€207,000 for 13 Digital Sciences for Society Growth Projects
A new series of Growth Projects will be launched with funding from the Digital Sciences for Society program. In this way, Tilburg University is giving further impetus to research that contributes to digital innovation with an eye for social and societal aspects. Last year, the university already awarded a total of € 240,000 for a first series of Growth Projects.
The strength of the Growth Projects lies in the multidisciplinary collaboration at the intersection of digital sciences, social sciences, and humanities and involvement of at least one external partner. The term "Growth Projects" indicates that these are relatively small-scale projects to inspire larger-scale follow-up research.
With the new series of Growth Projects, a huge diversity of socially relevant topics is once again being taken up. I hope, and expect, that the research projects will result in relevant scientific insights and socially relevant output
Boudewijn Haverkort, Academic lead of the Digital Sciences for Society program
Grant allocation by lottery
Like last year, the available funding for Growth Projects was distributed by lottery. This was done after first determining which of the submitted applications were of sufficient quality and met the formal requirements. Each project could apply for an amount between € 10,000 and 25,000.
New Growth Projects
We congratulate all of the following project teams that have been awarded a grant.
| Project | Tilburg University Research Team | External partners |
| AI Lipsync | Faezeh Pourhashemi (TSHD/TSB), Max Louwerse (TSHD) | Waveiot.Tech |
| Charting the Normative Electroencephalography in Healthy Aging Population | Seyed Mostafa Kia (TSHD), Jeroen Stekelenburg (TSB), Marijn van Wingerden (TSHD), Mohammad Zamanzadeh (TSHD) | University of Tübingen |
| CoCoS: From Collaboration to Co-creation for Sign Language Machine Translation Research | Dimitar Shterionov (TSHD), Mirella De Sisto (TSHD), Lisa Lepp (TSHD), Connie de Vos (TSHD) | Nederlands Gebarencentrum (NGC) |
| Conditions of responsibility for distributed agency | Maureen Sie (TSHD), Colette Cuijpers (TLS) | Defensieacademie (NLDA), iHub Radboud University Nijmegen |
| Digital Futures for Multilingual Education | Irem Bezcioğlu-Göktolga (TSHD), Will Marler (TSHD) | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, The Rutu Foundation for Intercultural Multilingual Education |
| Digital Integration of Refugees in the Netherlands | Will Marler (TSHD), Irem Bezcioğlu-Göktolga (TSHD) | Refugee Team |
| Enhancing Esports Team Performance Using Game Analytics, Communication and Physiology | Bram Heijligers (TSB), Paris Mavromoustakos Blom (TSHD), Kyana van Eijndhoven (TSHD) | Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) - Academy for Leisure & Events |
| FERBi: Framework for extended reality biosensing | Ifigeneia Mavridou (TSHD), Phillip Brown (TSHD), Nina Kupper (TSB) | MindLabs, BIOPAC Systems |
| Online journeys to mental health: Exploring digital health technology use among young adults with psychological problems | Kim Tenfelde (TSB). Melanie de Looper (TSB), Emmelyn Croes (TSHD), Matti Vuorre (TSB), Eleonore Smalle (TSB), Glenn Kiekens (TSB) | GGz Eindhoven |
| Personalised games for physical rehabilitation using high-accuracy sensor technology | Paris Mavromoustakos Blom (TSHD), Kim Tenfelde (TSB) | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - dept. Physical Education & APOKATASTASI Rehabilitation Center |
| Technology in Practice: Clinician Driven Innovations in VR Cognitive Training | Mercedes Almela Zamorano (TSB), Eriko Fukuda (TSHD), Alexandra Hering (TSB), Phillip Brown (TSHD) | Psychologen Praktijk Timmers |
| The Art of Perception – Using digital wearable technology to explore emotional and attentional dynamics during real-life aesthetic art experiences | Gijs Holleman (TSB), Marcel Bastiaansen (TSB), Alwin de Rooij (TSHD), Thijs van Laarhoven (TSB) | Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht |
| The Surprise Bias: A Roadblock to Creative Thinking and Its AI Solution | Alwin de Rooij (TSHD), Myrthe Faber (TSHD) | Avans University of Applied Sciences - Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology |
Investment of € 7 million over several years
Through the Digital Sciences for Society program, the university is investing in excess of € 7 million in research, education, and collaboration initiatives that help scientists, students, and society make the best and most responsible use of digital technology.
Since 2023, € 447,000 has been awarded to 27 Growth Projects and € 2,400,000 to four Icon Projects, which have a longer duration than Growth Projects. They also involve a larger number of researchers and partners.
An overview of all current projects can be found on the Digital Sciences for Society website.
Get ready for the digital future
The Digital Sciences for Society program invests in impactful research, education and collaboration aimed at seizing the opportunities and dealing with the challenges of digitalization for science and society.