EURIDICE’s Joint European Master: Digital Society, Social Innovation, Global Citizenship
The European Joint Master in Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship (DIGISOC) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and international study programme designed to prepare students for leadership in digital transformation and social innovation.As part of the EURIDICE Project, DIGISOC trains highly qualified socio-digital innovators by intertwining advanced skills in digital technologies with social innovation competencies in three key societal sectors: Education, Communication and Culture.DIGISOC graduates will learn how to design, ... Read more
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Talking about Quantum Computing
We talked with HPC expert (High Performance Computing) Huub Stoffers about Quantum Computing, one of the most recent digital innovations the EU is exploring. We want to understand its application domains, its strategic positioning in the European digital technology landscape, its relation to HPC and maybe to Artificial Intelligence (AI), its future outlook, also given the hooks to industry and Big Tech in the technological race between the EU, US ... Read more
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Culture for AI – AI for Culture, exploring Polyvocality
Victor de Boer, Associate Professor at the User-Centric Data Science group of VU Amsterdam recently made a study visit to UNIMAS in Sarawak, Malaysia where he gave an expert lecture about Polyvocality, AI and Cultural Heritage to staff and students of this university. His lecture on 8 April 2025 was also attended virtually by the participants of the ICT4D course at TU Wien, simultaneously. Victor, who is also one of ... Read more
Design Tools & Methods for Hybrid Learning
Sanaz and Hezrien are currently in the final stages of their Master’s research project in Information Sciences. Their project focuses on designing and implementing hybrid and virtual learning methods for professional education. The initiative is not solely academic; their final goal is to apply the new approach in a professional training context. Sanaz, who is, besides student also young entrepreneur, aims to use the new approach to enhance the company ... Read more
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Discussing Europe’s Digital Strategy
Brussels, 9 – 10 July 2025: A DG CNECT study was carried out on the Research & Innovation for the Strategic Digital Technologies for Europe’s Digital Decade. On behalf of EURIDICE a small delegation particiapted in this stakeholder consultation. The first day consisted of a validation of arecent study on EU’s critical digital capacities deployment beyond 2027. A group of 75 technology experts from Europe’s business and academia were invited. ... Read more
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“Combining scientific and indigenous knowledge”
May 2025 — a new educational resource for EURIDICE’s educational offer has appeared, in the spirit of “Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship”, addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), with a strong focus on Global Citizenship. Abstract It is widely believed that modern technologies such as Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development (ICT4D) provide important innovative intervention instruments to help achieve food security in Africa and ... Read more
Penelope: Culture and the Digital Society
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
TED-e3 method – Tangible Ecosystem Design
How to collaboratively design a platform business model. “Tangible Ecosystem Design” is developed by Fraunhofer IESE to help companies to create a vision of a digital ecosystem. As part of a workshop, the structured approach of the TED method helps to model the different actors, their relationships and the underlying processes within an ecosystem. By visualizing these relationships, complex dynamics become tangible and open up new perspectives for strategic decisions. ... Read more
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Digital Transformation Under Fire: A Ukrainian University Perspective
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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A Successful Story of Entrepreneurship
Amsterdam, May 30, 2025 – we meet Tom Siebring, who started as a young digital entrepreneur, together with two business partners, and is now 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 ... Read more
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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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