Florentina Mena Martínez is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Murcia. Her research areas are phraseology, more specifically contrastive phraseology (English-Spanish), phraseodidactics and phraseological variation. She has published numerous contributions to English and Spanish phraseology. She has also coordinated and implemented several teaching innovation projects on phraseodidactics, on which the plurilingual principles constituted the pedagogical approach (Phras.eu). She has also collaborated in the project, “Widespread Idioms from Europe and beyond” directed by Elisabeth Piirainen. At the moment, she is also collaborating in the project “The peculiarities of the phraseology of English from a contrastive perspective” and is participating in EUniWell Thematic Arena on Culture, Multilingualism and Well-Being.

PhD and lecture in the Department of Translation and Interpretation. Her teaching activities in the Department of German Philology include German as a Foreign Language, German Culture and Contrastive Phraseology. Her areas of research are didactics of German as a foreign language, cognitive linguistics, phraseology and phraseodidactics, intercultural studies. She is a member of the research group INTERFRADIS (UMU). Through her leadership and participation in research groups and projects on multilingual phraseology and phraseodidactics (Phraseopedia, redewe.de, phras.eu) she has gained experience in the use of digital media and the creation of digital learning tools, which has a particular value for the PhraseoLab project. Several of her papers deal with the research area of phraseology and phraseodidactics.

Moisés Almela-Sánchez is graduate in German Studies and in English Studies, and he holds a PhD in English linguistics. He has been lecturing on English Studies at the University of Murcia for more than 15 years, and since 2019 he holds a position as tenured associate professor. As a researcher, he has participated in five research projects and has published extensively on corpus linguistics and collocation. He has been coordinator of scientific panels at the Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics (AESLA) and the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO).

María José Alcaraz Gutiérrez is a part-time lecturer at the Department of English Studies at University of Murcia, Spain. She is a graduate in English Philology and a doctoral student in the research field of English Linguistics. She is a member of the research group INTERFRADIS and her research interests are mainly focused on phraseology and phraseodidactics of English and German as foreign languages. She has participated as a collaborator in several innovation projects in the teaching innovation group “Phraseotic: Texts and Plurilingualism” and in the transfer project “UmuPhrase: Detrás de toda gran frase hay una gran historia”.

Professor in the department of German Language and Literature holds PhD degree in Phraseology. He has collaborated in the project “Widespread Idioms from Europe and beyond” directed by Elisabeth Piirainen and created the digital learning material for the seminar “Phraseology”. He is director of the postgraduate studies “Didactics of German as a foreign language” of the Hellenic Open University. He was a member of the scientific committee of the major conference of Europhras (2018) and of the conference “Current trends in phraseology and proverb research worldwide” (2021) in Wroclaw/Poland. Since 2000 he is a member of the European Society Phraseology (Europhras). His research focuses on the areas of phraseology, phraseodidactics and foreign language teaching with digital technologies.

Maria Triantafyllou was born in Athens. She studied German in the Department of German Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrias University of Athens and specialized in the field of didactics. She completed her Master’s degree in “Interfaces of Linguistics and Didactics” in the same department. Since 2006 she has worked as a German teacher at private language schools in Athens. Since 2020, she has been teaching adults and young people in German-speaking countries who are learning German as a second foreign language after English. Her scientific and didactic interests are multilingualism and tertiary language didactics, the promotion of phraseological competence in foreign language teaching and foreign language teaching in a multicultural context.

Erla Hallsteinsdóttir is Associate Professor (German business communication) at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. She has a significant scientific record with publications on linguistics, didactics, phraseology, and intercultural communication as well as hands-on teaching materials within the field of phraseology and Danish-German communication. She is the treasurer of EUROPHRAS and a member of the EUROPHRAS board, and she is heading the organisation of the EUROPHRAS 2025 conference in Aarhus. Her experience on how to develop learning and teaching materials as well as her research expertise within phraseology and phraseodidactics, including MWU and the CEFR, corpus linguistic research on MWU and MWU in dictionaries are of particular importance in the development of the teaching and learning materials in the PhraseoLab project. Her study on the phraseological optimum is one of the cornerstones of the project.

She is associate professor at the Institute for Lingustics and PhD. Her research focuses on the areas of didactics, phraseology and cognitive linguistics. In these research areas she has published about 50 scientific publications. In the context of foreign language didactics, Sulikowska has dealt with learning strategies, autonomous learning, and the role of memory in the learning process. She organised and conducted several workshops on the use of mnemonics, cognitive and metacognitive strategies for the students and teachers of Szczecin schools.

Lidia Moskal is a graduate of German Studies at the University of Szczecin. In her master’s thesis, she studied Lakoff and Johnson’s cognitive metaphor theory and the conceptualisation of depression from the perspective of the affected. She works as a DaF teacher at the Goethe-Institut, where she teaches language groups at different language levels. The focus of her research interest is phraseology and phraseodidactics, and since October 2023 she has been a PhD student at the Doctoral School at the University of Szczecin with the research project Routine Formulas in Guided Foreign Language Acquisition. In 2023 she published her first article Mehrwortverbindungen in der Fremdsprachendidaktik. Die Vorstellung des Projekts PhraseoLab in the journal “Linguistic Meetings in Wrocław”.