Perspectives on Europe in a Global Context
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European Integration – Introductory Level
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Global Citizenship Education in times of crisis?” Introduction to the concept of GCED, Global Goals and and the inner development goals
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Jewish and Islamic Philosophy
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Critical Thinking
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Religion and Ethics
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ICT4D in the Field – Collaborative International Master’s Course
In June 2024 the international 6 ECTS Master’s course ‘ICT for Development in The Field (ICT4D)’ takes place at VU Amsterdam (digital participation is possible!). The field of ICT4D generally addresses problems of, and solutions for, the “unconnected people in the world”. Currently, this is still a large part of the world’s population, the majority of whom live in poor, remote, often rural, regions of the world, often in so-called developing low/middle-income countries.
Students work in groups to carry out a use case analysis and design assignment focused on a specific selected use case frm one of various geographies (countries/regions). Through this group project they seek to answer a number of key questions:
- (a) What is the state-of-play regarding advanced digital applications for the Social Good relevant to people in low-resource environments of the world? Here, one may think as a reference point of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as combating hunger, ensuring food security, reducing inequalities, etc.
- (b) What are associated foreseeable positive and negative or adverse consequences, risks, and social and environmental impacts related to the application of various digital technologies, and how may these risks be managed and the adverse consequences mitigated?
- (c) In consequence, what are the implications to be drawn for the application of advanced digital innovations specifically in the context of the respective Global South countries or regions, in terms of policies, regulations, education, sustainability and the civil/civic debate?
Course entry requirements
This interdisciplinary course is open for selected Master’s students, having Bachelor’s level knowledge or experience in a relevant digital field (IS, CS, AI, digital humanities, computational social sciences).
Registration
For this course, there are 5 spots available for students from Aurora member-universities. You can apply via sending an email to shortmobility@vu.nl. Writing a short motivation could be a part of the application. The deadline to apply is 12 March 2024.
Linguistic Diversity, Intercultural Competences & European Identity (BIP)
The new Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) are short, intensive programs that make use of innovative pedagogical approaches, involving short periods of face-to-face activities combined with online learning and cooperation.
The University of Naples Federico II, University of Innsbruck, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, and Palacký University Olomouc, participated in the first Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) call for applications and received funding for the course “Linguistic diversity, intercultural competences & European identity”.
The course will focus on testing and exchanging the best practices of the resource-focused ideas and approaches in relation to plurilingual teaching and learning agenda in higher educational settings with the aim of fostering the development of a European cultural identity based on the plurality of cultures.
To know more please download the Flyer.
For further information please email aurora.f2@unina.it.
Labor Market Policy
MA Labor Market Policy is a one week intensive class on models of the labor market in different schools of economic thought as well as the analysis of labor market policies like minimum wages, front-loading unemployment benefits and work time reduction. Students will read the seminal contributions on labor market inequality in neoclassical/new Keynesian, Post Keynesian as well as Marxist and Classical Political Economics. They will furthermore have the opportunity to work with the unique and proprietary Austrian Social Security Database on their own empirical projects.
After a one week intensive class, students will participate in a panel discussion on labor markets in different schools of economic thought. They will then work on a take-home midterm essay exam and prepare a small research proposal. After discussing the proposal and appropriate data sources with the lecturer, students will conduct an empirical analysis and present their results.
Basic knowledge of econometrics and statistical software are a pre-requisite for this course. Coding examples will be done in R/RStudio, but no coding class or coding bootcamp will be provided. Some basic knowledge of labor market models and history of economic thought is encouraged, but not strictly necessary.