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Assoc. Prof.
Helder De Schutter
Task 5.2
Linguistic Justice
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Dr.
Nenad Stojanovic
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Situated at the heart of Western Europe, K.U. Leuven has been a centre of learning for almost six centuries. Founded in 1425, K.U. Leuven bears the dual honour of being the oldest extant Catholic university in the world and the oldest university in the Low Countries. It has over 40,000 students and 18,635 employees. The university strives towards excellence in research. K.U. Leuven is the 5th University in the FP7 ranking, with 434 granted projects in total (as of August 2012) and in the European top 10 for ERC-grants.
Task in the project
K.U. Leuven will lead task 5.2 on “Linguistic Justice”. Research in this area addresses questions that run throughout the “multilingual challenge” and are relevant to practically every single task in MIME; accordingly, conceptual advances developed in this cutting-edge line of research will be shared with partners across the entire MIME project.
Experience
A specialist of linguistic justice, nationalism and federalism, Helder De Schutter has a successful record at attracting national and university-based research funding, enabling him to set up a research group with a staff of 9. He has been involved in the establishment of a Centre of Excellence on Global Governance funded by a Leuven Excellence Grant of € 1m for 7 years.
Dr. Nenad Stojanovic is well-published young specialist of political structures and challenges to democracy in divided and/or plurilingual societies. He has carried out several research and consultancy work on politically sensitive issues such as constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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