The Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC) is an academic institution. Its Philological Section promulgates official norms for the standard Catalan language. Its offices are in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

The Institut d'Estudis Catalans (in Catalan, or Institute of Catalan Studies) was created on June 18 1918 by Enric Prat de la Riba , first President of the Mancomunitat de Catalunya, an administrative institution, formed on 1913, within the creation and consolidation of a set of cultural and scientific institutions in order to give greater prestige to the language and the Catalan culture, like the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Institute of Catalan Studies), the Biblioteca de Catalunya (Library of Catalonia), the Escola Industrial (Industrial School), the Escola Superior de Belles Arts (Superior School of Fine Arts), the Escola Superior de Belles Arts (Superior School of High Commercial Studies) or the Escola del Treball (School of the Work). Prat de la Riba also created, the Escola de l'Administració Local (School of Local Administration), from where a body of Catalan civil servants had to appear.

An important job of the Institute was to normalize the Catalan language, banned and heavily repressed during over two centuries and, the promotion of the work of Pompeu Fabra, a modern set of rules for the Catalan language.

External links

• Web site of the IEC
• On-line IEC Catalan dictionary