The European Language Equality https://european-language-equality.eu/ (ELE) initiative launched an Open Call for SRIA Contribution Projects https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/.
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/.
CONTACT
Open Call management team: open-call@european-language-equality.eu mailto:open-call@european-language-equality.eu
