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Selim Tiryakiol is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (Capacity, Opportunity and Desire in Heritage Language Variation) at the Department of Language and Culture at UiT. His research focuses on heritage language acquisition, in particular the role of individual, educational and social variables in acquisition. His current MSCA project aims to test the (interrelated) hypotheses that: (i) heritage language (HL) competence is affected not only by quantity of input but also quality of input; (ii) community center engagement (CCE) in childhood and adulthood can offer HL input and use opportunities that are qualitatively and quantitatively richer and more varied from what HSs encounter in their wider community; and (iii) the nature of CCE matters significantly in HL competence and maintenance across individuals and generations.