There is no tuition fee for any accepted trainees. Eligible accepted trainees’ travel and accommodation will be fully reimbursed after attendance at the event (although please factor in a delay of up to two months due to mandatory administrative procedures, in case that would cause you cashflow problems). Self-funded participation is also possible, also with no tuition fee.

Eligibility

To be eligible for reimbursement, the participant has to be based in (not necessarily a citizen of) a COST member country or from a COST Near Neighbour country. You can check the countries from COST website here or from list below. Within those countries, according to COST’s rules, anyone is eligible – anyone at all – as long as they ‘have an affiliation’, that is, if they are employed by a company, enrolled in a study/research programme, registered as a volunteer, etc. with any legal entity (any officially registered organisation). For more info, see §6.4 of our funder’s rules here.

So our Training School is open to anyone with the right expertise, not just academics, certainly not just those who have completed a PhD, etc.

‘Full member’ countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary,* Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, The Netherlands, The Republic of North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and United Kingdom.

Israel is a ‘Cooperating Member’. South Africa is a ‘Partner Member’.

The COST Near Neighbour countries include: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia.

Participant from other countries can apply if they have other source of funding.

* PLEASE NOTE: Hungarian legal entities implied by Council Decision 2022/2056 shall be suspended for all COST Actions and COST activities. Click here for the list of institutions affected by Council Implementing Decision 2022/2056.

If you cannot be reimbursed then you may still be eligible to attend with a separate source of funding (e.g. your own university’s training stipend). In any case there is no registration fee.

The training school is delivered entirely in English, and we will ask you to give a short ‘pecha kucha’ presentation summarising your own work, also in English. If you are comfortable with that, we have no other formal requirements about your English proficiency.

Application review

In assessing applications, we will prioritise early-career individuals, and we aim for gender balance. We will also prioritise interdisciplinary understanding and growth, for example language technology researchers who may not think of themselves as ‘linguists’ but could gain significantly from linguistic insights; and correspondingly, language researchers whose work is likely to be affected by new language technologies (we think this is most language researchers!).