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Projects and Awards

  • 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.