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eyes hearts hands urban revolution

cities need support to implement their sustainable action plans in line with the ambitious and stringent regulations towards a zero carbon europe the eyes hearts hands urban revolution ehhur project will develop and test a codesigned methodological structure to support cities in their built environment transformation by using already existing good practices and complementing them with the new european bauhaus and eu missions principles 7 lighthouse demonstrators will be involved across eu and associated countries dk el be pt tk hr itehhur will tackle socioeconomic and cultural challenges through relevant case studies facing social segregation vulnerable residents experiencing energy poverty coal transition depopulated and degraded historic centres ehhur relies on engagement and codesign as the backbone of its methodology by deploying a set of tailored social innovation activities aimed not only to engage but also to commit the participation of relevant urban players at multiple and multidisciplinary levels technology codesign cofinancing aesthetic cocreation the ehhur new integrated methodology will cover innovative i engagement practices to transform citizens into active players of their future urban transformation and empower them in the decisionmaking process ii financing schemes involving local businesses and citizens iii digital and green technologies iv architectural design and materials to meet climate change and sustainability challenges while respecting heritage and cultural ecosystems v arts and creative codesign in third sector buildings and public areas the diversified experiences of the lh demonstrators will provide a variety of good practices and guidelines for future replication future adopters will benefit from a dss tool supported by a capacity building programme that offers the ideal mix of best technical solutions optimal financing schemes and engagement tools and social innovation practice
rethinking affective game epistemologies rage investigating how knowledge is produced and put to use in affective gaming

affective gaming or gameplay that is influenced by a players emotional state is a research domain at the intersection of hci and affective computing yet the field has stagnated over the years since its inception back in the early 1980s in rage i will revitalize the field of affective gaming by addressing foundational epistemic problems that are contributing to this stagnation rages research objectives tackle explicating unclear and hidden assumptions and value sets in this space and the practical tensions that exist in terms of implementation i analyze the field through both a theoretical lens in the first year and moving to a practical implementation of affective games in the second in this project i will transfer my knowledge in designing and creating affective games for the implementation aspects of rage while prof elisa mekler itu copenhagen denmark will support the theory aspects with this fundamentally interdisciplinary project i will collaborate with and connect many research groups and labs at itu from different disciplines including the center for digital play the affective interactions and relations air lab and the interaction design ixd lab collaboration within this interdisciplinary team and broadening my research portfolio to include theoretical and critical research will allow me to shape a research vision and establish myself as a key researcher of affective gaming within the eu in service of my eventual goal to lead my own research group within the eu
specializing temporal planning using reinforcement learning

planning devising a strategy to achieve a desired objective is one of the basic forms of intelligence temporal planning studies the automated synthesis of strategies when time and temporal constraints matter temporal planning is one of the most strategic fields of artificial intelligence with applications in autonomous robotics logistics flexible production and many other fieldshistorically the research on temporal planning follows a generalpurpose framework a generic engine searches for the strategy by reasoning on the problem statement ie the starting condition and the desired objective as well as on a formal model of the domain ie the possible actions despite substantial progress in the recent years domainindependent temporal planning still suffers from scalability issues and fails to deal with realword problems the alternative is to devise adhoc domainspecific solutions that although efficient are costly to develop rigid to maintain and often inapplicable in nonnominal situationssteprl will study the foundations of a new approach to temporal planning that is domainindependent and efficient at the same time the idea is to adopt a framework based on reinforcement learning where a domainindependent temporal planner is specialized with respect to the domain at hand steprl continuously improves its ability to solve temporal planning problems by learning from experience thus becoming increasingly efficient by means of selfadaptationsteprl will advance the state of the art in temporal planning beyond the efficiency vs flexibility dilemma that i had to personally face in the many industrial projects i worked on
tracking longterm resilience in arctic socioculturalecological systems

like many indigenous peoples around the world inuit of foxe basin central arctic canada view hunting and the food security it provides to be a collective cornerstone of their cultural identity however much conflict exists between inuit subsistence hunters and regulators over the population sizes of many animal species eg caribou walruses and polar bears and the continued sustainability of hunts inuit argue that governmentsponsored stock estimates are too conservative and that hunting quotas are too low my aim is to better understand and navigate the cultural disjuncture between westernscientific understandings of sustainabilityconservation and inuit traditional knowledge about environmental healthmy team and inuit partners will for the first time generate and integrate different types of data on 1 presentday hunting patterns through citizen science 2 past animalresource use by inuit in foxe basin from ca ad 1300 through archaeological investigations 3 traditional knowledge about hunting and use of animal resources in the region through ethnographic engagement and 4 policy relating to modern and historical hunting regulation and conservation efforts a fifth work package will offer practical datadriven solutions for better relationships between inuit and policymakers and regulators through the creation of a multimedia toolkit that can be used by rightsholders in crossculturally framing discussing and ultimately reaffirming rights over the resources in their traditional territories traces will greatly further our archaeological and anthropological understanding of longterm animal use by arctic indigenous peoples and will have significant implications for how we categorize humans animals and whole biomes as being vulnerable to climate change ultimately the project will serve as a model for environmentrelated indigenous research and policy action elsewhere in the world
alexandrian scientific tradition in eastern rome europe and syria

asteres aims to understand how astronomical knowledge developed in alexandria from the works of claudius ptolemy has been transmitted during the 6th and 7th centuries in europe and the mediterranean world through an investigation of documents that had never been edited the project considers the role of greek as well as syriac and latinspeaking scholars in the circulation and reception of greek scientific knowledge before the flourishing of sciences in baghdad and the socalled carolingian renaissance the traditional narrative considers arabspeaking scholars after the foundation of the abbasid califate to be the first heirs to the alexandrian scholarship coming up with greek science only thanks to the mediation of syriac translations it is also widely believed that latinspeaking intellectual circles in western europe would not have been familiar with greek science before the latin translations of arabic texts produced from the 11th century onwards the 6th and 7th centuries in western europe and the byzantine empire have thus been traditionally described as dark ages the aim of asteres is to write a new history of the forms and paths of transmission and study of the alexandrian sciences specifically astronomy in the early middle ages it will investigate three sets of documents including numerical tables produced during this period two astronomical and chronological letters with tables of the syriac scholar severus sebokht will be edited for the first time their study will help to understand to which extent syriac scholars received greek knowledge to create an original scientific production the edition of the latin tables of the preceptum canonis ptolomei aims at understanding how astronomical tables were transmitted and received in western europe before the 11th century the study of the astronomical tables produced by the byzantine scholar stephanos will show how astronomers in constantinople cultivated their alexandrian scientific heritage
conceptualization and operationalization of minorities in the practice of un treaty bodies

mincoop is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral project that focuses on the conceptualization and operationalization of minorities under universal international law with the ultimate purpose to improve the legal protection of traditional national ethnic religious linguistic minorities and persons belonging to them the project contributes to a growing area of minority studies setting out from the recognition that international law routinely operates with the concept of minority when providing standards for the recognition of groupspecific rights or protection from discrimination without actually offering definitions on the protected groups conceptualization or membership criteria therein operationalization this in not merely an unresolved theoretical issue but a practical deficiency with crucial importance for the protection of minorities namely ambiguity in the relevant terms hampers the achievement of policy goals and the potential for abuse easily leads to further discrimination and marginalization in order to give definite answers to the problems of conceptualization and operationalization the project proposes to carry out an uptodate systematic and comparative analysis of the monitoring materials of the ten un human rights treaty bodies thus filling an important gap in scholarship the project follows a mixedmethod research design including quantitative computerassisted content analysis and qualitative legal analysis as well as case studies and field research interviews conducted in slovenia the research project will not only inform the theoretical debate on minority rights and provide recommendations for policymaking but also intends to raise awareness of the pressing issues of traditional minorities among the general public promoting more tolerant inclusive societies
trustml an optimizationbased platform for building trust in machine learning models used for power systems

deep decarbonization of the energy sector will require massive penetration of stochastic renewable energy resources and an enormous amount of grid asset coordination this represents a challenging paradigm for power system operators with its ability to learn in complex environments and provide predictive solutions on fast timescales machine learning ml is posed to help overcome these challenges and dramatically transform power systems in coming decades emerging eu verification standards however will require that all ml and reinforcement learning rl used in safety critical applications be demonstrably trustworthy in this project we develop a unified framework known as trustml for assessing the quantitative trustworthiness of the neural network models commonly used in power systems trustml uses a novel convex optimization approach to assess ml trustworthiness across three key dimensions performance robustness and interpretability the approach is engineered to be scalable and by design it generates exact verification guarantees furthermore trustml is designed to meet the emerging needs of actual power systems in particular it can verify the performance of multiagent rl systems in rigorous ways and its relaxed counterpart can offer tractable worstcase performance guarantees in the context of online learning the resulting verification tools will be published as opensource software packages and shared widely with researchers and industry this project will advance stateoftheart methods across several interdisciplinary fields it will help remove the barriers associated with machine learning deployment in power systems and its outcomes will help push european power grids into competitive spaces coming from mit with advanced training in power systems the project pi samuel chevalier is characteristically wellsuited to build trustml and his team of advisors represents a mixture of experts across power optimization and learning
design and implementation of a frequency domain online diagnostic tool for pv modules

photovoltaic pv generators have been established as one of the most important renewable energy sources in the last years and they will have a main role in the energy transition that is envisaged for the coming years according to the european union recovery plan and the green deal however pv panels may suffer early degradation and failures that affect the pv system reliability and considerably reduce the energy production not only on a specific panel but in the entire string to which the panel is connected therefore it is important to develop diagnostic tools to improve energy yield extend the lifetime of the panels and improve the effectiveness of maintenance activities hence this project aims to develop an online monitoring and diagnostic system for pv panels that uses the impedance spectrum is to detect failures while they are operating at their maximum power point mpp therefore there isnt a reduction in the power produced by the generator and the measurements can be performed within short time frames to detect the failures as soon as possible the proposed diagnostic tool will be formed by an electronic device and a failure classification algorithm running on an embedded system hence the project begins with the design and implementation of the electronic device to generate the signals and implement the measurements required to obtain the is then the project continues with the development of a failure classification algorithm from the analysis of the pv generator dynamic model parameters dmp which are estimated using the iss obtained with the proposed electronic device finally the diagnostic tool will be experimentally validated with pv panels of different technologies and with real failures
rebuilding governance and resilience out of the pandemic

culminating more than a decade of crisis in europe the covid19 pandemic has opened an unprecedented window of opportunity for institutional and policy change not only at the reactive level of emergency responses but also to tackle more broadly the many sociopolitical challenges caused or exacerbated by covid19 building on this premise regroup rebuilding governance and resilience out of the pandemic aims to 1 provide the european union with a body of actionable advice on how to rebuild postpandemic governance and public policies in an effective and democratic way anchored to 2 a map of the sociopolitical dynamics and consequences of covid19 and 3 an empiricallyinformed normative evaluation of the pandemic regroup pursues this threefold objective via a multilevel national supranational international and multisphere political societal ideational digital research approach and guided by three overarching analytical themes reordering risk resilience we operate in nine collaborative work packagesgrouped in three blocks diagnosis evaluation and prescriptionbringing together expertise and methods from a range of social sciences and humanities doing so we advance the state of the art conceptually theoretically and methodologically regroup is conducted by a consortium of 13 internationally renowned institutions committed to scholarly excellence inclusiveness and open science the project is designed to achieve a high degree of policy societal and scientific impact which it will achieve via a multipronged dissemination and communication strategy this includes links to some of the eus main debates and events such as the health union the green deal the digital decade the economic governance review the conference on the future of europe and the 2024 european parliament elections
valorising artistled innovation through citizen engagement

voice aims to address the complex social and cultural constructs that play a vital role in knowledge valorisation and supporting systemic change in societal response to environmental and ecological sustainability arts and cultural institutions can act as a platform for collaboration between citizens industry and other stakeholders both by providing a cultural space for dialogue and by integrating diverse creative expressions and digital innovation in real world contexts to enhance cocreation with citizens and industry acting in a coordinated manner with shared aims definitions intentions and with an inclusive design methodology underpinning all engagements it is possible to showcase innovative approaches to sustainable design production and consumption that can inspire citizens and industry to think creatively and differently about sustainability challenges voice proposes a distinct approach framed as artistdriven interventions to enable multistakeholder communities to engage in dialogue but also collaborate for codesigned green and digital solutions to remedy regional or local challenges related to environmental and ecological sustainability and leading to a more resilient ecosystem formulated as arttechnologysociety interactions atsi these initiatives will form the backbone of artistled interventions as platforms for dialogue knowledge exchange and transfer among the key playersstakeholders in the voice ecosystem
women and arabic literacy in congo during the colonial period a double invisibility

womlit project aims at challenging the invisible presence of women in arabic literacy in congo during the colonial period 18851960 the core assumption is that the grasp of salient feature of the participation of muslim women in literacy is key to understanding islam in central africa womens identity social networks and major inherent gender and class tensions this project is mainly designed to address the historical gap on the absence of women in arabic literacy aiming to bring new female voices to reach these goals and given the significant scarcity of documentation in the field womlit will adopt a transnational sociohistorical and feminist perspective combining oral testimonies archival research and photographic material collected in congo as well as in other locations rwanda burundi tanzania including zanzibar and in the arabian peninsula sultanate of oman the project will address the extent to which muslim womens practices in other swahili areas can be transposable to congo and vice versa addressing their participation in sufi brotherhoods qaradiyya umwali sexual initiation and magic womlit will analyse how the question of archives and the voices they reveal is a fundamental issue for feminist theories this project aims to add new perspectives on the history of the congo as well as the history of oman whose presence in congo remains silenced compared to its influence in east africa womlit is closely related to the research led by the researchers supervisor xavier luffin and his team on arabic literacy in eastern congo burundi and rwanda during the colonial period part of a 4year project funded by the fonds de la recherche scientifique fnrs belgium that will greatly benefit the fellow
deciphering translocationbased genome topology effects and their role in lymphoma formation

a central goal in cancer research is to identify the molecular mechanisms underlying tumor formation such as translocations that result in expression of fusion genes or protooncogenes located at the translocation breakpoints while the consequences of this erroneous expression have been widely studied other effects of translocations remain largely unexplored nevertheless these can provide vital new insights into tumorigenesis i hypothesize that translocations disturb the global 3d genome architecture causing alterations in chromosome territory positioning and interchromosomal interactions and that these can account for inactivation of key genomic loci for which the cause of deregulation remains so far unknown i will address this hypothesis in the context of nonhodgkin lymphoma nhlrelated immunoglobulin igh translocations by genome editing we will create lymphoblastoid cell lines and cord blood cellderived b lymphocytes in which igh translocationbased effects can be cleanly dissected in vitro and in vivo in these models we will study how igh translocations affect genome topology the epigenetic and gene expression landscape and nhl formation to that end we will assess i chromosome territory structure and interchromosomal crosstalk by chromatin conformation capture and fixed and livecell imaging ii epigenetic and gene expression maps using bulk and singlecell profiling and iii in vivo tumor formation importantly after exploring the presence of the observed gene expression changes in nhl samples we will target the coinciding changes in in vitro and in vivo approaches to probe their relevance for lymphomagenesis overall lymphotop shall lead to deeper insights into translocationbased genome topology reorganisation and its role in tumorigenesis and to potential identification of new vulnerabilities of lymphomas thus extending its impact to many fields from lymphoma and tumor biology to 3d genome organisation and beyond
evaluation of autism spectrum disorder in children with cerebral palsy easedcp

cerebral palsy cp is the most common physical disability in childhood and autism spectrum disorder asd is one of its most common and impactful comorbidities proper identification of asd in cp is clinically important but stateoftheart diagnostic methods rely on behavioural symptoms that overlap with the motor and speech difficulties seen in cp this makes asd diagnosis very challenging and limits the validity and usability of standardized clinical instruments consequently some children with cp go undiagnosed and without important support for their asd others can be falsely diagnosed by for example being physically unable to complete assessments this has detrimental effects and results in resource misallocation easedcp will establish the nextgeneration goldstandard clinical tools for assessment of asd symptoms in cp current clinical and research practices for asd assessment in children with cp will be reviewed and experts surveyed consensus clinical guidelines and an adapted standardized instrument for asd assessment in cp will be codeveloped though a delphi process implemented and tested this will be enabled by a crosscultural international collaboration of pioneers in asd university of california san francisco outgoing phase cp university of barcelona return phase and instrument validation hogrefe tea ediciones placement my current clinical and research expertise in the psychological characteristics of children with cp interdisciplinary profile and previous success building international collaborations makes me the perfect fit to lead this project through easedcp i will connect with a broad international expert network and develop a unique collection of expertise this includes completing exceptionalquality training in testbuilding methods and asd assessments overall the cooperation of these leading research centres is expected to have a tremendous impact on the understanding and diagnosis of asd in cp