One of the main aims and objectives of the department consists in ensuring excellence in research and teaching. To that end, we have been aiming at constantly improving our international profile, for instance by organizing international conferences and formal collaboration with universities abroad. Over the course of the years, the Department of German Language and Literature has been participating in numerous Scientific Research Programs, both on an international and a national level. These research programs cover(ed) the following areas:
Development of a Language Assessment / Certification System
Linking the Language Assessment / Certification System to Secondary Education
Computational Linguistics
Phraseology
Temporal and cross-sectional view of the language
Cultural studies
Literary Criticism
Ιnterdepartmental research programme “Linguistics and Grammar Teaching”
Plurilingual Phraseology: Learning multiword units through English PHRASEOLAB
Theoretical linguistics
- Co-organisation of Generative Syntax in the Twenty-first Century: The Road Ahead
- Co-organisation and teaching at international summer schools CreteLing 2017, Creteling 2018 and CreteLing 2019
- Co-organisation of Semantics in Athens I, Semantics in Athens II und Semantics in Athens III
- Organisation of the Athens Semantics Group online
- Organisation and teaching at Semantics Group
- Organisation of Athens Reading Group in Linguistics