Due to the global pandemic, Home Association (a CRI Club and NGO) proposes to host the second edition of our Home SDG digital school as a combination of both virtual and physical meets. The scope of the program will cover many academic grounds that will train students in both soft- and hard-skills in and for digital solutions. During the course of thirteen weeks, students will have the opportunity to learn by doing. Home volunteers (CRI students, CRI alumni staff & students) will be in Kigali, Rwanda for two weeks in January 2021 for the prototyping session.

Workshop with M2 Digital Sciences students who will help you to explore the basics of electronics.

The AIRE-LiSc Master is excited to host Ricard Solé, Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and head of the Complex Systems Lab located at the PRBB, for its first 2021 Masterclass!

Prof. Solé is interested in "understanding the possible presence of universal patterns of organization in complex systems, from prebiotic replicators, cancer, multicellularity, viruses, protocells or language to evolved artificial objects." His research is an exquisite blend of experimental and theoretical work and spans many fields.

The Masterclass will be held online and registration for non-LiSc students is mandatory. A zoom link to join will be sent on Friday morning before the event to all registered participants. Limited spots available!

Abstract

Evolution is marked by well-defined events involving profound innovations that are known as ‘major evolutionary transitions’. They involve the integration of autonomous elements into a new, higher-level organization whereby the former isolated units interact in novel ways, losing their original autonomy. All major transitions, which include the origin of life, cells, multicellular systems, societies or language (among other examples), took place millions of years ago. Are these transitions unique, rare events? Have they instead universal traits that make them almost inevitable when the right pieces are in place? Are there general laws of evolutionary innovation? In order to approach this problem under a novel perspective, we argue that a parallel class of evolutionary transitions can be explored involving the use of artificial evolutionary experiments where alternative paths to innovation can be explored. These ‘synthetic’ transitions include, for example, the creation of a living cell, the artificial evolution of multicellular systems or the emergence of language in evolved communicating robots. Moreover, we can also consider the creation of synthetic ecosystems and how to use them to engineer our biosphere. These alternative scenarios could help us to understand the underlying laws that predate the rise of major innovations and the possibility for general laws of evolved complexity.

We invite you to celebrate meaningful and transformative learning with us and participate in the second edition of the #LearningPlanet Festival which will take place online on 24th and 25th January 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Education. Save the dates!

REGISTER HERE

Initiated by CRI and UNESCO in 2020, the Festival is co-designed and co-organised with the #LearningPlanet open community, bringing together organisations and networks from around the world, such as, to name but a few, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Ashoka, Climate-KIC, Community Arts Network (CAN), Global Education Leaders Partnership (GELP), Global Minnesota, Reboot the Future, UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities, The Weaving Lab, and World’s Largest Lesson (learn more).

The #LearningPlanet Festival invites exemplary learning communities and youth movements across the world, as well as committed educators and learners, to share and celebrate their most significant learnings and achievements, structured around this year’s theme: ‘Learning to take care of oneself, others, and the planet’.

The Festival’s online grassroots programme will offer a range of sessions adapted to all ages over 2 days: inspiring video talks, LIVE conferences and debates, educational and creative workshops, scientific and artistic activities, digital experiments, films and documentaries, etc.

Register here and now on our event platform, which will also guide you through all the Festival’s sessions and events.

For all information, please visit: learning-planet.org/en/festival and follow #LearningPlanet on social media: @learningplanet_ on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Linkedin. You can also access the Festival’s Communication kit and help us spread the word and the celebration to your own networks!

We look forward to enjoying these unique learning experiences with you, Team #LearningPlanet

Birdsong for human(e) voices We share remarkable similarities with birds. Among them, bipedalism and complex language are two traits often seen as human specificities, yet also present in birds. In my long-term fellow project, I want to focus on birdsong to build a new generation of vocal prostheses. Patients suffering from an advanced stage of laryngeal cancer often have to undergo a total surgical removal of the larynx, which is the human voice source. To recover the ability to speak, a prosthesis, mimicking the vocal folds, is usually placed between the trachea and the oesophagus. The exhaled air crosses a vibrating element and produces a substitute voice. Unfortunately, the created voice is of poor quality: it is weak, with a low pitch and sounds mechanical. In addition, the limited lifetime of the devices, due to biofilm coming from mucus/material interactions, forces a frequent device replacement. To date, there is no voice prosthesis lasting more than 3 months and able to reconstruct a natural-sounding human voice. In this context, birds should attract attention. First, their vocal repertoire is incredibly diverse, with pitches spanning from 100 to 12 000 Hz, compared to only 85 to 255 Hz in human speech. Moreover, their unique vocal organ, the syrinx, produces sounds from the vibration of membranes, located in the wall of the syrinx, unlike in mammals. Finally, birds modulate the primary sound with motions of the entire vocal tract, which is probably linked to the diversity of sounds they are able to produce. By exploring the anatomy of the vocal system in a broad range of birds species, and quantifying the 3D motions of the vocal system during sound production and modulation, we want to build a predictive aero-acoustic model we can use to ask “what if” questions and understand cause-effect relationships between shape, motions, and produced sounds. I will present the interdisciplinary approach we use in the CRI Birdsong team, integrating biology, physics, and computer science to provide the fundamental principles to the design of a new generation of vocal prostheses that will produce voices that sound more humane.

Atelier de construction de kit de mesure océanographique qui partiront sur des voiliers de plaisance pour des expéditions scientifiques en mer.

CRI Project : Phd Project : https://projects.cri-paris.org/projects/1YVgcwH0/summary

Astrolabe Expeditions https://projects.cri-paris.org/projects/VmcqjP7a/summary

Projet SensOcean : http://www.astrolabe-expeditions.org/programme-de-sciences/sensocean/

The networks underlying collaborative learning and solving

In this talk, we will present recent advances from our team at the Interaction Data Lab, where we use network science and data analysis to decipher collective phenomena at biological and social scales. In particular, we will showcase projects where we analyse collaborative learning and solving using network approaches on large empirical datasets, with the end goal to develop tools fostering collective intelligence for social impact.

Digital Science students will introduce the topic of Deep Learning to the general public as part of their engagement on development of skills on Trending topics.

Around 100 CRI students from from FIRE Doctoral School and Master AIRE (Life Sciences, Learning Sciences and Digital Sciences) join forces to prepare a week of interdisciplinary online workshops.

They will share with the public the topics of their internships and research projects.

All along the week, 8 different half-day conferences are planned, each one on a different interdisciplinary thematic, with invited speakers, talks from Master students and round tables.

More details TBA.

Join them on this interdisciplinary week full of activities!

Distributed Approaches to Teaching and Doing Synthetic Biology

Emerging applications of synthetic biology promise major changes in medicine, food, ecology and other domains. Even as the impacts of genetic technologies become more diverse and widespread, the institutions that develop them remain homogenous and centralized. The result is substantial public opposition to many new biotechnologies.

What if we, the scientific experts, are doing everything wrong? This talk will be a conversation about strategies for including more people in the process of doing research and in setting research priorities. Who should be doing synthetic biology and what are their motivations for doing so? How can we balance expert knowledge with public values? What would a popular version of biotechnology look like and what would it take to transition from our current practices?

En immersion au sein de la Licence FdV - 100% en ligne en deux séances. De 10h à 12h et de 14h à 18h

Compte tenu des restrictions dues au COVID 19, cet évènement se tiendra à distance sur Youtube. Le planning et le lien Youtube seront disponible très prochainement.

La Journée Portes ouvertes de la Licence Frontières du Vivant est l’occasion pour les futurs étudiants et leurs parents de connaître un peu mieux notre formation interdisciplinaire en sciences.

Au programme : témoignages d’étudiants, présentations de projets !

Innovation, créativité, interdisciplinarité, solidarité, entrepreneuriat, projets, motivation, persévérance, travail, expérience, réseau, sciences, sont les mots d’ordre de cette journée…

En immersion au sein de la Licence FdV - 100% en ligne en deux séances.

De 10h à 12h et de 14h à 18h

Compte tenu des restrictions dues au COVID 19, cet évènement se tiendra à distance sur Youtube. Le planning et le lien Youtube seront disponible très prochainement.

La Journée Portes ouvertes de la Licence Frontières du Vivant est l’occasion pour les futurs étudiants et leurs parents de connaître un peu mieux notre formation interdisciplinaire en sciences.

Au programme : témoignages d’étudiants, présentations de projets !

Innovation, créativité, interdisciplinarité, solidarité, entrepreneuriat, projets, motivation, persévérance, travail, expérience, réseau, sciences, sont les mots d’ordre de cette journée…

Artificial Intelligence is now a part of our normal lives. We are surrounded by this technology from automatic parking systems, smart sensors for taking spectacular photos, and personal assistance. Similarly, Artificial Intelligence in education is being felt, and the traditional methods are changing drastically. In teaching, the use of virtual and augmented reality has been on the rise, exploring different means of interaction and student engagement. Based on constructivist pedagogic principles, augmented reality pretends to provide the learner/user with effective access to information through real-time immersive experiences.

This thematic workshop is focusing on the role of AI for education and social change. Our speaker Atish Gonsalves will dedicate his speech in this matters. Master students' will also present their research topics and internship experience related to Education Technologies.

Our speaker : Atish Gonsalves, Humanitarian Leadership Academy, UK

Atish Gonsalves is a social technologist, entrepreneur and the Global Innovation Director of the Humanitarian Leadership Academy based in London.Atish has consistently implemented successful educational-technology (edtech) solutions that have helped democratize learning for thousands of learners in difficult contexts

Please registred here for the event. The event will take place virtually. Additional information will be sent by email.

TBA