In the week of November 20 the Network Institute is hosting Carina König. She is the coordinator of the Digital Science Center of the University of Innsbruck. The initiative will provide an opportunity to explore in depth what interdisciplinary research units at the University of Innsbruck and VU Amsterdam have in common and where they can potentially learn from each other. If you are interested in having a discussion with Carina about approaches to digitalization and the use of AI in research, teaching, outreach, and administration in general, feel free to contact us at network.institute.beta@vu.nl.

• When: November 21 at 15:00 – 16:00
• Where: NU building, room NU-3A65

Agenda:

• Carina König will present the structure of the DiSC, its members and its activities.
• She will explain how it is organized and embedded in the interdisciplinary research landscape at the University of Innsbruck, what topics and projects it engages in, and generally how it operates in the three core pillars of research, teaching, and third mission/outreach.
• And will also discuss potential routes of collaboration between DiSC members and VU researchers.

  Carina König:

  Carina König is the coordinator of the Digital Science Center (DiSC) at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She has a background in translation and interpretation and has been working in the higher education sector since 2018 when she became a staff translator at the University of Mannheim, Germany. In late 2019, only a few months after its founding, she joined the DiSC where she has helped build up the center’s structures and shape its processes and where she lends administrative support to its members.

  

  Photo by Thomas Steinlechner

The Digital Science Center:

The Digital Science Center (DiSC) was founded in 2019 to foster interdisciplinary research in the area of digitalization. It brings together researchers from different faculties and departments that are experts in specific aspects of digital science to promote synergies among them. They either focus on digital methods to explore research questions in their respective field or look at the implications of digitalization for society. In my talk, I will present the structure of the DiSC, its members and its activities. I will explain how it is organized and embedded in the interdisciplinary research landscape at the University of Innsbruck, what topics and projects it engages in, and generally how it operates in the three core pillars of research, teaching, and third mission/outreach. I will also discuss potential routes of collaboration between DiSC members and VU researchers.