived Multilingualism within EUniWell“ (LIME)

Verantwortlich

Prof. Dr. Julie A. Panagiotopoulou a.panagiotopou[uk]uni-koeln.de

Weiter verantwortlich

Dr. Yasemin Ucan yucan[uk]uni-koeln.de

Zeitraum

01.06.2025-30.06.2026

Beschreibung

Lived Multilingualism within EUniWell (LIME)

General Overview

LiME aims to demonstrate and raise awareness of lived multilingualism within the EUniWell community. To do this, the team will collect data on language use and language needs among students and staff members across member universities, contributing the results towards the development of a language policy for the alliance.

Purpose and Significance

The European University for Well-Being is a multilingual alliance: its members use several official languages (English, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian) for teaching and learning, for research, administration, communication and knowledge sharing with wider society. In addition to these official languages, staff and students also bring a multitude of minority and heritage languages into the university sphere.

To date, there is a lack of empirical data on the different languages used for teaching and learning, those used for research (vs those which are the focus of research), and those used among administrators, students and staff. Moreover, a general overview of language needs among students and staff does not exist currently. LiME will fill these gaps by collecting quantitative and qualitative data from the EUniWell universities.

The project involves two major objectives:

To map language use within EUniWell as well as the language needs of EUniWell members using a survey of students and staff.
To gain a deeper understanding of language use and language needs among students and staff by conducting interviews at the universities of Cologne, INALCO, Konstanz and Murcia.