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The teaching staff involves high-level academics with professional experience in the research of the modern European multilingualism. All program instructors have international teaching experience, actively participate in staff mobility programs; besides English, they speak on average two or three other foreign languages.

Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania)

Name Position Research Areas CV
Jurgita Vaičenonienė Ph. D., Assoc. Prof. Translation studies, corpus linguistics, digital humanities CV
Nemira Mačianskienė Ph. D., Professor Language policy, applied linguistics, multilingualism and plurilingualism, teaching English as a foreign language, learner strategies, teaching and learning in multicultural and multilingual higher education learning space, translation and interpretation, intercultural communication CV
Auksė Balčytienė Ph. D., Professor Journalism culture, media literacy and policy, political communication, democratisation CV
Angelica Peccini MA Identity, multilingualism, language acquisition and teaching CV
Aurelija Daukšaitė-Kolpakovienė Ph. D., Assoc. Prof. Plurilingual competence development CV

Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany)

Name Position Research Areas CV
Tuija Kapanen MA, Finnish teacher N/A CV
Nora Kruse Ph. D. N/A CV
Anneli Sarhimaa Ph. D., Professor Empirical and contact linguistics, areal linguistics and sociolinguistics (focus on the Circum-Baltic area), European, Nordic and Baltic language policies CV
Aurelija Tamošiūnaitė Ph. D., Lecturer Historical and contemporary sociolinguistics, standard language histories, language ideologies, heritage language research CV
Sarmite Trupa Ph. D., Lecturer Systemic functional grammar analysis, minority languages, sociolinguistics with the focus on the Baltic States CV

Stockholm University (Sweden)

Name Position Research Areas CV
Pēteris Vanags Ph.D., Professor Baltic philology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics, language contact in the Baltic region CV
Frederik Heinrich Bissinger Ph.D., Lecturer Multilingualism, language policies, language teaching and learning, language acquisition and maintenance CV

University of Tartu (Estonia)

Name Position Research Areas CV
Kerttu Rozenvalde Ph.D., Associate Professor Language policy; Estonian as a second language CV
Madis Arukask Ph.D., Associate Professor Cross-cultural studies, traditional genres of Finnic people CV
Katrin Jänese Estonian as a foreign language teacher N/A CV
Birute Klaas-Lang Ph.D., Professor Language typology, syntax, language planning, Estonian as a foreign language teaching CV
Heli Noor Estonian as a foreign language teacher N/A CV
Piret Toomet Teacher of Estonian language and culture N/A CV

Academic Board

The Academic Board is the main decision making body of SoMu. It is responsible for monitoring the implementation and effectiveness of the program in all partner and associated partner institutions, for reviewing the curriculum, and ensuring the overall quality of SoMu.

Members of the Academic Board:

  • Assoc Prof. Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Vytautas Magnus University
  • Prof. Anneli Sarhimaa, Johannes Gutenberg University
  • Prof. PēterisVanags, Stockholm University
  • Prof. Birute Klaas-Lang, University of Tartu
  • Urtė Vainauskaitė, Vytautas Magnus University (student representative)