Summer schools

The EFL project’s summer schools offer an exceptional setting for advanced training for master’s students, doctoral students, and young researchers interested in language sciences. Held every two years, these schools are designed as intensive spaces for scientific transmission, sharing, and experimentation.

Summer schools are a highlight of the EFL year.

EFL summer schools pursue several complementary objectives:

  • To strengthen interdisciplinary training in linguistics by combining approaches from theoretical, experimental, computational, and sociolinguistic linguistics.
  • To promote international openness among young researchers by giving them access to recognized experts in their fields.
  • To create synergies between the different themes of the EFL project (linguistic variation, cognition, language contact, automatic language processing, etc.).
  • To support the development of skills in advanced research tools, new methodologies, or rapidly evolving fields (AI, corpus processing, modeling, etc.).

An innovative and intensive format

The summer schools are designed as intensive residential programs lasting several days. They combine:

  • Plenary lectures by internationally renowned researchers;
  • Methodological workshops (data collection and processing, automatic processing software, psycholinguistic experimentation, etc.);
  • Poster sessions and oral presentations by participants;
  • Informal discussion time, encouraging the creation of collaborative networks.

A European and international dimension

The EFL project’s summer schools are open to an international audience and can be co-organized with European partners. They enable young researchers to familiarize themselves with international scientific standards and expand their academic network.

Complementarity with the rest of the EFL offering

These schools are part of a broader training offering, including:

  • Regular doctoral seminars;
  • Cross-disciplinary research workshops;
  • Mobility grants to encourage international internships;
  • Strong involvement of EFL consortium supervisors in monitoring training programs.

 

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