Open letter on the Urgent Need to Regulate Digital Technologies

The Digital Humanism Initiative urges regulation of digital technologies by the EU in the light of latest threats. We, the signatories of this letter, believe that the European Union (EU) must stand up to the overt threats to its digital regulatory framework which has been and continues to be constructed in order to safeguard its humanistic and democratic values. These threats emanate from an unprecedented confluence of immense political and ... Read more

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Walter Palmetshofer

Hybrid Meeting Marks Milestone

in EURIDICE’s Joint Master’s Programme on Digital Society, Social Innovation, and Global Citizenship Universität Innsbruck, in cooperation with Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy) and Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic) and representatives of the Université Paris-Est Créteil (France), successfully convened a hybrid working meeting to launch the hybrid Joint Master’s Programme entitled “Digital Society, Social Innovation, and Global Citizenship”. This innovative joint programme aims to address the pressing ... Read more

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André Baart

Student cultural event

EURIDICE’s dissemination and ecosystem expanded in the cultural domain On February 26th, 27th, and 28th, 2025, the small local theater Insblau in the historic city of Leiden, the Netherlands, hosted a spectacular musical performed by 40 students from the MFLS (Medische Faculteit der Leidse Studenten) medical student association at Leiden University. The musical production was directed by Leeuw van Moerkerken, who had been training and mentoring the students weekly, since ... Read more

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Hans Akkermans

New book about Digital Humanism

Hannes Werthner was interviewed by Walter Famler – Alte Schmiede Wien – on 25 January 2025 about his new book. In this book, which recently appeared in German, titled: Digitaler Humanismus. Über Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz, Hannes Werthner addresses the topic of advancing digitalisation including artificial intelligence, and describes the enormous opportunities that arise from it and also analyses its serious shortcomings. His concept of digital humanism (he initiated the ... Read more

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Walter Palmetshofer

SDGs in the light of Digital Transformation

A round table discussion with Saa Dittoh, Julia Neidhardt, Marcel Stelte, Auke Schuringa, Oleksandr Zakotianskyi, took place at VU Amsterdam, this was a session of the Conference “Navigating the Anthropocene”, Amsterdam, 30 January 2025. During this event, two major frameworks for a better world are linked. These are (1) the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, c.q. SDG1 zero hunger, SDG5 gender equality, and (2) Digital Humanism, the initiative that aims to ... Read more

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Anna Bon

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

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

Is there an 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

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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

How to address the SDGs in the light of the Digital Transformation?

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Amsterdam, 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 in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable ... Read more

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Hans Akkermans

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