…e focused on creating a more ethical, human-centred Internet by 2025. “Together with two other partners, we are developing the methodology to identify which technologies have the greatest impact on the society and which have the greatest potential to transform the internet in the next few years. Our methodology, based on Big Data analysis and web-scraping (collecting data from websites), allows us to capture early signals of emerging technologies….

…the budget allocation. Put the realisation of the European Research Area at the centre of Horizon Europe across all pillars. Foresee better linkages between research, innovation and education. Include a human and societal reflection, as well as options for fundamental research, in all clusters and missions.   Read the full statement (pdf).       Read the previous statement from March 2018 >>…

…untain summits. Globally accelerating trends in societal development and human environmental impacts since the mid-20th century are known as the Great Acceleration and have been discussed as a key indicator of the beginning of the Anthropocene.   The international research team, that consists of researchers from 11 European countries, collected data regarding the plant species on 302 mountain summits across Europe, spanning 145 years of observatio…

…Communist Party of the Soviet Union.   The scholar is a well-known human rights activist. In 1969, he founded the first human rights organization in the Soviet Union. The authorities accused him of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. In the 1970s. he was arrested, found guilty and served seven years in labor camps and three years of internal exile. In the 1990s. he began his career in politics. He served as the chairman of the President’s Human…

…communities in a social network” is an article published in the Nature Human Behaviour magazine. Dr. Tomasz Michalak from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw is among its authors.   Social media has fuelled enormous interest in developing evermore sophisticated tools to analyse our personal connections, with a particular emphasis on detecting communities and identifying key individuals in a social netw…

…pproach to map redox-active thiols in proteins exposed to mitochondria-derived ROS. The analysis of Dr. Ida Suppanz, among others from the Warscheid group revealed ROS-sensitive sites in several components of the protein synthesis apparatus. Ulrike Topf using sophisticated protein biochemistry and cell biology techniques and a simple yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism, observed that upon increased ROS levels global protein synthesi…

…alev will receive a doctor honoris causa degree Dr. Sergei Kovalev is a Russian biophysicist, human rights activist and politician. He is associated with the Moscow State University. Dr. Kovalev is an author of more than 60 scientific publications. In 1970s. he was sentenced to seven years in labour camps and three years of internal exile due to his activities against the authorities of USSR. In 2018, Dr. Kovalev will be awarded with the UW honora…

…unknotted in eucariota. Our goal is to use knotted proteins to design selective inhibitor new antibacterial drugs. To do this, we work at the interface of physics, mathematics, biology and chemistry – explains Assistant Professor Joanna Sułkowska.   At the beginning of this year, Assistant Professor Joanna Sułkowska has received the International Rising Talent Grant (L’Oréal-UNESCO). Before, she won, among others, Sonata BIS grant (National Scienc…

…ute to the research. – What we have been trying to do is to construct bridges between academy, ethnic/linguistic minorities and local communities, and non-academic organizations and institutions, including local activists – explains Dr. Justyna Olko. – We work with some of the linguistic minorities in Poland, including speakers of Wymysiöeryś, Lemko, Kashubian. We work with the representatives of the Isle of Man and Guernsey, speakers of Basque (E…

…tribution to history of Poland and Germany and his engagement in Polish-German reconciliation and process of European integration.   Prof. Borodziej has been delivering lectures at universities in Dresden, Magdeburg and Jena. From 2010 to 2016, he was one of two directors of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena – an institute for the interdisciplinary and transnational study of the historical events of the 20th century in East Central and Southeastern Eur…