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Vibrant environments: sonic agency in the Anthropocene
Birgit Abels, Professor of Cultural Musicology at Göttingen University, has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC has funded her project “Vibrant Environmentality: Sonic Agentivity in the Anthropocene” (VibE) with around 2.6 million euros over five years. This will allow Abels and her team to investigate how people co-create their world through interaction with sound and how making music can be key to possible responses to existential crises.
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INSIDE: Sun’s hidden magnetic field
Professor Laurent Gizon, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the University of Göttingen, has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC has funded his project, "Mapping Magnetic Fields in the Solar Interior’ (INSIDE)" with 2.5 million euros over five years. It aims to answer one of the most important unresolved questions in solar physics: what does the Sun’s magnetic field look like beneath its surface?
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Honour for agricultural law expert
Professor José Martinez, an expert in agricultural law, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá, Colombia. This recognises his long-standing contributions to academic collaboration between the law faculties of the two universities. In addition, the award recognises his work at the German-Colombian Peace Institute CAPAZ which promotes peace and reconciliation in Colombia.
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Traditional farming supports food, nature and cultural identity
Traditionally farmed landscapes can help produce food while also protecting nature and keeping cultural traditions alive. Researchers studied “Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)”. The researchers found that these landscapes can offer practical lessons for sustainable land use worldwide — but only if strategies are adapted to local people, environments and farming traditions.
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Evolution of algal sunscreen
A new study sheds light on how the ancestors of modern land plants survived one of the most challenging aspects of life outside water: exposure to harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. By examining a microscopic alga closely related to the earliest land plants, researchers have uncovered a sophisticated and dynamic system for coping with sunburn – one that likely helped plants to colonize land over 500 million years ago. The results were published in Current Biology.
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Can AI improve farmers’ resilience to climate change?
An international team of researchers led by Göttingen University has been awarded a Climate Change AI Innovation grant for the project “Can AI technologies increase farmer’s resilience to climate change? Impact evaluation of Croppie.” Together with academics from EAFIT University and CIAT in Colombia, South America, the funding will enable researchers to explore ways to support small-holder coffee farmers who are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of global warming.
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