Weaponizing Migration: The Case of Tunisia
Prompted by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s visit to Lampedusa, in view of the emerging migrant crisis, the Tunisian government responded by…
Prompted by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s visit to Lampedusa, in view of the emerging migrant crisis, the Tunisian government responded by…
The Italian island of Lampedusa, located 113 kilometres from the coast of Tunisia, recently witnessed a huge influx of undocumented migrants. Today, the island’s 6,500 inhabitants are neighbours with some…
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, more than 2,500 irregular migrants have either lost their life or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea in the first three quarters of…
"In God we trust; all others must bring data". This famous quote, widely attributed to the US statistician W. Edwards Deming, refers mainly to the importance of data for any…
The generation of news around the world is growing at a fast speed, even faster with continuously improved versions of AI content generators like GPT. Such text generators (for example:…
In mid-June 2023, some 500 migrants – including women and children – lost their lives when their fishing boat capsized off the coast of southern Greece, prompting Jonas Grimheden, Frontex’s…
We are pleased to announce that our colleagues from the L3S Research Center will be presenting at the upcoming 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), July 17-20, 2023 in Copenhagen, DenmarkThe…
CRiTERIA is an innovative, EU-funded research project that uses semantic technologies in conjunction with interactive visualisation techniques to empower European border agencies and other stakeholders within the European Union. Its…
Predicting Information Needs Predicting the information needs of a user is not always possible. While in some cases the information needs may be known in advance, e.g. in the form…
The Web Conference 2023 took place in Austin, Texas, USA from April 30 - May 4. Sergej Wildemann, Claudia Niederée, and Erick Elejalde from the L3S Research Center participated with…