„Social Media-Based Early Warning and Crisis Communication for One Health Threats. The case of Oder River disaster in 2022”

Freie Universität Berlin: Prof. Dr. Vitaly Belik, Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics

University of Melbourne: Maria Rodriguez Read, Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems

The project aims to investigate an innovative approach to early warning and crisis communication. It leverages social media data for detection and response to emerging public health threats.

 

“External processing and safe third country arrangements: international legal standards, responsibility sharing and human rights”

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Prof. Dr. Pauline Endres de Oliveira, Law Faculty 

University of Melbourne: Dr Nikolas Feith Tan, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School

The project addresses the current policy debate in Germany and the EU around 'externalisation' of asylum processes and the use of 'safe third country' arrangements to transfer asylum seekers to third states outside the EU.

 

“Representing Artificial Intelligence on the Global Screen”

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin : Dr. Ada Bieber, Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für deutsche Literatur   

University of Melbourne: Dr. Claudia Sandberg, Faculty of Engeneering and Information Technology

The project aims to map cinematic forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) over diverse cultural settings to determine its function in global social and political networks. The proposed initiative forms part of the Faculty of Engineering and IT Film Festival “Science Fiction in World Cinema”. The FEIT broadens awareness for engineering and IT research, such as AI, sustainable energies, energy transition with the support of film and literature.

 

“The Berlin-Melbourne Queer Mobilities Research Group”

Freie Universität Berlin: Prof. Dr. Martin Lücke, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut 

University of Melbourne: Assoc. Prof. Heather Benbow, German Studies Program, Faculty of Arts

The project places transnational discourses and practices of gender and sexuality between Germany and Australia at the centre of an interdisciplinary collaboration of historians and scholars of culture and society, existing areas of research strength in the respective institutions. Driven in its initial stage by a study of female impersonation among German internees in First-World-War (WWI) Australia, it expands in its future stages to encompass collaborative research and research training exploring the transnational circulation and impact of ideas about gender and sexuality more broadly, particularly those that emanated from Berlin in the early 20th century.