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Neue Rufnummer der HHU und Notruf im Bereich der HHU

Aktuelle Rufnummern 2018 für UKD und HHU
Im Zuge dieser Änderungen betreibt das Universitätsklinikum (UKD) seit Januar 2018 unter der „81-00“ eine eigene Telefonzentrale. Die HHU ist seit dem 01.01.2018 zentral zunächst unter der „81-11118“ erreichbar. Nach einigen technischen Umbauten wird dann die allgemeine HHU-Rufnummer ab Frühjahr 2018 neu die einprägsame „81-11“ sein. Ihre Ansprechpartnerinnen und Ansprechpartner innerhalb der HHU erreichen Sie unverändert unter ihren bisherigen Durchwahlen.

HHU-Gremienwahlen der Studierenden: Jetzt online Briefwahl beantragen

Noch bis zum 26.06. besteht die Möglichkeit, die Unterlagen für die Briefwahl zu beantragen. Der Antrag auf Briefwahl kann insbesondere mit wenigen Clicks im IDM gestellt werden. Die Adresse lautet: idm.hhu.de ; dort unter "Wahlinformationen" die Adresse prüfen und dann Briefwahl beantragen durch "Häkchen-setzen" und "absenden". Fertig. Daneben kann der Antrag auch auf dem PDF-Formular gestellt werden. Die Briefwahl selbst wird wie folgt ausgeübt: Der Antrag ist an das Wahlamt zu richten.

Diez másteres de la Universidad se sitúan entre los mejores de España, según el "ranking" de "El Mundo"

Diez másteres de la Universidad se sitúan entre los mejores de España, según el "ranking" de "El Mundo"
En el primer puesto se colocan los posgrados de Nutrición, I+D+I de Medicamentos, Comunicación Política, Intervención Educativa y Psicológica, y Dirección de Empresas de Moda

Alumnos de máster de la Universidad de Navarra.
FOTO: Manuel Castells

20/06/18 15:59
María Salanova

Senior Researcher/Postdoc in Media and Communication Law at Hans-Bredow-Institut

The Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research at the University of Hamburg is dedicated to excellent, innovative and independent research into the structures of mediated public communication and the transformations it is currently going through. We strive to generate cutting edge scientific knowledge, foster public debate, and inform policy. We are committed to interdisciplinarity, in particular, the combination of…

Comunidad universitaria reflexionó sobre desafíos de la educación

Con la participación del investigador argentino Hugo Edgardo Biagini y del filósofo y académico de la U. de Chile, Carlos Ruiz Schneider, se realizó el Foro Internacional "Humanidades, Universidades Estatales en América Latina. A 100 años del Grito de Córdoba", instancia de diálogo previo a la realización de la Conferencia Regional de Educación Superior de América Latina y el Caribe 2018 (CRES 2018), instancia en la que se conmemorará un siglo de la rebelión estudiantil.

Cátedra Ed. Superior y pueblos indígenas inició actividades

La Universidad de Chile, a través de la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios (VAEC), participa de esta nueva instancia que apunta a la investigación y colaboración intercultural entre instituciones de Educación Superior y las comunidades.

Znamy wyniki głosowania – Komisja JURI ogranicza swobodę wypowiedzi i dostęp do wiedzy

19.06.2018 r. odbyło się głosowanie Komisji Prawnej Parlamentu Europejskiego JURI nad tekstem dyrektywy w sprawie praw autorskich na jednolitym rynku cyfrowym [2016/0280(COD)]. Zgodnie z przewidywaniami, większość członków Komisji głosowało za poprawkami zaproponowanymi przez posła sprawozdawcę – Axela Vossa z EPP. Niestety, posłowie  nie wykorzystali szansy na zapewnienie nowoczesnego prawa autorskiego, które chroni prawa użytkowników, wspiera rozwój innowacji i zapewnia dostęp do wiedzy i kultury.

CKANconUS and Code for America Summit: some thoughts about the important questions

It’s been a few weeks after CKANConUS and the seventh Code for America Summit took place in Oakland. As always, it was a great place to meet old friends and new faces of technologists, policy experts, government innovators in the U.S. In this blogpost I share some of the experience of attending these two conferences and a few thoughts I’ve been ruminating about the discussions that happened, and more importantly, those that didn’t happen.

Vorträge: Tiefe Hirnstimulation bei psychiatrischen Erkrankungen und die Maasai in Süd-Kenia

Damiaan Denys ist Psychiater, Neurowissenschaftler und Philosoph und kombiniert alle drei Fachbereiche in seinen Studien und seinen mitreißenden Vorträgen. Er ist zudem einer der Pioniere der Tiefen Hirnstimulation bei psychiatrischen Erkrankungen. Dabei werden Elektroden in ein Zielgebiet im Gehirn der Patienten implantiert. Die elektrische Stimulation dieser Gebiete hat teilweise dramatisch positive Auswirkungen auf Symptome der Obsessiv-compulsiven Störung, Depression und Drogenabhängigkeit.

IoT Security is the Heart of the Matter

The Internet Society is raising awareness around the issues and challenges with Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and the OTA IoT Trust Framework is promoting best practices in protection of user security and privacy. The importance of this was brought home with the keynote talk at the recent TNC18 Conference, which was given by Marie Moe (SINTEF) who related her experiences with her network-connected heart pacemaker.

Can Cities and Citizens Reinvent Public Services?

In different forms, the remunicipalisation of public services has been gathering pace across Europe’s cities and towns in recent years. This trend goes far beyond a simple reversal of privatisation. It is also about reinventing local public services in a context of climate change and globalisation, and opening spaces for the active involvement of citizens. Can it point to a new direction for Europe?

Better Work Together – The Book!

Better Work Together: How the power of community can transform your business.
The book will be reflective of quite a few people’s thinking – a real community effort, coordinated by a strong core team.
It will be mixture of short essays, personal reflections, collective thinking and really practical guides. It’s being written to be relevant for both entrepreneurs, founders and freelancers as well leaders and cultural influencers in larger organisations.

Developing an impact framework for cultural change in government

Jesper Christiansen at Nesta: “Innovation teams and labs around the world are increasingly being tasked with building capacity and contributing to cultural change in government. There’s also an increasing recognition that we need to go beyond projects or single structures and make innovation become a part of the way governments operate more broadly.
However, there is a significant gap in our understanding of what “cultural change” or better “capacity” actually means.

Who wants to know?: The Political Economy of Statistical Capacity in Latin America

IADB paper by Dargent, Eduardo; Lotta, Gabriela; Mejía-Guerra, José Antonio; Moncada, Gilberto: “Why is there such heterogenity in the level of technical and institutional capacity in national statistical offices (NSOs)? Although there is broad consensus about the importance of statistical information as an essential input for decision making in the public and private sectors, this does not generally translate into a recognition of the importance of the institutions responsible for the production of data.

Wikipedia vandalism could thwart hoax-busting on Google, YouTube and Facebook

Daniel Funke at Poynter: “For a brief moment, the California Republican Party supported Nazism. At least, that’s what Google said.

Professor da FGV Direito Rio participa do II BRICS Youth Leadreship Seminar

Evandro Carvalho participa do evento na RússiaO professor e coordenador do Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China da FGV Direito Rio, Evandro Carvalho, participa esta semana do II BRICS Youth Leadership Seminar a convite da Federal Agency of Youth Affairs e da Ulyanovsk State University. O evento, que está sendo realizado na Rússia, tem como objetivo promover a colaboração internacional entre jovens nos países do BRICS em áreas como cooperação humanitária e cultural, empreendedorismo, ciência e inovação.

Professor da FGV Direito Rio participa do II BRICS Youth Leadreship Seminar

Evandro Carvalho participa do evento na RússiaO professor e coordenador do Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China da FGV Direito Rio, Evandro Carvalho, participa esta semana do II BRICS Youth Leadership Seminar a convite da Federal Agency of Youth Affairs e da Ulyanovsk State University. O evento, que está sendo realizado na Rússia, tem como objetivo promover a colaboração internacional entre jovens nos países do BRICS em áreas como cooperação humanitária e cultural, empreendedorismo, ciência e inovação.

Article 13 of the Copyright Directive Raises Serious Questions

The next couple of days will be important for the future of the Internet, as the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) will vote on the proposed Copyright Directive. The Directive, which aims to update and reinforce the rights of rights holders within Europe’s Digital Market, is largely a positive step forward inasmuch as the law needs to be updated in light of modern technologies and the Internet.

​New Director to head National Institute of Education at NTU Singapore

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Employee empowerment or workers’ control? The use case of enterprise social networks

In the context of the digitization of the workplace, numerous companies are introducing digital platforms that are intended to strengthen employee participation. The implications of social media for the meaning of political engagement and participation has been widely addressed in the field of Internet studies. In the working environment, social networks have gained increasing attention…