The Research Director at the Universidad Católica del Maule (UCM), Ranjeeva Ranjan, completed an internship in India, as the last phase of an ambitious initiative funded by the FOVI call.
Five institutions of higher education, including one of the best evaluated campuses in India, visited the Director of Research of the Universidad Católica del Maule, Ranjeeva Ranjan, in the framework of a project aimed at stimulating academic collaboration around multilingualism.
This is an initiative financed by the call “Fomento a la Vinculación Internacional” (FOVI), of the National Agency for Development and Research.
«I did an internship at Jawaharlal Nehru University, in the last stage of the FOVI project that we started in 2024, seeking to promote collaboration in research on multilingualism and language policy. We want to consolidate an agreement to carry out exchange of teachers and students and joint research and eventually apply for cooperation programs in Europe,» said the Doctor of Philosophy, who highlighted the prestige of the campus located in New Delhi.
«In India’s National Institutional Ranking Framework, JNU ranked second last year. We think a partnership can happen initially through our Faculty of Education Sciences and the Jawaharlal Nehru College of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies,» he said.
The FOVI project, which ends this month, set up an international network called “Language Policy” (LanPol), dedicated to researching communities that use more than one language. The alliance is made up of academics from Universidad de La Frontera, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina of Brazil, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata of Argentina, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Woxsen University of India, in addition to UCM.
“We created what would be the first network to address this topic in Chile, and we already have ties with eight institutions and ten international researchers, with some of whom we are already working to bring out a special issue in a highly indexed journal,” Ranjan stressed.
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The expert in language education and the use of ICT in learning took advantage of the trip to New Delhi to show the work of the Maule campus in other parts of the vast Asian country. He shared the milestones of the Lanpol network and his FONDECYT project 11241429 on students’ beliefs about second language grammar instruction, in conferences and workshops at Woxsen University in Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Technology in Patna and Doon University in Dehradun.
“With Doon University, which offers a full range of multidisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate academic programs, we are at the stage of formalizing an agreement through the embassies in both India and Chile,” he announced.
But the tour did not end there. Ranjan also visited the Vidya Vihar Institute of Technology in Bihar, where he was invited to be part of the Quality Assurance Committee “because we detected a syntony in the areas of interest and the normative lines”, he pointed out.
The FOVI 230232 initiative, which explores linguistic diversity in Chile and connects with specialists from around the world, has the participation of UCM academics Dr. Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar, as co-investigator, and Dr. Andrew Philominraj, as associate national researcher.
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