Meta-Forum 2023 DIGITAL LANGUAGE EQUALITY FOR A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE
Programme
| 8:30 | Doors open – Registration |
|---|---|
| Session 1: Opening – European Language Equality | |
| 9:00 | Welcome – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany; Co-coordinator ELE) |
| 9:15 | Keynote – Jordi Solé (Member of the European Parliament) |
| 9:30 | ELE: General Overview and Book Presentation – Andy Way and Georg Rehm (Dublin City University, Ireland; DFKI, Germany) |
| 9:45 | New Features in the Digital Language Equality Dashboard and an Update of the Cross-language Comparison – Maria Giagkou / Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, R.C. “Athena”, Greece) |
| 10:00 | ELE Strategic Research, Innovation and Implementation Agenda – Revisited – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2: The Role of National and Regional Language Institutes for Digital Language Equality | |
| 10:45 | Panel discussion – Chair: Sabine Kirchmeier (President of EFNIL, Denmark) |
| 11:30 | Discussion |
| Session 3: ELE – The Pilot Projects and their results | |
| 11:45 | Pilot Projects: Overview – Jana Hamrlova (Charles University, Czech Republic) |
| 11:55 | Short presentations of the Pilot Projects |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break + Project Expo |
| Session 4: European Large Language Models | |
| 13:30 | To be announced soon! |
| 14:40 | Coffee Break |
| Session 5: National Language Technology Programmes in Europe | |
| 15:10 | Language-centric AI in Europe 2023 – German Rigau (University of the Basque Country, Spain) |
| 15:15 | Spain: PERTE – N.N. |
| 15:30 | Additional national programmes to be announced |
| Session 6: ELE – LDS – EDIC: How are they related and how do they play together? | |
| 16:00 | Presentation of the Language Data Space (LDS) – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) |
| 16:10 | Presentation of the Language EDIC (European Digital Infrastructure Consortium) – Thibault Grouas (Chief Policy Officer for languages in the digital environment, France) |
| 16:20 | The Future of Data Spaces: Beyond LDS & EDICs – Philippe Gelin (European Commission, DG CONNECT, Luxembourg) |
| Closing Session | |
| 16:40 | Recap, Outlook and Closing Remarks – Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) |
| 17:00 | Reception |
| 18:00 | End of META-FORUM |