In Collaboration on Cooperation: Research in Linguistics within French-Polish Teams

Contemporary scientific research increasingly relies on international collaboration. This is not merely a passing trend but a response to the complex, transnational challenges facing research today. International cooperation enhances the quality of research, promotes the circulation of methods, and enables the development of projects of a scale and impact difficult to achieve at the national level. Linguistics is no exception. As a discipline focused on the study of language, it naturally benefits from cross-border collaboration: research on a given language often transcends national boundaries and is enriched by contributions from foreign research centres.

Dynamic and multifaceted, French-Polish cooperation is expressed in several subfields of linguistics, including contrastive studies, lexicography and lexicology, the didactics of French as a foreign language, language acquisition, and bilingualism. This collaboration concerns not only collective publications and projects funded through national and international grants, but also teaching, notably through Erasmus+ mobility programmes and joint doctoral training under cotutelle arrangements.

The proposed conference will constitute the first event entirely devoted to French-Polish scientific cooperation in linguistics. It will provide an opportunity to present a wide range of collaborative projects, showcase results from mixed research teams, exchange views on current issues and trends, strengthen existing ties, and foster the emergence of new forms of collaboration.

Submissions for papers are now being accepted. Deadline: 10 May 2026.
For more details, visit the conference website: https://collab2026.us.edu.pl/