Expertise in the service of society

ILC members sit on various committees outside the university in their capacity as experts.

A. Teaching and educational methods

Barbara De Cock

• Board member, Sociedad Belga de Profesores de Español

Pierre Fastrez

• External assessor for two Erasmus+ projects. Key Action 2 – cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices: strategic partnerships for teaching in schools

Marc Lits

• Board member IAD (Institut des arts de diffusion – Media arts institute)
• General assembly,  Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci (higher education establishment) (Woluwe and LLN)

Philippe Nzoimbengene

• Coordinator of the ‘Training’ Cell and board member, CARF (Centre Arrupe pour le Recherche et la Formation – Arrupe Research and Training Centre), Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo

Anne Catherine Simon

• Member of the committee of experts, AFELSH (Association des Facultés et Établissements de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines – Association of Humanities and Human Sciences Faculties and Institutes) and member of the steering committee of the West Africa ‘Education Science, Language and Literature’ doctoral college, partners of the AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie – Association of Francophone Universities) (2016-)

B. Media and communication

Andrea Catellani

• Leader of the Study and Research Group on “Environment, communication, science and society” of the SFSIC (Société française des sciences de l’information et de la communication – French information and communication sciences society)

Gérard Dereze

• Member of the support committee for realisation and quality control of the RTBF’s activities

Pierre Fastrez

• Member of the Media Education Board (Conseil Supérieur de l’Education aux Médias – CSEM) of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation
• Member of the group of experts responsible for defining the competences of Mediawijs.be (Flemish Knowledge Centre for Digital and Media Literacy, Belgium) (2015-2016)

Marc Lits

• Scientific Committee of the GRIPIC (Groupe de recherches interdisciplinaires sur les processus d’information et de communication du CELSA – Interdisciplinary research group on the information and communication processes of CELSA), Paris-Sorbonne University
• Expert HCERES (assessment of Sciences Po Lille and the Paris 8 CEMTI laboratory)

Aurore Van de Winkel

•   Board member of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research (European Officer) 2012-2018
•   Board member of the non-profit Committee Para-Skeptics in the Pub – Brussels

C. Culture

Sébastien Fevry

•  Member of the Mundaneum scientific committee

Anne Catherine Simon

• Member of the examining board for FRESH “Défis culturels” (2016-)

D. Linguistics and corpora

Barbara De Cock

• Board member, Association française de Linguistique Cognitive (French cognitive linguistics association) (2017- )

Liesbeth Degand

•  Member, Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Language Studies (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

Françoise Gallez

• Member, SeSLa (Séminaire des Sciences du Langage – Language sciences seminar), linguistics research centre, Université Saint-Louis Brussels https://www.sesla.be/

Gaëtanelle Gilquin

• Member of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) Executive Board

Sylviane Granger

• President of the Learner Corpus Association: www.learnercorpusassociation.org/
• Academic consultant of the Corpus Linguistic Society of China
• Member of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Corpora and Intercultural Studies of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)

Magali Paquot

• Advisory panel: Linguistic typology and learnability in second language, Leverhulme Trust, PI Dr T. Alexopoulou & Prof Tsimpli, University of Cambridge (2018-2021)
• Advisory panel: IRIS database (2016-)
• Member of the executive committee of the Belgian Linguistics Circle (Cercle belge de Linguistique) (2014-2019)
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Learner Corpus Association (2014- )

Arnaud Vincent

• Member of SeSLa (Séminaire des Sciences du Langage – Language Sciences Seminar), linguistics research centre, Université Saint-Louis Brussels https://www.sesla.be/

Anne Catherine Simon

• Member of Language Council and Political Linguistics (2020) - Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles
• Member of Scientific Council Conseil at Observatory of linguistic practices (Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France)

Philippe Hambye

• Member of Conseil de la langue

Kristel Van Goethem

• Member of Executive Committee BeNeCLa (Belgium-Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association) (2020).
   

Anne Catherine Simon

• Member jury FRESH “Défis culturels” (2016-...)
   

Fanny Meunier

•  Jury FNRS (SHS3)
   

Liesbeth Degand

• Présidence at Research Council

The Centre de traduction de Louvain (CTL) (Louvain Translation Centre), located within the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Humanities, coordinates requests for translation and revision of texts (in French, Dutch or English) from UCL staff members. This service is particularly useful for researchers requiring translation/revision of scholarly articles, CVs, project descriptions, etc.

The requests received are distributed to members of a team of freelance translators/revisers selected by the CTL. A member of the Institute, Sylviane Granger, is responsible for academic oversight of the CTL, and the administrative side is managed by Margaret Mulcahy.

For further information or to request an estimate, see: https://intranet.uclouvain.be/fr/myucl/facultes/fial/centre-de-traduction-de-louvain.html

In structural terms, the Institute for Language and Communication offers numerous services to both the members of the university (internally) and civil society (externally).
Defining in detail the types of service to society provided by the ILC and its members calls first of all for agreement on the activities to be included under this umbrella.
Taken together, the components in this process – editorial committees, types of expertise – can be said to constitute, to a greater or lesser degree, the institute’s ecosystem, the place where its network of expertise can flourish and grow.
Giving a detailed, case-by-case account of the types of service to society provided by the ILC and its members calls first of all for agreement on what the expression ‘service to society’ entails. In order to define its scope, in 2011 the institute began a process which cross-references two lists: the ‘indicative list of activities to be put to use in the service of society’ drawn up by the university’s Council for Service to Society (Conseil du service à la société – CSE), and the four  organising principles underpinning the CSE.

The four organising principles of the Council for Service to Society are:

•  adding value through technology transfer
•  adding value through expertise
•  regional development
•  sustainable development

The ‘indicative list of activities to be put to use in the service of society’ comprises the following activities [1]:

• Organising and/or taking part in conferences and seminars for the business world or civil society;
• Media contributions;
• Study contracts on subjects commissioned by public or private decision-makers;
• Expertise and consultancy for certification and standardisation organisations and operators;
• Participation in regional, community and federal bodies;
• Clinical expertise (physical and mental health);
• Projects in the context of development cooperation;
• Participation in non-profit organisations involved in knowledge-sharing and regional development;
• Publishing popular science books and articles;
• Publications aimed at socio-economic actors;
• Training socio-economic actors;
• Responsibility for and/or participation in lifelong-learning programmes;
• Support for non-university education;
• Creating prototypes, methods and innovative processes;
• Contributing to spin-off incubation; declarations of invention and patents (if not part of the research component), other technology transfer activities;
• Services to third parties;
• Data collection (corpora, observations, economic data, etc.) and distribution of data (free of charge or for payment).

On the basis of these two cross-referenced lists, a preliminary inventory classified the services to society provided by the ILC. The exercise stimulated reflexion on the concept of ‘service’ and on the best way to record it in a manner that was both detailed and clear. It also allowed the addition of a chapter, from 2012 onwards, on ‘Research tools developed internally’ in the research activity report.  The chapter includes ‘Data collection (corpora, observations, economic data, biobanks, etc.) and data distribution (free of charge or for payment), and ‘Creation of prototypes, methods and innovative processes’.

Together, the components in this process – editorial committees, types of expertise – can be said to constitute, to a greater or lesser degree, the institute’s ecosystem, the place where its network of expertise can flourish and grow.

[1] Unlike the CSE, the ILC has chosen deliberately to limit this list to services provided externally, i.e. in civil society, and not to include services provided to the UCL as an institution. At its Council of 12 December 2011, the ILC took the view that services provided internally (e.g. chairing a council, committee secretariat, membership of a working party) fell more under the heading of management, and that there was no link between this UCL-internal support and any kind of societal impact. The ILC of course stressed that a register should also be drawn up of these internal tasks, which are often numerous and insufficiently visible. Nonetheless, they cannot be seen as forming part of service to society.