Education & Training
CLARIN-CH aims to support researchers by providing training opportunities in collaboration with its partners. From statistics workshops by LiRI to the monthly webinars hosted by CLARIN-CH or the doctoral programme in Applied Linguistics offered by USI and ZHAW – there are numerous opportunities to discover:
CLARIN-CH Training Sessions
The CLARIN-CH Training Sessions, to be held during the spring semester 2025, aim to provide researchers and scholars with a deeper understanding of the CLARIN-CH ecosystem and the various resources available for conducting research with language data. These sessions cover a range of topics, including corpus querying techniques, methods for collecting and analyzing media data, approaches to modeling multimodal datasets, and best practices for sharing linguistic and textual data within the research community.
CLARIN-CH Webinars
The Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI) – the technical center of CLARIN-CH – offers free workshops on statistics on a regular basis. The workshops are designed for graduate and undergraduate students, addressing specific topics within statistic analysis of language data in series of thematically related sessions. They take place both online and on-site (in Oerlikon), offering junior researchers a low-threshold opportunity to learn more about using statistical models in their analyses and to ask questions directly to the experts from the LiRI stats team.
LiRI Statistics Workshops
The Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI) – the technical center of CLARIN-CH – offers free workshops on statistics on a regular basis. The workshops are designed for graduate and undergraduate students, addressing specific topics within statistic analysis of language data in series of thematically related sessions. They take place both online and on-site (in Oerlikon), offering junior researchers a low-threshold opportunity to learn more about using statistical models in their analyses and to ask questions directly to the experts from the LiRI stats team.
UPSKILLS
UPSKILLS is an Erasmus+ project aimed at bridging skill gaps for language and linguistics students. Running from 2020 to 2023, it developed resources to enhance students’ technical and transferable skills for academia and industry. The project’s materials, covering topics like data handling and speech processing, are available on Moodle and adaptable for various curricula. CLARIN, a major partner, contributed extensively to these resources, including needs analysis and research-based teaching guidelines.
ZHAW/USI Doctoral Programme in Applied Linguistics
The CLARIN-CH member institutions ZHAW and USI offfer a joint doctoral program Managing Languages, Arguments, and Narratives in the Datafied Society (LAND) focusing on analyzing language use, argumentation, and narratives within data-rich, AI-driven contexts. It offers interdisciplinary coursework, international academic supervision, and support for conference participation, aiming to equip junior linguists with advanced digital and analytical skills. Graduates are prepared to address real-world issues where human linguistic insights complement artificial intelligence.
Zürcher Korpuslinguistik und Korpuspragmatik Sommerschule (ZuKoKo)
The ZuKoKo Summer School at the University of Zurich focuses on digital methods for corpus linguistics and corpus pragmatics. Held every two years, it provides hands-on training for doctoral students, postdocs, and advanced students on data acquisition, preparation, and linguistic data analysis, guided by international experts.