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Digitalization in schools is a much-discussed topic. The tenor: equipping students with tablets and laptops alone is not enough, meaningful applications are needed for the technical devices. This is what the “Technology-Enhanced Learning” research group led by computer science assistant-professor Tomohiro Nagashima at Saarland University is working on. Cooperating closely with teachers and students, the group develops customized applications that make learning effective and at the same time provide new insights for the science of human learning.

At the beginning of February, the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Science and Humanities Council (WR) announced the names of those draft research proposals that have been selected to submit a full proposal under the Clusters of Excellence funding line. Saarland University’s outline proposal ‘nextAID³ – Next Generation of Al-Empowered Drug Discovery and Development’ was one of the submissions that successfully made it through the first round of the competitive funding programme.

Vera Demberg, Professor of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, has been admitted to the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. She is now a full member of the Class of Humanities and Social Sciences class, one of the academy’s three classes. In total, the Academy has admitted six new members in this round.