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Semaine des données de la recherche 2025

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Research Data Week 2025

Maison de la Recherche of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (4, rue des Irlandais) and Centre Panthéon (12, place du Panthéon)

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Not to be missed

Continuing Education Open Day on June 14

Presentation of lifelong learning opportunities and free introductory courses

Inalco launches its Executive Education offer

Discover the training courses on offer in June and July

New distance learning diploma in Tibetan

Intensive distance learning course in Tibetan

Inalco student prize for manga on June 4

Register for the 8th Prix Emile Guimet ceremony for Asian literature

Carte du monde vue de nuit avec les continents éclairés

DECRIPT Project & Consortium

"Dispositif d'Étude des Crises et des Récits cIvilisationnels par la Pluridisciplinarité et les Terrains", winner of the 2024 ANR's call for expressions of interest

Un groupe de personnes portent dans leurs mains des bulles de paroles de couleurs et formes différentes

EUniWell

Since the end of 2023, Inalco has been a member of EUniWell, a European academic alliance dedicated to promoting societal "well-being."

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amharic berber comorian hausa malagasy manding fula soninke swahili wolof yoruba
burmese bislama cebuano cham drehu filipino ilocano indonesian - malaysian khmer lao mon siamese tahitian tai lu vietnamese
oceanic languages
algerian arabic literal arabic literal arabic literal arabic moroccan arabic syro-lebanese arabic tunisian arabic egyptian arabic hassaniya suret
cantonese chinese taiwanese
korean
modern hebrew judeo-arabic judeo-spanish judeo-spanish yiddish
bengali hindi nepali urdu romani sinhalese tamil tibetan telugu
japanese
russian
armenian azeri georgian kurdish mongolian ossetian uzbek uyghur pashto persian qazaq tatar turkish
albanian bosnian croatian serbian bulgarian belarusian estonian finnish modern greek hungarian latvian lithuanian macedonian udmurt polish romanian slovak slovenian sorbian czech ukrainian
guarani inuktitut maya nahuatl quechua

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