Diachronic Greek texts stretching from the Byzantine period to the present. An open-access treebank. An international peer-reviewed journal on contact linguistics. And a research lab at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athensthat views each traineeship as the beginning of a longer scholarly relationship. GlossaContact Lab is offering an Erasmus+ Digital Opportunities Traineeship (DOT) for students and recent graduates in linguistics, digital humanities, classics, or related fields.
🏛️ About GlossaContact Lab
The GlossaContact Lab operates at the intersection of theoretical linguistics, corpus philology, and computational text processing — with a particular focus on Greek in its long diachrony and the broader study of language contact across Europe and the Mediterranean. The Lab hosts the Athens Digital Glossa Chronos (AthDGC) corpus initiative — an open-access treebank of annotated diachronic Greek texts — and co-produces Glossa Contact, an international peer-reviewed journal on contact linguistics. It also organises the annual Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics.
📋 Three Traineeship Strands
Tasks are calibrated to the candidate's background and learning goals — not all three strands need to be pursued in equal measure.
📝 Corpus Annotation and Curation
Contribute to the AthDGC treebank using established frameworks (PROIEL / CoNLL-U) — morphological tagging, syntactic annotation, and metadata enrichment under the supervision of the Lab director and experienced annotators
📖 Academic Publishing and Editorial Support
Assist the editorial workflow of Glossa Contact — copy-editing, reference checking, author and reviewer correspondence, and preparation of issues for online release
📣 Research Communication and Outreach
Support the Lab's online presence, help prepare materials for the Naxos Summer School, and contribute to research dissemination through blog posts, visual summaries, or translations
🎁 What the Lab Provides
🏢 A dedicated workspace within a functioning research environment
🧑🏫 Structured mentoring from the Lab director and senior collaborators
📚 Access to all Lab research infrastructure, corpora, bibliographic resources, and software
🎓 Training in corpus annotation and editorial workflows
🏝️ Opportunity to attend the Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics at reduced or waived registration
📜 A formal Europass Mobility document upon completion
✍️ Where the contribution warrants it — acknowledgment in published outputs or co-authorship on derivative work
⚠️ The traineeship is unpaid from the host side — candidates are expected to be supported by their Erasmus+ traineeship grant
✅ Your Profile
🎓 Students enrolled in Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral programmes in linguistics, classics, translation studies, digital humanities, computational linguistics, or related fields
🔍 Intellectual curiosity about historical languages and language change
🗂️ Attention to detail in handling textual data
🤝 Comfort with structured, collaborative work
💡 Willingness to learn new tools and conventions
🛠️ Prior experience with corpus tools, XML/JSON, LaTeX, Git, or annotation frameworks is welcome — training will be provided where needed
🗣️ English B2 or higher — Greek (any level) is desirable and particularly welcome. Additional European languages are a plus for editorial work
⚠️ This is a Digital Opportunities Traineeship (DOT) — check with your university for Erasmus+ traineeship eligibility before applying
📅 Duration and Commitment
⏱️ Flexible — full-time or part-time, minimum 2 months, maximum 6 months. To be agreed with the candidate's sending institution
🗓️ 1 June 2026 — 31 May 2027
📍 Athens, Greece (hybrid options available) — with activities also in Naxos (summer school) and Delphi (winter school)
2–3 positions available
💡 Not sure if you're eligible for an Erasmus+ traineeship? Everything you need to know is right here: https://youthworkshub.org/15096/
⏰ Deadline
1 July 2026 (applications reviewed on a rolling basis)
📬 How to Apply
Send to Professor Nikolaos Lavidas at:
Please include:
📄 CV
✉️ Motivation letter (400–600 words) — indicate which strand is of primary interest
📋 Unofficial transcript of records
👤 Name of one academic referee
🔗 https://athdgc.github.io/GlossaContactLab/
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