SDGs in the light of Digital Transformation
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 ... Read more
New book about Digital Humanism
Hannes Werthner was interviewed by Walter Famler – Alte Schmiede Wien – on 25 January 2025 about his new book. In this book, which recently appeared in German, titled: Digitaler Humanismus. Über Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz, Hannes Werthner addresses the topic of advancing digitalisation including artificial intelligence, and describes the enormous opportunities that arise from it and also analyses its serious shortcomings. His concept of digital humanism (he initiated the ... Read more
Interview with Elizabeth Apuseyine
This is the second interview in the podcast series, in which we interview lecturers and experts related to Digital Society and Global Citizenship.
Interview with Marco Biondi
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 ... Read more
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Is there an Elephant in the News Room?
In 2024, a group of students have delivered their master’s theses in the societally oriented programme “Digital Society and Global Citizenship”. This blog is one in a series devoted to the interdisciplinary studies which have been conducted in the framework of the EURIDICE project, and are all related to real world challenges, in which digital solutions are used in a design science – action research approach. The research project by ... Read more
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Transformative Impact & Ethics of Generative AI
At Online Educa Berlin (OEB), the leading international cross-sector event on technology-supported learning and training, held in Potsdam this year, from November 27–29, 2024, Liana Razmerita delivered a compelling presentation in the session titled “Transformative Impact and Ethical Considerations of Generative AI in Academic Research.” OEB had about 2000 participants from both academic and private business sector. This session featured four speakers who delved into the challenges educators encounter when integrating generative AI tools into ... Read more
How to address the SDGs in the light of the Digital Transformation?
Amsterdam, January 2025 – Everywhere in the world, people are talking about the Digital Transformation. Artificial Intelligence (AI), once a rather obscure and contested area in Computer Science, has become a coffee-table conversation topic. Many countries and blocks (incl. EU) have policies in place to educate digital skills, and they aim (all, without exception!) to be internationally leading. How this is connected to progress in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable ... Read more
Workshop “Paradigm Shift in Computer Science” a great success.
This workshop “Paradigm Shift in Computer Science”, took place at the in Vienna, Austria, organized by the Digital Humanism Initiative, TU Wien and the IWM (the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna). It was chaired by Hannes Werthner, Stefan Woltran, Ludger Hagedorn. This workshop focuses on the challenges for computer science and the sciences in general, the move from logic and algorithmic certainty to probability and LLMs. It was a ... Read more
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Presentation of Human-AI Collaboration: A Student Centered Perspective in Higher Education paper at ECEL
Presentation at the 23rd European Conference of e-Learning in Porto of paper by Liana Razmerita from Copenhagen Business School (CBS) https://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecel/ . Abstract: The increasing adoption of generative AI (Gen AI) has made it even more important to investigate how education and learning is transformed. This research paper investigates the evolving relationship between humans and AI in performing learning and knowledge-intensive tasks. Based on mixed data collected from business school ... Read more
Digital Humanism books surpassed 1M downloads
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 ... Read more