In terms of scientific impact, the DIVA project ran from 2017 to 2019 and generated three novel experimental tools and datasets, which are/will become publicly available to the scientific community in an Open Access format in order to maximize the impact of this research. DIVA involved crosslinguistic research across European countries, something that enabled the establishment of novel collaboration ties across different countries in the European territory (Norway, Greece, Cyprus, Spain). In terms of the overall structure and progress of this project, the 24 month duration of DIVA corresponded to 5 Work Packages. Working Package 1 involved the first deliverables: (i) completion of task development (3 novel tasks, one already published doi.org/10.18710/NTLLUF) and (ii) application for ethics screening and approval by the NSD, the body responsible for ethics screening in Norway. The tasks were also screened by the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee (i.e. the national body responsible for ethics screening in Cyprus) during the secondment for data collection in Cyprus, which took place in the second year of the fellowship. The CNBC waived the need for a full application during the prescreening session, due to the nature of the tasks and the tested populations (i.e. simple language tasks administered to neurotypical adults fully capable of informed consent). Working Packages 2 and 3 involved the recruitment, data collection, and coding of the results in Scandinavia (months 5-11) and Cyprus (months 12-14) respectively, as the secondment formed part of Working Package 3. More than 600 monolingual and bilingual speakers have been recruited and tested in this phase of the project. Months 7-24 (i.e. Working Package 4) were devoted to the analysis, interpretation, dissemination, and exploitation of the results. This resulted in five publications and one edited volume (see section Publications for a detailed list of all outcomes). A workshop on language variation was also planned as a deliverable for this Working Package. This workshop took place (TALV 1,
http://site.uit.no/lava/talv-workshop-transdisciplinary-approaches-to-language-variation/). Apart from various talks at international conferences and workshops that disseminated the obtained results, the dissemination activities involved talks that raised awareness about the importance of MSCA actions (e.g. Evelina Leivada. 2017. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships: Career prospects and the road to a successful application. Workshop Transferrable Skills: Financial Mechanisms and Project Management, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway, 1 November) and also through participation in EU initiatives of promoting regional research (e.g. What makes us human? EU in my Region
https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/blog/detail.cfm?id=23) . Last, Working Package 5 ran throughout the fellowship and was dedicated to complementary training, progress monitoring, and continuous risk evaluation (months 4-23). Complementary training involved the participation of Dr. Leivada to various workshops, courses, and training activities (e.g. the Statistics training course at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU) in 2017, the AURORA Outstanding Program at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in 2018-2019, and the Mallorca Lectures on Neurolinguistics at the Universitat de les Illes Balears in 2019).