Funded Projects

Ongoing

EU-Horizon Project: OpenWebSearch.EU [2022 - 2025]
Piloting a cooperative open web search infrastructure to support Europe's digital sovereignty.
Partners: M. Granitzer (Passau University), B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) and 11 other European partners
[publications]
BMBF Project: SharKI [2021 - 2024]
Shared tasks as an innovative approach to implement AI- and Big-Data-based applications in the higher education.
Partners: B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), S. Hofmann (Leipzig University), J. Frochte (Bochum University)
[publications]
BMBF Project: The Immersive Web Observatory [2018 - 2025]
Exploiting the Internet Archive's web archive for smart and immersive applications in economy, society, and science.
Partners: B. Fröhlich, M. Hagen, B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[research]

Completed

BMBF Project: PHOENIX [2019 - 2022]
Reflection, analysis, and quantification of the practice of authorship in scientific writing.
Partners: S. Hornbostel (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, DZHW), B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[research]
BMBF Project: Agile-AI [2019 - 2022]
Agile development of software systems that operationalize complex machine learning experiments.
Partners: N. Siegmund, B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[research]
Cooperation with the DLR Data Science Institute: Reliability and Quality in Social Media [2018 - 2021]
Effective and efficient analysis of social media data such as Twitter news, Facebook posts, or Instagram messages regarding information quality and trust.
Partners: B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)