Is cooperative communication unique to humans? This view is challenged by Prof. Dr. Simone Pika, a cognitive biologist, in her ERC Consolidator Grant project “Taking turns – The ‘missing’ link in language evolution?”. Here, Pika and her team of six are looking at the system of “turn-taking”, the communicative interplay.
Autonomous vehicles or devices for a smart home are becoming increasingly complex in their requirements and processes. In the future, a new machine learning system should help to make the software and hardware of artificial intelligence applications more robust, more powerful and more energy-efficient.
The dramatic losses of biodiversity can also be attributed to the type and extent of land management. The EU-funded project “FRAMEwork” aims to develop an approach in which farmers work together collaboratively to improve biodiversity on European farmland in the long term.
The EU research project MIMY aims to improve the situation of young migrants in Europe via a multi-level analysis of their integration processes.
The aim of the BioIECP project is to develop a highly efficient biodegradation process for plastic materials and thus reduce plastic waste by around 20 %.
The NEWAVE project departs from the notion that the global debate about water governance needs a reset, and aims to point the way forward. It does so by developing research and training for a new generation of future water governance leaders.