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Prof.
Rudi Janssens
Task 2.1
New mobilities
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The Vrije Universiteit Brussel was established following the splitting in two parts, in 1970, of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, which was founded in 1834 to be a university fully independent from state and church, where academic freedom would be prevalent. Today, the university numbers more than 11,000 students. It is a strongly research-oriented institution and it is ranked 189 (out of 700) in the QS World ranking. BRIO (Brussels Information, Documentation and Research Centre) is a leading hub of expertise on diversity, multicultural cities, multilingualism and integration, and is famous for its language surveys.
Task in the project
Vrije Universiteit Brussel will lead task 2.1 on “new mobilities”, taking advantage of its environment in a region characterised by an extremely rich mix of immigration profiles. It provides a suitable template for the broader consideration of a full range of new forms of mobility across European contexts. Given the centrality of the notion of mobility in MIME, Vrije Universiteit Brussel will assist teams in all other work packages in the development of their respective operationalisation of “mobility”.
Staff
  • Prof. Rudi Janssens
Experience
Rudi Janssens is a member of the interdisciplinary BRIO research centre of the VUB focussing on four research axes: language policy and integration, diversity in society, politics and administration in a bi/multilingual region and comparative research on divided and multilingual cities. He is responsible for the language survey research in Brussels and its periphery. Trained as a sociologist, he is very much oriented towards international interdisciplinary research, in projects such as “Relations ethniques, langue et eĢducation” as part of a Quebec-Flanders cooperation scheme (2008-2010).

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