UPF News and Views- December 15th

The UPF Planetary Wellbeing project wins Gold for Social Sciences at the Reimagine Education Awards 2021

Considered the “Oscars” of education, these awards, which were presented during a virtual conference held between 6 and 10 December, acknowledged the University’s initiative “for its international programme to generate and convey new knowledge on the concept of planetary wellbeing”

UPF spinoff Integra Therapeutics obtains 4.5 million euros to develop its genetic editing technology

Investment funds Takeda Ventures, Advent France Biotechnology and Invivo Capital have invested in the company, which is working on a technology platform to improve the effectiveness and safety of advanced therapies.

Artificial intelligence (AI): teaching machines to think like humans

Although the concept of endowing machines with human-like intelligence has been around for more than six decades, it is only in the last 12 years that we have experienced a real boom in applications, due to improvements in neural networks, advances in supercomputing, and the availability of big data. With the approval of the Catalonia.AI strategic plan, intended to promote the implementation and development of this technology, Catalonia is in the vanguard of R&D in the field in Spain.

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The UPF Planetary Wellbeing project wins Gold for Social Sciences at the Reimagine Education Awards 2021

UPF spinoff Integra Therapeutics obtains 4.5 million euros to develop its genetic editing technology

Artificial intelligence (AI): teaching machines to think like humans

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