Science in your Own Language (SOL)

Description

1) Objective

CHIST-ERA is a consortium of research funding organisations in Europe and beyond supporting use-inspired basic research in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) or at the interface between ICT and other domains. The CHIST-ERA consortium is itself supported by Horizon 2020 and is part of the European Innovation Council’s Pathfinder programme. CHIST-ERA fully joins the Open Science agenda of Horizon Europe following the principle ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’.

This CHIST-ERA call will address the following two main strategic objectives:
• Promote multilingualism among science and technology producers (back-end) and users (front-end) through Machine Translation tools.
• Demonstrate, in the EU context, the use of a self-evaluation methodology, contributing to robust developments by ensuring experiment reproducibility with predetermined data sets, performance indicators and schedules.

2) Eligibility

The eligibility rules for partners are specific to the chosen funding organisation.

3) Location

The project consortia must have a minimum of 3 eligible and independent partners requesting funding from participating funding organisations from at least 3 of the following countries: Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom.

4) Budget

Total available funding is €7,150,000.

5) Application

The application deadline is 15 April 2025. The call follows a one-stage submission and evaluation procedure. The proposal (typically 20 to 30 pages) is submitted and evaluated by a joint international evaluation panel.