On 30 June at 12:00, the UNESCO Chair in Linguistic Technologies (TECLIN) will be officially inaugurated in a ceremony which will take place in the Auditorium of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and will be broadcasted through the website.
The ceremony will be chaired by the rector of the UPM, and the Former Secretary General of the UNESCO, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, will also participate in the presidential table, in addition to the director of the Chair, the professor Jesús Cardeñosa.
The ceremony will be attended by representatives of various Latin American universities.
The TECLIN Chair, directed by Jesús Cardeñosa, focuses its activities on Linguistic Engineering, childhood education, illiteracy, cultural diversity, multiculturalism, and transfer of technology.The research group of the Validation and Industrial Applications Group (VAI) of the UPM along with various Latin American universities, members of UNITWIN, created in 1992 by the UNESCO with the aim of developing cooperation between universities, and promoting knowledge exchange and academic solidarity across the world, will be involved on the TECLIN Chair.
Technology Chair centred in education
The TECLIN Chair is creating an academic structure specialized in the most advanced technologies of Linguistic Engineering for the production of contents in languages of indigenous communities, firstly Quechua, Guaraní and Mapuche.
Quechua belongs to a family of languages native to the Central Andes and that extends across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. It is spoken by 8 or 10 million people. Guarani is a language spoken by 8 million people at the Southern Cone of America. The Mapuche is the language of the Mapuches, an Amerindian community which lives in Chile and Argentina. The number of active speakers is estimated to be between 100,000 and 200,000 people, and the number of passive speakers, 100,000 people more.
The Chair has been created by professors to give the first international master on Linguistic Engineering, whose main objective is to form technicians so that they can apply linguistic technologies to different communities.
Paraninfo de la UPM, escenario para la presentación de la Cátedra Unesco TECLIN. Foto: UPM.
Technology Chair centred in education
The TECLIN Chair is creating an academic structure specialized in the most advanced technologies of Linguistic Engineering for the production of contents in languages of indigenous communities, firstly Quechua, Guaraní and Mapuche.
Quechua belongs to a family of languages native to the Central Andes and that extends across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. It is spoken by 8 or 10 million people. Guarani is a language spoken by 8 million people at the Southern Cone of America. The Mapuche is the language of the Mapuches, an Amerindian community which lives in Chile and Argentina. The number of active speakers is estimated to be between 100,000 and 200,000 people, and the number of passive speakers, 100,000 people more.
The Chair has been created by professors to give the first international master on Linguistic Engineering, whose main objective is to form technicians so that they can apply linguistic technologies to different communities.
The TECLIN Chair is creating an academic structure specialized in the most advanced technologies of Linguistic Engineering for the production of contents in languages of indigenous communities, firstly Quechua, Guaraní and Mapuche.
Quechua belongs to a family of languages native to the Central Andes and that extends across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. It is spoken by 8 or 10 million people. Guarani is a language spoken by 8 million people at the Southern Cone of America. The Mapuche is the language of the Mapuches, an Amerindian community which lives in Chile and Argentina. The number of active speakers is estimated to be between 100,000 and 200,000 people, and the number of passive speakers, 100,000 people more.
The Chair has been created by professors to give the first international master on Linguistic Engineering, whose main objective is to form technicians so that they can apply linguistic technologies to different communities.
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