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“Combining scientific and indigenous knowledge”

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May 2025, a new SDG related educational resource for EURIDICE’s educational offer has appeared, in the spirit of Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship. While the knowledge systems anaylsed in this book are not necessarily all digital, one of the chapters is directly reated to ICT for Development. Abstract It is widely believed that modern technologies such as Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development (ICT4D) provide important innovative intervention instruments to help achieve … Read more

Penelope: Culture and the Digital Society

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AI neural networks are trained on millions of cat pictures to be able to recognize a cat.

The wish and promise to further expand and strengthen EURIDICE’s cultural ecosystem, including also creative sectors in Europe, brought a subset of the EURIDICE consortium, to engage in a new partnership and prepare a project plan to enhance the digital skills and create synergies with several cultural partners in six European countries. This new collaboration has led to new thematic synergies between the cultural, digital- technological and higher educational sectors. This new collaboration will provide … Read more

EURIDICE Biannual Event in Lisbon

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From March 10–12, the EURIDICE Consortium gathered for a productive and inspiring three-day meeting at Lusófona University in Lisbon. Representatives from nearly all partner institutions participated—coming from Portugal, Spain, Iceland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Ghana—with a few joining the sessions online. The meeting was marked by dynamic exchanges on joint education initiatives, including microcredentials and international collaboration. In addition, participants had the opportunity to attend several … Read more

Digital Humanism books surpassed 1M downloads

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Vienna, 8 November 2024 — We received the news from our colleagues from TU Wien and the Digital Humanism Initiative, that the two books: Perspectives on Digital Humanism and Introduction to Digital Humanism, have reached a remarkable milestone of over one million downloads. These books contain all relevant topics and an overview of the ongoing international discussions from different perspectives regarding Digital Humanism. The subject and discussions covered in these two books are foundational for the EURIDICE educational offer … Read more

EURIDICE meeting at Haus der Kulturen der Welt

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Berlin, 14 and 15 March 2024 – a delegation of the EURIDICE dissemination team came together at Haus der Kulturen de Welt (HKW) in Berlin. HKW is one of Germany’s lighthouses of culture. It is a great privilege for EURIDICE to have HKW as one of the cultural partners. HKW will contribute to EURIDICE’s communication strategy. How can we convey EURIDICE’s key ideas to a wider public? How can we spread the word and reach … Read more

Digital Society study visit UNIMAS-VU

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Amsterdam, 3 March 2024 – From 21 February – 3 March, a delegation from EURIDICE’s associate partner UNIMAS, the University Malaysia Sarawak, did a study visit to VU Amsterdam to prepare and co-design educational modules in the framework of EURIDICE’s master Digital Society & Global Citizenship. Dr. Cheah WaiShiang, Computer Science lecturer at UNIMAS, researcher and course coordinator, together with Mr. Sim Wai Keng MSc., in close collaboration with lecturers from VU, UDS, AKMC and … Read more