Multilingual, Transcultural Communication in the Digital Age

Established in 2010 at the University of Vienna (Austria).

Fields/Disciplines

ICT-enhanced multilingual and transcultural communication

Objectives

The specific objectives of this Chair are to:

• strengthen research in the field of ICT-enhanced multilingual and transcultural communication, including adaptive and accessible ICTs for developing countries, multilingual computing methods, e-learning, multilingual web content management and related methods; and,
• promote the development of a multilingual social web, harnessing semantic web technologies and strengthening transcultural communication patterns using a wide range of language resources and technologies, multilingual computing methods, multilingual e-learning and cultural diversity management procedures.

Host Institution

University of Vienna (Austria)

UNESCO Sector/Office responsible for the Chair/Network

Culture

Contact: Dr.Gerhard Budin, UNESCO Chairholder, Zentrum für Translationswissenschaft der Universität Wien