The Centre for European Research was founded in 2001 and builds on the earlier work of Research Centre Wales at the University of Wales, Bangor. Its stated objective is to ‘undertake research into technological and development in the EU and to undertake studies in the fields of economic, social and political development.’ It has been responsible for numerous EC projects which span the following programmes: MLIS, IST, Leonardo, Socrates, INFO2000, ISPO, MLIS, ADAPT, and Interreg,. It has also been responsible for three DGEAC tenders. The first was the influential Euromosaic project which defined the status of European minority language groups. More recently it has worked on a study on obstacles to the mobility of European language teacher (EAC89/04) and changes in language teaching between 2001 and 2005 (EAC28/06). It has also undertaken various pieces of research for agencies in Wales including the police authorities, the television companies BBC and S4C, the Welsh Language Board inter alia. Much of this work has been undertaken during the past three years.