Listen to the story {Play} The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is initiating a new project of €150 million for the development of prototypes for the new national digital educational platform, curricula, and didactic concepts. This is the first step towards a national hub for lifelong learning, and …
The web was created in Europe with Sir Tim Berners-Lee as the primary architect. But after the pioneer years, businesses from other continents took the lead in the web-development leaving Europe far behind. However, today, in the developing digital society several web-based European businesses have proven to be excellent alternatives. …
Listen to the story [iqc id=”2″] The origins of storytelling The power of an engaging story can change the world or keep it on its tracks. In this perspective fairy tales that lived on for hundreds of years has shown to be a powerful timeless source to influence societies. Recent …
Last week the Federal Government of Germany decided on a new blockchain strategy. This also included education with the “IMPact Digital” project. Where the goal is to provide safe digitalisation and administration of certificates. As some of the main benefits of blockchain technology within education (and other sectors) is that it …
European trends from an EU, innovation, regional and city perspective are a deliberate choice in order to start with the main engines of European development. In this way, the Europeans and Europe are analyzed from a trend perspective. But, what about the nations then? The answer is that it is …
The European Commission’s ambitious goal is that people should have open access to all scientific publications by 2020. And in the light of that universities now leaving agreements with the largest scholarly publishing company Elsevier (with profit margins around 37% larger than e.g. Apple Source: The Guardian) the European University …
A few weeks ago we wrote about the prospects of Artificial Intelligence and that Europe is lagging behind within the field. Now the EU Commission has presented the European strategy to get into the game, Vice-President for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip said: “Just as the steam engine and …
eLearningworld News Today is the Digital day taking place in Brussels. The EU Commission is bringing together ministers, representatives of EU countries, industry, academia and civil society representatives together to encourage cooperation in artificial intelligence, blockchain, eHealth and innovation where the discussions will focus on how technologies will shape the …
eLearningworld News “Informatics for All: The Strategy” is an ambitious plan to integrate informatics in education for all students in Europe. The plan is in its developing stage and is a collaboration of the Association for Computing Machinery’s ACM Europe Council and Informatics Europe. Where the main aims are to …
Social-, educational- and economic transactions with no need for a middleman make blockchain sound like a well-adapted technology for Europe. In this spirit, the Blockchain Observatory and Forum were launched last week by the European Commission. Initially, it was created as a European Parliament pilot project that was proposed by …
