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

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

• Assistant trainer at the Jesuit Novitiate in Central Africa, ASBL, in Kisantu, Kongo Central province, DR Congo

Fanny Meunier

• Member of the committee of experts of the modern languages ​​commission (secondary) of the General Secretariat for Catholic Education
• Co-director of the modern languages ​​consortium (Ministry of Education of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation)

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)
• 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-)

Ferran Suñer 

• Belgischer Germanisten- und Deutschlehrerverband (BGDV)

Thomas Francois

• Member of the Measurement and Evaluation Commission of the Scientific Council for Business French (Paris, CCI)
• Member of the jury for language examinations for notaries (FPS Justice)

Patricia Kerres

• Non-permanent member of the Accreditation Commission competent for experts, translators, interpreters and sworn interpreter translators (FPS Justice)

Manon Hermann  

• Membre du Conseil d'Administration du BGDV (Belgischer Germanisten- und Deutschlehrerverband) 

Anne-Marie Cotton 

• Présidente du Conseil d’Administration de l’asbl Inrichtend Comité Sint-Lucas Gent (enseignement artistique secondaire et académie) 

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)

Pierre Fastrez

• Member of the Media Education Board (Conseil Supérieur de l’Education aux Médias – CSEM) of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation

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

Antonin Descampe

• Belgian Standardization Office (NBN)
• International Standards Organization (ISO)
• JPEG and MPEG committees for the standardization of image and video formats

Anne-Marie Cotton 

• Membre du groupe de recherche PR Education de l’Euprera (European Public Relations’ Education & Reseach Association) 
• Coordinatrice européenne du réseau MARPE 
• Experte AEQUES et NVAO  

C. Culture

Sébastien Fevry

•  Member of the Mundaneum scientific committee

Sarah Sepulchre

• Member of the Fresh “Cultural Challenges” jury since 2016
• Member of the jury of the FWB-RTBF Series Fund since October 2020
• Member of the analysis group of "Diversity in Belgian films" for the Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel since 2019
• Studies, consultancies and masterclasses for the following institutions: European Theater Convention, Le Center du Cinéma, Le Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel, RTBF, Association of Professional Journalists

D. Linguistics and corpora

Barbara De Cock

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

Sylvie De Cock  

• Présidente de la Learner Corpus Association (2022-) 
• Membre du comité exécutif de la BAAHE – Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (2019-) 
• Membre du SeSLa (Séminaire des Sciences du Langage), centre de recherche en linguistique de l’Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles https://www.sesla.be/

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

Sylviane Granger

• 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)

Fanny Meunier

• Member of SeSLa (Language Sciences Seminar), Linguistics Research Center of Saint-Louis University Brussels https://www.sesla.be/
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Learner Corpus Association (2014-)

Magali Paquot

• Affiliate member of the Corpus Linguistics Lab, University of Florida
• Advisory panel: Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, Advisory Board (2021-2023)
• 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-)

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).

Manon Hermann

• Member of NaLTT (Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality), linguistics research center of the University of Namur (http://naltt.unamur.be)
• Member of SeSLa (Language Sciences Seminar), linguistics research center of the University Saint-Louis Brussels (https://www.sesla.be/)

Jean-Pierre Colson

• Membre du comité directeur de l’Association européenne de phraséologie (Europhras)

In a punctual and detailed manner, describing the missions of service to society provided by ILC and its members first requires agreeing on what is covered by the expression “Service to society”. To delimit this scope, the institute began work in 2011 that crosses two nomenclatures: the "indicative list of activities to be valued within the framework of the service mission" drawn up by the Council for Service to Society (CSE) of the university, and the four poles on which the CSE is based.

The four organising poles 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.