DILAN participated in the 13th international hybrid conference Synergies in Communication, held in Bucharest, Romania, on 30-31st October 2025, with multiple plenary talks, keynote speeches, and presentations disseminating DILAN’s work.
This year’s international conference “Synergies in Communication” of the Modern Languages Department at ASE Bucharest (30-31 October 2025) has been co-organised in partnership with DILAN. It has been the 2nd big dissemination event organised by the ASE Bucharest Consortium Partner, leader of the project’s dissemination work package 4.
The Opening Plenary session, by Julio Gimenez (Westminster University, UK) on “Digital Dialogues: researching and teaching science communication for a diverse world”, as well as the DILAN keynote by Alexandra Reynolds (University of Bordeaux, France) on “Attitudes to communicating in English as a second language in French academia” have been delivered by Partners in the DILAN Consortium. These sessions were all meant to share the main findings of research into scientists’ digital communication practices, as well as project outcomes, such as the MOOC and the “Online Science Communication” course, complemented by insights derived from participation in and facilitation of the latter.
Additionally, DILAN members, Gonzalo RUIZ (Kampal Data Solutions, Spain), José DIVASÓN (University of La Rioja, Spain), and Carmen Pérez-Llantada (University of Zaragoza, Spain), presented DILAN-based interdisciplinary research. This research addresses a gap in scientometrics by combining quantitative network analysis with qualitative linguistic analysis to interpret academic success. They generated co-authorship networks for four highly successful STEM researchers to identify key structural characteristics and influential nodes. This network data was complemented by linguistic analysis of the article titles, focusing on sophisticated measures of lexical and syntactic complexity. Their primary goal was to quantify the titles’ communicative efficiency, a critical driver of readership and research impact.
This academic event has been attended by an international interdisciplinary audience and has, thus, contributed to making the DILAN project known more widely, while also raising the participants’ interest in further developments, DILAN publications and refined project outcomes.