GALLANT

Global competence and the linguistic landscape at the technical university

What is GALLANT?

The GALLANT project is a collaboration between universities in Sweden, Spain, and Germany, co-financed by the T.I.M.E. association, and aims at helping higher education institutions strengthen the integration of linguistic and cultural competencies in engineering education.

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Our method

With a short survey, carried out in 2022 and collecting answers from 870 respondents from more than 50 universites in 40 countries, we aim to analyze the educational landscape at technical universities against the backdrop of relevant stakeholders’ perspectives, with the goal of formulating well-grounded and practically applicable recommendations for linguistic, communicative, and cultural training in support of optimized global competence education at engineering and technical universities.

What competencies do you need?

Part of the project's results presented at conferences:

T. Richter et al., "Global Competence Needs : A Comparative Study Of Stakeholders’ Perspectives On Engineering Education," in 19th CDIO International Conference, CDIO 2023 - Proceedings, 2023, pp. 931-940.

B. Kjellgren et al., "Global competence at the technical university: Stakeholder perspectives on educational opportunities and their effectiveness," in INTED 2023 Proceedings, 2023, pp. 4014-4022.

E. Arnó-Macià et al., "Redesigning LSP courses for international engineering communication: What can we learn from stakeholders’ views?" SDUTSJ 2023, May 2023

Contact us

Björn Kjellgren Project Manager

bjoern@kth.se , +4687906125

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