Research and Teaching for Equal Opportunities

By Ute Wiedner - What emotions women's football arouses, how multimedia recommendation systems neglect the unpopular, and how artificial intelligence could be widely communicated - these topics and more are the projects that TU Graz recently awarded Mind_the Gap prizes to. When human beings in all their diversity in technology and the natural sciences take centre stage, exciting questions arise and from them equally exciting ideas and projects. This is once again impressively demonstrated by the total of five publications and projects from research and teaching that were recently awarded the "Mind_the Gap" prizes of TU Graz. They all include different aspects of diversity such as age, gender, origin, language or culture. The diversity prizes are endowed with 750 euros for submissions by individuals and with a maximum of 1,500 euros for team submissions, depending on the number of persons. As every year, the variety of publications and projects submitted is fascinating. Each year, teams or individuals are awarded a "Mind_the Gap" prize for their work in the categories "Academic theses", "Research project", "Conference contribution, lecture or publication" and "Doctoral theses".