Carl Christian Burvil & Maiken Stilling
Thesis/Bachelor ProjectDescription
01/03-2024 → 31/03-2024
Marie Koldkjær Højlund er blandt de fem kunstnere, der i 2023 hædres med Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens hæderslegat. Og på aftenen uropfører hun værket ‘Kærlig hilsen’’ i DR koncerthusets foyerDescription
12/10-2023 → 12/10-2023
Michail Beliatis , Jalil Boudjadar & Alexandros Iosifidis
This project goal is to develop a joint mini educational demo and a feasibility study where existing ML/machine vision libraries are evaluated for suitability on identifying different type of GF materials, their texture, size, and geometry, as well as the position in the shop floor space for enabling a virtual robotic arm (digital twin) to accomplish the separation and sorting task of different materials.Description
01/10-2023 → 30/03-2024
Marie Maar , Vibe Schourup-Kristensen , Janus Larsen , Christian Mohn , Helle Buur , Karsten Dahl & Peter A. Stæhr
01/10-2023 → 01/02-2024
Marie Maar , Janus Larsen & Mikael Kristian Sejr
01/10-2023 → 31/12-2023
Michail Beliatis & Jacob Sherson
The collaboration aims to create a Hybrid Intelligence-designed Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) interface. This interface will be presented to the student class at Master level of Prof. Beliatis and will be accompanied by technology acceptance surveys developed by Prof. Sherson. Prof. Beliatis' expertise in robotics and automation technology in industrial manufacturing settings will be leveraged to create realistic scenarios for testing. Prof. Sherson's Hybrid Intelligence Technology Acceptance Model (HI-TAM) will be used to measure factors like willingness to train and co-develop systems. The output will include a hybrid intelligence narrative of continual human-machine learning and adaptation designed to create psychological safety and alleviate fears of job replacement among production line workers in the digitalization era.Description
01/10-2023 → 31/03-2024
Maja Bak Herrie and Danish Technological Institute have received seed funding from Interacting Minds Centre (IMC) at Aarhus University to undertake the project The limits of AI semiotics: A pilot study probing generative AI image models’ understanding of causality and abstraction.
The project is to investigate the foundational limitations to the way state-of-the-art AI image generation models respond to different types of visual signification, i.e., in their understanding of the relation between the prompt and what that prompt means. While AI image generation models show great promise in simulating high quality imagery, they also tend to fail in subtle and strange ways: producing hands with 6 fingers or text that resembles no language. Applying the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, specifically his tripartite model of signs, the project explores how successfully different image generation models respond to prompts relying on each of the three different types of signification in Peirce’s model and trace the results back to the underlying techniques used to make the models. The results of these experiments, whether positive or negative, open up new questions of the depth or shallowness of AI image generation models’ understanding of signs. Description
01/09-2023 → 31/12-2023
Marie Højlund & Morten S. Riis
Skitseprojekt til udfoldelse af stedsspecifik lydkunst til Strandbakkehuset, kurateret af Byg med KunstDescription
01/09-2023 → 15/11-2023
Rachel Lupien , Ana Prohaska , Nicole Posth & karina Sand
01/07-2023 → 31/01-2024
Christian Lønborg & Peter A. Stæhr
16/06-2023 → 31/01-2024
All Geopolitics is Local: Russia’s Turn to Africa and Its Implications for the UN System
In an emergency session of the UN General Assembly on 2 March 2022, 28 African countries condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Only Eritrea’s rabidly anti-Western government sided with Moscow (along with Belarus, North Korea, and Syria). However, 17 African states abstained while another 8 did not show up for the vote. African countries thus accounted for more than two thirds of the 35 abstentions. On 23 February 2023, Ghana was the only out of three African states that are currently members of the Security Council that voted in favor of a General Assembly resolution urging Russia to stop the war in Ukraine; Mozambique and Gabon abstained. Mali joined Eritrea in voting no. It is also noteworthy that hardly any African state followed the West’s lead in imposing economic sanctions or trade restrictions on Russia. This caught many Western observers and diplomats by surprise.
For Denmark, as a member of the UN Peacebuilding Commission with aspirations for a seat in the Security Council, it is of utmost importance to understand Africa’s changing geopolitical and diplomatic landscape. Indeed, during a previous DIIS event with participants from the Danish Foreign Ministry, questions about Russia’s increased activism in Africa and its implications came up repeatedly.
In this context, the following questions are relevant:
• What tools and tactics does Russia employ to seek influence on political decision-making in Africa?
• To what extent is Russia able to affect the political alignment choices and UN voting behavior of African governments? And how, if at all, has Russia’s war in Ukraine affected the UN agendas and activities of Africa’s three elected Security Council members?
• What does this mean for the West, and especially for Denmark’s prospective membership and activities in the UN Security Council?
The proposed project seeks to address these questions by proceeding in three steps. First, to set the stage, we provide an overview of Russia’s stepped-up engagement in Africa, which includes various forms of food, vaccine, and nuclear diplomacy as well as weapons sales. In particular, however, we focus on how the Kremlin uses parastatal military companies such as the notorious Wagner group in combination with information operations and deployment of “political consultants” to influence local and national level events and actors.
Second, we assess the impact of Russia’s activities on the alignment choices and UN voting behavior of African governments. Our pre-studies indicate that Russia rarely has been able to affect how African states vote in UN forums through the provision of material assistance. Instead, Russia has been more successful in influencing the geopolitical orientation, and thus voting behavior, of African states through shaping domestic and/or regional narratives. We unpack and explore our pre-findings more thoroughly in the proposed project. In extension, we provide a systematic assessment of the voting behavior of Africa’s three elected Security Council members (known as A3) and discuss to what extent and how their UN agendas have changed in the post-February 2022 context.
Third, based on this, the project explores opportunities and constraints from a (Western) small state perspective of how to deal effectively with African states in the Security Council. Specifically, it investigates three ideal-typical strategies: (1) Pragmatist deal making, which refers to an approach of combining a low-key stance on matters involving great power rivalry with cooperative engagement on issues such as peacekeeping, aid programs, and humanitarian disaster relief. (2) Competitive norm entrepreneurship, which refers to an approach of promoting liberal notions of political and economic development, but also directly challenging Russian-promoted narratives. (3) Nudging, which refers to an approach of using formal and informal practices in the Security Council to subtly influence the position of African states. The project discusses the benefits and pitfalls of each strategy, aiming to identify the conditions under which one or the other approach are most likely to be successful. By highlighting the opportunities and challenges of each strategy, the project provides hands-on recommendations to assist Denmark in fulfilling its commitment to safeguard an international order based on rules and right.
Description
01/05-2023 → 31/12-2023
Agnieszka Radziwon , Manuela Pintado , Stella Spanou , Rick van de Zedde , Cláudia Costa , Phine Katrine Kjær Wiborg , Gonçalo Amorim & Jeppe Dørup Olesen
The overall goal of DIP4Agri is to accelerate capacity building in entrepreneurship and innovation (E&I) of the HEIs involved in selected domains of deep tech that enable agri-food by-product valorisation. This Project will integrate knowledge in deep tech fields (biotechnology, clean technologies, photonics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and robotics) and E&I capabilities to regenerate agri-food losses, converting the problem into a business opportunity.
DIP4Agri will create systematic transformation for effective and long-lasting change, leveraging on existing structures and procedures to achieve impactful improvements in the regional innovation ecosystems in Portugal, Denmark and the Netherlands. Thus, this Project will develop an education programme on deep tech with fully customised content to students and HEI staff, and create mentoring capacity for the development of solutions to respond to problem owners (involving industry, NGOs, municipalities, investors). The solutions will address challenges in agri-food losses, including feasibility demonstration for olive oil and melon production. This will contribute to the DIP4Agri Vision for 2030: to strengthen the E&I capacity of HEIs, and empower student entrepreneurs and non-academic staff to generate breakthroughs in deep tech that will benefit the regional socio-economic ecosystems and impact the broader European landscape.Description
01/05-2023 → 31/12-2023
Til mit specialeprojekt vil jeg undersøge hvorledes motion influerer insulinresistens i graviditeten, dette med afsæt i biomarkørerne TNF-alfa og CD163.Description
01/05-2023 → 01/02-2024
Forskningsophold, støttet af AUFF til 3 måneders forskningsophold til udarbejdelse af bogmanus, sammen med australsk forsker.Description
07/04-2023 → 07/07-2023
Cathrine Hasse & Maja Hojer Bruun
01/04-2023 → 31/12-2023
15/03-2023 → 14/10-2023
Johanne Gade Lilleøre & Maiken Stilling
Thesis/Bachelor ProjectDescription
01/03-2023 → 31/03-2023
Bidrag til Ræson og til gymnasielærebogen International PolitikNU (4. udg.)Description
01/03-2023 → 31/12-2023
The project Experts of the Undercommons is a public program that during 2023 takes form around the discussion and enactment of counter-infrastructures of knowledge, art, and expertise.
In a series of workshops, talks, and readings groups with artists, theorists, and activists, the public program seeks to question what happens underneath today’s knowledge economy; how new forms of transversal knowledge, skills, and literacies can be nurtured and socialized in the undercommon worlds inhabited by precarious cultural and cognitive workers.
Against the backdrop of the vast implementation and construction of technoscientific infrastructures and the equally vast contestation of established knowledge authorities, the project investigates experimental and antagonistic formats of distributing and socializing expertise. How can we exploit the conflicts prompted by so-called “post-truth” forces and the related “crisis of expertise” for more emancipatory agendas? How might we be able to organize and facilitate conditions on which a “riotous epistemology” can evolve? Find ways to conspire together otherwise?
The project is a collaboration between Kunsthal Aarhus and researcher, critic, and editor Tobias Dias. It is funded by The Novo Nordisk FoundationDescription
01/03-2023 → 08/12-2023
Dorthe Staunæs , Christian Christrup Kjeldsen , Andreas Lieberoth , Niels Rosendal Jensen & Sofie Gry Bindslev
Ensuring the future of democracy requires empowering all social group to engage, yet the gender gap in political leadership, political ambition and political self-efficacy is the most persistent and most difficult to tackle across Western democracies. The situation when looking across the intersect of gender, social class and ethnicity becomes even more grave. These differences have been shown to begin in the school and classroom dynamics has been cited as the likely socialisation process that leads to these different outcomes. G-EPIC, a multinational consortium of universities and civil society organisations, has been brought together with the aim of fostering social innovation and testing interventions to reduce gender inequality in politics.
METHODOLOGY
The 7 partners in 6 countries (Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Spain and United Kingdom) will begin by establishing the state of play through classroom observations and reanalysis of existing quantitative data to understand how inequalities in attitudes and dispositions towards political engagement are learnt. G-EPIC will then create experiments in schools and pilot design-based interventions co-developed with civil-society, teachers and students. These experiments and interventions will be rigorously evaluated in comparisons with control groups and will lead to the development of the Gender Empowerment in Classroom intervention that will be disseminated and delivered in schools across Europe creating the possibility for real change and the reduction of the gender gap in political leadership. In addition, G-EPIC will also carry out a holistic evaluation of the national context and the local and European policy framework to design strategies, regulations and policies that are conducive to a more equitable gender political involvement, particularly of girls with a disadvantaged background.Description
01/03-2023 → 30/06-2023
Project commissioned by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration
Objectives of the project:
The objective is to investigate whether, from an animal welfare perspective, there is a need for extensive tail docking of lambs under Danish conditions.
Project relevance and perspective:
The purpose of tail docking is to prevent Myasis, which is an infestation by fly larvae/maggots, and it is considered likely that most lambs in Denmark are tail docked for this reason. Tail docking causes pain in lambs. It is relevant to investigate whether tail docking meets a real welfare need of the lambs.
Background to the project:
Especially the organic rules, but also general animal welfare rules, seek to limit interventions such as docking if they are not absolutely necessary. Fly attacks typically occur in areas of the animal that are wet and dirty, which the flies can sit in and below. The purpose of tail docking is to minimize the risk of diarrhea or dirt settling and being covered by the tail that the flies can sit in/under. There is also a management element to avoiding diarrhoea and taking precautions if lambs get diarrhoea. The aim is to evaluate the need for tail docking of lambs in Denmark.
Work plan for the project:
The project consists of two parts:
Part 1)
Knowledge synthesis. Knowledge is gathered about tail docking of Danish lambs, as well as preventive measures in relation to fly larva attacks and alternatives to tail docking. Knowledge gathering is done through surveys and literature reviews. Written surveys are sent to lamb producers, via various news channels and associations of sheep farmers. This is to reach a representative selection of lamb producers, in relation to herd size and geographical location. The survey gathers knowledge about the extent to which tail docking is carried out, which management procedures are used to prevent diarrhoea and fly attacks, which sheep breeds are used and whether they have different tendency to fly larva attacks, and reasons for tail docking in Danish herds. Based on the survey response, an overview is made of the characteristics of herds where lambs are tail docked. Among other things, in relation to where in the country they are located and in what types of grazing areas they are. Knowledge about management procedures that can prevent diarrhoea and fly attacks is collected through literature reviews and interviews with veterinarians.
Part 2)
Study of the welfare of 100 lambs in five herds where lambs are tail-docked and of 100 lambs in five herds where lambs are not tail-docked. All lambs will be from large sheep herds with meat breeds (with long tails that are typically docked). The purpose is to investigate whether animals that are not tail docked have a different clinical condition than animals that are tail docked (degree of soiling/dag score, leg problems, diarrhea, wounds and injuries etc. from AWIN's welfare protocol for sheep). In a sample of herds practicing tail docking, non-tail docking is tested in 100 ewe lambs while 100 ewe lambs act as control animals and are docked. The purpose of the test is to investigate whether and how the clinical condition of the lambs is affected if tail docking is not carried out in herds that usually tail dock.
Description
01/03-2023 → 31/03-2024
Hans Christian Rasmussen & Maiken Stilling
Thesis/Bachelor ProjectDescription
01/03-2023 → 31/03-2023
Britt I. F. Henriksen & Janne Winther Christensen
Formålet med projektet har været at evaluere hvilke eksisterende tekniske hjælpemidler som kan være et supplement til fysisk opsyn med dyrene ved velfærdsvurdering i områder som er svært tilgængelige, eller hvor dyrene er svære at komme tæt på. Vi har vurdere i hvilket omfang droner kan være et hjælpemiddel ved vurdering af velfærdsindikatorer, samt hvordan man kan undersøge om ændring i social adfærd målt som afstand til andre individer via billeder og elektroniske øremærker eller GPS-halsbånd, kan indikere sygdom eller mistrivsel. Der er indsamlet viden og erfaringer fra andre projekter via webinar og EAAP-konference (særligt projekter som TeckCare og Sm@rt), samt via review af videnskabelige publikationer. Der blev også gennemført et pilotprojekt vedr. huldvurdering af heste og overflyvning med drone med henblik på optagelse af fotomateriale til huldvurdering.
Description
09/02-2023 → 31/01-2024
Case: Optimization of the product development processes for "design for manufacturing", "design for assembly" and "design for supply chain" Description
01/02-2023 → 01/10-2023
Mads Kristian Duborg Mikkelsen & Maiken Stilling
Research Year Project (Diploma Project)Description
01/02-2023 → 31/01-2024
Pilot teste sistemet PIX.org som platform til at forbedre de studerendes generelle digitale kompetencer og digitale dannelse.
Teste, forberede og kvalificere systemet PIX.ORAG for en potentielt løbende udvikling, måling og certificering af de studerendes generelle digitale kompetencer, så AU opnår en brugbar og effektiv målemetode af disse kompetencer, der kan udvikles og driftes i en central løsning fremover. Et samarbejde mellem CED, NAT, BSS, TECH og DBK.
Description
01/02-2023 → 01/05-2024
The aim of this research project is to examine and analyse the political, socio-legal and bureaucratic attitudes towards refugee Ukrainian families in the context of the Ukrainian refugee crisis through the lens of the Ukrainian refugee mother. In particular, I will examine how cultural and geographic circumstances are used to construct discrete classes of refugees, what it means to be “deserving” and gendered notions of deservingness. I will explore how the ‘figure of the ‘deserving refugee mother’ is configured by civil society organisations (CSOs), advocates and local authorities and the media. Fleeing and migrating are always gendered experiences, thus I aim to explore what makes these refugee mothers particular and how ‘experts: that is the CSOs, advocates and government actors who mediate between different institutions and help navigate complex bureaucracies to provide support to ‘the deserving refugee mother’, construct or challenge this categoryDescription
01/02-2023 → 31/08-2023
Matilde Have Kallesøe , Emmeli Fredsgaard R Mikkelsen , Niels Uldbjerg , Monica Kujabi & Susanne Haas
The aim of the study is to assess the effect of ultrasound scanning outreach in pregnancy on the number and outcome of high-risk births at Masanga Hospital in rural Sierra Leone.
In the rural areas of Sierra Leone around 17% of women give birth outside the hospital, which might have severe or fatal consequences for especially pregnant women with a high-risk diagnosis and their unborn child. Our hypothesis is that some complications can be prevented by antenatal ultrasound and thereby identify women at high-risk and advise them to give birth at Masanga Hospital.
We are investigating the period prevalnce of high-risk births, maternal and perinatal death and severe complications related to birth at Masanga Hospital before and after the implementation of Maternal Scanning Outreach at 4 community health centres in October 2020.
This study will yield novel insights into the value of antenatal ultrasound offered in an outreach programme in rural Sierra Leone.Description
01/02-2023 → 31/01-2024
This book-writing project, made possible by a monograph grant from the Carlsberg Foundation, is about how the conflicts of the past inform the conflicts of the present in USA today. It will be based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted since 2010 at and around Gettysburg, an iconic battlefield of the American Civil War (1861–65) and nowadays a key node in an extensive heritage tourism network with millions of annual visitors. I suggest that a deep study of this place, its people and its tensions can serve as a unique window for understanding the current struggles enveloping the American nation. I also argue that to do so, we must pay particular heed to the human management and experience of time – of how materials and emotions from the past are appropriated, recycled, and revised in the present – as a key element in the ongoing shaping of heritage and identity. In an era where identities and historical truths are ceaselessly challenged, the book’s wider ambition is to retheorize the role of time and temporal experience in studies of heritage and collective memory.Description
01/02-2023 → 31/01-2024
Master students with projects that involve Twitter data:
Søren Lund Mousten
Christian Noer
Anton Skibsted Kristensen
Emil Niclas Meyer-Hansen
Natsuki Yamasaki
Hannah von Spreckelsen-Syberg
Magnus Nygaard Miltersen
Thor Bondorph Nielsen
Allan Salih
Laura Marie Nielsen
Kristian Søndergaard Hansen
Antonio Gamundi Lopez
Petrea Zimmer Rasmussen
Katrine Sofie Thøgersen
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30/01-2023 → 31/01-2023
Årligt tilbagevendende sprogcamp på Hjørring Gymnasium i samarbejde med AAU og AU om tilrettelæggelse og afvikling af en 3-dages sprogcamp for gymnasielever fra hele landet. Campen skal inspirere eleverne til at arbejde videre med fremmedsprog.Description
27/01-2023 → 29/01-2023
Projektets formål er 1): at undersøge, hvilke roller nye computer-billedpraksisser drevet af kunstig intelligens kan komme til at spille i udvik-ling af medborgerskab og 2): at bruge disse indsigter som fundament for en større projektansøgning om visuelt, digitalt medborgerskab.
Konkret undersøger projektet disse spørgsmål ved at gennemføre fire kunstnerdrevne workshops med eksterne partnere, et fælles seminar, samt en afsluttende skriveworkshop i 2023. Aktiviteterne udføres i regi af Centre for Aesthetics of AI Images: https://cc.au.dk/en/aiimDescription
01/01-2023 → 31/12-2023
Ulla Kidmose & Johannes Ravn Jørgensen
The aim is to investigate the quality of different fractions of buckwheat varieties, which have been grown under Danish conditions. This knowledge will create the basis for future buckwheat farmers and cereal industries, who wish to produce Danish buckwheat with different qualities. Description
01/01-2023 → 31/12-2023
Marcela Mendoza Suárez , Marcin Nadzieja & Stig Uggerhøj Andersen
Current commercial rhizobia biofertilizers contain generic bacteria and perform erratically in different soil conditions. The aim of this project is to create a new generation of rhizobial biofertilizers by designing a solution that offers an optimal i) crop ii) soil and iii) biofertilizer match. Our approach consists of a unique rhizobial soil test followed by high-throughput identification of elite rhizobia in the legume of interest. The rhizobial formulation can be produced as a valuable product because it is a precise, predictable, and efficient biofertilizer.Description
01/01-2023 → 31/12-2023
Margrethe Therkildsen , Nora Chaaban , Mogens Vestergaard , Lisbeth Mogensen , Troels Kristensen & Barbara Vad Andersen
Formålet med GroBEat II er at beholde økologisk fødte tyrekalve i den økologiske produktion og samtidig udvikle et produktions-system der tilgodeser både dyrevelfærd, klima, biodiversitet og den fremtidige økologiske forbruger, hvor kvalitet af kød erstatter kvantitet. Dette sker ved at videreudvikle GrOBEat produktionssystemet udviklet i Organic RDD6-projekt ”Grass-fed organic beef for sustainable eating – GrOBEat” til produktion af kød fra kalve og ung-dyr, så dette også inkluderer et oksekødsprodukt (26 mdr. stude) inklusiv måling af produktionsegenskaber, kvalitet, forbruger-spiseadfærd og klimaeffekt af studekød.Description
01/01-2023 → 31/12-2023
Morten Kargo , Lisa Hein , Anne Louise Frydendahl Hellwing & Mogens Vestergaard
01/01-2023 → 31/12-2023
01/01-2023 → 31/12-2023
Marija Banovic & Liisa Lähteenmäki
01/01-2023 → 31/12-2023
