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Open 24 March 2026 - 30 April 2026

Attend the EC2U VIQE Conference on Language and Cultural Bias

Mobility opportunity to attend an EC2U conference on language and cultural bias at the University of Pavia during 1-3 September, 2026.

Subject area: Humanities and social sciences, Educational sciences

Funding body: EC2U - The European Campus of City-Universities and Erasmus+ Programme of the EU

Applicant: Researchers and doctoral students

Application period: 24 March 2026 - 30 April 2026

Grant amount: 1265€ per person

Grant period: 5 days, including 2 travel days

EC2U Mobility Application Form

How to submit your proposal

Submissions should foster an interdisciplinary approach, combining perspectives from linguistics, psychology, social sciences, law, and cultural studies.

Relevant topics include:

  • Analysis of cultural biases, stereotypes, and prejudices.
  • Linguistic markers (syntactic, pragmatic, etc.) of biased language.
  • Cognitive bias and the role of biases in education and training.
  • Biases in AI and Natural Language Processing tasks.
  • Ethics and fairness concerning different types of biases.

The conference will feature oral and poster presentations, and a round table. The distribution of accepted contributions across both formats (oral presentation or poster) will in no way reflect the quality of the proposal, but will be based on the extent to which the content adapts to each format.

Candidate selections are performed locally by the EC2U Partner Institutions.

Selection critieria:

Researchers and doctoral (PhD) students from the field of linguistics, discourse studies, intercultural communication, pyschology, cultural and literary studies, social and political sciences, and law.

Download the full Call for Papers

Number of available mobiities: 4

Learning format: oral and poster presentations, round table

Complete the application form here

Deadlines:

30 April 2026. Application form deadline

6 May 2026: Notification of selection results

Contact: ec2u@umu.se