====== UniDive news ======
  * **[10 April 2025]**: We have published a [[meetings:other-events:2nd_unidive_training_school:call_for_trainers|call for trainers]] for the [[meetings:other-events:2nd_unidive_training_school|2nd UniDive Training School]] in **Yerevan on 20-24 Jan 2026**. The submission deadline for course proposals is **2 June 2025**. 
  * **[3 March 2025]**: The culminating workshop of the [[[other-events:msp|UniDive shared task on morphosyntactic parsing]] will take place the 26th of August at SyntaxFest in Ljublijana. The release of training and development sets took place on the 1st of March, and the deadline for submitting parsers is on the 1st of July. We encourage you and your colleagues to consider submitting systems to the competition. For more details see the event's page.
  * **[15 Feb 2025]**: Material (slides, posters, minutes, photos, ...) from the [[meetings:general_meetings:3rd_unidive_general_meeting|3rd General Meeting in Budapest]] are now available online.
  * **[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 **cyberattack** 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]], [[outcomes:language-resources|language resources]], [[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.
  * **[20 Feb 2024]**: A [[meetings:calls-for-organizers|call for local organizers]] of UniDive 2025 events (the 3rd general meeting and a WG2 meeting) has been published. Proposal submission deadline: **8 March 2024**.
  * **[19 Feb 2024]**: The Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies ([[https://multiword.org/mweud2024/|MWE-UD]]) is taking place **May 25, 2024**. It is co-located with the LREC-COLING conference. UniDive is one of the co-organizers and sponsors of the event. We dedicated part of the UniDive budget for the workshop participants, mostly invited speakers and paper presenters. The submission deadline is **25 February 2024**.
  * **[19 Feb 2024]**: The 2nd General Meeting of UniDive took place on 7-9 February 2024 at the University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy. It gathered around 90 participants. All material from the event is available [[https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:general_meetings:2nd_unidive_general_meeting#program|online]].
  * **[18 Jan 2024]**: The [[meetings:general_meetings:2nd_unidive_general_meeting:instructions|instructions for poster presenters]] in Naples have been published. The submission deadline for posters and booster slides is **29 January**.
  * **[22 Dec 2023]**: The list of [[meetings:general_meetings:2nd_unidive_general_meeting:abstracts|40 abstracts selected]] for the 2nd UniDive workshop in Naples has been published.
  * **[30 Nov 2023]**: An [[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd91F76hGvVZg_KgFMjFKoPxUGWZ4nlTzh5N-Uc3J-mBD6JzA/viewform?usp=sf_link|expression of interest]] form for the 2nd General Meeting in Naples has been published. 
  * **[7 Nov 2023]**: A [[meetings:general_meetings:2nd_unidive_general_meeting_call_for_abstracts#program_committee|call for reviewers]] for the UniDive workshop in Naples has been published. To volunteer, fill in [[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRzCwU5xn5y1pMmG08qdEcpKz_7ueeWGobqnOjpdVhaODIpA/viewform|this form]] no later than **19 November 2023**.
  * **[26 Oct 2023]**: The [[meetings:general_meetings:2nd_unidive_general_meeting|second UniDive general meeting]] is to take place on 7-9 February 2024 at the University of Naples L’Orientale in Italy. A [[meetings:general_meetings:2nd_unidive_general_meeting_call_for_abstracts|call for abstracts]] has been published. The submission deadline is **24 November 2023**.
  * **[11 Sep 2023]**: The  {{logo:UniDive_Logo.png?nolink&100|}}  logo has been chosen. More details can be found [[https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=logo|here]].
  * **[26 May 2023]**: A [[meetings:calls-for-organizers#call_for_organizers_of_2024_events|call for local organizers]] of UniDive 2024 events (the 2nd general meeting and the 1st training school) has been published. Proposal submission deadline: **15 June 2023**.
  * **[26 May 2023]**: A call for [[https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=unidive_logo_competition.pdf|UniDive logo design competition]] is being published. The submission deadline: **July 7, 2023**.
  * **[25 May 2023]**: The first [[other-events:webinar-1|UniDive webinar]] for newcomers to UD, PARSEME and/or Grew-match will take place on 19 June 2023 (online). The registration deadline is **12 June 2023**.
  * **[17 April 2023]**: The [[grants:itc:itc-conf-call-1-2023|1st call for ITC conference grant applications]] has been published (deadlines: 25 April and 1 June 2023]
  * **[open call for joint publications]**: All UniDive members are kindly requested to notify the Core Group about all published publications which directly benefited from UniDive. They will be published as [[outcomes:publications|outcomes]] of the Action.
  * **[3 April 2023]**: The monthly online meetings of the **Working Group 2** (lexicon-corpus interface) will be taking place every **first Thursday of the month from 13:00 CEST** (for an hour)
  * **[2 April 2023]**: An UniDive [[https://forms.gle/aoUBdQJAAmVUbeM78|survey for communication]] purposes has been published. It is dedicated to all UniDive members. Please, fill it in until the **9th of April** 2023.
  * **[11 march 2023]**: A heavy **strike** in public service is planned for Wednesday **15 March**. See some recommendations [[meetings:general_meetings:1st_unidive_general_meeting#strikes_in_france|here]]. 
  * **[7 March 2023]**: The [[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe77RhZoK-WDHiF-U_vqhTH_oJ5DTgPTMV4UxE_8DTpldMtug/viewform|registration form]] for the [[meetings:general_meetings:1st_unidive_general_meeting|first UniDive general meeting]] at Paris-Saclay is open to participants. Please, fill it in asap and no later than **Thursday 9 March**, in order to help us meet your needs and preferences.
  * **[17 February 2023]**: The [[meetings:2023-saclay:abstracts|list of abstracts]] selected for the [[meetings:general_meetings:1st_unidive_general_meeting|first UniDive general meeting]] has been published.
  * **[17 January 2023]**: An on-site [[meetings:wg:wg3-2-meeting|meeting of Working Group 3]] will be taking place on Friday, the **8th of September 2023** in **Istanbul**. 
  * **[12 December 2023]**: The [[meetings:general_meetings:1st_unidive_general_meeting|first UniDive general meeting]] is to take place on 16-17 March 2023 at the  Paris-Saclay University in France. A [[meetings:2023-paris-saclay-call-for-abstracts|call for abstracts]] and a [[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtquButjeBW-WP-_8xBiINHBW0e3rz654jrmMogN0NxEqsWw/viewform|form for expression of interest]] have been published.  
  * **[9 December 2022]**: The first [[grants:stsms:stsm-call-1-2022|call for STSM proposals]] has been published. The application deadline is <del>**16th January 2023**</del> the **6th of February 2023**.

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Given the fact that we are a multilingual project, we have prepared a video for Valentine's Day.
Hope you’ll like it.

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