CLARIN ERIC has issued a call for extended abstracts for the CLARIN Annual Conference 2026, taking place in Brighton, UK, on 29 September – 1 October 2026. The conference brings together the Humanities and Social Sciences community to share work and experiences related to the CLARIN infrastructure. The submission deadline is 6 April 2026.
The CLARIN-CH RDM Working Group, in collaboration with the L-RDM Node (SRDSN) and the LaDaD project, is organising a free two-part online workshop on Data Management Plans (DMPs) for language data. The workshop covers both the strategic importance of DMPs and practical guidance for writing them, with a focus on SNSF-funded projects. Sessions take place on 4 May and 29 June 2026, 1:00–2:30 PM (CET).
We are thrilled to announce that LaRS and LiRI have been officially awarded the joint CLARIN B-centre certification. Together, they form a distributed centre: LiRI serves as the technical hub providing specialized expertise, while LaRS—utilizing the SWISSUbase platform—manages the dedicated repository required by CLARIN. This milestone recognizes their combined infrastructure as a trusted, robust, and fully compliant centre for the long-term preservation and open access of language data.
The 11th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText 2026) invites submissions of substantial, original, and unpublished research work on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. SwissText 2026 will take place on June 10th, 2026 in Zurich, Switzerland. SwissText is an annual conference established in 2016 by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) that brings together Language AI experts from industry and academia. This year’s special theme is: Reproducible NLP.
The University of Zurich Library (UB) hosts a monthly Lunch & Learn series providing brief, expert insights into various aspects of Open Science. These online sessions, held over lunch via Zoom, offer a half-hour presentation followed by an open Q&A, covering essential topics such as research data management, FAIR principles, and the evolving role of AI in research. Check out the 2026 program to join the discussion and stay up to date with the latest best practices.
The SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board is happy to invite you to a series of 8 online hands-on workshops to strengthen FAIR and digital research skills. The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities.
With its theme “Lexicography in the Age” of AI, the conference aims to bring together professional lexicographers, linguists, publishers, researchers, software developers and anyone interested in dictionaries and their educational, cultural, political and social impact on everyday life.
The EARLI Special Interest Group Writing and the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, organize the SIG Writing Research School from May 29 to June 1st, 2026. The research school takes place prior to the 21st biennial SIG Writing conference to be held at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland, from June 2nd to 4, 2026.
This full-day workshop bridges the gap between Large Language Model (LLM) development and the specific research needs of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Join experts in Language Technology and SSH to explore how multilingual, multimodal, and reasoning models can be better aligned with the epistemic values of the humanities.
The Swiss EOSC Node Project (SENPro) invites researchers, data stewards, infrastructure providers, and stakeholders in Swiss and European research ecosystems to their second online update on 18 December 2025 from 9:30 a.m. – 01:30 p.m. Join the discussion and learn how Switzerland is approaching EOSC integration through SENPro, fostering Open Science, and creating synergies between national and European infrastructures.