We live in an era of rapid and constant change that affects our lives and the way we work. The academic world is not immune to these changes, and new challenges arise every day. Among these challenges, we can highlight, on the one hand, the development of Artificial Intelligence and, on the other, the opening of the University to new audiences with their own languages, cultures, and worldviews, as well as the emergence of new teaching and research contexts where knowledge is conveyed in languages other than those traditionally predominant in academia.
The EATAW Conference in Portugal, a country in southwestern Europe with deep connections to the Ibero-American and African worlds, is an opportunity to build bridges between different academic cultures and broaden the debate on academic literacy beyond the contexts in which it usually occurs.

Under the theme Multilingual Academic Literacies: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of AI, this conference will enable discussion of important questions, namely: How can we understand and promote academic literacy in multilingual contexts? What current social, political, economic, or technological phenomena challenge or facilitate the development of academic literacy, and how do we respond to them? How is multilingualism changing Europe and how will it affect academic writing? How is the growing use of artificial intelligence tools affecting academic literacy and/or multilingualism? How can artificial intelligence tools help or hinder the teaching and learning of academic writing? How can writing specialists be better prepared to deal with the challenges of multilingual academic literacy today?