At MIRCo, we are committed to open and citizen science, integrating specialists from diverse disciplines and promoting an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to researching multilingualism, discourse, and communication in a constantly changing world.
We seek not only to analyze these changes but also to intervene in them, fostering citizen participation in knowledge production and collaborating with institutions and social organizations to promote more inclusive and equitable practices.
The MEMOLAND project aims to recover and bring to light episodes of repression and resistance during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship that have remained silenced or are little known, using a citizen science approach.
En colaboración con el Foro Social de la Sierra de Guadarrama, desde MIRCo hemos desarrollado una aplicación para Android e iOS que permite construir un mapa colaborativo de testimonios, lugares y acontecimientos vinculados a la memoria democrática, promoviendo la participación ciudadana en su recuperación y difusión.
Principal investigators: Héctor Grad and Luisa Martín Rojo.
Funding: Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory.
Project period: desde el 1 de diciembre de 2025 – en ejecución.
Ref. No 0064-AV-2025
ReDes_Ling is an international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral network bringing together universities and social organisations from Europe and Latin America to investigate linguistic inequalities and develop actions to counter their effects on society, particularly in education, employment and healthcare.
In addition to MIRCo, participants include four academic institutions (University of Copenhagen, CESMECA, Instituto Caro y Cuervo and UNSAM), a community radio station (ARA, Luxembourg), a farmers’ cooperative (COOMUPAS, Colombia), an Indigenous women’s organisation (CONAMICH, Argentina), an independent publisher (Wichi Lhomet, Argentina) and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain).
Principal investigator: Laura Villa.
Funding: European Union, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Staff Exchanges (MSCA-SE).
Reference: 1011131469.
Project period: 2024–2027.
The FARO project, developed within the CIVIS European University Alliance, brings together the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Bucharest, Sapienza University of Rome and Aix-Marseille University. It aims to create spaces for sharing and returning knowledge that recognise heritage diversity and encourage intercultural dialogue among different groups, following the principles of the Faro Convention.
At MIRCo, the project focuses on documenting the diversity of linguistic heritage and its presence in public spaces, as well as developing an app that enables users to locate and share this heritage through a collaborative map.
Principal investigator: Manuel Alcántara.
Funding: CIVIS European University Alliance.
Project period: June 2025 – April 2026.
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The MiRCo-UAM Interdisciplinary Center seeks to research multilingualism, discourse, and communication in the current context. We promote exchanges with experts from diverse fields to enrich academic practice, and we work together with speakers and social groups to boost the impact of our work in different spheres of society.
In its relationship with social transformations and new economies.
In its imbrication in social and identity processes, such as exclusion, the construction of inequality, and subjectivation.
Trajectories, status, value management, and linguistic ideologies; speaker models and power techniques (linguistic surveillance)
The exercise of power in interaction.
The discursive construction of social representations.
Discourses and problems of our time: racism and sexism; micro-violence; warring discourses.
Construction of neoliberal rationality.
Discursive processes: discursive production and circulation; legitimacy.
Foto: Jesús Aristu en actividad de campo (2023)
Foto: Jesús Aristu en actividad de campo (2023)
