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It was Tuesday, August 19^th, 2025, and we were travelling to the third CASCADE MSCA Doctoral Network training camp. This time around, it was taking us to Helsinki, and the trip to the airport reminded me of how far we would be going this time (until now, the KU Leuven team had travelled by train for every meeting). What would we learn? What sights would we see? What connections would we strengthen? 

Camp Day One: Wednesday, August 20^th  

As everyone slowly started coming down from their hotel rooms, ready for breakfast and our first day of training sessions, I started seeing familiar faces. Over breakfast with a few of my fellow ESRs, we excitedly discussed travel mishaps, current and past projects, and our expectations for the days to come. After eating, we all met in the hotel lobby (ESRs and supervisors alike) for what has now become a tradition: walking together to where the camp would take place. On this occasion, it would be the main building of the University of Helsinki. 

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The CASCADE project has launched a Substack: ‘Language and Technology’!

This Substack offers a window into the research and reflections of CASCADE’s doctoral projects across the five partner universities: University College Cork, University of Helsinki, KU Leuven, Universität des Saarlandes, and the University of Sheffield.

Posts include insights into computational linguistics and text analytics; perspectives on the social, ethical, and cultural implications of AI and natural language processing; commentary on the role of language in the data economy; and interviews, explainers, and research highlights for both scholarly and general audiences.

The first post, written by CASCADE Early Stage Researcher Sofía Aguilar based at USAAR, is now live at:

https://languagetechnology.substack.com/

Pop on over and hit the subscribe button to learn more about the work of our research team!
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CASCADE is a collaboration between University College Cork, University of Sheffield, University of Helsinki, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Universität des Saarlandes. Funded by Horizon Europe under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks and the UKRO.

The second CASCADE Training and Research Camp took place from 12-13 March at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, where the full group of 10 ESRs and their PhD supervisors, and a roster of guest researchers came together to learn from, and with each other, at the USAAR Campus Innovation Center. Two packed days of activities included ESR group work & brainstorming sessions; poster presentations and even a guided tour of 500 years of Saarbrücken history at the SAAR Historical Museum.

The programme included several guest researcher presentations by experts in the field of Historical Sociolinguistics, Computational Lexicography and Natural Language Processing, as well as an insightful presentation by a former Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher on the highs and lows of the ESR journey. All in all, it was a very well spent spent two days in Saarbrücken and the team returned to their respective institutions with heads filled with new information, new ideas and further plans for future collaborations.

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