[Userinvolvement] Overview of national UI activities 2020

[Fišer, Darja]

Dear all, 

this year’s annual CLARIN conference will be virtual, so we won’t have our regular annual meeting there because the conference programme is packed as it is and virtual events are much more tiring, so we decided to keep committee meetings separate from the main programme. Instead, we will organize a separate virtual meeting shortly after the conference, you will recieve an invitation to Doodle soon. 

But because we need to prepare our annual reports for the SAB and the GA, we need to proceed with our yearly overview of User Involvement activities and events carried out by the national consortia. We are interested in all types of your awareness-raising, educational and outreach events that have taken place or are yet to take place in the period between last year’s conference in Leipzig (30 September–2 October 2019) and this year’s virtual conference (5–7 October 2020). 

We kindly ask all the national UI representatives and/or National Coordinators to fill in either this Google form (https://forms.gle/mcjFUVZCMRgWWP87A) or this Google spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aRC42c4pvquI6ylCmVufHWj9dsh37VjgoMcSJs0ZIEo/edit?usp=sharing) with the relevant information pertaining to the events and activities that have been organized by their consortia. We need your input by ***18 September***.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we realise that there will most likely be fewer events or teaching activities to report, but we nevertheless require your input as the overview of the national activities is an integral part of the annual CLARIN ERIC report on User Involvement. We are also very interested to hear any success stories related to the successful and/or innovative organisation of or participation in events in the time of the pandemic, such as virtual conferences, workshops, webinars, on-line tutorials, etc., and all your other types of outreach activities that do not require physical presence, such as academic dissemination (posters, papers, demos and similar) and dissemination in the mass media (newspaper, radio, TV, podcast, blog, social media campaign). We will share the report with you at our virtual annual meeting.

If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to get in touch. 

Best,

Darja and Jakob