The Inter Circle U. Prize (ICUP) is an award designed to showcase and highlight some of our best examples of inter- and trans-disciplinary research.
The winners of ICUP 2023
The prize is awarded to three research projects carried out at Circle U. universities:
Aline Cordonnier: "RE-Member – Official and family memories related to collaboration and colonisation in Belgium"
Dr. Aline Cordonnier is a Post-doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at UCLouvain.
This project focuses on the intergenerational transmission of memories among Belgian families related to WWII collaboration or colonization of Congo. Specifically, it examines the interactions between transmitted family memories and other diverging collective memories circulating in Belgian society. By conducting interviews, the project examines how descendants of former collaborators or colonists position themselves in current Belgian debates on collaboration and colonization in reference to their own family past.
Thérèse Van Durme: "Be.Hive – Interdisciplinary chair of primary care, a model for social innovation"
Dr Thérèse Van Durme is a specialized nurse and has a Ph.D in public health. She works at UCLouvain, both as a researcher in the Institute of Health and Society and as a lecturer at the Faculty of Public Health.
The main assets of Be.Hive are that it is itself a social innovation, based on interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research (universities and university colleges), focusing on capacity building of researchers, in close interaction with primary care, within a regional, national and international network, in support of primary care. Exchanges between researchers allow to capitalise and share expertise in the field of primary care and to participate in making it visible to the different stakeholders of our society and health system: health and social professionals, health-related authorities at different levels of power, patients' and carers' associations.
Janet Rafner: Crea.Visions – Visual human-AI-partnerships for civic action
Dr. Janet Rafner, Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Hybrid Intelligence, Department of Management, University of Aarhus.
The Crea.visions project is an innovative initiative aimed at enabling large-scale public participation in tackling societal issues using an AI-assisted image generation tool. This tool facilitates visual human-AI collaborations to drive civic action, allowing users to visualize and share their thoughts on pressing issues, thus fostering a sense of agency and engagement. A diverse group of stakeholders, including academic researchers from fields like citizen science, psychology, and computer science, as well as educators, students, municipality leaders, and professional artists, have contributed to the development and implementation of this project. The platform has already seen significant usage, with over 1,000 participants of all age groups in Denmark, France, and Italy, having tested it since its inception in 2020. This has led to the creation of thousands of public-created future visions.
Award ceremony
The winning teams received their prize at the award ceremony during the conference From Academia to Policy at the University of Belgrade on 17 May 2023.
