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The European Commission initiated ELRC to overcome one of the main challenges in creating a true Digital Single Market in Europe – the language barrier that public services, ministries and citizens face every day.

The European Commission has launched a call for tenders, composed of two lots, for a study to assess the service portfolio development and business case for the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Automated Translation platform (lot 1) and the implementation of the service desk of the CEF Automated Translation platform and a programme support action (lot 2) (study reference SMART 2016/0103)

The CRACKER project, under the Cracking the Language Barrier federation, is launching a survey to hear your views on the shape and future of the language technologies landscape in Europe.

Following the Connecting Europe Facility 2016 call for proposals, the list of those selected for funding has now been published.

A few years ago, Nelson Mandela nailed the importance of multilingualism in two sentences: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart." Read this blog post by Roberto Viola (European Commission, Director General DG Connect) and Rytis Martikonis (European Commission, Director General DG Translation).

In order to have a true Digital Single Market, Europe needs to be "language transparent". The challenges and visions for a language-technology-enabled Europe need to be recognised and acted upon.

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) foresees the creation of a pan-European public digital services infrastructures (DSIs). These DSIs will deliver public services for administrations, citizens and economic operators across the European Union, and in Iceland and Norway.
The purpose of the procurement is to complement and extend the existing CEF Automated Translation platform to improve the quality and coverage of automated translation of all official languages of the EU plus Norwegian and Icelandic.