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In order to work up an innovative research idea into a long-term research project, Charlotte Blattner, currently a doctoral candidate at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS) of Heidelberg University, is receiving support from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung. This assistance is part of the program the foundation advertised for the first time last year called “The Research Workshop – Your Idea for Tomorrow”, which aims to support young researchers in the early transitional phases of their academic career.
Press Release
Heidelberg, 21 January 2026
“Research Workshop”: Support for Heidelberg Early-Career Researcher
Charlotte Blattner can develop her innovative research idea into a long-term project with the support of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
In order to work up an innovative research idea into a long-term research project, Charlotte Blattner, currently a doctoral candidate at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS) of Heidelberg University, is receiving support from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung. This assistance is part of the program the foundation advertised for the first time last year called “The Research Workshop – Your Idea for Tomorrow”, which aims to support young researchers in the early transitional phases of their academic career. Charlotte Blattner is a member of the HCIAS-based Observatory of Spanish in Europe (OSE). There she intends, in future, to explore the communicational language practices of Spanish in the context of European migration. She is to receive funding amounting to approximately 100,000 euros over a period of twelve months to elaborate on her research project.
In her doctoral thesis Charlotte Blattner is dealing with the linguistic heritage of families with a migration background in Germany. It focuses on inquiring into the role the family plays as a center of linguistic socialization in intergenerational language transmission. Do children and their own children still speak the heritage language of their parents or grandparents actively or do they have only a passive command of it – if any? Charlotte Blattner has been studying the dynamics of multilingualism in connection with migration and integration for Spanish as a heritage language. The research findings from her sociolinguistic doctoral thesis will form the starting point for her postdoctoral project, in which she wants to investigate the language practice of Spanish-speaking immigrant families in the context of the whole of Europe. It will focus on the demographic, social and linguistic dynamics that shape the identity of descendants of families with a migration background at the level both of language and culture.
Charlotte Blattner graduated in translation studies at Heidelberg University with the languages German, Spanish and French, and spent time on several study-abroad programs in Spain. She is a research associate at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies and teaches at the Institute for Translation and Interpreting. At the OSE she is involved in an international research project on Spanish in Europe and the demographic development of Spanish speakers. She received a fellowship from the Baden-Württemberg Landesgraduiertenförderung (LGF program) and is currently being funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Charlotte Blattner will complete her doctorate as part of the HCIAS doctoral program shortly and then work out her research project “Communicational Language Practices of Spanish in the Context of European Migration” with funding from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung. The plan is to develop the project to such a point that it can attract third-party funding from national or international sponsors.
With the “Research Workshop” program, the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung wishes to create free spaces for the academic creativity of early-career researchers and, at the same time, support the independence and security of young scholars.
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