About us

Our aims

COLING promotes and develops sustainable measures for language revitalization and maintenance. The project is funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE scheme within HORIZON 2020 and runs from January 2018 to December 2021 (Grant Agreement ID: 778384). The project gives researchers and non-academic stakeholders opportunities to exchange knowledge and join forces in implementing sustainable measures for language revitalization and maintenance.

CoLing promotes and practices:

collaboration of academic and non-academic stakeholders and knowledge transfer in both directions,
collaboration of researchers and organizations in Europe, the USA and Mexico,
participatory research in endangered languages and cultures,
language documentation with revitalization in mind,
innovative methods and materials in learning and teaching lesser used languages,
an enduring presence of linguistic and cultural diversity in public space.

Project outcomes will include:

an online platform dedicated to various aspects of linguistic and cultural diversity with educational materials for teaching the focused languages,
a serious game to be played on computers and mobile phones that supports learning of the focused languages and can be adapter to other lesser taught languages,
guidelines for creating innovative spaces dedicated to the promotion of linguistic and cultural diversity,
a joined publication of research articles on all four major themes of the project, presenting key findings and practical solutions.

WHO WE ARE

Five academic and two non-governmental organizations in four European countries participate in CoLing, collaborating with six institutions in the USA and Mexico.

Participants

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Artes Liberales, Poland;
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, Poland;
University of Groningen, the Netherlands;
Leiden University, the Netherlands;
Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands;
Gruppo di Azione Locale per lo Sviluppo Rurale dell’Area Grecanica, Italy;
Latgolys Studentu centrs, Latvia.

Partners

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA;
The University of Texas, USA;
Yale University, USA;
Smithsonian Institution, USA;
ARENET, Mexico;
Instituto de Docencia e Investigacion Etnologica de Zacatecas, Mexico.

WHAT WE DO

Project activities are organized into four main thematic groups (workpackages):

Documentation and archiving of linguistic and cultural diversity;
Trans-Atlantic perspectives and historical ties between the Americas and Europe;
Developing innovative teaching methodologies;
Multidisciplinary research in language and culture.