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? DIGISOC trains the next generation of socio-digital innovators — professionals who can bridge the gap between advanced digital technologies and meaningful social change. The two-year Master’s programme combines expertise from three European universities across Italy, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Graduates learn to design, ... Read more

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André Baart

International Winter School: Social Innovations in the Digitalised World

Call for Applications Target group: Master’s students and young researchers in economics, management, social sciences, and related fields. Date: February 23 5.00 pm – March 23, 2026, modality: fullly online. Registration deadline: 9 February. In an era of digital transformation, social innovation has become a powerful tool to address global and community challenges – from inequality and sustainability to education and employment. The International Winter School “Social Innovations in the ... Read more

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Olena Mykolenko

Speechbot – a speech-based chatbot to resource rare African languages

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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Leeuw van Moerkerken

EURIDICE at Advanced Digital Skills

Brussels, 12–17 November 2025 — The EURIDICE project was showcased at the Advanced Digital Skills Summit in Brussels. Notably, EURIDICE’s SMEs Babafla CEO André Baart and AKMC CEO Hans Akkerman presented the Microcredential Approach as one of the best practices within the EU’s Digital Europe Programme. For many ADS-DEP projects, implementing the EU’s vision for microcredentials, i.e. enabling seamless, lifelong learning across Europe, remains a major challenge, particularly regarding the ... Read more

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Anna Bon

Pope Leo speaks: Digital Humanism, AI and Education

Pope Leo XIV recently made several important statements on AI, digital technologies and the future of information and communication. Pope Leo is calling for a “new humanism in the digital era”, according to reports in the Corriere della Sera and the Vatican News, 6-8 November 2025. This “Digital Humanism” stresses the relationship between ethics and artificial intelligence and communication at the service of people; “the sensible future of AI lies ... Read more

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Hans Akkermans

Digitalization and Digital Humanism: Fundamentals, Potentials, Risks – lecture series

A newly designed lecture series ‘Digitalization and Digital Humanism’ is starting in Vienna, Austria. The focus is on how our lives will change, in this rapidly advancing age of digitalization and artificial intelligence. The pressing questions are: Which role will humanistic principles play in this? Which skills are needed to actively and responsibly shape this digital transition? The aim of this lecture series is to teach applicable skills and to ... Read more

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Leeuw van Moerkerken

Successful Digital Humanism Summer School

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 ... Read more

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Anna Bon

Beyond Closed Doors: master thesis by Oleksandr Zakotianskyi

An Open Source AI Framework for Forecasting Armed Conflict. Abstract – Armed conflicts are increasing in frequency and severity worldwide, resulting in devastating humanitarian and economic consequences. Despite advances in conflict forecasting, leading academic early warning models often lack complete openness, limiting reproducibility and the potential for advancements in the field. Addressing this critical issue, this thesis presents an entirely open-source framework designed to reproduce and extend state-of-the-art earlyconflict forecasting ... Read more

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Anna Bon

“AI Is Not the End of Art”

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Many people seem to think that soon all music, images, films, books, and articles will be generated by AI, and that this will mark the end of human-made art. But this won’t happen anytime soon, because AI approaches creativity in a way that is fundamentally different from humans.The art world is in turmoil over the AI revolution. Some claim that the human creative process is outdated and that AI is ... Read more

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Leeuw van Moerkerken

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