Here is a fun fact for your next party: Of the top-ten most-visited websites in the world, Wikipedia is the only one to be run by a nonprofit: the Wikimedia Foundation. 

For over almost 25 years, Wikipedia has grown to become the backbone of knowledge on the internet. What started as a wildly ambitious and probably impossible dream is now an essential knowledge resource for humanity. It includes over 65 million articles in over 300 languages, all funded by readers like you.

Künstliche Intelligenz ist längst im Alltag vieler Menschen angekommen. Sie verändert Arbeitsprozesse, beeinflusst Medien und eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten in der Gesundheitsversorgung. Gleichzeitig bestehen Unsicherheiten, Fragen und gesellschaftliche Erwartungen.

Wie können KI-gestützte Werkzeuge Lehre und Lernen an Hochschulen verbessern, ohne den Campus als sozialen Lernort zu verlieren? Darüber diskutierten am TUM Campus Garching Vertreterinnen und Vertreter aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Hochschulpraxis am 17. November 2025. Im Zentrum standen KI-Tools und aktuelle Ansätze für digitale Lehre sowie erste Ergebnisse des bidt-Forschungsprojekts „Effektivität generativer KI-Tutoren in der Hochschullehre (AIffectiveness)“.

Foto: Netsai/AdobestockSupermarket chains have been offering home delivery for several years now – and have encountered numerous challenges in the process. Last-mile delivery, i.e. getting items to the customer, can be costly and has a significant environmental impact, especially in the food sector, where goods often require expedited delivery.

Biografie 17° Convegno Nexa su Internet & Società | Contro la casa di vetro. Opacità schedatura e potere nell'età digitale | 2025
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Contro la casa di vetro. Opacità, schedatura e potere nell'età digitale | Lunedì 15 dicembre 2025 | Sala Luigi Ciminiera, DAUIN, Politecnico di Torino
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Raiffeisen Landesbank Kärnten | Caroline KnauderIn the summer term 2025 an investment game was initiated within the „Case Studies in Economics: Fundamentals of Asset Pricing, Finance and Investment“ course by Prof. Martin Wagner in cooperation with the Finance and Investment Club at the University of Klagenfurt statt. Using the Investopedia simulator and a virtual seed capital of 1 million USD, the students had to compile a portfolio and deal with securities over a period from mid-April to the beginning of September 2025.

aau/MüllerHow can we control swarms of drones so that they can be used to reforest woodlands in the most efficient way? Merna Tohfa, a university assistant at the Department of Networked and Embedded Systems, is developing mathematical models and technologies that enable swarms of drones to scatter tree seeds in areas that may be difficult to access.

There is no shortage of reports highlighting Germany’s and Europe’s serious technological dependencies: social networks, cloud services, artificial intelligence – they are lagging in many areas and in danger of being left behind altogether. The lack of digital sovereignty did not arise suddenly, but in times of intensifying geopolitical conflicts, it now appears threatening. Europe is missing economic opportunities and has no influence on the design of the technologies.

The Carinthian regional government has once again honored outstanding scientific work in the field of digitalization. The Department for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity is delighted to receive two award-winning theses at once.

Studierende lassen Experi­ment mit Höhen­forschungs­ballon steigen - Preis für Informatikerin Borrmann - JMU für Gleich­stellung ausgezeichnet - Programm für ausländische Gäste - Liturgie der Zukunft

Three QUT researchers affiliated with the Digital Media Research Centre have been successful in the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme.
The DECRA scheme provides focused research support for early career researchers with demonstrated capacity for high-quality research and emerging capability for leadership and supervision.

Two projects involving QUT Digital Media Research Centre researchers have been awarded a combined total of more than $1.1 million in the latest Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects scheme. 
The ARC Discovery Projects scheme aims to expand knowledge base and research capacity in Australia, as well as economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits. 
Congratulations to DMRC researchers Professor Anna Huggins and Dr Ehsan Dehghan; affiliate investigator and DMRC alumnus Dr Sofya Glazunova; as well as colleagues at other universities. 

Le CRDP est ravi d’annoncer les résultats du Concours de bourses du Fonds Guy Rocher. Toutes nos félicitations aux lauréat.e.s du concours : Alex Alexis (doctorat), Ines Corbin (maîtrise) !
Bourse d’excellence au doctorat
Alex Alexis
(Droit, supervisé par Konstantia Koutouki)

La Bourse d’attraction doctorale de la Chaire L.R. Wilson vise à soutenir un (1) étudiant·e de doctorat souhaitant entreprendre une thèse portant sur les normativités numériques ou plus largement sur les enjeux juridiques du numérique.
Téléchargez l’appel complet ici.
 

Vom 13. bis 15. November 2025 fand an der Universität Klagenfurt die jährliche Konferenz des internationalen „Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN)“ statt. Das Motto lautete „Digitalization, Social Justice and Transforming Societies“ (Digitalisierung, soziale Gerechtigkeit und Gesellschaften im Wandel). Rund 150 Teilnehmer:innen kamen aus aller Welt nach Klagenfurt.

Das renommierte Shanghai-Ranking bewertet jährlich mehr als 2.000 Universitäten in über 100 Ländern in 57 Forschungsfeldern. Kriterien sind unter anderem die Anzahl und Zitationshäufigkeit wissenschaftlicher Publikationen, die internationale Vernetzung sowie die Auszeichnungen für exzellente Forschung.
Die Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) setzt ihre Erfolgsgeschichte fort: Im aktuellen „Global Ranking of Academic Subjects“ (GRAS) 2025 der Shanghai-Ranking Consultancy zeigt sie herausragende Ergebnisse in mehreren Fachbereichen.

On 29 October 2025, Tech for Good Institute (TFGI), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Safer Internet Lab convened stakeholders in Jakarta to address online fraud and scams in Southeast Asia.Southeast Asia’s digital economy is booming. Reaching US$263 billion in 2024, the region continues its double-digit growth trajectory.