Projects undertaken by the Institute are oriented either at linguistics or literature, and are part of long-term research plans. The language-oriented research plans involve linguistic interpretations of Romance languages, resulting in publications such as Las lenguas románicas: su unidad y diversidad (2005). Our teams of literary scholars are involved in the faculty-wide research plan Foundations of the Modern World as Reflected by Literature and Philosophy, our sub-task being to investigate the cultural specificity of literatures in the supranational context, with results appearing in a publication of the same title , co-authored by all the institutes and departments involved, and in a specifically Romance-oriented publication, Literární paměť a kulturní identita (Literary Memory and Cultural Identity) (2008). The Institute´s future initiatives include two team projects: the one is entitled Romance Languages in the Light of Language Corpora – verifying conclusions made by modern linguistics through corpora of Romance languages; the other is a literature-oriented project, titledModern Version of the West (Thinking and Literature at the Turn of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries), focusing on Romance literatures in Europe and America. Both projects are open to partnership with other institutes at the Faculty of Arts.