Digital Society

EURIDICE and DIGISOC win two awards at Global Citizenship Symposium

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Amsterdam, 29 May 2026 – At the last day of the very successful Global Citizenship Symposium, organized in Amsterdam by the Aurora network of European Universities, two out of three awards went to EURIDICE. A joint team of EURIDICE researchers won the best presentation award. The best poster went to the DIGISOC students. The Global Citizenship Symposium brought together academic staff and students from many countries to discuss themes of Community Service Learning, Peace and … Read more

5th ACM Europe Digital Humanism Summer School – registration is open

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PhD Summer School at TU Wien 6-10 July 2026 in Vienna – registration is open visit the site Digitalization permeates all aspects of our lives. It offers the opportunity to implement participatory projects on a global scale, such as Wikipedia, but on the other hand, it causes radicalization and polarization and threatens political discourse. The rise of AI in its different forms presents further challenges and opportunities. Questions about regulation, digital sovereignty, but also participation … Read more

Blog: Steps towards Digital Autonomy

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How do we move towards a more inclusive and sustainable city where the technology we adopt is under our own collective control? What is needed to make progress on that journey and what is the role of academia, governments, societal organisations and private companies? These were the guiding questions for an event that Waag Futurelab organised in collaboration with the VU in the iconic 1691 Waag building in the city centre of Amsterdam on 29 January … Read more

Where exactly are you? Geocoding for Disaster Response in India – a new master thesis

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Evaluating AI-enhanced Geocoding for Informal Locations – a new master thesis by Adithya Vasisth on a research subject of the Digital Divide, the Digital Society and Global Citizenship. Abstract – Crisis mapping technologies assume every person has a formal address, a reliable internet connectivity, and communicates in English. Most disaster-affected communities have none of these. When disasters strike, affected populations report emergencies through platforms promising democratized response. Yet a persistent bottleneck emerges: translating informal location … 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

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