Applications Now Open: DIGISOC Joint Master’s Programme 2026/2027

Are you passionate about digital transformation and social innovation? The DIGISOC European Joint Master’s Programme is now accepting applications for the 2026/2027 cohort. What is DIGISOC? The Master Digital Society and Global Citizenship (dubbed DIGISOC) trains the next generation of socio-digital innovators — professionals who can bridge the gap between advanced digital technologies and meaningful social change. This two-year programme combines expertise from three European universities across Italy, Austria, and ... Read more

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André Baart

“Between Parliament, Newspapers, and Social Media”

The Netherlands State Commission against Discrimination and Racism has published an important new study, “Between Parliament, Newspapers, and Social Media,”. It shows that statements made by politicians about population groups, reports in national newspapers, and responses from social-media users can influence and reinforce each other. Statements by politicians, such as speeches and interruptions, have a particularly stimulating effect: when they speak more frequently, more negatively, or in a discriminatory manner ... Read more

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Hans Akkermans

Critical Digital Technologies and the Future Strategic EU Investments

The direction of post-2027 strategic investments in Research & Innovation of Critical Digital Technologies (such as AI) was the central topic of an EU expert advisory workshop in Brussels, organized on 05 February 2026 by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT). Anna Bon and Hans Akkermans, from the EURIDICE project, were invited to participate as experts. Anna Bon emphasized the strategic importance of a human-centric ... Read more

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Hans Akkermans

Digital platforms and their revenue models

EURIDICE consortium partner Fraunhofer IESE has published research addressing a critical challenge in platform business model design: how platforms capture value among different actors in digital ecosystems. The study presents a comprehensive taxonomy comprising 15 dimensions and 64 characteristics that classify revenue models for digital platforms. Using design science research methodology, the authors developed and empirically evaluated the taxonomy through iterative cycles involving literature review and case studies. A controlled ... Read more

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Nedo Bartels

Generative AI in research, innovation and education

The quick emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence in all sectors of the economy as well as daily life poses new challenges for Society. In the past period a group of EURIDICE partners have been involved in co-designing and lecturing courses in Generative AI covering a wide interdisciplinary range of topics, and addressing some pressing questions such as: Technical practice: how does one practically usefully employ LLM systems (good “prompt engineering” ... Read more

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Hans Akkermans

Orpheus: an AI-supported Content Management System for Education

Building a large course programme and corresponding extensive course catalogue with 24 project partners across 15 countries is a major undertaking. It requires significant efforts from many different parties and especially teaching staff simultaneously, and coordination of tasks. Therefore, project partner Babafla have designed, developed and implemented an AI-supported tool ORPHEUS, that supports the production of course descriptions, and does the automatic generation of course catalogues. From the raw data, ... Read more

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Leeuw van Moerkerken

5th ACM Europe Digital Humanism Summer School

Upcoming PhD Summer School at TU Wien – registration will open soon. 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 and ... Read more

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Walter Palmetshofer

Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Science and Research Conference on Digital Humanism

TU Wien and partners recently announced the publication of the proceedings of the first Interdisciplinary Science and Research Conference on Digital Humanism, DIGHUM-RES 2025, offering an exploration of how technology can be shaped in accordance with human values across computer science, ethics, law, politics, and beyond. This open access volume constitutes the proceedings of First Interdisciplinary Science and Research Conference on Digital Humanism, DIGHUM 2025, Vienna, Austria, during November 20–21, ... Read more

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Walter Palmetshofer

Masterproject: a speech-based chatbot to resource small languages and bridge the Digital Divide

As a short, self-standing master research project, Auke Schuringa delivered a new innovative service called Speechbot, a speech-based chatbot framework for rare, under-resourced languages in the world. The speech-matching package was especially made to handle rare languages which have a phonetic overlap with a widely-spoken and digitally resourced language, such as English or Dutch. The speechbot can be used with existing chat services, and facilitates the digital communication over speech, ... Read more

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Anna Bon

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

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 ... Read more

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