What are the differences between LDS and ALT-EDIC?

Aspect

Language Data Space (LDS)

Alliance for Language Technologies European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (ALT-EDIC)

Main reference framework

DIGITAL Work Programme

Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030

Implementation via

Procurement (Call for Tenders & Newsroom)

Establishment of a legal entity

Procedure behind Initiative and Relative Timeline

• Launch of a Call for Tenders (July 2022);
• Evaluation and selection of a winning consortium for deployment given the offers received (September/October 2022);
• Signature of the LDS contract (December 2022).
• Beginning of the LDS (January 2023).

• Launch of an informal Call for Expressions of Interest in Member States (December 2022);
• Collection of Member States’ proposals on possible EDICs (February 2023);
• ALT-EDIC pre-notification to the Commission (May 2023);
• ALT-EDIC formal application to the Commission (expected: November 2023);
• Creation of the ALT-EDIC legal entity (expected: first quarter 2024).  

Leadership

European Commission-led initiative

Member States-led initiative

Management and Execution

European Commission and LDS consortium

French Ministries of Culture and Economy

Start

19 January 2023

First quarter of 2024 (expected)

Duration

Three years – until January 2026.

• Possible contract renewal for another year.

No set end for this initiative. 

Budget

6 Mio EUR for three years from the DIGITAL Work Programme 2021-2022.

In-kind and/or financial contributions from participating Member States.

Focus

On providing a market place of multilingual and multimodal language data.

On establishing an European ecosystem for Language Technologies.

Member States’ Participation

CELT: Member State and Countries Affiliated to the DIGITAL programme.

Member States and EEA countries.

Private Sector’s Participation

CELT+: European stakeholders from relevant industrial sectors, managing and handling language data.

An ‘Industrial Consortium’ will contribute to the strategy of the ALT-EDIC by participating in its Strategic Orientation Committee.