September 2024 edition of the E3UDRES2 Ent-r-e-novators newsletter, packed with updates on our latest achievements, key milestones, and upcoming events.
In the fourth edition of the project's news page, you can read about:
- Enhancing Citizen Engagement in Scientific Research: The WP5 results highlight our progress in fostering citizen involvement in science.
- Interview with Hannes Raffaseder: A deep dive into how collaboration has shaped the E³UDRES² project, bringing universities into the "Champions League" of innovation.
- Research for Everyone: Sarah De Coninck's vision of inclusivity in scientific research.
- Exciting Cluster Projects: Learn about CONNECT and Energytran, revolutionizing research collaboration and energy transition between Europe and Latin America.
- New Scientific Council: A significant step for academic excellence within the E³UDRES² alliance.
Current news of ViA colleagues:
PhD. Oskars Java, researcher at the Sociotechnical Systems Engineering Institute (SSII). The director of SSII led a focus group discussion within the doctoral school in August.
The focus group was organized to find out what, according to the students, are the most relevant research topics for society at the moment.
Briefly about the profiles of the participants:
All students have spent at least two years in their doctoral programs. Each of them specializes in different areas, but all are familiar with research and have experience in research projects in their specialty. All participants are somehow related to technology and use it in their respective fields.
Taking into account that the focus group was attended by seven doctoral students and applicants for a doctoral degree, in order to lead the discussion more successfully, the group was divided into two smaller groups for a moment.
The main finding is that both groups of doctoral students agreed that the three most important research directions at the moment are:
- Digitization
- Cyber security
- Robotics and automation
Argumentation for digitization - jobs are digitized, automation replaces human work, increasing efficiency is vital in the modern world. It is necessary to adapt to rapid growth.
Argumentation for cyber security - society in general and the people who work with technical tools and data on a daily basis are still not in control of security-related activities.
Argumentation for robotics and automation - this term combines all the research areas mentioned by doctoral students during the focus group, such as artificial intelligence, data processing, precision agriculture, etc. On the one hand, it may seem that "robotics and automation" was placed above such previously mentioned research topics as environmental protection, human resource optimization and sustainability, however, "robotics and automation" also affects these topics in its own way, because production is made more efficient, products and adds value to services and relieves people from manual, man-hour-intensive work.
During September, focus groups will also be organized for ViA experienced researchers and students of the first bachelor's level, in order to be able to compare how the perception of what should be researched differs depending on the level of research experience and generation.
Currently, work on the unified E³UDRES² research strategy is very active.
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Dr.psych., Mg.math. In the work package led by Vineta Silkānes, the focus is currently on the preparation and submission of documents for the "HR Excellence in Research Award".
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Within the project E3UDRES2 Ent-r-e-novators On October 2nd, from 14:00 to 17:30 CET, UCLL Campus Diepenbeek will host an exciting workshop dedicated to advancing citizen science. This event will feature distinguished representatives from the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), Scivil, and leading universities and applied sciences institutions across Flanders.
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