News archive


22.05.2023:

Best article in Second Language Research 2021-23 by Marit Westergaard!

27.03.2023:

Linguistics in Tromsø doing great on the QS World University Rankings – again!

16.03.2023:

AcqVA Aurora at The Science is Wonderful! Fair in Brussels

Here are some photos from the Science Is Wonderful! fair by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions where Maki Kubota, Judith Schlenter and Marit Westergaard represented the AcqVA Aurora Center.

03.11.2022:

Our new podcast on multilingualism in Norway (in Norwegian)

20.09.2022:

Two-year Postdoc position in MuMin project!

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06.08.2022:

ISBPAC 2022 has happened!

ISBPAC 2022 - 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children, August 4th and 5th, 2022.

29.03.2022:

AcqVA Aurora in the news!

Read the article "Å være tospråklig kan beskytte hjernen din mot aldring" here (Norwegian only):

23.03.2022:

Two new MSCA Fellowships in AcqVA!

14.03.2022:

Kletsheads podcast on Internal and External Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition

02.03.2022:

The Abstract Submission for ISBPAC 2022 has been extended to March 11th, 2022!

22.02.2022:

Call for papers – 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2022)

Abstract Submission deadline: March 1st, 2022

14.02.2022:

Five calls for postdoc candidates interested in applying for a MSCA Individual Fellowship in Linguistics

22.12.2021:

A 2-year postdoc position at the project ADIM (Across-Domain Investigations in Multilingualism)

01.09.2021:

Wonderful news! RCN Grant to Jorge González Alonso

23.02.2021:

Apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at UiT through the EU Commission!

Are you interested in doing cutting-edge research on multilingualism? And joining an active and productive research group in beautiful Tromsø? Then you should consider applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at UiT through the EU Commission (application deadline September 2021). The UiT admin will provide practical help as well as professional application assessment before submission. Your first step is to contact a possible supervisor in the AcqVA Aurora Center

23.02.2021:

Wonderful News! Two MSCA grants to AcqVA Aurora

We did it again this year! Two Marie Skłodowska-Curie grants to our great team – to Brechje van Osch for the project HeLA (supervisors Jason Rothman and Terje Lohndal) and to Judith Schlenter for the project INSPIRE (supervisor Marit Westergaard).

14.01.2021:

Fantastic News! RCN Grant to Natalia Mitrofanova

11.11.2020:

Call for AcqVA Aurora Centre project funding (up to 25,000 NOK, max budget 100,000 NOK)

06.02.2020:

Two MSCA grants to AcqVA Aurora

Excellent MSCA results for AcqVA Aurora

 

05.02.2020:

Aurora Center grant to the LAVA group

Our application to become an Aurora Center has been granted!!! This is a 30 million NOK grant from UiT that will make it possible to hire a number of new people and do many cool things over the next four years (see below for a summary of the center proposal).

05.02.2020:

Invitation to the Arctic MSCA-IF program

UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established The Arctic MSCA-IF program to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie individual fellowship (MSCA-IF) to pursue a career in research.
Read more about the Arctic MSCA-IF program.

03.02.2020:

News article about the AcqVA Aurora celebration: Hvordan endres hjernen hos flerspråklige?

Over halvparten av alle europeere er i dag flerspråklige. UiTs nye satsingssenter, AcqVA Aurora, skal forske på hvordan både språk og hjernen kan forandre seg når man lærer flere språk.