franconian.net talks

Let's get digital: How the EU envisions the future of European Education

franconian.net
The EU Commission is using education politics and digitization to increase European Integration and move beyond ERASMUS+. Current trends in European Higher Education Policy include the European University Initiative, Micro-Credentials, Virtual Exchange, Internationalization at Home or the Student eCard. We want to show you how these ideas and concepts are interconnected and discuss the pros and cons of the current developements as they can lead to more democracy and more cooperation as well as to more isolation.
As the common notion of an "ever closer union" has failed with Brexit, new ways are considered to increase Europeanization. Although the idea is as old as the Union itself a new concept has taken center stage promising to create greater cohesion within the union: the European University. In November 2017, the European Commission went public with plans to start a so-called "Sorbonne Process" in order to create an EU-wide common educational area (EEA) in which mutual recognition of qualifications, mobility and improvement of language acquisition are tackled in unison. These efforts include the introduction of European Universitiy Alliances (EUAs) and a Student eCard. The latter aims to improve the exchange of bureaucratic information between universities in the EU. Other concepts like Micro-credentials, Virtual Exchange and Internationalization at Home have later been added to these new efforts by the Commission. The EUAs have become important testing fields and launch pads for these ideas and student representatives are increasingly worried about their implications for the future of education. But while these new instruments can fundamentally change the nature of higher education, there are also reasons for optimism. From the beginning on some of the EUAs have included democratic student involvement in all their structures. We hope that these early efforts can lead to new forms of student representation, teaching young students democratic cooperation on a European level and helping them represent their interests even better. This talk will introduce you to current trends in European Higher Education Policy with special attention on how digitization is used to further strategic goals of the EU Commission. The implementation of the European Universities will not be without conflict and conflicting positions: Micro-Credentials, European Student eCards and new democratic structures can lead into a benevolent as well as a malign future. Our talk aims to cover all relevant dimensions and offer you the opportunity to discuss with us the problems at hand.

Additional information

Type Talk
Language English

More sessions

12/27/20
franconian.net talks
Florian Festi
franconian.net
Laser cutters get more and more common in hacker and maker spaces around the world - and rightly so. They are amazing machines that are fast, precise, versatile and easy to use. This talk will get give a quick introduction into laser cutting and will show a few examples what a laser cutter can do.
12/27/20
franconian.net talks
Anthony
franconian.net
An overview of Tox, including the motivation for the project, its benefits, how the protocol works, info on the reference library, and info on some of the clients.
12/27/20
franconian.net talks
Tobias "Tobi" Buchberger
franconian.net
Tox [0] is a free and open source peer-to-peer instant messaging protocol and implementation, that aims to provide secure messaging. It’s intended as an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) and distributed Skype replacement. Tox’ cryptography is based on the NaCl library from Daniel J. Bernstein [1]. The cryptographic primitives for the key exchange (X25519), authentication (Poly1305) and symmetric encryption (XSalsa20) are state of the art peer-reviewed algorithms. Unfortunately Tox’ authenticated ...
12/28/20
franconian.net talks
franconian.net
From the AFL++ team comes a talk about the core concepts of fuzzing, novel fuzzing research, a library, and parts of fuzzing that can be edited and swapped out.
12/28/20
franconian.net talks
miro
franconian.net
Names of people cannot be invalid.
12/28/20
franconian.net talks
Vanessa
franconian.net
Die Geschichte einer etwas ungewöhnlichen Hausbesetzung im schwäbischen Reutlingen (kein Witz!) und was sich daraus bisher entwickelt hat - zusammen mit einer Idee, wie selbstbestimmtes Wohnen aussehen kann und meinen bisherigen Erfahrungen, was auf unserem Weg hilfreich war.
12/29/20
franconian.net talks
franconian.net
Frauen gelten insbesondere als perfide Zielscheibe von Hass und Hetze im digitalen Diskurs. Wir schauen uns die Dimension der digitalen Gewalt gegen Frauen genauer an. Die Bandbreite unterschiedlicher Erscheinungsformen sowie ihre Strafbarkeit wird vorgestellt. Wir beleuchten die unterschiedlichen Ursachen und zeigen davon ausgehend die daraus entstehenden Probleme und Konsequenzen. Handlungsmöglichkeiten und ein interaktiver Austausch bieten einen aktiven Abschluss.