German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruecken Transnational R&D projects funded by the European Commission have
always played an important role for advancing the area of information
technology and in particular language technology in Europe. In
the Fourth Framework Programme of the European Commission, the
Language Engineering Sector of the Telematics Application Programme
alone will have funded over 60 projects with an overall budget
of 80 million ECU. In the upcoming Fifth Framework Programme with
its Information Society Technologies (IST) programme there will
be, among other relevant subprogrammes, a dedicated project line
on Human Language Technologies. This programme will most likely start at the end of this year
and will open up new directories, new contents and new topics,
which will be interesting and important to know. Also, like any
other funding schemes, EU projects have to obey specific regulations
and the collaboration in European consortia follows certain rules,
which may have not always be obvious to the newcomer. The workshop will attempt to provide the participants with some
information, advice and guidelines for the application, preparation,
and running of EU-projects, both on an administrative and technical
level. The speakers of the workshop will be highly experienced project
managers and a representative of the EU Language Engineering Programme,
Giovanni B. Varile, DG XIII of the European Commission, who are
familiar with the typical problems and issues faced by project
consortia. The topics covered will be amongst others the following:
PREPARATION AND MANAGEMENT OF EU-FUNDED PROJECTS
Klaus.Netter@dfki.de and uszkoreit@dfki.de
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