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Six New Projects to Advance Networking Excellence Between Universities and External Partners

Published: October 5, 2022

WASP-HS is welcoming six new projects with the aim to advance ground-breaking scientific cooperation between researchers at different universities as well as between researchers and external partners.

To facilitate networking within academia as well as between academia and external partners WASP-HS launched the call – NetX: Networking Excellence Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences for the Study of Consequences and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, during spring.  A total of 25 MSEK was allocated to the call and after a review process six projects were granted funding.

NetX Projects

AI Literacy for Swedish Teacher Education A Participatory Design Approach
Principal Investigators
Linnéa Stenliden, Senior Associate Professor at the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University
Cormac McGrath, Associate Professor at the Department of Education, Stockholm University

An Empirical Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities of the European Data Act for SMEs in the Swedish Creative Industry
Principal Investigators
André Holzapfel, Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Media and Design
Katja de Vries, Associate Professor at the Department of Law, Uppsala University

Countering Bias in AI Methods in the Social Sciences
Principal Investigators
Richard Johansson, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology
Adel Daoud, Senior Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University
Moa Johansson, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engieering, Chalmers University of Technology

Social Complexity and Fairness in Synthetic Medical Data
Principal Investigators
Ericka Johnson, Professor at the Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University Francis Lee, Associate Professor at the Division of Science, Technology and Society, Chalmers Institute of Technology,
Gabriel Eilertsen, Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University
Saghi Hajisharif, Principal Research Engineer at the Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University

Towards AIbased Preventative Physiotherapy Interventions
Principal Investigators
Pedro Sanches, Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics, Umeå University;
Florian Pokorny, Associate Professor at the Division of Robots, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Annika Waern, Professor at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University
Marlene Sandlund, Associate Professor at the Department of Community Medicine and Rehabiliation, Umeå University

Risk and Opportunity for the Authenticity of Archives
Principal Investigators
Koraljka Golub, Professor at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University
Anna Foka, Associate Professor at the Department of ALM, Uppsala University