This chair is conceived as a strategic cooperation platform aimed at strengthening South-South and South-Europe relations, promoting interdisciplinary academic dialogues, exchanges with African and Indian institutions, and institutional outreach in global linguistic and cultural studies.
Functioning as a space for dialogue and cooperation between the Global South and Southern Europe, this Chair is guided by six overarching —yet non-exclusive— objectives that delineate its core areas of activity and inform its strategic direction.
Overall Objectives
Objective 1
Promotion of the indigenous languages and cultural heritage of the African continent and the Indian context
Objective 2
Collaboration in the development of teaching and learning materials in historically marginalized indigenous languages
Objective 3
Organization of seminars, workshops, and/or specialized courses on languages, cultures, and other interdisciplinary approaches in fields such as linguistics, demography, social psychology, and other related areas.
Objective 4
Organization and coordination of African Languages Day, an annual event dedicated to a different African country in each edition.
Objective 5
Leading and/or collaborating in research initiatives in the fields of philology, science, and interdisciplinary studies.
Objective 6
Fostering collaboration between researchers in Africa and India and the University of Salamanca.
