Open Science Toolkit
In 2018, the European Commission-funded project Facilitating Open Science Training for European Research (FOSTER) launched an online training toolkit with ten modules covering key topics of Open Science theory and practice. The introductory to advanced levels modules introduce OS and components of OS, including practical tips for getting started with OS, and provide information on […]
Digital Entrepreneurship (openHPI)
This course is based on the openHPI course Digital Entrepreneurship by Prof. Dr. Katharina Hölzle, Dr. Robert Rose, Valeska Maul and Nina Bachmann, available for reuse under a CC BY-NC-SA licence. What exactly does digital entrepreneurship mean, and how does it differ from “classic” entrepreneurship? How does digital entrepreneurship influence the economy and society? How […]
Critical Media Literacy: Tackling Information Disorder in the Digital Age
Living and working in our modern world, we are confronted with a constant stream of ‚alternative facts ‘, propaganda, hoaxes, rumours, and advertising – while it becomes more and more difficult to distinguish fact from fiction to navigate the digital media world successfully. Efforts to exploit media’s technical, social, economic, and institutional configurations can catalyze […]
Sustainability Marketing
Whether it is coping with ‘Peak Oil’, meeting the challenge of climate change, helping farmers in poorer countries through fair trade, or finding ways to keep discarded products out of the landfills, sustainability issues are the biggest challenges facing businesses. The course shows how the complexities of sustainability issues can be integrated into marketing. The […]
Digital Humanities: an introduction to methods
This practice-oriented seminar introduces a variety of methods from the growing field of Digital Humanities. The focus is placed on the reflective application of digital methods, from data acquisition to analysis, visualisation and communication of research. • When does it make sense to collect data, and when is it appropriate to use archives and publicly […]
Managing Diversity: Challenges of working in multicultural teams
“We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.” —Berners-Lee, inventor of the Worldwide Web, 2012 In a globalized world, working in an international environment with international teams is nothing unusual. Therefore, managing diversity and learning how to work in multicultural teams are two important/compulsory aspects in order to be successful […]
Introducing our students. Meet Frida.
Frida Valles Kirkegaard obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Science Studies from Roskilde University, where she pursued an interdisciplinary program that included several semesters of Computer Science. When the time came to select her master’s degree, Frida explored other universities before ultimately deciding to continue her studies at Roskilde University. As a […]
ERUA Traveling seminar “Literanomics: what can poetry teach us about the economy?”
ERUA Traveling seminar “Literanomics: what can poetry teach us about the economy?” – a collaboration that made students not only interact, but also critically think and co-create knowledge across contexts, disciplines and cultures The ERUA Traveling seminar “Literanomics: what can poetry teach us about the economy?” was held on 3 – 5.04.2023 at Paris 8 […]
Administrative staff: Call for participating in research support staff visit at UP8 on 31 May, 1 and 2 June
In the ERUA research support network framework created under Re:ERUA, UP8 is organizing a staff visit to the University of Paris 8 on 31 May, 1 and 2 June. This research support staff visit will be the occasion to bring together the different research support services of the ERUA Alliance and future partners to exchange […]
Re-Imagining Learning Pathways
How do current economic and technological developments change how we see knowledge work? Would we like to be a knowledge worker, and under what circumstances? In March 2023, a German-Danish group of master students explored the challenges of knowledge work. We, Ann Sophie Lauterbach (Konstanz University) and Peter Busch-Jensen (Roskilde University), organized an insightful and […]