LATER: Language Technology Erasmus Mundus Programme



KICK-OFF MEETING/1st LATER WORKSHOP (Language Technology Erasmus Mundus
Programme) - SAARBRUECKEN, 27-29 JANUARY 2005

Thursday 27.01.2005 (Room "Bledsoe" at DFKI)

15:00 - 16:00 Presentation of the EM LATER Project (Goals and Future
Events of the Project; Valia Kordoni/Hans Uszkoreit)
16:00 - 17:00 Presentation of Master curriculum of the University of Malta (Mike Rosner)
19:30 - open Dinner

Friday 28.01.2005 (Room "Leibniz" at DFKI)

10:00 - 10:30 Presentation of Master curriculum of COLI (Hans Uszkoreit/Valia Kordoni)
10:30 - 11:00 Presentation of Master curriculum of University of Copenhagen (Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen)
11:30 - 12:00 Presentation of Master curriculum of Prague(Vladislav Kubon / Marketa Lopatkova)
12:00 - 12:30 Presentation of Master curriculum of Bolzano (Raffaella Bernardi)
12:30 - 13:00 Presentation of Master curriculum of Nancy (Carlos Areces)

14:00 - 15:00 Discussion on the basis of the Master curricula presented
in the morning; Bill Barry, Matt Crocker, Manfred Pinkal, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova will also participate

15:30 - 18:00

i) Discussion on the future events of the EM LATER project to take
place in Prague, Copenhagen and
Malta till October 2005 and how we can enhance attractiveness to our
Master curricula as much as possible through these events;

ii) Discussion on the new project proposal for the EM actions 1 and 2
(proposal deadline: end of May 2005).
Main points:

(a) the innovation of the programme that the consortium is going to
propose for the Actions 1 and 2 of Erasmus Mundus;

(b) details of the new proposal (model of the master consortium for
Actions 1 and 2 of the new proposal; credits; common courses; overseas
students; deadline for applications; more that the partners will propose)

19:30 - open Dinner (at Sarreguemines, Restaurant of Hotel Walfried)

Saturday 29.01.2005 (Room "Leibniz" of DFKI)

10:00 - 12:30 Continue with point (b) of previous day: Details of the
new proposal (model of the master consortium for Actions 1 and 2 of the
new proposal; credits; common courses; overseas students; deadline for
applications; more that the partners will propose)

15.00 - 16.00 Tour of the Völklinger Hütte (World Culture monument)
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 18.00 Inca Gold Exhibition
18.00 - 20.00 Dinner
20.00 - 22.00 Concert (Bach and Vivaldi)