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17.06.2019: Press release of University Greifswald on the start of the project DIG-IT!

At the University of Greifswald the project DIG-IT! started in July 2019: ‘Digitization of natural complexity for the solution of problems that are relevant to our society’. In this project the ever increasing amount of ecological data will be analyzed with machine learning methods. In particular large amounts of images can be aggregated quickly, for example from microscopy, wildlife camera-traps, optical scans or aerial photography. DIG-IT! is led by Prof. Martin Wilmking at the University of Greifswald. The participating working groups are from the Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, the Zoological Institute and Museum, the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, as well as the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Rostock. The project is funded with two million euro from the excellency program ‘Digitization of Research’ of the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. [link only in German]

20.02.2019: Digital Agenda MV: 8.6 million euro for four research projects

The ministry for education, science and culture in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern announced on February 20th 2019 in its press release No. 034-19: ‘Via the excellency research program of the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern four projects will be funded. An independent jury chose four out of 20 projects that had applied. The third call of the excellency program aimed to increase the capacity for outstanding research in the field of digitization in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The funding was made possible with money from the European Social Fund (ESF) in the funding period from 2014 to 2020. Together, the four projects have 8.6 million euro available.’ On of the four selected projects is DIG-IT! - Digitization of natural complexity for the solution of problems that are relevant to our society, led by prof. Martin Wilmking. This project is a cooperation of the University Greifswald and the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Rostock. [link only in German]

 

The project "DIG-IT!"  is funded by the European Social Fund and the Ministry for Education, Science and Culture of the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.