The past semester was marked by vibrant participation of staff and students at the University of Iceland in the European university network Aurora.
Sprettur, an innovation programme for the inclusion and integration of immigrants into higher education at the University of Iceland, has received two grants to support initiatives that enhance participation, Icelandic language skills, and networking opportunities for students with an international background.
The research project Crisis Management and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Leadership, Expertise and Best Practices is coming to an end after three years under the leadership of Baldur Thorhallsson, professor at the University of Iceland and Ásthildur Elva Bernharðsdóttir, professor at the University of Bifröst.
An Icelandic language technology project led by the University of Iceland in collaboration with Almannarómur (the Icelandic Centre for Language Technology) is one of eleven European projects to receive a Microsoft AI for Good LINGUA grant, awarded on 20 January this year.
“We need to show more resolve in protecting liberal democracy, in particular as regards the importance of a functioning public sphere—a shared communicative space where people have access to reliable information and can argue with one another in a civil manner.”
Despite incidences of invasive pneumococcal infections having subsided considerably since vaccinations were introduced in 2011, mortality rates for patients who get these types of infections haven’t changed over the decades.
Örnólfur Thorlacius, assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology is leading a research project on the development of computerised adaptive testing (CAT) for assessing emotion regulation and social skills in children and adolescents.
What do the Arctic charr, parasites in fish, fishing quota, a juvenile Atlantic cod and the flounder have in common? These are all topics in a podcast hosted by a group of former and current doctoral students at the University of Iceland.
Árni Daníel Júlíusson, a research specialist at the Institute of History at the University of Iceland, and Gylfi Helgason, archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology, Iceland, are now, along with a group of specialists, conducting an extensive study called Abandoned Medieval Settlements in Iceland.
Björn Rúnar Egilsson, assistant professor at the School of Education, University of Iceland, is leading the Icelandic part of a large Nordic research project examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the preschool system.
