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Assoc. Prof.
Marija Omazić
WP 7 lead
Dissemination, awareness, training and exchange
Task 7.3
Stakeholder Forum
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The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FFOS) is part of J. J. Strossmayer University, Osijek, the third largest university in Croatia, with over 20,000 students and involvement in over 200 national and international projects. FFOS operates in a multi-ethnic and multilingual setting, and is the leading regional institution of higher education offering BA, MA and PhD programmes in the humanities and social sciences, bringing together a diverse student body. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences currently coordinates 11 research projects in the field of humanities and social sciences, and offers excellent research and event hosting infrastructure.
Task in the project
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences manages work package 7 “DATE”, which coordinates the Dissemination, Awareness, Training and Exploitation activities of MIME, in close cooperation with SCIPROM and project coordinators (Université de Genève, Universities van Amsterdam, Universe v Ljubljana). FFOS will organise and keep track of internal and external dissemination, facilitate and co-host Stakeholder forum events, plan and host two doctoral schools and prepare the closing consensus conference.
Staff
  • Assoc. Prof. Marija Omazić
  • Asst. Prof Goran Schmidt
Experience
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has a strong background in regional and cross-border cooperation, research and higher education in a multilingual and multicultural setting. FFOS-based work package 7 leader currently manages the research and international cooperation activities of FFOS (over 150 employees) and has experience in running national associations and international conferences, as well as editing both in-house and internationally published volumes. In 2011, The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences co-hosted a cross-border conference Concepts and Consequences of Multilingualism in Europe 3, organized by the International Standing Group on European Multilingualism (ISGEM), and in 2012 published a special thematic issue on multilingualism in the The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences journal Jezikoslovlje.

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