EVENTS
September 5, 2017
DFKI@ECDF
The Einstein Center Digital Future hosts a workshop on the future of AI in Berlin, carried out by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
September 2-3, 2017
EdTech Innovation Days
The participants of the hackathon ‘EdTech Innovation Days’ by Cornelsen work on combining theory and praxis in healthcare education through immersive technologies.
About
The Einstein Center Digital Future is an inter-university nucleus for research on the digitalization of our society. Its aim is to foster innovative, cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, and to provide outstanding training for talented young scholars. The Einstein Center Digital Future is a public-private partnership, initiating around 50 new professorships, and bringing together universities, non-university research institutes, and industrial enterprises, as well as regional and federal ministries. The scale of this alliance between public entities, sponsors and supporters is unique in Berlin’s history as a center of academic endeavor.
MORE >>
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Prof. Dr. Odej Kao
Speaker, Einstein Center Digital Future
Technische Universität Berlin
Prof. Johann-Christoph Freytag, Ph.D.
Speaker, Digital Infrastructure, Methods and Algorithms
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost
Speaker, Digital Humanities and Society
Berlin University of the Arts
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jochen Schiller
Speaker, Digital Industries and Services
Freie Universität Berlin
n.n.
Speaker, Digital Health
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Press
Berlin becomes a hotspot of digital research
The digital future starts in Berlin. 50 new professorships will be established in the areas Digital Humanities and Society, Digital Industry and Services, Digital Health, as well as Digital Infrastructure, Methods and Algorithms. All four universities of Berlin and the Charité - University Hospital are participating. The Beuth University of Applied Sciences and the HTW University of Applied Sciences will also establish professorships. In close cooperation with extra-university research institutions, industry and politics the Einstein Center Digital Future will be established in Berlin. It will promote the German capital as a hotspot of digital research and development.