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4TU.NIRICT & 4TU.Energy join forces and facilitate, stimulate and support collaboration between researchers of the 4TU.NIRICT and 4TU.Energy community, increasing interdisciplinary collaborations. 

On December 13, 2023, our annual Community Day took place at Grand Hotel Karel V in Utrecht with the participation of about 50 researchers. The day started with a networking lunch followed by a short presentation by Mark van den Brand (TU/e) and Suzan Bayhan (UT). Topics covered during the presentation included NIRICT's focus and mission, some of the major accomplishments of the past year and the structure of the Community Day.  As the themes of 2022 attracted a lot of interest and are still highly relevant, we had the same themes this year with the addition of the Sustainable ICT theme. All themes are related to the societal challenges we are currently facing and require interdisciplinary effort to be addressed effectively.  

In June 2020, the 4TU.NIRICT research centre launched the ‘’Diversity-Equity-Inclusion’’ (DEI) fund to support projects that boost diversity, equity and inclusion within the 4TU ICT community.

In the upcoming NWO ICT.OPEN 2024, we’d like would like to invite you to submit abstract to our track for Responsible Digital Society: https://www.ictopen.nl/

On December 13, 2023 our annual 4TU.NIRICT Community Day will take place at Grand Hotel Karel V Utrecht.

In February 2023, the 4TU.NIRICT centre launched the 4TU.NIRICT call Community Funding 2023 to strengthen and support collaboration among researchers and practitioners of the 4TU.NIRICT community, increasing the impact of ICT research in The Netherlands. This call therefore explicitly aims to support all activities that help in strengthening the 4TU.NIRICT community and enable this community to start-up new research ventures by using this funding. The call is continuous, and applications can be submitted until the budget is depleted. Read more about the application guidelines and procedure here.

Upon request of the 4TU.NIRICT Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) project "Building community of LGBTIQ+ ICT researchers" Samir Saidi designed a poster to highlight and celebrate some of the most important LGBTIQ+ contributors to the field of ICT and their achievements. It was inspired by the Notable Women in Computing project (https://notabletechnicalwomen.org/), the purpose of which is to highlight the fact that women have been leaders in computing from the start, but not enough of their contributions are remembered. Similarly, they would also like to highlight the fundamental, significant contributions to ICT that LGBTIQ+ people have made.

From October 22-25, 2023, Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto, CA), Aaron Ding (TU Delft, NL), Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien, AT) and Ella Peltonen (University of Oulu, FI) organized a successful Dagstuhl Seminar on Edge AI with 4TU, German and international participants:

It is our great pleasure to announce that we will have our annual 4TU.NIRICT Community Day on December 13, 2023, and we would like to invite all staff members related to the 4TU.Netherlands Institute for Research on ICT to participate.  

Will Future Computing Bring Us Sustainable Future? 

It is our great pleasure to announce that we will have our annual 4TU.NIRICT Community Day on December 13, 2023.

In February 2023, the 4TU.NIRICT centre launched the 4TU.NIRICT call Community Funding 2023 to strengthen and support collaboration among researchers and practitioners of the 4TU.NIRICT community, increasing the impact of ICT research in The Netherlands. This call therefore explicitly aims to support all activities that help in strengthening the 4TU.NIRICT community and enable this community to start-up new research ventures by using this funding. The call is continuous, and applications can be submitted until the budget is depleted. Read more about the application guidelines and procedure here.

4TU-NIRICT will participate in NWO ICT.OPEN 2023 in Utrecht, April 19-20, 2023 and will showcase some past and present research activities from the NIRICT community, as well as outlining our vision for future actions. We organize a presentation session and will participate in poster sessions.    

Since January 2023, the Bernoulli Institute of the University of Groningen (UG) has become a full partner of 4TU.NIRICT. As a result, the 4TU.NIRICT Community has been expanded with an institute from a 5th university, so when talking about the 4TU.NIRICT Community or a 4TU.NIRICT affiliated university, the Bernoulli Institute of University of Groningen is part of it.

The goal of this funding scheme is to strengthen and support collaboration among researchers and practitioners of the 4TU.NIRICT community, increasing the impact of ICT research in The Netherlands. This call therefore explicitly aims to support all activities that help in strengthening the 4TU.NIRICT community and enable this community to start-up new research ventures by using this funding.