Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Dr. Margaretha Mazura, Secretary General of EMF, Guest of Honor at a Dinner-debate on linguitic issues
- Linguistic diversity and French language;
- Languages to reach markets: economic issues and social issues.
To attend this exceptional event, please register before 28 November 2010.
The debate will be in French.
For more information and registration: download pdf.
META Forum: Challenges for multilingual Europe
Amongst the highlights are:
* Towards a Strategic Research Agenda for multilingual Europe
* Panel discussions and interactive sessions with EU institutions representatives, industry and academia
* Language resources and legal issues
* European Languages and Language Technology: status quo, gaps, future plans
* How you can contribute
* META-NET Village (booths, posters, demos)
* EC information session by the Language Technologies and Machine Translation unit INFSO.E1
More info and registration at:
http://www.meta-net.eu/events/meta-forum-2010
Recommendation on Software and Content Development Principles
The document underlines that Software should be developed and data models for content prepared in compliance with multilinguality, multimodality and multimedia, eInclusion and eAccessibility, multi-channel presentations and data modeling to facilitate the adaptation to different languages and cultures or new applications. These requirements should also be referenced in all pertinent standards.
Its purpose is to make aware that multilinguality, multimodality, eInclusion and eAccessibility need to be considered from the outset in software and content development, in order to avoid the need for additional or remedial engineering or redesign at the time of adaptation, which tend to be very costly and often prove to be impossible.
TermNet endorses this recommendation and would like to ask you to endorse it as well.
If you are interested please kindly fill in the form on page 2 of the document in word format and send your endorsement to companies, universities, NPOs, NGOs you have projects or joint activities with.
The European Commission launched an "Innovation Union" strategy paper
Among the steps described, the paper highlights the importance of investing in education, linking Research and innovation, adapting a free movement of knowledge, enhancing the worlds of science and the world of business among other activities.
The paper also mentions that “Innovation is also our best means of successfully tackling major societal challenges, such as climate change, energy and resource scarcity, health and ageing, which are becoming more urgent by the day.”
For more information:
Download the paper
Link to related news
Visit the Innovation Union website
EU-Latin American ICT Gateway - Workshop on EU-LA cooperation possibilities
Around 130 participants attended the Workshop on EU-LA cooperation possibilities, including Latin American and European researchers from industry and academia; FP7 National Contact Points (NCPs) for ICT, policy experts, as well as representatives of the European Commission.