Research*EU Magazine | Number 95 (August/September 2020)

Special Feature: Speaking in Tongues: Celebrating Linguistic Diversity

Summary:

This issue's special feature highlights seven EU-funded projects that are working to preserve and enhance Europe's linguistic diversity.  Life After meets again a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow whose research is focused on the notion that the sound of our voice, or, the perception that others have about our voice when they first hear it, can lead to both subtle and unsubtle forms of discrimination.  The Project of the Month meets IN-PREP, a project that has been developing new technologies that will help emergency services better respond to emergencies and disaster,  The thematic sections cover everything from Health to Security, Energy to Fundamental Research (and more).  Finally, the EU Agenda feature returns, highlighting upcoming events in October.

Contents:

• • Health
    • Beyond COVID-19:  Preparing for the next pandemic
    • Key proteins in the brain provide early clues to Alzheimer's disease
    • HIV analysis shines light on viral process
  • Society
    • Research aims to make justice and fairness real to Europeans
    • Changing their tune:  music as a tool of oppression
    • Why nobody feels responsible for a war crime
  • Life After...
    • Catching up with TheGayVoice:  How the sound of your voice can lead to discrimination
  • Energy
    • New platform facilitates peer-to-peer energy trading and sharing
    • Innovative approach to solar cell structure breaks records for efficiency
    • Building energy grids of the future to unleash green power
  • Climate Change and Environment
    • How risk perception and uncertainty can improve climate change policies
    • Cave formations uncover hidden history of past climates
  • Special Feature
    • Speaking in tongues:  Celebrating linguistic diversity
  • Food and Natural Resources
    • Fighting food fraud, sensing toxins - innovative smart sensor comes close to market
    • Integrated control of diseases is improved for better cereal crops and more sustainable agriculture
    • Converting poultry feathers from discarded waste into valuable raw materials
  • Industrial Technologies
    • 3D metal part manufacturing taken to next level
    • A novel way to put the pressure on leads to green industrial technology
  • Digital Economy
    • Extended reality that literally meets the eye
    • Universal interface unlocks AI potential of smart cities
    • Games that auto-create content, including non-player character behaviour
  • Security
    • Society simulation tool enables informed counter-terrorist policies
    • INVISO:  No respite for the radicalised on social media
  • Project of the Month
    • Pioneering new technologies to help civil protection agencies handle and respond better to large crises and emergencies
  • Fundamental Research
    • Cutting-edge 3D techniques to unravel the origins of walking on two feet
    • Novel mathematical descriptions stay ahead of the curve
  • Agenda
    • October 2020

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