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-**Latest news**: Paris-Saclay University, which hosts several services for UniDive, was a victim of a major **cyber attack** on 11 August 2024. Since then, the UniDive **mailing lists are not operational**. The services are being progressively restored but we do not yet know how long it will take. In the meantime, if you need to contact the UniDive leaders, see the [[https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21167/#tabs+Name:Main%20Contacts%20and%20Leadership|official COST page]].
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 ===== Latest news =====
+  * **[16 Dec 2024]**: A [[meetings:calls-for-organizers#call_for_organizers_of_2026_events|call for local organizers]] of UniDive 2026 events (the 4th general meeting and 2nd training school) has been published. Proposal submission deadline: **7 February 2025**.
+  * **[16 Dec 2024]**: The UniDive [[mailing_lists|mailing lists]] hosted at the Paris-Saclay University have been **restored**.
+  * **[5 Nov 2024]**: The UniDive **2nd Progress Report** was submitted to e-cost today.
+  * **[28 Oct 2024]**: The **3rd UniDive general meeting**, co-located with a WG2 meeting, is to take place on **28-30 January 2024** in **Budapest**. If you are interested in attending, please, fill in the [[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLJELmY6AfRiuf9SmLnyMuFuBwcWSwQq-wgkitML6DES7-9w/viewform|expression of interest]] form, best before **11 November**.
   * **[12 Sept 2024]**: The **deadline** for abstracts to submit to the 3rd UniDive workshop in **Budapest** has been extended till the **30th of September 2024**. The **submission link** is now published, see the [[meetings:general_meetings:3rd_unidive_general_meeting|event's page]].
   * **[26 August 2024]**: Paris-Saclay University, which hosts several services for UniDive, was a victim of a major **cyber attack** on 11 August 2024. Since then, the UniDive mailing lists are not operational. The services are being progressively restored but we do not yet know how long it will take. In the meantime, if you need to contact the UniDive leaders, see the [[https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21167/#tabs+Name:Main%20Contacts%20and%20Leadership|official COST page]].
-  * **[5 July 2024]**: Our 2nd progress report is due on 22 October. By this time, we should make all the outcomes of the Action visible on the website. Please, send us information about [[outcomes:publications|publications]], [[https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=outcomes:language-resources|language resources]], [[https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=outcomes:dissemination|dissemination activities]] and other outcomes which directly benefited from UniDive.
   * **[5 July 2024]**: We now have as many as 19 ongoing tasks and subtasks within the 4 Working Groups. They are all documented on the [[working_groups|website]]. If you are interested in joining one of them, please, contact the task leaders.
   * **[5 July 2024]**: The 3rd UniDive General Meeting will take place in **Budapest** on **29-30 January 2025** and will be preceded by a **WG2 meeting** on **28 Jan 2024**.
-  * **[5 July 2024]**: Due to the extended budget and savings from previous events, we are planning a last-minute call for STSMs late July. You may start planning your STSM already now. They should end no later than early October. For all details see the [[grants:stsms:stsm_grants|STSM page]].
-  * **[5 July 2024]**: The [[meetings:other-events:1st_unidive_training_school|1st UniDive training school]] is taking place on 8-12 July in Chișinău, Moldova. 3 courses on corpus annotation are offered. We are expecting about 60 trainees from over 20 countries, working on more than 30 languages, most of which low-resourced. We plan to record the courses and make them available after the event.
-  * **[5 July 2024]**: The [[https://multiword.org/mweud2024/|MWE-UD workshop]] took place on the 25th of May and was co-located with the LREC/COLING conference in Turin. It was the 3rd biggest satellite event of this conference (UniDive funded 23 participants). The event featured 2 invited talks and 26 archival submissions, which are available at the [[https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2024.mwe-1/|ACL anthology]].
-  * **[5 July 2024]**: In April, we received a proposal from COST to extend our budget for year 2. To be able to benefit from it, we drafted the Work and Budget amendment, which was validated by COST and by the UniDive Management Committee. This top-up budget allowed us to substantially increase the funding for the MWE-UD workshop Turin, the training school in Chișinău and the conference grants.
 ===== About UniDive =====
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   * It main objective is to **reconcile language diversity with rapid progress in language technology**.
   * It embraces both **inter-** and **intra-language diversity**, i.e. a diversity understood both in terms of the differences among the existing languages and of the variety of linguistic phenomena exhibited within a language.
-  * It gathers about **250** interdisciplinary experts (linguists, computational linguists, computer scientists, psycholinguists, and industrials) from almost **40 COST countries** (36 of which are [[https://www.cost.eu/about/members/|COST countries]]).
+  * It gathers about **395** interdisciplinary experts (linguists, computational linguists, computer scientists, psycholinguists, and industrials) from almost **40 COST countries** (36 of which are [[https://www.cost.eu/about/members/|COST countries]]).
   * It represents **dozens of languages** from many different language genera.
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