Different disciplines meet during matchmaking event
On March 7, the Digital Sciences for Society strategic program, in collaboration with TAISIG and the university-wide Academic Collaborative Centers under the Program for Broad Prosperity, organized a matchmaking event. Researchers from the various Schools explored opportunities for research collaboration at the intersection of the digital sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
The reason for organizing the event was the Call for Proposals on Growth Projects. This Call aims to stimulate multidisciplinary research collaboration within and between Schools focused on innovation with or reflection on the digital sciences.
Questions, tips and speed dates
During the matchmaking event, participants had the opportunity to ask questions about the Call, the application criteria, and the procedure of drawing lots. After that, they were provided with tips and tricks on working with external partners, such as differentiation in the degree of involvement and what questions to ask when choosing a partner.
The event concluded with three speed dating rounds in which researchers shared with each other their research interests and explored where they aligned. A wide variety of topics came up, including digital integration of refugees and other vulnerable groups, human and AI teaming, legal aspects of new technologies, serious gaming for entrepreneurship, the opportunities of digitalization for the energy transition, managing the information between the technology and the application.
