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Prof.
Manuel Célio Conceição
WP3 lead
Education – Language Teaching and Learning
Task 3.3
Multilingual higher education
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The Universidade do Algarve, established in 1979, is now composed of three Faculties and four Schools, with an enrolment of nearly 10,000, including 10% from mobility programs, reflecting the attractiveness of its course offerings.
Universidade do Algarve is involved in numerous transnational partnerships and projects, within and outside the European Union. It is the Portuguese institution that coordinates the highest number of Erasmus Mundus 2nd and 3rd cycle, and Universidade do Algarve is partner member of several life-learning projects (LLP), thematic networks and European framework programmes.
The main topics of research and teaching at Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais are languages and language sciences, literatures and cultures, arts, communication, history and archeology, psychology and educational sciences.
Task in the project
Universidade do Algarve will coordinate work package 3 on “Education” and lead Task 3.3 on “Multilingual Higher Education”, while cooperating with teams in all other work packages, but more closely with specific teams in work packages 4, 5 and 6.
Staff
  • Prof. Manuel Célio Conceição
  • Elisa Caruso
Experience
Manuel Célio Conceição directed or co-directed several international research projects, in particular in his fields of specialisation: multilingual terminologies, quality assessment in language teaching, and intercultural communication. These projects include REFORTERM – Reformulação e terminologia; REALITER – Pan-latin network for terminology; a thematic network project (TNP Languages III) on Language industries related professions; Intercultural communication as part of the LANQUA programme (Language network for quality assurance). He has also participated in ENLU (European network for the promotion of language leaning among all undergraduates) and HUMART (Tuning social sciences), and was an associate member of the DYLAN project in FP6.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No. 613344 (MIME Project).