This research group was established to consolidate and institutionalise a space for its members to collaborate on the contrastive study of German and the Ibero-Romance languages. Its formation was initiated after the international conference ‘German dictionaries: new perspectives’, held at the Universitat de València, which brought together some of its members. CLiGIR has since organised five more events (in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020) in both Germany and Spain. These events brought together new specialists in the field who, from different perspectives and methodological approaches, participated in the discussion of phenomena of common interest and enriched the debate initiated by the original members of the group.

In addition to the individual research of its members, the collaboration within the group has produced six collective volumes and one thematic dossier for an international journal between 2015 and 2021. These publications were coordinated by members of the group and involved the participation of other collaborators. Furthermore, CLiGIR was awarded a grant for consolidable research groups from the Department of Education, Research, Culture and Sport of the Generalitat Valenciana. This allowed the group to establish itself as a research unit with specific objectives, whose aim is to achieve full consolidation among the groups of Spanish German-Hispanic studies and, in particular, to increase its international presence.

The team consists of 13 researchers from 9 universities in Germany, Portugal and Spain. All members are proficient in German and Spanish, although some have also studied other languages academically, including Portuguese, Catalan, Italian and French. Although all members have philological training, their research careers are diverse. CLiGIR was established to identify and analyse phenomena related to its object of study using a combination of different perspectives and methodological proposals. The group aims to produce relevant results and conclusions for fields such as diverse as descriptive linguistics, discourse analysis, language contrast, discourse genres and traditions, L1 and L2 teaching for specific purposes and didactic lexicography.