Education

Building bridges:
connecting research and society in collaboration with academia

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The ISI Foundation augments and supports its scientific mission through several postgraduate and postdoctoral training programs centered around its main research areas. This effort is fueled by fruitful collaborations with research and educational institutes, humanitarian agencies, data-providers etc. The scope can range from local partnerships (e.g., with the City of Turin) to alliances with global humanitarian agencies (e.g., with the World Health Organization).

Central to this educational and training effort is the Lagrange Project and its annual scholarship program. The program supports research activities aimed at bridging the gap between academic research and applications, with a particular focus on Data Science for Social Impact and Sustainable Development.

The most compelling evidence of the training programs’ impact is the profile and number of individuals—future pioneers in science and innovation—that the ISI Foundation has nurtured and engaged with over the years.

Lagrange Project

Lagrange Scholarships

The Lagrange Project supports the training of a new generation of young talents in the applications of complex systems science, data science, and artificial intelligence to societal challenges and sustainable development. The program provides a yearly cohort of scholarships, the Lagrange Scholarships, that support selected, freshly graduated STEM students and offers them a one year experiential learning path.

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European commission training Programs

ISI Foundation is active in several training programs supported by the European Commissions, such as ITNs (International Training Networks) or Doctoral Networks. The networks’ activities cover different fields of public interest from epidemic modeling and pandemic preparedness to computational tools for social disparities.

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VERDI

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RespiCast

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InfluCast

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ESCAPE

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COVID-19 Real Time Epidemiology I-DAIR Pathfinder

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STAMINA

STAMINA develops an intelligent decision support toolset for pandemic prediction and management and demonstrates its use by practitioners at national and regional levels within and across EU borders.
Icarus

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ICARUS will build a novel data value chain in the aviation-related sectors towards data-driven innovation and collaboration across currently diversified and fragmented industry players, acting as multiplier of the “combined” data value that can be accrued, shared and traded, and rejuvenating the existing, increasingly non-linear models  processes in aviation.
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CANP – Casa Nel Parco

CANP will investigate and devise advanced analytics and artificial intelligence techniques on top the development of an integrated ICT platform to harmonise data collection from heterogeneous sources ranging from medical IoT sensors and behavioural data to electronic health records.
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SocioPatterns

SocioPatterns is an interdisciplinary research collaboration that adopts a data-driven methodology with the aim of uncovering fundamental patterns in social dynamics and coordinated human activity.The SocioPatterns team also works on developing tools and techniques to represent, analyze and visualize the collected data.

Social ComQuant

Digitalization of society characterizes the twenty-first century in many aspects of social, political and cultural life.
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Periscope

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PANDEM-2

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Influweb Hero

Influenzanet & Influweb

Influenzanet is a system designed to monitor the activity of influenza-like-illness (ILI) with the aid of volunteers via the Internet.
Gleamviz

GLEAMviz

The global epidemic and mobility model, Gleam, combines real-world data on populations and human mobility with elaborate stochastic models of disease transmission to deliver analytic and forecasting power to address the challenges faced in developing intervention strategies that minimize the impact of potentially devastating epidemics.

Gender and Urban Mobility: Addressing Unequal Access to Urban Transportation for Women and Girls

Mobility, or the extent to which one can reach a desired destination, is one of our most basic needs. Access to mobility is also a prerequisite toward human development and having access to equal opportunities. As such mobility is a complex, gendered issue that requires a multidimensional, data-driven approach to fully unpack and offer insights on the way forward for decision-makers.
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EvoGamesPlus

Evolutionary games and population dynamics: from theory to applications

EpiPose

Epidemic intelligence to minimize COVID-19’s public health, societal and economical impact.  
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Data Interfaces

Data Interfaces aims to experiment with the development of interfaces and formats for data rich scenarios by merging the competences of communication design, complex systems science, and computer science.  

Data Collaboratives

The term data collaborative refers to a new form of collaboration, beyond the public-private partnership model, in which participants from different sectors — including private companies, research institutions, and government agencies — can exchange data to help solve public problems. In the coming months and years, data collaboratives will be essential vehicles for harnessing the vast stores of privately held data toward the public good.

SIESTA

Secure Interactive Environments for SensiTive data Analytics

AWaRe 1

A Global Low- and Middle-Income Country Primary Care (PC) Antimicrobial Stewardship Trial using the WHO AWaRe system
Verdi Hero

VERDI

VERDI – SARS-coV2 variants Evaluation in pRegnancy and paeDIatrics cohorts
Respicast Hero

RespiCast

European Respiratory Diseases Forecasting Hub (RespiCast)
Influcast Hero

InfluCast

Influcast forecasts the evolution of influenza-like-illnesses by aggregating predictions from multiple models  
Escape Hero

ESCAPE

Pandemic Preparedness and Response

COVID-19 Real Time Epidemiology I-DAIR Pathfinder

COVID-19 Real Time Epidemiology I-DAIR Pathfinder is an interdisciplinary project funded by the Botnar Foundation 
Stamina Hero

STAMINA

STAMINA develops an intelligent decision support toolset for pandemic prediction and management and demonstrates its use by practitioners at national and regional levels within and across EU borders.
Icarus

ICARUS – Aviation-driven Data Value Chain for Diversified Global and Local Operations

ICARUS will build a novel data value chain in the aviation-related sectors towards data-driven innovation and collaboration across currently diversified and fragmented industry players, acting as multiplier of the “combined” data value that can be accrued, shared and traded, and rejuvenating the existing, increasingly non-linear models  processes in aviation.
Canp Hero

CANP – Casa Nel Parco

CANP will investigate and devise advanced analytics and artificial intelligence techniques on top the development of an integrated ICT platform to harmonise data collection from heterogeneous sources ranging from medical IoT sensors and behavioural data to electronic health records.
Sociopatterns

SocioPatterns

SocioPatterns is an interdisciplinary research collaboration that adopts a data-driven methodology with the aim of uncovering fundamental patterns in social dynamics and coordinated human activity.The SocioPatterns team also works on developing tools and techniques to represent, analyze and visualize the collected data.

Social ComQuant

Digitalization of society characterizes the twenty-first century in many aspects of social, political and cultural life.
Periscope Hero

Periscope

Pan-European Response to the Impacts of COVID-19 and future Pandemics and Epidemics
Pandem Hero

PANDEM-2

Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Influweb Hero

Influenzanet & Influweb

Influenzanet is a system designed to monitor the activity of influenza-like-illness (ILI) with the aid of volunteers via the Internet.
Gleamviz

GLEAMviz

The global epidemic and mobility model, Gleam, combines real-world data on populations and human mobility with elaborate stochastic models of disease transmission to deliver analytic and forecasting power to address the challenges faced in developing intervention strategies that minimize the impact of potentially devastating epidemics.

Gender and Urban Mobility: Addressing Unequal Access to Urban Transportation for Women and Girls

Mobility, or the extent to which one can reach a desired destination, is one of our most basic needs. Access to mobility is also a prerequisite toward human development and having access to equal opportunities. As such mobility is a complex, gendered issue that requires a multidimensional, data-driven approach to fully unpack and offer insights on the way forward for decision-makers.
Evogames Hero

EvoGamesPlus

Evolutionary games and population dynamics: from theory to applications

EpiPose

Epidemic intelligence to minimize COVID-19’s public health, societal and economical impact.  
Datainterfaces Hero

Data Interfaces

Data Interfaces aims to experiment with the development of interfaces and formats for data rich scenarios by merging the competences of communication design, complex systems science, and computer science.  

Data Collaboratives

The term data collaborative refers to a new form of collaboration, beyond the public-private partnership model, in which participants from different sectors — including private companies, research institutions, and government agencies — can exchange data to help solve public problems. In the coming months and years, data collaboratives will be essential vehicles for harnessing the vast stores of privately held data toward the public good.
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Research

At the heart of ISI Foundation is interdisciplinary scientific research, with the goal of advancing complex systems science, network science, and data science to address complex socio-technical phenomena and impact public health and sustainable development.

Community

From the international scientific network to the link with the nonprofit world, ISI Foundation is an active hub between universities, companies, and institutions—committed to facilitating processes of change.