Partners

The UT Language Centre is a member of the Vereniging van Universitaire Talencentra in het Nederlandse Taalgebied (NUT), part of the Confédération Européenne des Centres de Langues de l'Enseignement Supérieur (CercleS) and partner of the Universität Münster.

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VERENIGING VAN UNIVERSITAIRE TALENCENTRA IN HET NEDERLANDSE TAALGEBIED (NUT)

NUT is the Dutch association of University Language Centres in the Netherlands and in Belgium. The association was founded in 1993 and has 23 members. NUT functions as a platform and as a forum: it stimulates members to exchange information, to share knowledge and experience and to network, and provides ways to combine expertise.

NUT categorises 6 thematic groups, which are:

  1. Academic English
  2. Academic Dutch
  3. Administrative processes
  4. NT2
  5. Modern Foreign Languages
  6. Translations

CONFEDERATION EUROPEENNE DES CENTRES DE LANGUES DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR(CERCLES)

CercleS is a confederation of independent associations from 22 countries in Europe. The confederation was founded is 1991 and unifies around 290 language centres, institutes, faculties or schools in higher education. 

Through this confederation, language centres in Europe are able to support each other in language trainings with the addition of technological and pedagogical resources. CercleS aims to promote research in foreign language learning at international level and to encourage international and interdisciplinary co-operation between language centres, in order to enable them to co-ordinate the pursuit of their objectives (Cercles, 2012).

In order to achieve its aims, CercleS organises conferences, distributes a regularly printed bulletin to all its members, runs electronic bulletin boards and publishes its conference proceedings. CercleS also facilitates:

WiPDaF - Wissenschaftliche Internationale Partnerschaften Deutsch als Fremdsprache

WiPDaF e.V. is a non-profit organisation aiming to improve the international co-operation between institutes and organisations by providing an academically-oriented course programme for German as a foreign language.

The UT Language Centre co-operates with WiPDaF e.V. for providing courses in German.

More information about WiPDaF eV and their course programme can be found here.