European Language Equality

The second annual ELE Conference

27 June 2023
Brussels, Belgium

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Image of the Grote Market, © Steve Collis, adapted by Annika Grützner-Zahn

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 – Cristina Gallach (Special Commissioner for the Alliance for the New Economy of Language)
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