EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

ID: LANGEQ-2020

OBJECTIVES
The objective of this pilot project is to draw up a sustainable evidence-based strategic research agenda and roadmap setting out actions, processes, tools and actors to achieve full digital language equality of all languages (official or otherwise) used within the Union through the effective use of language technologies. The research agenda should lay out the current state of language technologies and language equality within the Union and give a detailed picture of the desired situation that is needed to achieve digital language equality. The roadmap will then provide the path and the means needed to implement the agenda and ensure that digital language equality becomes a reality by 2030.

The selected project will create a research agenda, which will:
1. Map relevant stakeholders and initiatives and liaise with them through public consultations and on-going dialogues;
2. Map relevant technologies, in particular based on artificial intelligence, assess their impact on the linguistic landscape and then analyse the conditions required to maintain and improve the required knowledge within Europe;
3. Identify key research areas and gaps in research that need to be addressed to ensure language technologies can overcome the linguistic divide;

4. Define the varying needs for language technologies (not only machine translation) across all the sectors that make up the European Digital Single Market and across languages used within the EU and its partner countries, but especially the lesser-used or under-resourced languages.

BUDGET AVAILABLE
The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of projects under this call for proposals is estimated at EUR 1 800 000 (one million eight hundred thousand euros).
The maximum grant will be EUR 1 800 000 (one million eight hundred thousand euros).
The Commission expects to fund 1 proposal