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Christiane Bongartz
Valérie Fialais
Valérie Fialais is part of the Strasbourg Local Education Authority and currently in charge of supporting the implementation of a pilot project in the context of the Franco-German Lycée of Strasbourg curriculum. She has set up a training program for teachers wishing to join the French-German bilingual education system in the Strasbourg area and is in charge of some of the training, as well as the follow-up sessions.
Valérie Fialais is also a member of the research laboratory Linguistics, Language, Speech (LiLPa), currently collaborating in a research project with a bilingual school (English-French immersion) in Nancy.
Her interest in the didactics of bi/plurilingualism is the common thread running through her academic and professional career. Her research, focusing on bilingual education, and her 30 years of teaching experience in a bilingual French-German kindergarten, as well as with adults in French as a Foreign Language and in German didactics have provided her with a solid knowledge of language didactics and plurilingualism, which are closely linked to the central issues of language teaching in the 21st century.
Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska
Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska is Professor of Psychology at Ignatianum University in Krakow. She conducts research in cultural psychology, with particular emphasis on the psychology of migration. She deals with the acculturation of Poles leaving abroad and foreigners coming to Poland. She also conducts research on the problems of cultural adaptation in Poland of children from Polish families returning from emigration. Together with her team, she conducted research on the psychological resilience of Ukrainian women fleeing to Poland from the Russian invasion. As part of the Teacher Training Center of the Polish Community Association, she conducts classes for Polish teachers from Polish educational institutions around the world.
Nicole Marx
Nicole Marx is Full Professor of German as a Second Language at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research and teaching interests include multilingualism and intercomprehension, additional language learning and pedagogy, language learning and teaching of migrant children, and quantitative methods in SLA research. She has led various projects on multilingual acquisition and plurilingual teaching and learning approaches, most recently focusing on immigrant deaf and hard-of-hearing language learners.
Ianthi Tsimpli
Ianthi Tsimpli is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the British Academy. She has held academic positions at Reading, Thessaloniki, Newcastle and University College London. She teaches and researches in Multilingualism, Language Acquisition, Attrition and Impairment. Her work in the last ten years focuses on language development in neurotypical and neurodiverse populations and how it is affected by language experience, i.e. multilingualism, socioeconomic status and education as well as cognitive skills.