Principled Hybryd Systems: Theory and Applications (PHISTA), in collaboration with King's College London (KCL), Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (KUN), University of Milan, Queen's University of Belfast (QUB), Technical University of Athens (NTUA). COST action on Nonlinear Speech Processing, in collaboration with ESIEE (F), ENST (F), University Carlos III (E), University Politecnica de Cataluna Mataro (E), University of Dundee (UK), KTH (Stockholm),Vienna Telecommunications Research Cantre (AT), Helsinki University of Technology (FI), University of Edinburgh (UK), University Politecnica de Cataluna Barcelona (E), Universty of Trieste (IT), University of Sheffield (UK), EPFL (CH), University of Ancona (IT), Vienna University of Technology (AT), IRCAM (F), University Libre of Bruxelles (BE), Denmark University of Technology (DK), INESC Lisbon (PT), Technical University of Budapest (HU). INTAS project on Language Independent Model for Automatic Speech Recognition, Advanced Research, in collaboration with ENST (F), UNESCO/IIP (Ukraine), Cybernetics NAS (Belarus), Moscow State Linguistic University (Russia).