The school is addressed to students and young graduates in humanities or in technology who want to get to know the world of speech technologies. Participants may be:

  • university students and/or young graduates in the humanities (CFUs acquired in linguistics, where applicable L-LIN/01 or L-FIL-LETT/12) or in computer science and technology (e.g. computer science or electronic engineering). Students must have obtained their degree no more than two years ago; they may be enrolled in three-year degree courses, provided they have already acquired at least 60 CFU.
  • PhD and post-doctoral students (who have obtained their degree by no more than two years);

There are 30 places available, 15 of which are reserved for students from the University of Salento. In order to ensure social inclusion and real gender equality, 2 places will be reserved for disabled people and equal participation of all gender components will be ensured. If the number of reserved places is not reached, the available places can be allocated to other participants.

Selection will take place on the basis of a curriculum vitae et studiorum (European CV format) and a motivation letter. A minimum level of knowledge of English is required, also attested by self-declaration (minimum level B1 of CEFR). At equal evaluation, the order of application (date of submission) will be taken into consideration.

The school foresees 50 hours of activities (40 of activities during the school and 10 for the realization of a final report) and the recognition of 2 CFU. The list of the University of Salento courses that will acknowledge the CFUs will be provided by mid May on the Summer School web page provided by CEDAT 85 (https://www.aisv.it/summerschools).

Participation to the school is free of charge. Participants will be partially reimbursed for travel expenses (with the exception of those who are domiciled within the province of Lecce) and will not have to pay for lunches during the school. Attendance is compulsory. A final certificate will be issued to the participants.