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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.

On 31 March 2022, almost 300 participants from all over the world came together for the 6th ELRC Conference, held under the motto “Think big – For Europe’s multilingual future”.

Last month, the European Commission issued a call for Beta testers, over the social media chan-nels, including ELRC’s. Website designers and developers working with WordPress were invited to test the new eTranslation plug-in for automated website translation.