She participated in European Commission high expert panels that have shaped linguistic policies and strategies of higher education and research.

She was an expert of the Institutional evaluation program board (IEP EUA) and member of the Council of the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.

Her research work and publications focus on the formation of models of bilingual education in areas of linguistic and cultural contact, sociolinguistic and didactics of intercultural communication.

She has headed and co-ordinated national and international projects in the fields of didactics of foreign languages, early multilingualism and intercultural communication.

Her work focuses on the formation of models of bilingual education in areas of linguistic and cultural contact and of didactics of intercultural communication.