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We would like to congratulate our Italian partners at University of Trento (UniTrento) who were confirmed for the second year in a row as the top university in Italy among those of average size (i.e., with a student population between 10.000 and 20.000) according to the influential national ranking, Censis Ranking – congratulations, UniTrento!

Various aspects such as services offered, scholarships, facilities, communication and digital services, internationalisation and employability are taken into consideration within this ranking. In particular, it is a great accomplishment to receive the highest score within internationalisation, 110, which is the highest among all public Italian universities. Internationalisation measures a university’s investment in international mobility, the share of courses offered in English, dual degree or joint degree programmes, the number of international students enrolled and those who have spent time abroad.

Such a result, especially of the internationalisation score, demonstrates the good relationships built through the years with international partner universities and networks. Keep up the great work!

Source: unitn.it

We would like like to congratulate the ASEA-UNINET National Coordinator for Pakistan, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary H.I., S.I., T.I., who together with Prof. Dr. Sammer Yousuf received the prestigious “Outstanding Team Impact Prize” by the UK’s Medical Research Council (MRC)!

The researchers‘ collaborative approach to medical research, specifically to combat protozoan NTDs, was honoured with the award for its significant impact in the field.

Further information can be found in the article linked below.

Source: APP

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF), together with the participating research institutions, continue to invest in major cross-location research projects: two further consortia have received funding commitments from the FWF totaling 37.7 million euros for the next five years. Nine research institutions are involved in the next clusters of excellence and are expanding areas of strength in the future fields of ageing research and artificial intelligence.

One of these includes the research project „Bilateral AI“, coordinated by the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) with Prof. Dr. Sepp Hochreiter, Director of Research at JKU and former ASEA-UNINET University Coordinator at JKU.

The “Bilateral AI” research project brings together the two most important strands of research in the field of artificial intelligence to date, namely sub-symbolic AI (machine learning) and symbolic AI (knowledge representation and reasoning). Both approaches are now to be brought together in the project. The common goal: to develop the foundations of a “Broad AI”, which could draw its own conclusions and have comprehensive cognitive abilities. While existing AI programmes, such as the much talked about language models like ChatGPT, ultimately only evaluate existing data, the new AI systems could plan better, adapt quickly to changing situations and thus become creative in a broader sense.

Source: OTS