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OU Analyse team wins MK STEM Award 2025 for Early Alert Indicators Dashboard

OU Analyse STEM award

KMi is delighted to announce that the Early Alert Indicators Dashboard, led by KMi’s Prof. Miriam Fernandez and powered by the OU Analyse team, has won the prestigious MK STEM Award 2025 in the AI Impact category. This accolade celebrates the team’s innovative use of artificial intelligence to transform education and promote equitable learning opportunities. The MK STEM Awards recognise excellence and innovation…

Climate misinformation surveillance project secures €1 million grant

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A pioneering research initiative, ClimateSense, led by KMi’s Director Harith Alani, has received a €1 million grant from the European CHIST-ERA programme, with £275,000 allocated from the EPSRC. The project tackles the critical issue of climate misinformation by integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with AI to analyse the geopolitical spread of false claims about climate…

KMi’s OUAnalyse team honoured with the 2024 STEM Recognising Excellence Award for Groundbreaking Educational Innovations

OU Analyse - STEM recognising excellence award 2024

We are thrilled to announce that a team of researchers, technology developers, pedagogical experts and tutors from KMi and The Open University have been awarded the prestigious 2024 STEM Recognising Excellence Award for their groundbreaking contributions to education. Their work, particularly the development and successful implementation of the Early Alert Indicators Dashboard (OUAnalyse), has transformed…

KMi presents and sponsors the ACM Hypertext & Social Media 2024 Conference

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This year’s ACM Hypertext and Social Media conference highlighted the exceptional contributions of KMi members, with many taking on key roles; Enrico Motta delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony on the 10th of September, setting a high tone for the event. Several KMi colleagues played vital roles in organising this successful conference. As…

Harmonizing Musical Heritage: The Polifonia Project’s Innovative Approach

Alba Morales Tirado presents on the MEETUPS project

The Polifonia project has recently joined forces with the EuropeanaTech community and the Europeana PRO platform to further the digital harmonization of musical heritage knowledge.  Through this partnership, a webinar took place featuring KMi’s Alba Morales Tirado, who discussed the MEETUPS pilot, and touched upon the critical infrastructure aspects, including the Ecosystem and Data Management. …

Fostering Synergies: C&C and KMi research & innovation event

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C&C (The School of Computing and Communication) and KMi arranged a research festival designed to celebrate the research and innovations in these two units with the STEM Faculty, here at The Open University. The event showcased a taster of their latest research highlights and innovations. This face-to-face event provided a platform for networking and knowledge…

KMi Researchers Make Significant Contributions at ESWC 2024 Conference

Doctors Enrico Daga, Francesco Osborne, Angelo Salatino, Prof John Domingue and PhD student Marco Ratta recently attended the 2024 edition of the Extended Semantic Web Conference, where they showcased their significant contributions to the field through various research papers and workshops as well as contributing to the leadership of the entire ESWC Community. Although Prof. Motta…

KMi’s Polifonia team presented a Music Meets Machines workshop at the MK Innovates Festival

The "Music Meets Machines workshop" presented by the Polifonia team gave a look into cutting-edge technologies used to represent music history. Led by Alba Morales and Jason Carvalho, the event brought together local school students in Milton Keynes to learn about generative AI and music knowledge graphs. Through this exploration of music heritage information, attendees…