ISV actively contributes towards the debate on the importance of language and language processes for the Danish business community and Danish society in general.

Latest News:

• ISV and the Center for Internationalisation and og Parallel Language Use (University of Copenhagen) will be hosting an international research conference on 'Approaches to the Lexicon'. Leading researchers will be invited to present their most recent research results within the field of Lexical semantics, Word formation, Lexical acquisition and Lexicography, and Terminology and Ontology. The conference takes place on 8-10 December 2010. More information about the conference will be made available as soon as possible.
  
  
• The deparment has joined the network 'Ja til Sprog', created by Thomas Haarder and Charlotte Rønhof from Danish Industry. Read more at the network website or contact Birte Lundgren for more information ( bl.iadh@cbs.dk)
  
  
• The Ministry of Education has decided to support ISV with 163.796 DKR towards the project,” Renewal of the core professionalism of (Rethinking) foreign languages in the secondary school.” The project will jointly with the University of Copenhagen and representatives from secondary schools attempt to map out the challenges at secondary level generating a catalogue of ideas for areas of acitivites/effort/contribution for a new kernefaglighed (…) and which can prepare the applications of the foreign languages in for instance cross disciplinary problem solving, information competence (…) and career planning in an international business community. Two workshops are planned for spring 2010, a conference in September 2010 and task force visits to secondary schools in winter 2010-11.
  
  
• ISV has been the initiator for a joint CBS application to SCKK (The government’s center for development in competences and quality) in relation to their initiative, “Dressed/ready for project management”. CBS’ project has the title “Ready for projects. The development of the project approach to work at CBS/method of working.” The central project organization at CBS has received 681.000 DKR to their part of the project, which will involve the research management course at ISV to some degree.
  
  
• In October 2009 the network under the initiative Tysk Nu (German now) held a well-attended meeting at the University of Copenhagen. ISV is represented in the initiative by Head of Department, Alex Klinge. The proceedings form the meeting have already been published in a small handbook. More information about the initiative may be found on http://tysknu.ku.dk/ . On October 21st the programme group had a feature in Politiken with the title "Durch, für, gegen...hvad skete der lige med tysk?".
  
  
• One of the CBS' 'World Class Research Environments' are located at ISV. Read more about 'The Translation Research Environment' directed by Associate Professor Matthias Buch-Kromann here .
  
  
• Peter Juhl Henrichsen has received 4.6 millions from FKK for the project Automatic Speech Cue Reconstruction. Ruben Schachtenhaufen began on 1 January 2009 as a PhD student on the project.