Workshop _ Thursday 9 October 2025
16:00-18:00 Maison du Savoir, Room 3.200
“Plurilingual practices for teaching in multilingual classrooms”
Symposium _ Friday 10 October 2025
09:00-16:00 Maison des Sciences Humaines, Black Box
Program
09:00-09:30 Registration
09:30-10:00 Philippe Hiligsmann (Vice-Rector for Academic and Student Affairs, University of Luxembourg)
Birgit Huemer (Head of the University of Luxembourg Language Centre)
Opening of symposium
10:00-10:40 Pauline Degrave (Université catholique de Louvain)
Clarifying the EMI-CLIL continuum through pedagogical practices in English- and Dutch-taught courses at a French-speaking university
10:40-11:20 Robert Wilkinson & René Gabriëls (Maastricht University)
Language policy contestations: Linguistic diversity and inequality
11:40-12:20 Elisabetta Bonvino & Diego Cortés Velásquez (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Plurilingualism in Higher Education: Insights from the PEP Project Survey
12:20-13:00 Argyro-Maria Skourmalla (University of Luxembourg)
Institutional language policies and individuals’ educational experiences at the University of Luxembourg
14:00-16:00 Panel discussion
Discussants:
Philippe Hiligsmann (Vice-Rector for Academic and Student Affairs, University of Luxembourg),
Eva Martha Eckkrammer (President of Trier University),
Christophe Schommer (Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence, University of Luxembourg),
Mihajlo Miladinović (Master’s Student in European Law, University of Luxembourg)
Organisation
Head of the University of Luxembourg Language Centre Birgit Huemer & PhD candidate Argyro-Maria Skourmalla, with the support of the Vice-Rector for Academic and Student Affairs, Philippe Hiligsmann
Registration
The symposium will be held in a hybrid format, allowing for both in-person and online participation. Those attending online will receive the access link shortly before the event.
Registration is mandatory for all participants, whether attending on site or online. Participants can register by scanning or clicking the QR code on the attached poster, or by sending an email to