MULTILaWa – Multilingualism and Language Awareness in the Digital Age
 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network – Joint Doctorates, 2026–2029)

Project overview
MULTILaWa is an international Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network – Joint Doctorates (MSCA DN-JD), funded by the European Commission. The project brings together academic and industry partners from across Europe to investigate the role of plurilingualism and multilingualism as drivers of social cohesion and inclusion, with a particular focus on Language Awareness in increasingly digital societies.

MultiLAwa explores how language awareness interacts with multilingual practices and digitality across individual, institutional and societal levels, bringing together perspectives from linguistics, language education, language policy, lexicography, terminology and digital communication.

The network combines research, doctoral training and intersectoral collaboration, creating an international environment for early-stage researchers and strengthening cooperation between universities, research institutes, cultural institutions and private-sector partners.

EFNIL is a member of the MultiLAwa International Advisory Board.

Key facts

  • Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Doctoral Networks (Joint Doctorates)
  • Duration: November 2026 – October 2029
  • Funding: European Commission
  • Doctoral positions: 14 fully funded PhD positions

Project website: www.multilawa.eu

List of the 14 doctoral projects

1: Discourses on Language Awareness and Pluri-/Multilingualism in Digital Society: A Meta-pragmatic Analysis 

2: Language Ideologies in Industry, Science and Politics 

3: Multilingual digital practices and digital literacy: Designing and using digital applications in the workplace and higher education

4: Stereotyped language related to gender, race and ethnicity in digital dictionaries and thesauri 

5: Multilingual gender fairness in AI-generated texts 

6: Language policy on the European level: Language Awareness and digitality from a discourse analytical approach 

7:  Language policies in France, Germany and Luxembourg: A Multidimensional Comparative Analysis of Institutional Actors and Critical Multilingual Language Awareness

8:  Promoting culture and identity-building in digital contexts: Focus on indigenous regional and minority languages

9:  Conception of a specialised multilingual multimedia lexicographic information system for tourism language 

10:  Dataset and technical design of specialised multilingual lexicographic information systems for circular economy 

11: Enhancing Language Awareness in Fintech: Terminology Translation and Harmonisation towards Cross-Cultural Communication 

12:  Students’ language learning motivation from a Critical Language Awareness perspective 

13: Migration languages in foreign language education in the era of GenAI

14: Language Awareness and communicative ability through exposure: data-driven approaches with corpora and GenAI