NIAA 2024 Kick-Off Event

When: 1st October 3:30-5:30pm

The NIAA funds 10-15 research positions which undertake projects leading to a proposal or published paper in one year. These projects aim to give valuable and paid research experience for master students. They are always multidisciplinary, often tying together social science/humanities and computer science, in line with the NI’s vision.

This year’s 6 selected projects will involve:

  • Computationally Supported Metaphor Analysis
  • Depression Detection from Multimodal Neuroimaging Data: Towards Explainability and Generalization
  • Designing and testing peak spreading interventions – using the VU as a living lab
  • Mapping missionaries in the Dutch colonial empire 1600-1960
  • Visualizing the Future: The Role of Virtual Reality in Promoting Environmental Sustainability
  • When news resonates: how societal issues permeate people’s lifeworld

See a description of this year’s projects and their supervisors here

Kick-Off Event

On Tuesday, October 1st, the project supervisors will briefly pitch their projects, followed by drinks and snacks:

  • 15:30 Welcome & Intro
  • 15:40 Meet the Network Institute
  • 15:55 Practical information
  • 16:00 Short project presentations by supervisors
  • 16:45: Drinks and snacks
  • 17:30 End