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Let's shape the future of Europe together! What should be on top of the EU's priority list when it comes to language technology and AI? Please share your thoughts with us by participating in the ELRC White Paper Survey 2022, which will be open until 27 May 2022.

In line with the European Data Strategy and the launch of the DIGITAL Programme, the European Commission (CNECT.G3’s Multilingualism Sector) organised a series of seven workshops in May. They targeted several business sectors, such as News, Broadcasting, Advertising, Publishing, Language Technology, Telecommunication Industries as well as Libraries, Archives and Public Administrations. The goal was not only to present the Language Data Space concept, but also to gather insights from the different stakeholders’ groups.

In early March, ELRC started the “Crisis response without language borders” initiative to support cross-border communication for helpers and refugees in the Ukraine crisis and to prevent both misunderstandings and spreading of misinformation across Europe. The plea for support, which was circulated by email, via social media and published on various websites, called for data donations of bilingual and multilingual corpora for Ukrainian to and from all EU official languages. Such data is essential to train easily accessible, free and fast automatic translation systems that can facilitate information exchange between Ukrainian and the EU official languages.

Register now for the three and a half day Summer School packed with interesting talks, joint activities and interactive workshops, which will take place from May 29th to June 1st 2022 at the NUI Galway, Ireland.

The European Commission is preparing for the launch of the ‘Language Data Space’, a platform and a marketplace where the request for language resources and services will match the offer.