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Better coordination can ease pressure on care for older adults

Mathematical models can help identify vulnerable older people earlier and reduce bottlenecks between hospitals, home care and nursing homes. In his PhD research, CWI researcher Tim de Boer shows that better coordination …

Ouderen zitten bij elkaar in een zorginstelling

CWI contributes to new international ITU standard on XR

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has officially published a new international standard for eXtended Reality (XR) communications. This new standard provides practical methodologies to evaluate the Quality of Experience (QoE) for users …

Sharing data to speed up the heat transition

CWI is one of the co-applicants in Sharing the Warmth, a new NWO-KIC project led by Wageningen University & Research. The project will develop fair and trustworthy ways to share data for …

Woonwijk in Assen met warmtepompen en zonnepanelen op het dak

4th Edition of Spring School on Social XR, ACM Seasonal School

More than thirty students from various disciplines, including technology, the social sciences, and the humanities participated the fourth edition of the Spring School on Social XR. The event took place from 20 …

Group photo Spring school 2026

Quantum Application Development Enters a New Stage for QAL Consortium Members

After 5 years of end-user driven quantum computing application development, the Quantum Application Lab (QAL) members will pursue different approaches and emphases in their mission towards developing useful quantum computing applications.

NWO grant for RECAB to share research findings and reduce energy consumption

The RECAB (Reducing Energy Consumption in Algorithm Benchmarking) project was awarded with funding from NWO’s Sustainable Science call. This project, led by CWI’s Evolutionary Intelligence (EI) group, aims to develop a tool …

NWO grant for sustainable scientific computing with ECO-COMPASS

The (Energy-Conscious Computational Algorithms & Sustainable Science) has been awarded a grant from NWO’s Sustainable Science Fund call. ECO-COMPASS is a collaboration between CWI and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science …

Tristan van Leeuwen sitting in front of a computer, studying the x ray image of the inside of an apple

CWI contributes AI expertise to national healthcare consortium

CWI's Evolutionary Intelligence (EI) group is joining a large national research consortium that will develop artificial intelligence to support diagnosis in general practice. The ten-year programme Trinitas HORIZON is led by UMC …