Who said that research is carried out only in labs while sitting at our desk in front of our computer? Can a relaxing weekend surrounded by nature aid our own scientific quests? Can a collaboration between PhD students start from an informal talk in a casa rural an hour away from Barcelona? As young researchers we like to answer such scientific inquiries by means of well-designed and rigorous experiments: that's why we are organizing REST-CL, a retreat for PhD students organized by PhD students.

After the success of our first REST-CL retreat, we are once again organising a small (max. 26) PhD student gathering. We seek to provide an opportunity for PhD students in Computational Linguistics to exchange knowledge, share experiences of academic life and socialize with fellow students, establishing both professional and personal relations in an enjoyable escape to a Catalan casa rural. 

Informal discussions, brainstorming sessions, long and short talks, good ol' chalk talks as well as advice and mentoring conversations with invited postdocs will be all over the place during REST-CL.