André Baart

Interview with Marco Biondi

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EURIDICE launched a new podcast series with interviews about Culture, Communication and Education with global citizens in the Digital Society. In this first edition of the series we discuss with professor Marco Biondi, who teaches pharmaceutical technology at the University Federico II of Napoli, how to engage learners in your acedemic classes and how to overcome failure. This is done in a very playful manner, using improvisational theatre and mind mapping, and doing playful games … Read more

EURIDICE’s biannual in Vienna: co-creating hybrid teaching experiences

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Vienna, 11 september 2024. We look back at a successful second biannual of EURIDICE’s partners, at the invitation of TU-Wien, following up on the first biannual, kindly hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences of UNINA in Naples, on 31 May this year. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the ongoing design and accreditation of the European joint master Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship. In addition to that, the project partners … Read more

Can AI give African farmers better rain forecasts?

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Artificial Intelligence is being used in many areas and fields of application. In ICT for Development we are piloting AI projects to find out how to make AI useful for people in low resource environments. The thesis of Tom Siebring is one of these endeavors. In the West African Sahel, rains are erratic, while farmers mostly rely on rainfed agriculture. Weather forecasts are often unreliable, due to the lack of local weather stations? In a … Read more