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A high level of quality in both research and education is the aim of the University of Aarhus. Since its early beginnings in 1928, the university has provided both the Danish and international communities with more than 42,000 graduates, and has left its own special mark on the city of Aarhus, the Danish society and the international research community. The University of Aarhus plays a decisive – and essential – role at the hub of the city of the same name. Aarhus has a reputation for education and training – a brand that extends well beyond Denmark’s borders. It is a lively, modern university, which collaborates with the business community, cultural centres and other universities throughout the world.

The Faculty of Humanities comprises seven Institutes. 35 different subject degrees are offered at the Faculty, including degrees in Languages, Aesthetics, History, Area Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Literature, Music, Archaeology, Communications and Philosophy. The Faculty receives nearly 200 guest students per year, and every year about 200 students leave to study abroad. The presence of guest students is considered a valuable element in university life..The growing number of international guest lecturers brings diversity and global perspectives to the Faculty's teaching programme. Research conducted at the Faculty, and at the University of Aarhus in general, is known for both its breadth and depth.

The Danish representatives will offer to the project their expertise in cultural aspects of language and language learning. They will take an active part in the development of the framework and involve their students in the project work. They will contribute less to the development of materials but instead monitor them from linguistic and cultural point of view. Their position at the University of Aarhus include major opportunities for dissemination. They will disseminate the outcomes directly through their attendance to conferences and other interventions.

Hanne Leth Andersen is a didactic oriented French linguist. She has recently been nominated as professor of language didactics and university pedagogy at Aarhus University. She works with language training through the whole system of education, which is very important for her. Before she was Director of the Centre for Educational Development, Assistant professor of French and Director of the French Department. She had former employments at the universities of Odense and of Copenhagen and at Danish Secondary schools. She has done research on a.o. authenticity in text book dialogue, culture in language learning and contributed to several publications in these fields.

Stacey Cozart has been a language consultant at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Aarhus since 1997. She works in the field of TEFL. In her teaching and current MA studies in foreign language education, one of her focuses is intercultural issues in foreign language learning, in particular as regards English as a lingua franca in educational settings. Along with Hanne Leth Andersen, she is currently working to establish an intercultural competence centre at the University of Aarhus, through which theories of intercultural communication, language learning and pedagogy can be implemented by means of training programs and other language learning opportunities at all levels.