ARENAS Research presented at International Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora

ARENAS partners at CY Cergy Paris Université team are working on WP 2 in ARENAS, The Characterisation and Detection of Extremist Narratives.  Their work specifically addresses Task 2.4 Testing the algorithm with the annotated dataset to validate the annotation schema for automatic detection of extremist narratives; preparing a re-usable model for detecting extremist narratives.   They […]

ARENAS Podcast launched

Following the successful international conference Going Extreme, hosted by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), we are delighted to launch the ARENAS Podcast series. This eight-part podcast series considers the Historical Roots of Extremist Narratives in Europe.  Hosted by Firdaous Alaoui, it has been prepared by the team at (UAB). Each episode features an expert member […]

ARENAS project represented at the European Sociological Association conference

The European Sociological Association (ESA) is an academic association of sociologists and a non-profit Europe-wide association made up of 3000+ members. The 16th ESA conference was held recently in Portugal and ARENAS researcher, Gwenaëlle Bauvois from the University of Helsinki was one of the speakers who addressed the conference. The ESA is the largest sociological […]

Major European Award for project ARENAS supported

The Region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol has recently won the prestigious MYFER (Most Youth Friendly European Region) for its project “Schools Beyond Regions and Borders” (SBRB).  MYFER is awarded by the Assembly of European Regions, the largest independent network of regions in wider Europe, bringing together regions from 35 countries and 15 interregional organisations, to regions that […]

ARENAS presented at this year’s Sinfra workshop

Each year, the international IPAL laboratory, which includes ARENAS partners CNRS and CYU, organises a workshop that promotes collaboration between France and Singapore in the field of computer science (AI, Data, HCI, NLP, etc.). This workshop is an opportunity to take stock of existing IPAL collaborations and to launch new collaborative projects. This year’s Sinfra […]

ARENAS project presented at a meeting of Ulysseus European University

The University of Genoa is part of Ulysseus, one of the 41 transnational alliances promoted by the European Commission, together with the University of Seville (Spain), Université Cote d’Azur (France), Technical University of Košice (Slovakia), MCI The Entrepreneurial School (Austria), Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences (Finland). The Ulysseus European University alliance aims to develop an excellency-recognised […]