With the aim of iLingua achieving a significant impact on society and becoming a national and international benchmark, by implementing a scientific agenda that facilitates access to competitive funding sources, a strategic plan is established, structured around the following elements:
Motivation
– To share a common vision and strategy to leverage the current capacity and prestige of linguistics at UVigo, creating a sustainable R&D&I entity with relevant academic, social, and economic impact in its geographical area.
– To integrate the most competitive scientific and technological capabilities of the groups, aligned with global challenges defined in the European Framework Programs (Horizon Europe), the National Innovation Strategy, and Galicia’s RIS3.
– To capitalize on the organizational and collaborative experience of the groups and their impact, ensuring efficiency in transfer processes and the transformation of progress in the shared scientific agenda into social and economic impact.
Mission
The mission of iLingua is to promote and carry out top-level linguistic research, offering scientific infrastructures that support cutting-edge advances and developing excellent transnational research, with the vision to:
– Achieve international recognition as a leading center in scientific and technological research and innovation in the field of linguistics, promoting multidisciplinarity and attracting talent.
– Contribute to social well-being through the application of knowledge and technology generated by research.
– Strengthen synergies between basic and applied research, promoting excellence and innovation in the field of linguistics.
Assets
– Excellence: focused on research, innovation, training, and mentoring, supported by efficient management and strong governance.
– Attractive environment: capable of fostering competitive scientific careers, attracting and retaining talent, and providing professional training for young researchers.
– Collaborative culture: internally, among research groups, and externally, with academic, industrial, and social partners at the regional, national, and international levels.
– Impact capacity: focused on the innovative application of linguistics to solve industrial and social challenges and to train specialized professionals.
– Transfer strategy: to provide the Galician and national industries with a sustainable competitive advantage through access to cutting-edge enabling technology.
– Ongoing evaluation: ethical commitment and accountability as guiding principles.
Values (aligned with the European Charter for Researchers)
– Academic freedom, which promotes the generation of novel ideas and expands the frontiers of scientific knowledge.
– Excellence, supporting initiative, expertise, and a focus on quality research, training, and governance.
– Equality of opportunity and treatment, promoting diversity, equity, and support for female vocations.
– Orientation toward global challenges, contributing to social well-being through research.
– Collaboration, both internally among members of the Institute and externally with academic, industrial, and social partners.
– Ethics and accountability, through a code of good practices and a responsible professional attitude.
– Commitment to open science, promoting open access to publications, data, and code.
iLingua also shares a commitment to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) most directly related to its activity:
– SDG 4 (Quality Education): through talent recruitment programs and science communication and outreach activities, promoting equal access to science.
– SDG 5 (Gender Equality): promoting measures to achieve effective equality, both internally and in actions derived from its activities.
– SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth): committing to knowledge transfer to society, collaboration with companies and institutions, and recruitment of human resources under the best possible working conditions.
Key perspectives
Strategy 1: Oriented and specialized scientific agenda
Establishment of a common research agenda that promotes multidisciplinarity, inter-institutional collaboration, and the strengthening of ties with the industrial sector to enhance scientific excellence and transfer capacity.
Strategy 2: Talent
Promotion of the recruitment and retention of research talent as a key element to increase competitiveness and obtain competitive funding.
Strategy 3: International projection
Progress in internationalization through:
– Incentives for collaboration with reference centers, networks, and international projects.
– Increased presence in international scientific forums and events.
– Promotion of mobility for early-career and senior researchers.
– Improved participation in Horizon Europe projects.
Strategy 4: Economic and social impact
Effective response to the challenges set out in the Galician, national, and international research and innovation agendas.
Strategy 5: Governance
Strong leadership and effective coordination will be key to improving the management of research activities. The operation of the Institute will be subject to periodic, external, and independent evaluations that will allow for the rewarding of good performance.
Strategic axes and objectives
E1. Culture — OE1. Create a center culture
E2. Governance, organization and management — OE2. Launch and organize iLingua
E3. Research — OE3. Develop excellent, multidisciplinary, and competitive science
E4. Human resources — OE4. Support the professional development of competent professionals
E5. Training — OE5. Help create new generations of scientists in linguistics and its applications
E6. Innovation and transfer — OE6. Address social challenges
E7. Science dissemination — OE7. Include society in scientific progress