Aljoscha Burchardt works in the Language Technology Lab of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH). He is a manager within the European Network of Excellence META-NET that is preparing a Technology Alliance for Multilingual Europe. Burchardt has a background in semantic Language Technology. After his PhD in Computational Linguistics at Saarland University he coordinated the Center of Research Excellence “E-Learning 2.0” at Technische Universität Darmstadt.