Observatory of Spanish in Europe
Observatory of Spanish in Europe | OSE
The Observatory of Spanish in Europe is a research center founded in 2023 at Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS), Heidelberg University. Its main goal is to offer data that can help tackle the emerging trends related to Spanish and its speakers in Europe.
New at the OSE
Round table participation at the I Congreso Internacional de Educación Transformadora: Ciencia, Comunicación y Sociedad
Between September 17th and 19th Dr. Héctor Álvarez Mella attended the “I Congreso Internacional de Educación Transformadora: Ciencia, Comunicación y Sociedad”, hosted by Universidad de Vigo (Spain) and co-organized by that university and UNESCO. He participated in the expert roundtable “Políticas lingüísticas sostenibles del español en Europa: herencia, retorno y migración circular” and delivered a talk titled “Claves para una política sostenible del español en contextos de multilingüismo migratorio”
Conference participation at XPRAG 2025
Between September 17th and 19th, OSE members presented two posters at the 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025) held in Cambridge, UK. Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda presented the poster “Constructing Discourse An Eye-Tracking Study on Nominal Encapsulation and Coreference in Spanish” with Mathis Teucher, research associate at Heidelberg University. Dr. Pilar Valero presented the poster “Dealing with (Non-)Compositionality: An Eye-Tracking Study on L1, L2 and Heritage Speakers of Spanish” with Heidelberg University research associate Dr. Adriana Cruz Rubio.
Participation in the 35th International Conference ASELE
During July 28th and August 1st Dr. Pilar Valero, researcher at the OSE, participated together with Dr. Clara Ureña Tormo, Polytechnic University of Valencia, in the 35th International Conference of the Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera (ASELE) which took place in Castelló, Spain. Their presentation was titled “Aplicaciones y efectividad de ChatGPT en la práctica de la puntuación en ELE: el uso de la coma”.
Dr. Pilar Valero: Young Marsilius Fellow Program 2025-26 recipient
Dr. Pilar Valero, research associate of the OSE, has been selected as a fellow in the 5th edition of the Young Marsilius Fellow Program for Interdisciplinarity and Science Communication (YMFP) at Heidelberg University, which will take place from October 1st, 2025 to September 30th, 2026.
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Awarded the first Prize for International Hispanism