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This paper investigates students' online learning experience during COVID-19, specifically aiming to identify points of improvement within the current distance-learning infrastructure in Thailand. The research consolidates students ’opinions toward online learning, their ease in adapting to the new learning environment, which depends not only on each student's learning style but also on their teachers as well as social and economic factors. Identifying the advantages and disadvantages of learning from home, the research presents students' needs and suggestions for improvement. As such, this work may guide future adjustments to online learning.

NEFERTITI is a ‘Horizon 2020’ project that will run until the end of 2021. It supports on-farm demonstration activities and farmer-to-farmer learning that supports innovation uptake. The name NEFERTITI reflects the full project title: ‘Networking European Farms to Enhance Cross Fertilisation and Innovation Uptake Through Demonstration’. Networking... The project involves ten networks each with a theme. The themes focus on aspects of innovation in livestock production, arable farming, and horticulture. They bring together 45 regional clusters (‘hubs’) of demonstration farmers and people who innovate in agriculture, such as advisors, facilitators, researchers, industry representatives and policy makers. You can Farm: Farm attractiveness Network 10, called ‘Farm Attractiveness’ has the goal of identifying and supporting new people and new pathways into agriculture across Europe. This network supports knowledge exchange demonstration events held on farms and online, with host farmers who are ‘new entrants’ to agriculture. The objective of the demonstration events are to encourage young people to see farming as a future and career that is both worthwhile and worth considering. Network Activities In 2019 a total of 39 events were organised by Network 10 hubs, all of which were either on-farm or in-organisation. In 2020, 31 events were held, 12 of which were held online in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Online events organised included webinars, panel discussions, and social media ‘takeovers’. One UK virtual event included contributions from four partner countries. The use of social media was critical to the success of the demonstration events, both on-farm, in organisation, or held online. Social media promotion of events attracted young and diverse audiences, and careful use of different platforms appealed to different localities and types of participants (e.g. agricultural college students). For example, the social media ‘takeovers’ involved young farmers directly uploading stories, videos, pictures, and other content to the social media of partner organisations. Videos from the events could be shared via social media to enhance knowledge exchange and links were made available to allow for later viewing. Findings Multimedia use and the use of diverse social media platforms has the potential increase and target audiences. E.g. Instagram events, targeted at young people, also promoted on Facebook and Twitter, including sharing video links. Virtual events have enabled an international dimension to be added to events. E.g. UK webinar featuring contributions from other partners Online events are available for knowledge exchange with those who cannot participate ‘live’. E.g. Webinar recordings are available on YouTube and Instagram highlights of social media takeovers are available on the host channel, and Instagram TV.

International audience; In 2020, the latest French national agricultural censuses show the drastic decline and ageing of the farming population. At the same time, the re-territorialisation of agriculture has been developing, particularly around large cities, with the rise of AMAPs (Association pour le Maintien d'une Agriculture Paysanne in French) for example. In 2014, the French state created a policy to support local farming, farmers’ renewal and local food supply chains: the Territorial Food Projects (TFP), illustrating the rise of the food thematic, at the expense of agriculture in french national and local policies. TFPs aim to adopt a cross-cutting perspective and to integrate urban-rural relationships’ issues. They support territorialized food systems and short food supply chains. They are, first, structured at municipal or regional level, second, based on a shared diagnosis of agriculture and food in the territory between the stakeholders concerned; third on a quality objective in terms of ethics, environment, health, nutrition, etc., and, fourth, on its interconnectedness. This local management allows concerted action between political stakeholders and local food production system actors, thus enable them to produce a coordinated food and agricultural policy at local level. In 2020, local food supply chains have really taken off with the covid-19 pandemic and TFPs have emerged as key policies to meet France's agricultural challenges and fight de-peasantisation. In the framework of the European H2020 project Ruralization, the CNRS team analysed the impact of TFPs on the local development of rural areas. Indeed, this new policy, deeply bottom up and favouring action at the local level, raises questions: what type of agriculture does it encourage? Does it meet farmers' needs? Does it meet the needs of the inhabitants? Does it make food accessible to all? What interactions between urban and rural actors does it promote? And more broadly what kind of local society does it create? Based on several local case studies and reports, the aim of this paper is to understand dynamics and impacts of TFPs on rural regeneration, on farmers’ installation and on agricultural land’s preservation. It aims also to reflect on the limits of this territorial policy and on the evolution of agricultural policies in France.

Industry worldwide is facing new challenges, particularly the implementation of new technologies, climate change and currently the pandemic of the disease caused by the new coronavirus COVID-19. For the industry to be competitive, it must make technological changes. These changes are based on the concept of Industry 4.0. The changes brought about by implementing the Industry 4.0 concept and the related digitization of the economy have implications for the functioning of markets, industries, and other sectors. Significant impacts can be expected on the labor market when the demand for specific professions changes and new competencies will be required for employees. The fundamental question is how specifically these requirements can be implemented in current education conditions, specifically in the university environment. As part of practical training, it is unrealistic to demonstrate new ways of operation management on an extensive product line. It is very effective to use various forms of small-scale models. These models behave practically the same as in actual operation, and students can try out different production states, problem-solving and subsequent optimization. This article describes how we solve this problem in our university.

Open-access databases can facilitate data sharing among researchers and provide normative data for objective clinical assessment development, robotic design, and biomechanical modeling. However, most existing databases focus on gait, balance, and hand gestures without providing elbow and shoulder kinematics that are required in activities of daily living. Furthermore, the few existing upper limb datasets include small sample sizes without consistent data collection protocols, which hinder robotic engineers' ability to design robotic devices that accommodate the general population. To address the literature gap, an open-access upper limb kinematic database was proposed. Due to the impact of COVID-19 on human research, only data from 16 participants were collected. Clinical Relevance-This provides baseline kinematics for developing objective clinical assessments and rehabilitation robots.

Echocardiography probe manipulation is a strenuous task. During a procedure, the operator must hold the probe, extend their arm, bend their elbow, and monitor the resulting image simultaneously, which causes strain and introduces variability to the measurement. We propose a teleoperated probe manipulation robot to reduce the burden of handling the probe and minimize the infection risk during the COVID pandemic. The proposed robot utilizes prone position scanning that could enlarge the cardiac windows for easier scanning and eliminate the risk of the robot pressing down on the patient. We derived the robot's requirements based on a real clinical scenario. Initial evaluation showed that the robot could achieve the required range of motion, force, and control. The robot's functionality was tested by a non-clinician, in which the tester could obtain heart images of a volunteer in under one minute.

Especially with the COVID-19 pandemic, which is affecting the whole world today, accurate determination of the number of people entering a closed area has become very important in terms of measures to be taken against the spread of the disease. This project uses WiFi Signals and IR sensors to determine the number of people in a predefined area. To obtain the required raw data the system utilizes two main principles: the effect of humans on the WiFi signal strength and the entrance-exit control based on distance and LDR sensors. It is a low cost solution with quite good sensitivity and low error level. The simple principles which it is based on allows its application also in other areas like for example livestock farming, where the number of cattle entering a closed area can be counted. © 2022 IEEE. 8th International Conference on Energy Efficiency and Agricultural Engineering, EE and AE 2022 -- 30 June 2022 through 2 July 2022 -- -- 181234 The author wants to express her thanks to Ahmet Burak Özer and Furkan Senol for their contribution to this project.

[EN] The rise of digital technology has enabled us to utilize even more integrated systems for social and health care, but these systems are often complex and time-consuming to learn for the end users without relevant training or experience. We aim to perform Named Entity Recognition based sentiment analysis using the answers of eldercare workers that have taken a survey about the effects of digitalization on their work. The collection of the panel survey data was carried out in two waves: in 2019 and 2021. For the sentiment analysis we compare these two waves to determine the effects of COVID-19 on the work of eldercare workers. The research questions we ask are the following: “Has technology affected eldercare workers’ emotions in their work and how?" and “Has COVID-19 affected eldercare workers’ views on digitalization in their work?”. The main results suggest that criticism of modern technology persists through time – that is, before and after the pandemic the same type of negative and positive sentiments are manifested in the results. However, the familiarization with technology during COVID-19 seems to have been decreasing negative sentiments and increasing positive sentiments regarding digitalization. Due to the smallness of our data, more research should be conducted to make firmer conclusions on the matter.

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are facing significant progress in their digitalization. Covid-19 is an external affordance in which digitalization helps to secure social distance. Internal affordances are requirements to enhance the students’ learning experience. We analyze students’ attitudes toward the digitalization of their HEI based on empirical data from two groups of students within the same study program during the pandemic. The first group started on-campus before the pandemic and was forced into online teaching. The second group started online. Our results show that students, to a high degree, perceive harm in their learning success. At the same time, they have trust in the HEI’s data handling. Generally, the group, which started online, shows a slightly higher negative perception. The differences between the two groups show a low to a medium degree. Our work contributes to clarifying the impact of having to start studies online, which seems to be minor.

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