CLARIN-CH Days
CLARIN-CH Day 2026
Date: 30.10.2026
Host: University of Bern
Theme: New developments, challenges, and opportunities for open language resources and language technology
Keynote: Prof. Dr Theresa Heyd (University of Heidelberg) - Locating affective practice in digital discourse
Description: The third edition of the CLARIN-CH Day brings together researchers, practitioners, and institutions working with language resources and language technology in Switzerland to discuss new developments, challenges, and opportunities in the field. The event features a keynote, thematic sessions, showcases and demos, and a round table contributed by the CLARIN-CH RDM Working Group.
CLARIN-CH Day 2025
Date: 31.10.2025
Host: University of Lausanne
Theme: From Challenges to progress: FAIR compliance and digital methods across the lifecycle of language data
Keynote: Krister Lindén (FIN-CLARIN) - FAIR compliance and digital sovereignty
Description: Continuing the dialogue initiated during the 2024 edition, the CLARIN-CH Day 2025 brought together researchers, data specialists, and legal experts, to explore the evolving landscape of Open Research Data in linguistics and related disciplines.
CLARIN-CH Day 2024
Date: 9 September 2024
Host: University of Neuchâtel
Theme: Open Research Data: Challenges and Opportunities
Keynote: Susanna Marazza (USI) - From closed to open: how to deal with copyright law in linguistic research
Description:The 2024 event was the first of a series of annual meetings of the CLARIN-CH community. It was organized by the CLARIN-CH consortium in cooperation with its member institutions and aims to support the scientific community in their challenges when it comes to Open Research data. It seeked to foster exchange and to enable the encounter between researchers and data management experts, as well as legal experts.
The 2024 edition aimed to bring together experts and researchers to discuss challenges and opportunities, and to open the dialogue on standards and practices of open research data as well as the legal and ethical aspects of processing and sharing linguistic data. The event built on the work done by two CLARIN-CH Working Groups, which address essential topics related to Open Research Data.