The Institut de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA) is a research center of Universitat Pompeu Fabra that focuses on the different areas of interest of applied linguistics. All the members with a PhD that beong to the institute share a common research line and they are organized internally in different research groups.

IULA's research actions receive external funding, be it through international reseach grants or contracts with public or private organizations. The research activity carried out within each research group includes basic research projects, the design of linguistic aplications or product development. Some of these groups additionally work as consultants.