Link to more information and how to apply

Discover the world of trustworthy robots in this insightful TEDx talk. Explore their potential impact, intricate mechanisms, and the delicate balance of trust. Learn how human behaviour and perception influence our interactions with robots. Gain insights into aligning engineering and human perspectives on trustworthiness. Trust the robots, but don’t forget to read the manual.

“How to Design Trustworthy Robots” was the title of a talk by Digital Futures faculty member Jana Tumová at TEDxSSE in April. Jana is an associate professor at the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research group focuses on making robots move autonomously, safely and purposefully in various contexts ranging from autonomous driving to exploration with drones to robot navigation around people.

Jana received her PhD in 2013 from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic; she was a visiting researcher at Boston University, MIT, and Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology and a postdoctoral researcher at KTH.  She received the Early Career Award from Robotics Science and Systems Foundation (2021) and the Swedish Research Council Starting Grant (2017). The EU, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, Vinnova, and Digital Futures have also supported her research.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Open call: Participation in Future Digileaders 2023

Future Digileaders is an event for selected early-career researchers interested in the broad area of digitalization. The event includes an intimate career workshop with talks, panels, and sincere discussions. We will cover professional development and provide opportunities to meet inspiring role models and network with each other.

This year, it will be held onsite at the Digital Futures hub in Stockholm on October 17, 2023. In this event, you will listen to the successful experience and insights, have in-depth discussions and get mentorship from established leaders – see the program for Future Digileaders.

Selected applicants will be invited to attend the event physically at Digital Futures in Stockholm, with travel and accommodation covered. We especially welcome participants from diverse backgrounds and look forward to seeing many women applicants.

Future Digileaders is a part of Digitalize in Stockholm 2023, an annual conference and meeting place for global thought leaders and rising stars engaged in transformation through digitalization in academia, industry, government and civil society held on October 18 and 19, 2023. The Digileaders will also be able to take an active role in the Digitalize in Stockholm conference, promoting interactions with researchers and industry players.

Important DatesApplication deadline: 7 August 2023, 23:59 AoE
Acceptance notification: 21 August 2023

Link to more information and how to apply

Link to more information and how to apply

We strongly encourage projects to collaborate with external partners and testbeds and expect all projects to be able to display results at Digital Future events and at the centre.

Second call for ISPP Postdoc projects
ISPP postdoc projects must have a duration of 2 years. The projects will be funded with a maximum of 500 kSEK/year per postdoc in terms of Digital Futures funding. The additionally required funding per proposed postdoc position needs to be funded by ISPP partners. Link to more information and how to apply

Third call for Industrial Innovation Projects (IIPs)
IIPs can be at most 3 years in duration. The projects will be funded with a maximum of 4.5 MSEK overall in terms of Digital Futures funding. Digital Futures provides funding for ISPP project proposals based on the “fund matching” principle. Link to more information and how to apply

Fourth call for Societal Innovation Projects (SIPs)
Societal Innovation Projects can be at most 2 years in duration. The projects will be funded with a maximum of 1 MSEK overall in terms of Digital Futures funding. Link to more information and how to apply

Welcome to the INTERPRETABLE BRAIN DATA workshop 2023 on 8-9 June!

Human brain data is complex and the process of going from raw recordings to meaningful information is highly non-trivial. Information processing in the brain is spread across a wide range of scales, both spatial and temporal. Moreover, working with neuroscientific data involves dealing with a large amount of data, which is usually noisy and have many subject-specific properties. To address these difficulties experts from different fields must work together in order to produce meaningful knowledge from brain imaging data.

Being able to interpret brain data is not only important to have a better scientific understanding of how the brain works, but is especially relevant to design better diagnostic protocols and treatments for patients with neurological diseases.

The aim of the IBD workshop is to bring together people involved in different parts of the process of transforming human brain recordings into interpretable results. We will mainly focus on scientists working with electro/magneto-encephalography (E/MEG) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data.

During the event, leading researchers in the field will introduce participants to novel techniques for data analysis and interpretation. There will also be activities to encourage dialogue among participants and to promote the emergence of new fruitful collaborations among them.

We have reached our full capacity for in-person attendance. The number of virtual attendees is not limited.
Registration deadline is 4 June. Link to registration

Link to IBD 2023 website

This event is co-sponsored by Digital Futures.