Grant and Award Announcement

IMDEA Networks has contributed to the ECOMOME project, a research initiative focused on optimizing energy consumption in mobile networks. The project, which concluded recently, was funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Union’s NextGenerationEU/PRTR program and awarded under CHIST-ERA 2021 call. It addressed energy efficiency challenges across all components of mobile networks, from user devices to radio access and core networks.

Goethe University Frankfurt has been awarded another humanities research unit funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG): The unit, titled “Power and Abuse in the Roman Catholic Church,” will investigate the conditions that facilitate abuse and how they can be prevented. Additionally, the Center for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences “Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities” has secured follow-up funding for its study of Christianity from the first to the eighteenth century.

Mosquitoes have been transmitting the West Nile virus to humans in the United States for over 25 years, but we still don’t know precisely how the virus cycles through these pests and the other animals they bite. A federally funded project aims to help pin down the process by using mathematical models to analyze how factors like temperature, light pollution, and bird and mosquito abundance affect West Nile virus transmission. The ultimate goal is to advise health departments of the best time of year to kill the bugs.