Project Description

The Marie Curie Initial Training Network - Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN LCG) investigates European languages from an interdisciplinary perspective to expand current knowledge of how language influences and forms the cognitive representations of women and men. To enhance the scientific understanding of this topic, ITN LCG provides a research programme and a structured training programme for 15 early stage researchers (ESR) and 3 experienced researchers (ER). The interplay of Language, Cognition, and Gender is investigated from cross-language and cross-cultural perspectives by partners from 10 universities of the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom and associated partners from public and private sectors.

News
2012/01/16	Upcoming ITN LCG workshop on Theoretical Approaches II

Ongoing

The project started successfully at October 1st in Brussels where ITN LCG partners and associated partners discussed the joint scientific agenda and started implementing the interdisciplinary research and planning the training events. The 18 fellows (15 female, 3 male) recruited are nationals of France, Austria, Germany (2), Switzerland (3), Taiwan, Italy (3), Belgium, Japan, Ireland, Russia, Cuba and two fellows with two nationalities, namely Norway/Austria and Belorussia/United Kingdom. So far, 6 training event took place which were all evaluated positively by the ITN LCG fellows and other participants.

ITN LCG has disseminated its activities already at many occasions: 4 articles on the network have been published in independent journals and 15 scientific articles are currently submitted or in preparation presenting ITN LCG research results. ITN LCG results were presented at 16 international conferences the network was participating in several outreach activities to promote its mission beyond the scientific research community. Our ITN LCG newsletter is to date being sent to 80 subscribers.

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