Working Groups

Working Groups (WGs) are the main instrument for the project to carry out shared tasks. They are set up in each Work Package by the WP leaders.

WGs consist of two types of members:

• Core members: staff from partner organisations that are contractually committed to executing part of the work programme; they can only resign from a WG on the basis of bilateral agreement between WG leader and partner site manager.
• Associated members: staff from CLARIN partner and member sites or other organisations who have committed themselves voluntarily to participating in the execution of the tasks of the Working Group. In case they want to resign they will have to notify the WG leader. Activities could include (but are not limited to)

• reading plans, reports and their drafts,
• commenting on such documents and otherwise taking part in the discussion, and
• contributing with their own work, e.g. concerning their own country or organization.

Core members

are entitled to reimbursement of labour and travel within the limits of their partner organisation’s CLARIN budget.

Associated members

are not entitled to any form of reimbursement of travel or labour from the CLARIN project budget. Associated WG members are urged to seek financial support from their national CLARIN funds or from their own organisation.

Members of WGs can be appointed in different ways:

• if a project partner has a contractual task in the activities of the WG the partner has the right to appoint one or more of their staff
• the WG leader can invite individuals from partner, member and other sites to join
• for each WG the leader will issue a call for participation to all CLARIN members; the call has to specify the expertise required to join and the way in which this expertise has to be documented; the WG leader decides whether you can join the WG