====== 2nd UniDive training school in Yerevan ======

  * **Event title**: UniDive Working Group 4 meeting
  * **Location**: [[https://www.ysu.am/en|Yerevan State University]] (YSU), 1 Alex Manoogian St., Yerevan, 0025, Armenia
  * **Dates**: 20-24 January 2026 (Tuesday-Saturday)
  * **Local Organizer**: [[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna-Danielyan|Anna Danielyan]]

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=====  Collocated Event =====

[[meetings:wg:wg4-meeting|WG4 meeting]] 

=====  PC chairs =====
The PC is in charge of reviewing trainees' project submissionand to select those who will be invited to the Training School.
The PC chairs are:
  * [[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna-Danielyan|Anna Danielyan]], Yerevan State University
  * [[https://modyco.fr/membre/santiago-herrera/|Santiago Herrera]], University of Paris Nanterre, France
  * [[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fGvDeJgAAAAJ|Ranka Stanković]], University of Belgrade, Serbia
  * more to announce shortly
  * 
=====  Courses =====
Based on the [[meetings:other-events:2nd_unidive_training_school:call_for_trainers|call for trainers]] (deadline: **2 June 2025**): the following courses were  selected:
  * Course 1: {{ :meetings:other-events:2nd-training-school:hammarstrom-ling-typology-for-nlp.pdf |Linguistic Typology for NLP researchers: Methods and Resources in the 21st century}} - by [[https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N16-1974|Harald Hammarström]] (Uppsala University, Sweden) and [[https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/verkerk/personen-1/luigi-talamo.html|Luigi Talamo]] (Saarland University, Germany)
  * Course 2: {{ :meetings:other-events:2nd-training-school:carp-llms-for-low-resourced-languages.pdf |Large Language Models for Low-Resourced Languages: Hands-On Approaches to Cultural and Genre Diversity in NLP}} - by [[https://www.racai.ro/en/about-us/racai-staff/drd-maria-mitrofan/|Maria Carp]] (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) and [[https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=H6JYohsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate|Nina Hosseini-Kivanani]] (RTL Luxembourg and University of Luxembourg)
  * Course 3: {{ :meetings:other-events:2nd-training-school:esteve-et-al-diversity-quantification.pdf |Diversity quantification in natural language processing: The why, what, where and how}} - by [[https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/membres/esteve-louis/|Louis Estève]] (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France), [[https://cental.uclouvain.be/team/mcdm/|Marie-Catherine de Marneffe]] (Université Catholique Louvain, Belgium), [[https://www.openu.ac.il/en/personalsites/nuritmelnik.aspx|Nurit Melnik]] (The Open University, Israel), [[https://perso.limsi.fr/savary/|Agata Savary]] (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) and [[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C_TrxQoAAAAJ&hl=en|Olha Kanishcheva]] (Heidelberg University, Germany, SET University, Ukraine)

===== Draft schedule =====
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===== Reimbursement =====

If you are selected by the Core Group to get reimbursement for the meeting, please accept the invitation that will be sent to you via e-COST before the meeting. After the meeting, fill in the reimbursement form that will be available online via the e-COST system and upload all relevant signed documents, as indicated in the reimbursement form. Before making any arrangements PLEASE READ general rules for the reimbursement described in the [[https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2025/02/COST-094-21-V2.0-Annotated-Rules-for-COST-Actions-Level-C.pdf|COST Annotated Rules]], Annex A1-3.1 TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT RULES. External members (who have not received the e-COST invitation) can also participate freely but will not be reimbursed for their travel and stay. Those external members should also fill in the registration form.

The daily allowance for this event:
  * For the trainers: **185 EUR**.
  * For the trainees: **120 EUR**.