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.
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Contribution in the annual report 'El español en el mundo. Anuario del Insituto Cervantes 2025'
Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda and Dr. Pilar Valero, scholars at the Observatory of Spanish in Europe (OSE) have contributed in the annual report ‘El español en el mundo. Anuario del Insituto Cervantes 2025’ published by the Instituto Cervantes. They authored the chapter “El español, lengua de herencia en Alemania”.
Read the annual report here.
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 class 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. The Motto of the Year is “Back & Forth”
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.
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Awarded the first Prize for International Hispanism