The European Union, through the CEF (Connecting Europe Facility), is offering grants of between €0.2 to 0.8m to developers of language tools such as, collaborative language resource projects, and Collaborative language tools projects. The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of projects under this call for proposals is around €4 million. Proposals requesting an EU contribution of between €200,000 and €800,000 are anticipated.
The CEF was set up in order to promote growth and create jobs within the trans-European telecommunication networks and this is the second year the EU have offered the grants. The grants are offered to provide solutions to make European digital services multilingual.
According to the CEF call, proposals must “focus on only one of the three objectives listed below, clearly specifying which one, and must address at least two different languages spoken in the Member States and/or EEA countries participating in the CEF Telecom programme.”
The three objectives are:
1. Collaborative language resource projects to facilitate the provision of language resources to CEF AT through ELRC-SHARE3. Projects will need to identify, collect and process (e.g. anonymisation, aggregation, alignment, conversion, Intellectual Property Rights clearance) language resources in the Member States and CEF associated countries or link national language resources or data infrastructures to the ELRC-SHARE repository. The collected resources should be freely and openly available by and beyond the end of the project duration in order to enable sharing of language resources.
2. Collaborative language tools projects to make existing language specific tools freely and openly available through the ELRC-SHARE repository. Projects should address any issues necessary for submitting the tools to the ELRC-SHARE repository (e.g. identification, documentation, conversion, standardisation, normalisation, Intellectual Property Rights clearance), thus enabling reuse in other digital public services.
3. Integration projects to integrate and/or complement the latest functionalities of the CEF AT Core Service Platform (CSP) into CEF DSIs, national digital public services, public administrations or SMEs. The integration processes must result in fully functional services within the duration of the project and put in place arrangements for sustainability beyond the project duration and the CEF programme
Applicants that have previously been awarded grants under the same scheme may apply again this year, so long their proposal clearly shows how it is different, or builds upon the previous year’s proposal.
The deadline for entries is May 12th 2020 at 5pm, (Brussels time) with the evaluation process taking place during June and July and final decisions made by the autumn.
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