The University of Bucharest invites interested students to apply for the FARO Lab project, coordinated by CIVIS partner Sapienza University of Rome. Participants will take part in an extensive research initiative on European linguistic biographies, which will conclude with a mobility period in Rome, where students will join the FARO Lab Festival, scheduled for 18–22 May 2026.
Introductory workshops will be held on 17–18 December 2025 by the project coordinator, Prof. Nadia Cannata. Registration is open from 5–13 December 2025 via the form available here.
Selected students will conduct fieldwork both at the University of Bucharest and in their local communities by distributing and analyzing questionnaires on linguistic biographies. The information collected – anonymous and rigorously processed – will be presented at local events and will contribute to documenting Europe’s linguistic diversity as part of EUROTALES, a European university museum based in Rome with shared collections from all participating institutions. Data collected so far can be consulted on the project website.
As part of the project, students are also encouraged to explore the linguistic backgrounds of writers, politicians, artists, and other notable figures from their communities, as well as to document forms of local linguistic memory – such as place names, oral traditions, inscriptions, or graffiti – which contribute to creating a “diffuse museum” of Europe’s languages.
Introductory Workshops (17–18 December 2025)
All activities will take place at the Rectorate of the University of Bucharest (Șos. Panduri 90), in the Board of Administration Hall, following the schedule below:
17 December, 10:00–13:00
- Introduction and objectives of the project and the EUROTALES museum – Language, community, and place
- Welcome and introductions
- The concept and collections of the EUROTALES museum laboratory (PPT lecture)
- Break
- Present-day resonances – questionnaires
17 December, 15:00–18:00
- Research and fieldwork methods in sociolinguistics and history
- Traces – What are they? Model (PPT lecture)
- Break
- Resonances of the past – What are they? Model (PPT lecture)
- Discussion of the first questionnaires – Q&A
18 December, 10:00–13:00
- Workshop
Postări asemănătoare:
Gold for the University of Bucharest: students and teaching staff at the University of Bucharest on the podium of the Marsksrat European competition
CIVIS, the European Civic University Alliance, selected as a pilot project by the European Commission within the initiative for the European Universities Network
The students of the University of Bucharest, invited to a new dialogue with the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola. Event hosted by Bucharest National Opera
The students at the University of Bucharest, invited to the 2023 edition of the Forum of Romanian Diaspora Students
