NEWS & EVENTS

Ghent University is number one university in terms of ERC funding from calls 2022

In the ERC 2022 calls, Ghent University obtained 13 new ERC Starting Grants  and 6 new Consolidator Grants.

In the ERC Starting Grant call 2022, ten researchers were on the main list, and recently two more researchers from the reserve list were awarded a Starting Grant. To top off this result, yet another grantee decided to come to our university with his Starting Grant Project. 

With these high numbers of acquired grants, Ghent University positions itself in the top 3 of 360 institutions having acquired ERC funding from the 2022 Work Programme. Ghent University thereby outperformed all European universities, and only had to let CNRS and Max Planck, both giant institutions, go ahead. This is an overwhelming success!

Recently, Ghent University also celebrated its more than 100 ERC Grants

https://www.ugent.be/en/news-events/erc-grants-2022.htm

https://www.ugent.be/en/news-events/three-new-erc-starting-grants-at-ghent-university

The R&I SG has prepared a support kit for researchers to assist them in building their collaborative research proposals. This tool is aimed at being meaningful and useful for the researchers of the nine ENLIGHT universities by introducing them to ENLIGHT and enabling them to start and develop research collaborations within the ENLIGHT alliance.

Rapid advancements in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) call for a new generation of clinicians and (clinical) scientists, who are able to develop and introduce new prediction models and treatment strategies in healthcare. Therefore, the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) organizes the new Summer School ‘Data Science and AI in Health’.

The Summer School Data Science and AI in Health has received an ENLIGHT grant from the board of the University of Groningen for inviting dr. Elena Sügis, biomedical data scientist and AI educator of the Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu (Estonia) to participate in our summer school. In 2022 dr. Sügis was elected lecturer of the year at the University of Tartu. 

This Summer School is open for students from any discipline who have a specific interest in biomedical sciences, data science and AI.

Read more on https://www.rug.nl/research/gradschool-medical-sciences/summer-schools/data-science-and-ai/. Deadline fo registration is 16 April 2023.

Would you like to improve your data skills? Do you know how to analyse, visualize and manage data in order to help your research conduction?

On March 15, Times Higher Education has published the article 'Defining impact: a shift in thinking, acting and being' on their section 'CAMPUS: Daily resources for faculty and staff', written by Igor Campillo, Glória Nunes and Iñigo Puertas of the ENLIGHT Impact Taskforce.

In light of ENLIGHT's mission statement at Comenius, we have prepared a short-term doctoral training programme designed to provide PhD students with a skillset necessary to empower scientists and learners to become more confident in becoming globally engaged citizens and embrace active roles both locally and globally to address the five challenges of the ENLIGHT alliance.

In recent years, it has become clear that scientists must not only conduct high-quality research but also be able to effectively communicate their findings to a broad audience. This includes the scientific community, policy makers, the general public, and other stakeholders who may be impacted by their research.

Inspired by current and projected climate data and already visible consequences of climate change on flora and fauna, Antonio Vivaldi's work "The Four Seasons" was reinterpreted by composers of the Detmold University of Music in cooperation with the Göttingen Baroque Orchestra and ENLIGHT researchers. The new composition "The Four Seasons in (Climate) Change" premiered in 2022 in concert at the University of Göttingen.

Now the video documentary is published.

Is a Summer School on your bucket-list? Check the offer at the University of Groningen. As from 2023, staff and students affiliated to an ENLIGHT partner university, will enjoy the same advantages as the University of Groningen participants. This varies per Summer School, so it is worth taking a look at the current offer.