UPgrading the Skills of Linguistics and Language Students (UPSKILLS)

Funded by:

URPP "Language and Space" is one of the initiators and a partner in this Swiss-European project whose goal is to improve the employability of students in language-related fields. To address the identified skills gaps which keep our students' employability limited despite great opportunities, project partners work together with companies and other employers. We focus on four main objectives: 

• Needs analysis: understand better what needs to be improved in university curricula.  
• Integrating research into teaching: allow students to experience research and problem solving before graduating.
• Learning content: teach tech skills, programming, data management and infrastructure.
• Educational games: create a shared virtual environment to guide the students across universities through the common learning content and challenges.

Members of the UPSKILLS consortium: 

Funded by Movetia:

• Uni Zurich (CH)
• Uni Geneva (CH)

Funded by Erasmus+

• The University of Graz (AU)
• Uni Bologna (IT)
• Uni Malta (MT), main coordinator
• CLARIN-ERIC (NL) 
• Uni Belgrade (RS) 
• Uni Rijeka (HR)

• Coordinator

Iris Hübscher

• Staff member

Tanja Samardžić

• 25 June 2021 

"Every time I hire a linguist… Emergent tech profiles for linguists, translators and language experts”

• 28 April 2021

 Kick-off Meeting of the Digital Learning Commnuity at the DSI

We are proud to be among the initiators of the Digital Learning Community, which is jointly supported by the UPSKILLS project and the UZH  Digital Society Initiative. The new community will allow us to join forces and synchronise wider efforts on introducing educational games and other forms of digital learning. 

More community info coming soon!

Introduction to research in linguistics: theory, logic, method