Areas of expertise

Inalco has been teaching languages and civilizations since 1669. Since then, it has cultivated its role of understanding a living heritage outside any Western reference. It offers students the chance to discover the world as it is, in all its richness and diversity, and to immerse themselves in the thinking of others.

Through the quality of our training and research, we strive to disseminate knowledge and skills so that everyone has the keys to understanding to exchange with others, culturally, socially and professionally. Our values of humanism, exchange and the dissemination of cultures, shape our choices of training, research and action.

Our commitments

Developing knowledge of worlds and civilizations
Since our origins, we have worked to study and understand all societies, their languages and cultures.
Providing unique expertise of the contemporary world
The subtleties and understanding of the world in motion are our core business.
Cultivating difference
We are a crossroads for the most diverse cultures, the place for all kinds of intermingling, the cultural city of the Orient.

Our areas of expertise

While training in languages and civilizations is the institute's core business, the professional courses have developed an innovative offering in a variety of fields that cover very broad areas and enable us to cover many business sectors. Inalco students are specialists not only in languages and civilizations, but also in a wide variety of other fields, all of which are linked to the professional world.

Vocational courses have developed innovative offerings in a wide range of fields:

  • automatic language processing and multilingual engineering
  • international trade
  • international relations
  • intercultural communication, information and new media

These courses lead to a variety of fields of intervention:

  • international project management: imports, purchasing and sourcing, set-ups...
  • international financial services, logistics and consulting activities
  • exporting: prospecting, negotiation, marketing, sales administration
  • jobs in diplomacy, defense and international cooperation
  • humanitarian action (NGOs)
  • jobs in journalism
  • jobs in international expertise and monitoring (research centers, think tanks etc...)
  • multilingual technical documentation

Development of language engineering tools and websites:

  • multilingual databases
  • multilingual software design and maintenance
  • international translation, communication and cultural mediation,
  • cultural and tourism professions