The second CASCADE Training and Research Camp took place from 12-13 March at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, where the full group of 10 ESRs and their PhD supervisors, and a roster of guest researchers came together to learn from, and with each other, at the USAAR Campus Innovation Center. Two packed days of activities included ESR group work & brainstorming sessions; poster presentations and even a guided tour of 500 years of Saarbrücken history at the SAAR Historical Museum.

The programme included several guest researcher presentations by experts in the field of Historical Sociolinguistics, Computational Lexicography and Natural Language Processing, as well as an insightful presentation by a former Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher on the highs and lows of the ESR journey. All in all, it was a very well spent spent two days in Saarbrücken and the team returned to their respective institutions with heads filled with new information, new ideas and further plans for future collaborations.

Many thanks to Haim Dubossarsky; Stefano de Pascale & Francesco Periti from the Change is Key! project; Tanja Säily from University of Helsinki, and Marc Alexander from the University of Glasgow for sharing their knowledge and expertise with the CASCADE team. We are looking forward to our next training camp which will be hosted by the University of Helsinki in June!

CASCADE is a collaboration between University College Cork, University of Sheffield, University of Helsinki, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Universität des Saarlandes. Funded by Horizon Europe under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks and the UKRO.