Janus Mortensen to continue as director of CIP
Professor Janus Mortensen will continue as Director of the Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP) at the University of Copenhagen. CIP contributes to the development of UCPH as an international and multilingual university through research, teaching activities and language policy consultancy. In recent years, the centre has also focused on the impact of AI and new language technologies on multilingualism and academic practice.
Together with Deputy Director Slobodanka Dimova and Centre Administrator Helen Sværke, Janus Mortensen will lead the continued development of CIP in the years ahead. Speaking about the centre’s work, he says:
- CIP was established to strengthen the internationalisation of UCPH, and our work is rooted in the concrete linguistic opportunities and challenges that come with being an international university. We work in a research-based and practice-oriented way with issues relating to language, multilingualism and inclusion at UCPH as both an educational institution and a workplace. The 2024 inclusion survey shows that many people experience language as a barrier at UCPH. We are very keen to help change this, including by supporting the ongoing implementation of UCPH’s 2021 language policy.
CIP collaborates with researchers, teaching staff and management across faculties and administrative areas. In addition, a core task of the centre is to offer courses and professional development for students, researchers, teaching staff and managers.
During the period 2026–2029, CIP will be responsible for administering a total of DKK 6.4 million allocated through the Danish Finance Act 2026 to strengthen opportunities for students across UCPH to develop language skills as a supplementary competence.
Dean of the Faculty of Humanities Kirsten Busch Nielsen says about the extension:
- CIP plays an important role in the development of the University of Copenhagen as an international and multilingual university. Through his strong academic leadership, Janus Mortensen has helped develop the centre into a robust research-based resource centre for the entire university. I am therefore very pleased that he will continue as director of CIP.
Janus Mortensen is Professor of Multilingualism and Language Policy. He has been employed at CIP since 2015 and has served as director since 2024. From 2024 to 2028, he is heading the collective research project AI and the University (AI-UNI) – Towards a Sociolinguistics of Literacy and Voice in the Age of Generative Language Technology, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. His extension as director runs until 2029.