Bilateral Project Romania-Belgium
The project undertakes to run a comparative field survey and statistical inquiry into the use of new and emergent technologies in college education in Belgium and Romania, particularly the level of digital skills, digitization, and employment of digital tools and approaches in curricular and extra-curricular education or education-related activities. While doing so, the joint teams will apply themselves state-of-the-art approaches, mainly natural language processing and social media analysis-based, to provide information, methods, tools, and approaches for further related research in the two countries, while also outputting data, algorithms, strategies, and publications for future policies in the area.
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The project is supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation, CCCDI - UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-CEI-BIM-PBE2020-0009, within PNCDI III.
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Involved partners:
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Romania: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Department, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
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Belgium: Centre de traitement automatique du langage (CENTAL), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Period of implementation: 2021-2022
Contact information: digilibero@gmail.com
Team Romania
Ana Iolanda Voda PhD
Project Director Romania
Ana Iolanda Voda PhD is senior researcher at Social Sciences and Humanities Research Department, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Associated Lecturer at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, UAIC. The Romanian project leader has developed a wide experience in research which has been proven by constant and active attendance in over 35 international conferences (e.g. Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, and Belgium). The interest in research is clearly proven by more than 60 articles published out of which 35 as main author or single author. She participated as coordinator or member in numerous project involving European funds (e.g. Romania’s National Coordinator and Management committee member in COST Action, CA18115 (2019-2023), Teaching and implementation Expert (2017-2020) - ERASMUS+ Programme Jean Monnet Activities, (587359-EPP-1-2017-1-RO-EPPJMO-MODULE); Project Director „European Smart Cities for Sustainable Development (SmartEU)", (620415-EPP-1-2020-1-RO-EPPJMO-MODULE (2020-2023)).
Roxana Patras PhD
Team member
Roxana Patras PhD is Senior Researcher and the coordinator of Digital Humanities Laboratory (UAIC) and the PI of Pop-Lite: Romanian Popular Novels and Their Sub-genres during the Long Nineteenth Century: digital editing and corpus analysis (PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-0127), Hai-Ro: Hajduk Novels in Romania during the Long Nineteenth Century: Digital Edition and Corpus Analysis Assisted by Computational Tools (PN-III-P3-3.1-PM-RO-FR-2019-0063), INTERDOC - L'intégration interdisciplinaire des compétences de connaissance,de compréhension et d'application dans les programmes doctoraux 2017-2018 (funded by AUF). She is also one of the core group members of Women Writers in History 2020-2021 (CEEPUS network, chaired by Katja Mihurko-Poniz); CA16204: Distant Reading for European Literary History (2017-2021) (chaired by Prof. Christof Schoch).
Cristina Cautisanu PhD
Team member
Cristina Cautisanu PhD is a young Research Assistant in the Laboratory of Environmental Economic Studies and Analyses of CERNESIM Environmental Research Center, UAIC. Her main area of interest is statistics and econometrics. Before becoming a researcher, he worked in a market research company. She made the transition of questionnaires from physical format to electronic format, available on various devices, using code interface of SPSS dimensions. She is also a member of the WG6 Cost action: CA18115, she attended at 20 conferences and published several articles using various new and emergent techniques in social sciences and humanities.
Team belgium
Chris Tanasescu PhD
Project Director Belgium
Chris Tanasescu PhD, Centre de traitement automatique du langage (CENTAL), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
The Belgian project leader is the holder of the Alstissia Chair in Digital Cultures and Ethics (La Chaire Altissia en Cultures et éthique du numérique) at UCLouvain, a top prestigious position in Belgium and beyond, focusing on issues critically relevant to this project, such as Digital Humanities, digital education technology and applications, digitization, and cross- and trans-disciplinarity. He spearheads the Option in Digital Culture and Ethics that is offered to all master’s students in FIAL (Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters) and thus providing 12 courses (2 of them taught by the project leader) in digital-relevant topics every year to over 150 students in all humanities subjects. All of the above will represent excellent data and research opportunities for this project, and so will the leader’s cross-disciplinary profile and affiliations, as he works out of FIAL and INCAL (Institute for the Study of Civilisations, Arts and Letters) but also CENTAL (the Natural Language Processing Center—NLP—at UCLouvain).
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