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Universidad de Jaén (Spain)

https://www.ujaen.es/ ↗

The UJA is a research-oriented public university. It was established in 1993 at the Las Lagunillas Campus in Jaén, although its roots trace back to the University of Baeza, founded in the 16th century. Its commitment to bi- and plurilingual education has always been firm and outstanding, with an internationally acknowledged research team on CLIL which has worked uninterruptedly on 16 R&D projects and coordinates the first intercollegiate, fully online MA degree on bilingual education and CLIL in Spain (the MIEB). It is currently leading the NEOLAiA University Alliance, for which it has been granted 14.4 million €. Its WP7, led by Pérez-Cañado, focuses on plurilingual and intercultural education.

Contact for the UJA team: mlperez@ujaen.es

Meet Team UJA

Dr. Diego Rascón Moreno is Associate Professor at the Department of English Philology of the UJA. His most important field of research is CLIL and he has participated and published in numerous international conferences, journals, and volumes.

Pablo Ramón Ramos, MA, is educational advisor at the Valencian General Directorate of Educational Innovation and Inclusion, Assistant Professor at the University of Alicante, PhD student at the University of Jaén, and member of the ICBERG co-leadership team.

Universität Wien (Austria)

http://www.univie.ac.at/en/ ↗

The University of Vienna (founded in 1365) is one of the largest research universities in Europe; its Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies was ranked 22 by THE in 2026. The Department of English is home to Austria’s largest program for pre-service EFL teacher education in collaboration with the university’s Centre for Teacher Education. Our Educational Linguistics research group is well known for its empirical research in CLIL and has led and collaborated in a range of national and international research projects, research networks (CLILNetLE) and high-profile publications.

Contact for the UNIVIE team: julia.huettner@univie.ac.at

Meet Team univie

Dr. Sima Khezrlou is a post-doc researcher and lecturer at the English Department. She is a specialist in Task Based Language Teaching and technology in foreign language teaching and learning. She currently leads a project on the affordances of TBLT in CLIL.

Universiteit Leiden (the Netherlands)

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/iclon ↗

ICLON Graduate School of Teaching is an interfaculty institute of Leiden University, dedicated to initial teacher education, continuing professional development, scientific outreach, and educational research. The theme ‘language awareness’ forms one of the ICLON’s core Teaching and Learning Principles, and as such CLIL and bilingual education are prominent themes in ICLON’s research and teacher education programs. This is apparent in four current PhD projects, as well as the specialized World Teachers Programme, which allows pre-service teachers to specialize in linguistically and culturally-aware teaching while gaining their initial secondary school teaching qualification.

Contact for the Leiden team: t.l.mearns@iclon.leidenuniv.nl

Meet Team Leiden

Dr. Michiel Dam is Assistant Professor and teacher educator, with a focus on biology didactics. A former CLIL teacher, he incorporates attention for language into his methodology classes for student teachers.

Örebro Universitet (Sweden)

Örebro University is a dynamic Swedish institution with strong commitments to research, internationalization, and innovative pedagogy. Its expertise in multilingual and bilingual education is grounded in several research projects focused on additive multilingual education (MLE) and inclusive language practices. The university contributes valuable insights to CLIL related initiatives through studies showing how bilingual and plurilingual resources support both subject and language learning in diverse educational contexts—including bilingual schools, newcomer education with mother tongue support, and adult language learning environments. This work highlights the importance of dialogic approaches and targeted language scaffolding for meaningful content learning.

Meet Team Örebro

Ida Andersson-Norrie is an International Strategy Officer working with overarching strategic issues connected to Örebro University's internationalization as well as the European University Alliance NEOLAiA.

University of Nicosia (Cyprus)

https://www.unic.ac.cy/ ↗

The University of Nicosia is the largest university in Southern Europe that offers its academic programs primarily in English, and hence promotes plurilingualism through EMI (undergraduate and postgraduate programs). UNIC has participated in many language-related European research projects, UNIC is the only university in Cyprus which offers a full course on CLIL in an academic program (MA in TESOL). It has distinguished itself as a university which promotes plurilingualism through CLIL also through the organization of related conferences and events which examined CLIL applications also in relation to the second language (Greek as L2 for CLIL courses offered to children with migratory background, see conference MILReMi 2023 Multilingual Identities and Literacies of Migrants and Refugees (https://milremi.weebly.com).

Contact for the UNIC team: papakyriakou.a@unic.ac.cy

Meet Team UNIC

Kelly Spanou (MA in TESOL, MA in Applied Linguistics) is a PhD candidate in TESOL at UNIC, focusing on AI-enhanced pedagogy and academic literacies in higher education. Her professional and academic interests include EAP and EMI pedagogy, CLIL-informed curriculum design, digital and AI-supported language teaching, and inclusive practices that support multilingual learners’ academic development.