Anna Bon

I am the project coordinator of EURIDICE. With 18 years of experience managing international projects in higher education, in four continents, I have taken this as a great challenge. My expertise is in the area of Digital Society and Globall Citizenship. I am a lecturer in the interdisciplinary field of ICT4D, which I teach to students from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. My personal objective is to make the Digital Society for inclusive and human-centred, with special focus on people and communities the Global South.

Speechbot – a speech-based chatbot to resource rare African languages

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As a short, self-standing master research project, Auke Schuringa delivered a new innovative service called Speechbot, a speech-based chatbot framework for rare, under-resourced languages in the world. The speech-matching package was especially made to handle rare languages which have a phonetic overlap with a widely-spoken and digitally resourced language, such as English or Dutch. The speechbot can be used with existing chat services, and facilitates the digital communication over speech, especially for those who prefer … Read more

EURIDICE at Advanced Digital Skills

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Brussels, 12–17 November 2025 — The EURIDICE project was showcased at the Advanced Digital Skills Summit in Brussels. Notably, EURIDICE’s SMEs Babafla CEO André Baart and AKMC CEO Hans Akkerman presented the Microcredential Approach as one of the best practices within the EU’s Digital Europe Programme. For many ADS-DEP projects, implementing the EU’s vision for microcredentials, i.e. enabling seamless, lifelong learning across Europe, remains a major challenge, particularly regarding the recognition and quality assurance of … Read more

Successful Digital Humanism Summer School

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Vienna, September, 12 2025. The Fourth ACM Digital Humanism PhD Summer School, in which five EURIDICE partners collaborate this year, was a big success, with 38 participants from many different countries. “Digital Humanism is the interdisciplinary field that examines the complex interplay between digital technologies and humankind, with the aim of creating a better society and improving our lives. “ “Digital Humanism foregrounds world-wide shared human values as the foundation for the direction in which … Read more

Beyond Closed Doors: master thesis by Oleksandr Zakotianskyi

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An Open Source AI Framework for Forecasting Armed Conflict. Abstract – Armed conflicts are increasing in frequency and severity worldwide, resulting in devastating humanitarian and economic consequences. Despite advances in conflict forecasting, leading academic early warning models often lack complete openness, limiting reproducibility and the potential for advancements in the field. Addressing this critical issue, this thesis presents an entirely open-source framework designed to reproduce and extend state-of-the-art earlyconflict forecasting models using publicly available datasets.Specifically, … Read more

Discussing Europe’s Digital Strategy

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What are future trends in digital technologies to boost Europe’s digital economy and how can Europe catch up in areas where the US and China are currently leading the digital innovation. These and other topics were discussed in Brussels with some of Europe’s leading minds in digital technology from business, industry and academia. Over two intense days the European Commission’s DG CNECT gathered 75 experts to explore the future of Europe’s critical digital capacities beyond … Read more

Design Tools & Methods for Hybrid Learning

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Can we improve digital skills of teachers and learners in a hybrid way? The answer to this question is at the heart of the Collaboratorium, EURIDICE’s famous innovation for teaching and learning in a hybrid, interconnected European setting. The Collaboratorium will soon start, as the Master Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship will start its first classes, simulataneously at the University of Naples, the University of Innsbruck and Palacky University in Olomouc. To enrich … Read more

A Successful Story of Entrepreneurship

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Tom Siebring at StartHub

How successful , innovative, digitally skilled and entrepreneurial are alumni of EURIDICE’s educational programs? This is a question often posed to us in various surveys by the European Commission, which the EU wants to know, as part of the common vision and policy for the Digital Decade. The Digital Europe Programme is designed to make this happen. EURIDICE adds Digital Humanism and Global Citizenship. Is this a promising approach? The first results are very promising. … Read more

Responsible Entrepreneurship Seminar in Paris

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Paris, 23 May 2024 – At the Centre for student entrepreneurship and innovation (IAE) of the Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) we attended a fantastic seminar, in which 18 students from various universities (including the EURIDICE universities UPEC, CBS, ULusofona, VU Amsterdam), and their lecturers, successfully participated. This Blended Intensive Programme, successfully organized by Dr. Laurence Beierlein from IAE-UPEC in the framework of the Erasmus mobility programme was the first activity of UPEC as a new … Read more

Talking about Quantum Computing

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We talked with HPC expert (High Performance Computing) Huub Stoffers about Quantum Computing, one of the most recent digital innovations the EU is exploring. We want to understand its application domains, its strategic positioning in the European digital technology landscape, its relation to HPC and maybe to Artificial Intelligence (AI), its future outlook, also given the hooks to industry and Big Tech in the technological race between the EU, US and China. Huub contributed to … Read more

SDGs in the light of Digital Transformation

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A round table discussion with Saa Dittoh, Julia Neidhardt, Marcel Stelte, Auke Schuringa, Oleksandr Zakotianskyi, took place at VU Amsterdam, this was a session of the Conference “Navigating the Anthropocene”, Amsterdam, 30 January 2025. During this event, two major frameworks for a better world are linked. These are (1) the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, c.q. SDG1 zero hunger, SDG5 gender equality, and (2) Digital Humanism, the initiative that aims to ensure that digital technology remains … Read more