Carsten Schwemmer completed his doctoral degree in Computational Social Science at the University of Bamberg.
Sahana Udupa, Professor of Media Anthropology at LMU, studies the influence of diverse digital media on social communication and behavior.
Prof. Krämer and his team are researching laws in digital markets at the University of Passau's Chair of Internet and Telecommunications Business.
How do things stand with regard to the digital competences of populations in different European countries? Is Europe well prepared for an increasingly digitalised society and generative AI? These questions were the focus of a bidt event on 12 March 2024 in cooperation with the Bavarian Representation to the EU. The bidt study presented there provides findings for Germany and six other European countries – and offers approaches for expanding digital participation and competences.
How effective is interoperability between messenger services? Does it really foster competition and innovation? These are some of the questions being examined by a team from the University of Passau, led by Professor Jan Krämer, Chair of Information Systems, as part of a new bidt project.
OpenWebSearch.EU – a consortium of 14 research partners under the coordination of the University of Passau – is once again calling for third-party project proposals to help building an open and independent Web Index (OWI) based on European values. Researchers, innovators and data centres are invited to submit their ideas until 4th April. Successful candidates can request funding between 50,000 and 150,000 EUR.
Enabling higher education for young people in poverty-stricken areas, social hotspots and crisis regions on site – this has been the aim of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) since 2019 in collaboration with the Jesuit educational organization "Jesuit Worldwide Learning – Higher Education at the Margins" (JWL). One of the partnership’s offers is the "Learning Facilitator Program", which now has around 500 graduates in ten different countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Kenya and Sri Lanka. A detailed survey of graduates for a scientific study by JWL now shows the value of such offers not only for the students themselves, but also within their communities.
- 18 percent of reported sick leave relates to musculoskeletal ailments, in particular back-related disorders. - The GyroTrainer is an intelligent training device that resembles a balance board. - It uses artificial intelligence to adjust the difficulty level to the individual patient’s current ability.
Under the direction of Dr Sofia Rüdiger, the role of language on the internet is being analysed at the Department of English Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth. A new project focuses on videos that showcase excessive food consumption. The German Research Foundation is funding the project with around 500,000 euros over a period of three years.
A new generation of cloud services is on the rise. It is based on the paradigm of "serverless computing", which is an active research topic at the Institute for Computer Science in Würzburg.
This website uses cookies and the Matomo web analysis tool. By continuing to browse you agree to our use of cookies. Change your settings here. More information.