Annual doctoral seminar lasting three to five days twice per year (one in Tunis and one in Algiers) for doctoral students from the Maghreb and Germany, in close collaboration between MARA (Marburg Research Academy/Philipps University Marburg)the École doctorale (Université de Tunis), the “Religion and Society” Laboratory (University of Algiers 2/Algeria), the DAAD and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The doctoral school aims to identify potential future MECAM scholarship holders.

Doctoriales ISGT-ESSECT-TBS 2023

The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) is pleased to invite you to the 3rd edition of the Doctoriales ISGT-ESSECT-TBS 2023 18 and 19 January 2024 at the Tunis Business School, in which MECAM will participate as a partner, on the theme of “The innovations brought by the Artificial Intelligence revolution to scientific research in theoretical, methodological and empirical terms”. These days will be animated by doctoral workshops aimed at providing doctoral students with tools to help them “Succeed better in their thesis thanks to artificially intelligent methodological approaches”.

The specific themes addressed during these days will be related to

– Repositioning scientific research in the face of the adoption of new epistemological and scientific paradigms incorporating technological advances in Artificial Intelligence;

– The extent of the use of new tools and methods offered by Artificial Intelligence for the benefit of scientific research, in particular, in terms of artificially intelligent bibliographic tools or in terms of analysis tools based on “Machine Learning” and “Deep Learning”; and

– ways of communicating and disseminating research work.

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