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Prof.
Jürgen van Buer
Task 5.1
Multilingualism and dynamics
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Prof.
Bengt-Arne Wickström
(Andrássy-Universität Budapest;
guest researcher at Humboldt-Universität)
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is one of Germany’s 11 “Universities of Excellence”. It was successful in all three funding lines in the third round of the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. The University covers all the major academic disciplines in the Arts and Humanities, in Social Science, Cultural Science, Human Medicine, Agricultural Science, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences. Research at Humboldt University is internationally acknowledged in several subject areas, such Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Cultural and Art Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Economics and Law. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is currently involved in some 40 FP7 projects. The MIME project is attached to the Research group on Economics and Language (REAL) at the Institute of Education Science in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Task in the project
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin will lead task 5.1 on “Multilingualism and dynamics”. It plays a crucial role in the MIME design as the project’s centre of expertise in the formal modelling of language dynamics. Such modelling will be developed for a wide range of issues, and partner Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin will be providing technically advanced tools relevant to all the work packages in the project.
Staff
  • Prof. Jürgen van Buer
  • Prof. Bengt-Arne Wickström
  • Dr. Michele Gazzola
  • Torsten Templin
Experience
Prof. Bengt-Arne Wickström is one of few scholars in Europe who has extensive research and teaching experience in language economics. He has published numerous contributions on evaluation of fairness in language policy and planning as well as language rights and the theory of language dynamics. Before his mandatory retirement in 2013 from the Chair of Public Economics of the School of Business and Economics, he lead a seminar on language economics entitled Ökonomie und Sprache at Humboldt-Universität. In 2011, he was invited speaker at the second doctoral school of the DYLAN project (“Language dynamics and management of diversity”, FP6) in Vienna. After his retirement, he is working on the MIME project as a guest of the Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften (Education sciences) and the director of the Humboldt part of the MIME project, professor Jürgen van Buer.

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