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The UNESCO Chair on Language Policies for Multilingualism (UCLPM) was renewed for a second quadrennium (2022-6). Coordinated by Prof. Gilvan Müller de Oliveira, the Chair is the first one based at UFSC and it was created in May 2018 with the signature of the cooperation agreement between UNESCO/Paris and the university.

UCLPM comprises an international research network on four continents, involving 26 universities in 16 countries, which carry out research and teaching acitivities in 11 different languages. UCLPM has brought to UFSC ten international agreements so far,  in countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Chile, South Africa, Indonesia, India, China (Macau), Russia, France and Spain. New institutions continue to request membership to the Chair, and later this year, the Universidad de Antioquia, in Colombia, and the Indian Statistical Institute, in Calcutta, will become member institutions.

The research network aims to generate knowledge on the different contexts of multilingualism, on the language policies developed in these contexts, and their implications for the sustainable development of citizens, linguistic communities, countries and regions. The Chair promotes events, publications, academic mobility, and training of master’s and doctoral students, in addition to advisory services to linguistic communities and governments. The Chair has as deputy coordinators Prof. Suzani Cassiani and Prof. Irlan von Linsingen and is linked to several units at UFSC such as the School of Communication and Arts (CCE), the Office of International Relations (SINTER), the Department of Vernacular (Portuguese) Language and Literature (DLLV), the Department of Foreing Languages and Literatures (DLLE), the Graduate Program in Translation Studies (PGET) and the Graduate Program in Linguistics (PPGLIN), among others.

Learn more about the Chair here.