"Many of the visions of care robots (...) tend to neglect human needs," says Eva Hornecker, Professor of Human Computer Interaction at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Take an illustrated first glimpse into her interdisciplinary research project "ReThiCare – Rethinking Care Robots", supported by the Volkswagen Foundation as part of the funding initiative "Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future".
What are the consequences of automation of care for the quality of life and dignity of the elderly? An interdisciplinary research group is working on concepts that are better geared to the needs of elderly people and caregivers alike. The results are innovative ideas in caring for the elderly – that sometimes challenge taboos.
The program promotes scientifically outstanding collaborative projects conducted jointly by researchers from Israel and Lower Saxony. The current call invites proposals from the Humanities and Social Sciences, deadline: February 18, 2021.
Science, too, has its share of failures and mistakes. But nobody likes to talk about it in public. The Journal of Unsolved Questions takes a completely different approach. It publishes zero results.
Quality assurance is and remains absolutely indispensable for science. However, the limitations of peer review are becoming increasingly evident. New approaches are therefore urgently needed – such as the partially randomized selection of projects by lot.
In our interview, Dr. Dagmar Simon and Dr. Martina Röbbecke from Evaconsult report on initial results from their accompanying research project on the partially randomized procedure applied in the "Experiment!" funding initiative.
Missing data, incomplete minutes, unclear research designs: many pre-clinical studies in biomedicine are not quite 100% robust. A team led by Charité researcher Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dirnagl is committed to improving research quality – so they developed PREMIER.
The Herrenhausen Conference "Governing Humanitarianism" interrogates present issues and future directions for global humanitarian governance in relation to its pasts. Scholars from various disciplines and practitioners in humanitarian sectors are invited to join the event at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, on September 26-28, 2021. #HKGovHum
The symposium "Dealing with Violence" will discuss different origins and forms of violent processes in African as well as Latin American and Caribbean societies and focus on strategies to settle such conflicts. Scholars from various disciplines are invited to join the event at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, on September 29- October 1, 2021.
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