Penelope: Culture and the Digital Society

AI neural networks are trained on millions of cat pictures to be able to recognize a cat.
The wish and promise to further expand and strengthen EURIDICE’s cultural ecosystem, including also creative sectors in Europe, brought a subset of the EURIDICE consortium, to engage in a new partnership and prepare a project plan to enhance the digital skills and create synergies with several cultural partners in six European countries. This new collaboration has led to new thematic synergies between the cultural, digital- technological and higher educational sectors. ... Read more

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Leeuw van Moerkerken

“Combining scientific and indigenous knowledge”

A new SDG related educational resource for EURIDICE’s educational offer has appeared, in the spirit of Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship. While the knowledge systems anaylsed in this book are not necessarily all digital, one of the chapters is directly reated to ICT for Development. Abstract It is widely believed that modern technologies such as Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development (ICT4D) provide important innovative intervention instruments ... Read more

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Leeuw van Moerkerken

Digital Transformation Under Fire: A Ukrainian University Perspective

Group photo from a EURIDICE project event at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, featuring faculty and students alongside Assoc. Prof. Igor O. Shnitser of Uzhhorod National University. The image on the projector screen is partially visible and relates to digital education challenges in Ukraine.
The ability to continue education is vital, even during times of crisis. A recent event at UPJŠ brought together faculty and students for a discussion with Assoc. Prof. Igor O. Shnitser about the role of digital tools in Ukrainian universities facing martial law. Learn about the specific challenges faced by teachers and students, and the innovative approaches being used to overcome them.

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Peter Borza

A Successful Story of Entrepreneurship

Tom Siebring at StartHub
Amsterdam, May 30, 2025 – we meet Tom Siebring, a young digital entrepreneur who, together with two business partners, is successfully leading a start-up named Caddy Software BV. Caddy is based at the VU’s StartHub incubator. While talking to Tom, we are sitting at the building’s rooftop, (which has actively been regreened by VU) and we enjoy the sun, while discussing responsible entrepreneurship in the digital society. Tom did his ... Read more

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Anna Bon

Responsible Entrepreneurship Seminar in Paris

Paris, 23 May 2024 – At the Centre for student entrepreneurship and innovation (IAE) of the Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) we attended a fantastic seminar, in which 18 students from various universities (including the EURIDICE universities UPEC, CBS, ULusofona, VU Amsterdam), and their lecturers, successfully participated. This Blended Intensive Programme, successfully organized by Dr. Laurence Beierlein from IAE-UPEC in the framework of the Erasmus mobility programme was the first activity ... Read more

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Anna Bon

EURIDICE’s Joint European Master: Digital Society, Social Innovation, Global Citizenship

Are you ready to drive change in digital transformation building on your Bachelor’s degree? Have you always wanted to use hybrid settings to learn and build global connections? Have you always approached problems with an interdisciplinary mindset? Would you like to find out how? Join us online: Friday, March 28, at 1 p.m. CET. Next information sessions about the master for interested students: Friday, May 16, at 1 p.m. CESTFriday, ... Read more

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Christina Raab

EURIDICE Biannual Event in Lisbon

From March 10–12, the EURIDICE Consortium gathered for a productive and inspiring three-day meeting at Lusófona University in Lisbon. Representatives from nearly all partner institutions participated—coming from Portugal, Spain, Iceland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Ghana—with a few joining the sessions online. The meeting was marked by dynamic exchanges on joint education initiatives, including microcredentials and international collaboration. In addition, participants had ... Read more

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Leeuw van Moerkerken

Milestone in design of EU Joint Master

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

Regulate Digital Technologies, now!

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

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