Prof. Jens Normann Jørgensen, Copenhagen University, Denmark

Professor in Danish as second- and foreign language

Research areas: sociolinguistic studies in language variation, including youth language, school language, local language and standard language.
Studies in multilingualism and multilingual behaviour, particularly code-switching and code-mixing.

 
 
 

Dr. Alastair Walker, North Frisian Dictionary Centre, University of Kiel, Germany

Senior lecturer in the Department of Frisian Studies

Research areas: Dialectology, lexicography, sociolinguistics (especially multilingualism) and European regional and minority languages 

 
 
 

Mag. Dr.phil. Barbara Schrammel, Centre for Plurilingualismus, University of Graz, Austria

Research areas: linguistics and pedagogy, languages and cultures, Romani language

 
 
 

Prof Dr Durk Gorter, University of the Basque Country - IKERBASQUE, Faculty of Education, Donostia - San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain

Research areas: International comparative research on European minority languages.  Multilingualism in education and in the linguistic landscape 

 
 
 

Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr.phil. Dieter Halwachs, Centre for Languages, Plurilingualism and Didactics, Institute for Linguistics, University of Graz, Austria

Research areas:  plurality, minorities and the national state, Romani linguistics,  the changing status of Roma in Europe, the Romai and its protection in Europe , European standards  for minority languages

 
 
 

Dr Jeroen Darquennes, Associate Professor, German and General Linguistics, University of Namur, Belgium; Affiliated Research Fellow at the Mercator European Research Center on Multilingualism and Language Learning in Ljouwert (the Netherlands)

Research areas: language contact, language conflict, language planning, language policy and language revitalization in language minority settings. 

 
 
 

Prof. Dr. Elin Fredsted, Institute for Danish Language and Literature, University of Flensburg, Germany

Research areas: Language contact and multilingualism, intercultural pragmatics, second and foreign language didactics

 
 
 

Prof. Dr. Thomas Stolz, General Linguistics, University of Bremen, Germany

Research areas: language change, languages in contact

 
 
 

Assistant Professor, Dr Phil Karen Margrethe Pedersen, University of South Denmark, Denmark

Research areas:  contact between cultures and languages in the Danish-German border region; cross-national learning and education, new traditionalism, local lifestyles