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Projects and Awards

  • (New) 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 .

  • 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 .
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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 .

  • Ulle Endriss is awarded an ERC Synergy Grant

    We are pleased to announce that Ulle Endriss, together with Umberto Grandi (Toulouse), César Hidalgo (Toulouse), and Maija Setälä (Turku), has been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant worth 9.9 million euros. The ADDI project ("Advancing Digital Democratic Innovation") will bring together experts in participatory platform design, deliberative democracy, and computational social choice to investigates how digital technology can be used to better involve citizens in democratic decision making.

    For more information, see https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/synergy-grants-2024-examples-projects#ADDI or contact Ulle Endriss at .

  • Petter Törnberg is awarded an NWO Vidi

    We are please to announce that dr. Petter Törnberg has been awarded an NWO Vidi to work on the project entitled: Improving social media with Artificial Intelligence

    Social media have become invaluable spaces where we share ideas and debate important societal issues. But our current social media platforms make such productive conversations difficult by amplifying conflict and driving polarization. How can we redesign social media to help foster more productive political conversations? With the recent emergence of AI chatbots like ChatGPT, we finally have a way of answering this crucial question. This project creates synthetic social media platforms with thousands of interacting chatbots, allowing researchers to experimentally test how different platforms shape political discourse. This will help us design social media with more positive societal outcomes.

    For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/102-leading-researchers-receive-vidi-grant.