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The April 2009 WoPa's of all WP's

Minutes of the Governing Board Meeting of March 2009

Updated contact list

2nd Year EC Review Report

New call for relocation 2009

RTW and PhD Conference in Szeged

Minutes of the Exec. Com. meeting of Jan 2009

Drafts 12.12.2008: amended JPA for months 25 - 42 and Annex I

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Minutes Governing Board Meeting in November

Conference List

Templates/News/Good-to-know

Working papers october 2008: 1a, 2a,3a, 4, 5a, 6a, 7a, 8a, 9a, 10a, 11a, 12a.

All Papers and Reports (End April 08)

Results of First Annual Review from European Commission

"LINEE and DG Research"

Results gender equality survey

European Research Project Investigating Linguistic Diversity


LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence) is a European scientific network of 9 European universities, involving around 80 researchers. It investigates linguistic diversity in Europe, namely four thematic areas:


LINEE is co-funded by the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission and is coordinated by the University of Bern. The project started in 2006 and funding of the European Commission will end by November 2010.

LINEE aims to: produce coherent, innovative research results by an interdisciplinary approach, integrate knowledge of partner universities, establish a durable, innovative scientific network, reassess traditional research, and raise the visibility of linguistic diversity in Europe as a key issue in European integration.

For more information:

Reports and Publications


First Results: Reports on each Thematic Area of Research

Language and Identity

Language Policy and Language Planning

Multicompetence and Educational System

Language in the Knowledge-based Economy

Papers/Publications

First joint publication (November 2007): Contact Linguistics and Language Minorities (Plurilingua XXX, ISBN: 978-3-537-86432-1). The volume can be ordered at the publishing house or via the Task Force Media and Infrastucture. An extensive review was published in the Czech journal Slovo a slovesnost 69, 2008, pp. 293-299.

Strong European Emotions European Citizenship and Visual Pleasure
Paper presented by Senka Božić at the Joint Conference "Ownership and Approbation" of the ASA, ASAANZ and AAS, Plenary Session "Senses and Citizenship: Contestations over National and Global Identities, Resources and Forms of Belonging"; University of Auckland, New Zealand,  8-12 December 2008

Sociolingvistický projekt 6. rámcového programu Evropské komise
(jak funguje a jaké jsou zkušenosti s tzv. network of excellence)

Extensive overview of the LINEE project, focusing particularly on the work conducted by the Prague team, published in the Czech Linguistic Newsletter (Jazykovedne aktuality XLV, 2008, Issue 3&4, pp.111-131)

Project Presentation

LINEE Newsletter 03/2009

LINEE Newsletter 12/2008

LINEE Project Presentation

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The European Community