Dear MT-List Members, this is to remind you that there are just about 4 weeks left to apply for funding made available by the European Language Equality < https://european-language-equality.eu/> (ELE) initiative, through the Open Call for SRIA Contribution Projects < https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/>.
All the key information is below, and please feel free to distribute and pass on this notice to your colleagues and network contacts who may be interested in this opportunity. For further details and enquiries, please contact directly the Open Call management team at [email protected] TOPICS The SRIA contribution projects are meant to provide meaningful, so far missing, convincing and compelling input for the Strategic Agenda and Roadmap for achieving full digital language equality in Europe by 2030 developed by the ELE EU project. The projects should provide defined use cases and feasibility studies for concrete application scenarios in one of the following ten topics: 1. Data sets for more robust speech technology 2. Study of language coverage for text mining and natural language understanding in key European industrial sectors 3. Legal Assessment 4. General NLP/LT/AI Landscaping 5. General NLP/LT Domains 6. Analysis of AI and LT in European news media 7. Computing facilities for LT 8. Demonstrably Greener Models of MT 9. Survey of the use of LT in the hospital sector 10. Basic LAnguage Resource Kit (BLARK) (re)definition TIMELINE Publication of the call: 29 September 2022 Submission deadline: 29 November 2022 (23:59 CET) Evaluation and selection of the submitted proposals: December 2022 Contract signing and projects start: December 2022 – January 2023 Project duration: 2-3 months ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS * Research organisations (including but not limited to higher education organisations and independent research organisations), NGOs, incorporated associations and companies * Legally established in EU member states * One organisation per project only (mono-beneficiary projects) FUNDING * €185,000 allocated for the call * maximum amount of eligible costs per single project: €25,000, funding rate: 90% * financial support will be provided in the form of a lump sum after completing all project activities HOW TO APPLY Apply via the open call submission platform < https://opencall.european-language-equality.eu/>, follow the Call documentation and related annexes on the open call website < https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/>. Many thanks and kind regards, Federico Gaspari (on behalf of the ELE project <https://european-language-equality.eu/>)
