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- NWO Perspective project Inclusive Technologies for Access and Social Participation
- Katia Shutova is awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant
- Oline Ranum wins Amsterdam AI Thesis Award 2024
- Petter Törnberg appointed as member The Young Academy
- (New) Midsize project-grant awarded for `Lost Without Translation'
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NWO Perspective project Inclusive Technologies for Access and Social Participation
Together with colleagues at Uva (Judith Good, Hamed Alavi, Natali Helberger and Claes de Vreese), TUD, TUE, UU, HU, and CWI, as well as several non-academic partners, Floris Roelofsen obtained an NWO Perspective grant for the project Inclusive Technologies for Access and Social Participation.
For more information, see https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/news/news/2024/11/from-one-size-fits-all-to-design-for-social-inclusion.html or contact Floris Roelofsen at f.roelofsen at uva.nl. -
Katia Shutova is awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to three UvA researchers. The laureates are: Ekaterina Shutova (Towards globally accessible language technology and its alignment to cultural contexts (CulturAL)), Antonia Rowlinson and Corentin Coulais. These prestigious subsidies are personal and amount to approximately 2 million euros per project.
For more information, see https://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/news/2024/12/three-uva-researchers-receive-erc-consolidator-grants.html or contact Katia Shutova at e.v.shutova at uva.nl. -
Oline Ranum wins Amsterdam AI Thesis Award 2024
We are very proud to announce that Oline Ranum has won the Amsterdam AI Thesis Award for Best Master thesis in AI at UvA and VU in 2024! She received the award during the Amsterdam AI Highlights Event at the VU on December 12th.
For more information, see here or at https://scripties.uba.uva.nl/search?id=record_55278 or contact Floris Roelofsen at f.roelofsen at uva.nl. -
Petter Törnberg appointed as member The Young Academy
We are pleased to announce that Petter Törnberg (ILLC) has been appointed as member of The Young Academy.
For more information, see here or at https://www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/2974260.aspx. -
(New) Midsize project-grant awarded for `Lost Without Translation'
We are pleased to announce that Katrin Schulz (ILLC) together with Saurabh Khanna (FMG), Olga Eisele (FMG) and Paula Helm (FGw) has been awarded a midsize grant from the UvA IP theme Fair and Resilient Societies, to work on the project Lost Without Translation: Estimation and Implications of Invisible Languages on the Internet. The goal of the project is to understand and expose language invisibility. To this purpose they will run a case study on the use of automatic translation in immigration and aslyum processes.
For more information, see https://invisiblelang.streamlit.app or contact Katrin Schulz at k.schulz at uva.nl.