All activities planned as part of the Cleopatra training and research programme in the reporting period (from 01/01/2019 to 30/06/2023) have been successfully conducted.
17 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) were recruited in total. Two members of the original cohort left the project before the end of their contracts, for personal reasons, and consequently two new ESRs were recruited in the third year of Cleopatra.
Thanks to the project extension, there was an opportunity to extend the contracts of ESRs who joined the project at a later stage, thereby guaranteeing 36 months on the project for all ESRs. All of the recruited researchers have completed their career and development plans and produced innovative research proposals. 14 ESRs have completed their contracts and three have already submitted their PhD theses, three of whom (ESR 6, ESR 14, ESR 15) have successfully defended and published their doctoral dissertations.
All ESRs have benefited from a wide range of training, delivered both centrally – at the Kick-Off Workshop and during the Learning Weeks – and locally by the beneficiaries. Courses offered as part of the Cleopatra training programme and online events (R&D weeks and Hackathons) have been recorded and training materials are available online on the Cleopatra website at
http://cleopatra-project.eu/index.php/video-lectures-and-training-materials/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie) and on
http://videolectures.net/cleopatra2019/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie).
All ESRs have completed their secondment periods, which has exposed them to additional training opportunities and to different working practices and opportunities for collaboration.
The results of the research projects were presented during the R&D weeks and at several research conferences, both in person and online. All source code and documentation for the demonstrator projects has been published on Github (
https://github.com/cleopatra-itn(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)). The work on demonstrators and R&D projects is meant to continue after the end of Cleopatra and will hopefully result in long-term collaborations.
Cleopatra ESRs have published 50 joint and individual papers in relevant journals and conferences; five additional contributions have been accepted for publication and 11 contributions have been submitted and are under review. The beneficiaries submitted a number of additional scientific publications related to the project that are relevant as a reference for the work of the ESRs and for dissemination purposes.
Communication activities have been conducted according to the plan in the Grant Agreement, with key points of dissemination being the project website (
http://cleopatra-project.eu/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) and the Cleopatra Twitter account (
https://twitter.com/Cleopatra_ITN(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)). The project website and social media channels remain central to the promotion and dissemination of news and information about the project and wider programme.
In order to synthesise and showcase the overall findings of the Cleopatra project, an open-access monograph with contributions from ESRs, beneficiaries and partners was submitted to Springer and accepted in February 2023. The current working title for the book is ‘Event Analytics across Languages and Communities’, and it will be edited by Dr. Ivana Marenzi, Professor Jane Winters, Professor Marko Tadić, Dr. Simon Gottschalk and Dr. Eric Müller-Budack.
