ALT-EDIC inaugurated at the Château de Villers-Cotterêts

Villers-Cotterêts, 20 March 2025. The French Mnister of Culture (Rachida Dati) and The Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs (Clara Chappaz) inaugurated the Alliance for Language Technologies (ALT-EDIC) at its headquarters in the Cité internationale de la langue française. The event brought together policymakers, researchers and industry to set a European agenda for multilingual AI and language technology.

The inauguration capped a week of activity in Villers-Cotterêts. The LLMs4EU consortium also gathered at the Château for the kick-off of the LLMs4EU project, a three-year Digital Europe Programme project coordinated by ALT-EDIC and launched in March 2025. The project brings together 69 partners who will fine-tune models for key European sectors in all EU languages, and will provide dedicated services to help SMEs and public bodies fine-tune and adopt these models.

The event also included the European Language Data Space (LDS) Launch Conference, where the beta LDS architecture was presented to data providers and users. As part of Europe’s effort to strengthen cultural and linguistic diversity in AI, the LDS will underpin the sharing of language data across Europe.

Two ministers inaugurated the ALT-EDIC at its headquarters in the Château de Villers-Cotterêts.

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Lithuania is represented in the ALT-EDIC consortium by the Ministry of Culture, a governmental institution responsible for formulating and implementing state cultural policies in the fields of professional and amateur arts, theatre, music, fine arts, cinema, museums, libraries, publishing, copyright and related rights, and the protection of cultural heritage and language.

In response to recent advances in generative AI, Lithuania is actively exploring the development of large language models (LLMs) and supporting the ecosystem for the Lithuanian language. The Ministry of Culture has initiated an information campaign to engage both public and private sector organisations in ALT-EDIC efforts. Several companies have already expressed their interest. Lithuania is also funding a number of projects through Recovery and Resilience Facility (Next Generation Lithuania), aimed at accumulating language resources for AI systems. It is anticipated that these projects will complement the goals of ALT-EDIC.

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