It comprises national consortia in and outside the European Union, consisting of institutes such as universities, research centres, libraries and public archives.

The goal of CLARIN is to make various digital language resources and tools from all over Europe and beyond accessible through a single sign-on online environment for the support of researchers in the humanities and social sciences and to support scholars who want to engage in data-driven research, contributing to a multilingual European Research Area.

CLARIN offers a wide range of services,[6] some of which are integrated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

[15] The largest effort towards the further integration of data, tools and expertise stems from the activities in the national consortia.

They set up a national consortium, typically consisting of universities, research institutions, libraries and public archives[16]).