(part-time 50 %, E 13 TV-L)Reference number 2024/116. The start date is 01.07.2024. The position is available for two years with an option to be extended. The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. Since 2007 it has been successful in the German Excellence Initiative and its follow-up programme, the Excellence Strategy.The Multilingualism Group at the University of Konstanz headed by Prof Dr Theodoros Marinis is recruiting a researcher to work on the project ‘ACT and connect for Integration’ (ACTIN) that has been funded by the European Union under the AMIF program (Transnational Actions on Asylum, Migration and Integration). The candidate will be seconded as 'Chercheur invité' at the University of Geneva.Project description ACTIN is an international project involving the University of Konstanz, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Strasbourg, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, the University of Geneva, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, and the NGOs Roscommon in Ireland, Solidarity now in Greece, and Fundacja Wspierania Kultury I Jezyka Polskiego Im. Mikolaja Reja.The aim of the project is to support and reinforce the integration and inclusion of migrant children and adolescents in education and by extension in the society by developing, implementing, and evaluating language and language & content learning activities within schools and informal educational activities within and outside schools. The researcher will develop, implement and evaluate cultural awareness activities and language learning activities involving migrant children/adolescents/families and locals. Activities to be developed capitalize on two existing informal education programs at the University of Geneva (Solidarity cafés and Uni-R) and on current research conducted by members of the ACTIN project on pedagogical translanguaging. Working languages are English and French.
