The members of the Research Centre for the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria participated in the professional and scientific conference “The linguists of Pula and Istria and their students”, held on 12 May 2026 at the Faculty of Humanities of the “Juraj Dobrila” University of Pula. The conference was organized by the Pula Chair of the Čakavian Assembly and the Faculty of Humanities in Pula, and its programme was devoted to Croatian dialectology, accentology, etymology, and the study of Čakavian and Romance idioms in Istria.

On Monday, 4 May 2026, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, the institutional research project  Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria (JKBI)  was presented. The project is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021–2026.

Within the framework of the international scientific research project Neurocognitive Abilities and Early Bilingual Development: Language Exposure and Executive Functions (NeuroLEEF), from the 27th to the 30th April 2026 a field research was conducted in Rome. The research was carried out as part of the activities of the Research Centre for the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria at the Faculty of Humanities of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula and involved students from the Istituto comprensivo Munari di Roma: IC Bruno Munari, Cardinal Massaia/Walt Disney branch – primary school; IC Bruno Munari, Pietro Verri branch – lower secondary school (Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca – Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per il Lazio).

On Wednesday, 22 April 2026, as part of the preparatory activities for the implementation of the research to be conducted in Rome ( Istituto comprensivo Munari di Roma ), within the framework of the activities of the Research Centre for the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria at the Faculty of Humanities of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Dr Renata Martinčić Marić (Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Pula) and Dr Nada Poropat Jeletić (Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pula) delivered an online specialised workshop dedicated to the testing methodology that will be employed at the Roman research site. The workshop was aimed at the precise alignment of research procedures, the standardisation of administration and the planning of assessment protocols in order to ensure the methodological consistency and comparability of the data collected within the international scientific research project Neurocognitive Abilities and Early Bilingual Development: Language Exposure and Executive Functions (NeuroLEEF).

On Monday, 30 March 2026, within the activities of the Research Centre for the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria at the Faculty of Humanities of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Dr. Sara Košutar (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) held an online specialised workshop entitled  “Coding Principles in the CHAT System within the CLAN Program”.

The international postdoctoral researcher Dr. Sara Košutar, affiliated with the Department of Language and Culture at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education of UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø (Norway), has undertaken a research stay at the Research Centre for the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria at the Faculty of Humanities in Pula from 4 February 2026 to 6 March 2026, within the field research activities of the project Cross-linguistic Influence during Real-time Processing in Child Heritage Speakers – CLEAR (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-101154247).

The Research Centre for the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria hereby informs the scientific community and the interested public of the publication of  The Istriot Corpus , a digital language corpus dedicated to the Istriot dialect, one of the most endangered Istroromance idioms within the European linguistic landscape. The corpus is publicly available through the international research platform  TalkBank , widely recognised as one of the world’s leading infrastructures for the study of spoken language, language development and discourse practices. The development of the corpus was carried out within the framework of the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) project  Multidisciplinary Approaches to Linguistic and Cultural Heritage (MULTIDIS) .

The Research Centre for the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria is pleased to inform the scientific community and the wider public that the  C-ORAL-IC corpus (Corpus of Oral Istrovenetian and Croatian)  has been successfully completed and published in the international research repository  TalkBank , one of the world’s leading infrastructures for the study of spoken language, language development and discourse. The corpus was developed within the framework of the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) project  Multidisciplinary Approaches to Linguistic and Cultural Heritage (MULTIDIS) .