At TU Wien, Dr. Peter Knees and Dr.Julia Neidhardt are the UNESCO chairs. For EURIDICE they organized various events and lectures.In Amsterdam, on January 2025 – Julia Neidhardt presented the Digital Humanism philosophy and how this is implemented in a quickly expanding community. She gave the following lecture:
Abstract The Digital Humanism Initiative is an international collaboration seeking to build a community of scholars, policy makers, and industrial players who are focused on ensuring that technology development remains centered on human interests. Technology profoundly shapes the world we live in, and the stakes are high. Digital Humanism deals with digital technology development and policies based on human rights, democracy, inclusion, and diversity. Among others, the Digital Humanism initiative has published two Open Access books with many studies of the issues involved and a textbook (Springer 2022 and 2024), that together now have more than 1.1 Million downloads. Also, a book for use by high schools and their pupils has been written (2024) that is being translated in several languages. Julia Neidhardt is assistent-professor at the Centre for AI and Machine Learning of TU Wien, Austria, and UNESCO co-Chair in Digital Humanism.
Julia Neidhardt and two of the educational resources by TU Wien that will be used for EURIDICE’s educational modules on this subject.