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Apply for an interdisciplinary research project and work with 2 student assistants! Deadline June 15th (Monday), 2026 at 23.59 pm The Network Institute’s (NI) Academy Assistants program (NIAA) is now entering its 16th year. Initially funded through a KNAW grant … Continue reading
Last summer, Dr. Jieying Chen from the Department of Computer Science and Dr. Chendi Wang from the Department of Political Science received funding through the Network Institute Academy Assistants programme to support two research assistants working on the interdisciplinary project … Continue reading
We look back on a successful fifth edition of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society (IWDS). A keynote talk by Dr. Laura Hollink on “Bias in Linked Data” was followed by a lightning talk and poster presentations by nine (teams … Continue reading
We are excited to invite researchers, students, and practitioners from all disciplines to participate in the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society (IWDS’26). The workshop features a packed program combining talks, posters, and interactive sessions. Whether you are presenting your … Continue reading
We want to congratulate Jakub Frąc and Alexander Schmatz, our 2024-2025 cohort of Network Institute Academy Assistants, and their supervisors Qiang Li, Guido Van Wingen, and Shujian Yu, on the forthcoming presentation of their project “Adapting HFMCA to Graph Data: Self-Supervised Learning … Continue reading
We’re excited to have received so much interest in the upcoming Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society. The number of submissions shows a strong engagement with the workshop’s topics, and we’re grateful to everyone who sent in their work. This … Continue reading
Interested in what our Academy program has to offer to students and researchers? Come to our kick-off lunch on October 2nd (12:30-13:30) in room HG-05A16 (main building) and see what this years’ teams are up to! Lunch will be provided!
Deadline June 13th, 2025 at 23.59 pm The Network Institute’s (NI) Academy Assistants program (NIAA) is now entering its 15th year. Initially funded through a KNAW grant and aimed at combining social sciences and computer science research, it has since … Continue reading
📣 Another post featuring one of the NIAA projects sponsored by the Network Institute! 🔍 Today’s spotlight is on “How societal issues permeate people’s lifeworld”, led by Helen Arts and Summer Skillen under the supervision of Tim Groot Kormelink and Kasper … Continue reading
On July 3rd, Network Institute Academy Assistants (NIAA) presented the work they have been doing (one day per week) this year. They have shared with us their posters. See the academy projects in detail here, but these can be summarized … Continue reading
Apply for an interdisciplinary research project and work with 2 student assistants. Deadline June 14th, 2024 at 23.59 pm Accepted proposals will start in October 2024 with funding for 10 months The Network Institute’s (NI) Academy Assistants program (NIAA) is … Continue reading
The Connected World profile theme of the VU is offering up to 18,000 euros in funding to recruit two student research assistants over a period of 9 months. VU staff can apply and propose Academy Assistant teams. Deadline: 26 February, … Continue reading
The ‘Robot Bookworm’ project of the NI’s Academy Assistants (NIAA) has been successfully piloted. Nina Sangers (Language, literature and communication), Lisa van der Sande (Education studies) and Mike Ligthart (Computer Science) conducted this pilot featured on the VU’s news page, … Continue reading
Dear members of the Network Institute, You are invited to the annual, traditional, shiny, fun, and completely unmissable Network Institute end-of-the-academic-year event, taking place: *** Tuesday July 11th, 15.00 hrs, NU building – Room 3B05 *** The highlight of the … Continue reading
The Network Institute’s (NI) Academy Assistants program (NIAA) is now entering its 14th year. Initially funded through a KNAW grant and aimed at combining social sciences and computer science research, it has since been adopted by the Network Institute and … Continue reading
From #CloudComputing to #gender, identity, #facialrecognition algorithms, #privacy, #music, #VirtualReality , #art, #Bioinformatics, this year’s Academy Assistant projects are exciting and impactful at the same time. We had the kick-off event yesterday, here is how it went: First of all, … Continue reading
The Network Institute’s (NI) Academy Assistants program (NIAA) is now entering its 13th year. Initially funded through a KNAW grant and aimed at combining social sciences and computer science research, it has since been adopted by the Network Institute and … Continue reading
As you probably already know, the Network Institute operates in the context of the Connected World profile theme of the VU. To encourage Connected World research, VU Amsterdam makes additional resources available to its staff each year by organising internal … Continue reading
Yesterday (23/03/2022), we had a ‘Poster Presentation’ session by the Academy Assistants for their projects. We had 7 enthusiastic teams, each with two Academy Assistants and two Supervisors who presented the progress in their interdisciplinary work using amazing posters. Many … Continue reading
This year, the Best NIAA Presentation Award was granted to students Kai Obendrauf (Artificial Intelligence) and Elena Maan (Communication Science), for the project “Designing Biofeedback & VR Technology for Supporting Relaxation“, and their supervisors Lars Lischke and Miguel Barreda-Ángeles. The … Continue reading
As the 2020 Network Institute Academy Projects run to an end, the award for the Best 2020 NIAA Project was announced on July 7th at the End of the Year Event. The winner of this year’s award is the project … Continue reading
Stress is a widely known phenomenon in all societies. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, stress and anxiety issues are becoming more severe for a wide number of people. At the same time, relaxing becomes more challenging, because of working … Continue reading
The Network Institute is featured in a recent blog on DBpedia! It explains our Academy Assistants program and shows a couple of examples that fit in the Linked Data area of research. “Network Institute Academy Assistant (NIAA) Through a variety … Continue reading
For the first time we proudly present the Academy Assistants papers of the 2018-2019 project. The papers are available online via Zenodo. Click here to read them!
Dear members of the Network Institute, You are invited to the annual, traditional, original, nutritional, but above all unmissable Network Institute end-of-the-academic-year event, taking place: *** Tuesday July 2nd, 15.00 hrs, Tuinzaal (W&N) *** We have a very interesting program … Continue reading
The Network Institute’s (NI) Academy Assistants program (NIAA) is now entering its ninth year. The Academy Assistants program aims at promising high-potential master students who want to conduct scientific research and possibly pursue an academic career. As in previous years, … Continue reading
We are pleased to announce that the results of last year’s Network Institute Academy Assistant program are now available online. The proceedings consist of research reports of the individual projects which were collected in these proceedings after having undergone a … Continue reading
Apply for interdisciplinary research projects with 2 student assistants Deadline 8 June 2018 at 12.00 pm The Network Institute’s (NI) Academy Assistants program (NIAA) is now entering its eighth year. Initially funded through a KNAW grant and aimed at combining … Continue reading
On June 8th, Martijn Kleppe (Faculty of Humanities) presented the set-up and first results of the Newstracker at the DHBenelux 2015 conference in Antwerp, Belgium. This tool, developed by Marco Otte of the Network Institute and supported by a Network … Continue reading
Please visit https://www.networkinstitute.org/academy-assistants/academy-projects-14/ to view a list of the accepted projects.
The VU University Academy Assistants programme is now entering its fifth year. Initially funded through a KNAW grant and aimed at combining social sciences and computer science research, it has since been adopted by the Network Institute and opened up … Continue reading