Multilingualism is everywhere in South Tyrol. It involves geographical, institutional, social and personal aspects. In South Tyrol and worldwide, we use our research to provide scientific answers to current linguistic issues involving both educational and economic subjects as well as social questions.
Institute for Applied Linguistics
Institute for Applied Linguistics
Our multidisciplinary team is part of a variety of international networks. In addition to our research work, we offer consulting and training events, develop dictionaries, databases and corpora. Scientific publications continuously communicate our research results.











Facts & Figures
15 with a PhD degree
8 of them with international partners
Data refers to the previous calendar year. See all Facts & Figures.

Project VOICES - now in motion
The project Voices of Heritage Languages has officially started on the 1st of January, 2026.

Eine Sprache - viele Sprachen

A Teacher Questionnaire for Research on Plurilingual Education: new tool out now!
Our "Teacher Questionnaire for Research on Plurilingual Education" is now available from our Eurac Research CLARIN Centre: ...

ICML 2027 to take place in South Tyrol for the first time
The 21st International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML) will take place from 22 to 26 June 2027 at Eurac Research in Bozen/Bolzano/Bulsan, Italy. This will be the first ...

Projekt „Kolipsi“ geht in die dritte Runde
Startschuss für die dritte Auflage des Projekts über die Zweitsprachkompetenzen in Südtirol


New Webinar series
Language, Power, and Social Boundaries: Dynamics of Inclusion - Exclusion Across Social Spaces

From the lecture hall to the business world
Students from SSML Carlo Bo visit the Institute for Applied Linguistics


New blog ‘Ask a linguist’! All you have always wanted to know about linguistics …
Have you ever wondered how to use gender neutral language in Italian? Do you know what a linguistic ethnographer does? Are you wondering how to link linguistics with games?

Institute for Applied Linguistics
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