Digital Research Magazine

Europe and global Change

Phil Bednarczyk, political advisor on Europe for the US Congress, has spent the last months as Robert Bosch Fellow in Passau and Dresden. His impressions. By Phil Bednarczyk

Projects related to the guiding theme 'Europe and global Change'

ViSIT - virtual museum for Passau and Kufstein

Universities of Passau and Ceske Budejovice explore the linguistic and literary heritage of eastern Bavaria and southern Bohemia

INTERREG-Project - Starting in Tradition

ReConFort - Reconsidering Constitutional Formation

LIB(e)RO: Bibliotheken geben geflüchteten Jugendlichen europaweit Starthilfe

LIB(e)RO: Libraries in Europe provide starting aid for minor and young refugees

Cyber<>Spaces

Business data processing specialist Professor Jan Krämer and innovation researcher Professor Andreas König about their plans concerning a research training group on the subject of ‘Cyber Economy and Management’.

Data Policies

Social Logins, Fulfilment by Amazon, Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages: A team of researchers at the University of Passau has applied game theory models to analyse services offered by large online platforms. What may sound good, might come at a price...

Researchers from Passau and Namur, Belgium, have investigated discriminatory practices of online platforms such as sponsored search results and paid prominence. The research was commissioned by Brussels-based think tank CERRE.

In the video interview, Dr. Daniel Schnurr, information systems scholar at the University of Passau, speaks about the fallout of the Facebook data scandal and about how users develop a sense of value for their data.

Projects related to guiding theme 'Digitalisation, Networked Society and (Internet) Cultures'

EU-project PRISMACLOUD - Privacy and Security Maintaining services in the CLOUD

EU-Projekt IMPRESS weckt mit Lernspielen Interesse an Software-Tests

Project IMPRESS: higher software quality through gamification in education programmes

Project QUAR: FORWISS Institute at the University of Passau is developing an intelligent system to automate the monitoring of some of these production processes

QUAR – Artificial Intelligence for Industry 4.0

Web archives – archiving the internet for future generations

Werkzeuge für präzise Prognosen mit Big Data

Tools for accurate predictions with Big Data

MICO: Analysing multimedia content on the Web

eHumanities

To mark the 40th anniversary of the University of Passau, a Digital University Museum, which was created as part of a teaching project, is going online. The contents were developed by students.

Under the auspices of Neoclassica project, a team of computer scientists and a historian are teaching machines to recognise neoclassical furniture in images. To do this, they are using neural networks that Google has already pre-trained.

Network research is a key pillar of digital humanities. The laboratory for cultural heritage digitisation, where documents and cultural artefacts are captured for data analysis, is the hub around which the networking-centred discipline revolves.

Projects related to the guiding theme 'Migration, Sustainable Development and Just Order'

EU project EcoVeloTour: fostering bicycle tourism in the Danube region

Reisbauern bei der Arbeit in Indonesien, Foto: V. Schreer

IndORGANIC: Passau Researchers prepare real Green Transformation Indonesia

Research project Human+ investigates sign of future migration movements

Research project Human+ investigates signs of future migration movements

Discussion with irrigation scheme committee members in Malawi

Cash for work I - Public works programmes in developing countries

Frauen bekommen in Burkina Faso Unterstützung zur Unternehmensplanung

FIdES: Formal Insurance and Productive Effects Study

Project Multi-Resilience - Resilience in multimodal energy distribution systems

Just Order

Our case study in Burkina Faso suggests that glasses costing a couple of dollars are still too expensive and need to be subsidised to reach high levels of coverage. By Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm and Renate Hartwig, PhD

Tunisia is regarded as a trailblazer when it comes to women's rights in the Islamic world. However, a weak economy exacerbates traditional gender role thinking, finds a Passau study conducted for the International Labour Organization.

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