The new Ralf Dahrendorf Prize awards joint projects on the European Research Area. It is directed on recognizing outstanding key EU research projects that include sharing the project outcomes with the public. The new research award bears its name from former German Commissioner Ralf Dahrendorf. In the 1970s, he laid …
What will make your business rock? Make your customers, clients, visitor stay longer, buy more and enjoy doing it? As a matter of fact “doing” is really the keyword for the solution. This leads us to the Maker Market, which foundation, however, is creating things yourself, but what if you …
The success in Finland with a Basic Online Course about what you can do with AI and how you can start up to developing AI applications is now coming to Sweden. 1% of Finland’s population has finished the course to improve knowledge of AI so far. It has been developed …
‘The Lion’ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‘Let’s try to make a story about …
Research from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University School of Medicine shows that the company of a friend and a gamified application is the best environment to reach your exercising goals. This means that social interaction and gamified mechanisms that are challenging and competitive …
Research from the University of New Mexico shows significant benefits of including gamification mechanics in products and services. It both triggers inner-motivation as well as health benefits. Professor Nick Flor at Anderson School of Management explains: “Primitive humans evolved an innate affinity for playing games, because games allowed them to …
Luxembourg’s Minister of National Education, Children and Youth, Claude Meisch, presented on May 7, 2019, a new technician training in Smart Technologies. Five schools will offer such education for the future Digital Society’s technicians where the courses start in September 2019. The schools include the Lycée des Arts et Métiers, …
“I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.” Lisa Loeb Interactive books certainly taking the digital literature- and learning experience to the next level. The possible empowerment of a manuscript is next …
A research study shows interesting results of how different video game types affect white matter in the brain and cognitive skills. The research focussed on the impact of strategy games and action games. The lead researcher of the study, Chandramallika Basak, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Center for Vital Longevity, …
Further training of teachers in programming and more funding for digital learning books. This is the Norwegian Government’s new deal to speed up the digitization of school. During 2019 379 teachers will receive training in programming. This more than twice as much that received education within this field during 2018. …
