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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André Baart

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.

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Leeuw van Moerkerken

“The Islamic 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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Anna Bon

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

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Liana Razmerita

The SDGs in the light of the Digital Transformation

Navigating the Anthropocene Conference Session – Thurday 30 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 ... Read more

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Hans Akkermans

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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Anna Bon

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

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Liana Razmerita

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

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Leeuw van Moerkerken

Societal impact of teaching and learning

Olomouc, 4-8 November 2024 — Lecturers and educational experts from various higher education institutions in Europe (the EURIDICE and Aurora networks) came together to discuss, debate, learn, iterate and (re-)innovate teaching, learning and educational programs during a one- week participatory workshop, hosted by Palacky University in the historical city of Olomouc. The guiding framework for this workshop is LOUIS, Aurora’s competence framework composed of sixteen high-level learning outcomes, that describe ... Read more

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Anna Bon

Wendy Hall discussed AI global governance @DigHumTUWIEN

Vienna, 25 October 2024 — Dame Wendy Hall contributed to the preparation of the UN’s new report Governing AI for Humanity. In her talk, at TU Wien, Wendly Hall discussed a blueprint for addressing the risks of AI, while fostering its innovation potential. Seven recommendations are proposed for global current AI governance. It calls on global partnerships for AI governance for innovation and protection of human rights. The UN must ... Read more

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Walter Palmetshofer