AI-based tools for smart farming
The SustInAfrica project aims to empower farms as well as governmental and non-governmental organisations in various African countries to intensify sustainable food production and provide ecosystem services.
Horizon 2020
CRAFT-OA – Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access
After several decades of evolving, Open Access (OA) publishing is now at the centre of scientific communication, providing access to scientific publications without barriers. In Diamond Open Access, authors can publish free of charge as the institutional sector with universities, research institutions or libraries provide the necessary technological infrastructure.
Aquacombine – Using salt-tolerant plants to counter the consequences of climate change
EU project Aquacombine focuses on the potential of halophytes with the participation of Leibniz University Hannover. Gourmets relish the tips of the plants, which taste like the ocean. But until now glasswort – also known as sea asparagus – has eked out more of a niche existence. To date the plant, which grows in salt marshes and mudflats, has not been used for large-scale industrial food production. This is despite the fact that plants like glasswort (Salicornia europaea) have many useful qualities.
Turn-taking – The communicative interplay
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.
VEDLIoT – Very Efficient Deep Learning in IoT
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.
FRAMEwork – Improving biodiversity in agriculture
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.