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11/14/2025

IT:U DigiEduHack 2025 is in the books

This year’s edition focused on rethinking education in the digital era, bringing together great ideas, teamwork, and lots of energy across three intense days. With five strong interdisciplinary teams, the hackathon showcased how data, learning analytics, and AI can meaningfully improve higher education. Congratulations to our winning team BAM AI Amir Ansari, Breno Lucas da […]

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06/17/2025

IT:U is part of KinderUni Upper Austria 2025

For the first time, IT:U is participating in the KinderUni – with exciting workshops all about robotics and climate change: Make the robots dance You don’t need to know how to program or build to have fun with IT:U’s Sphero robots. You’ll control the fast little spheres using tablets as they make their way through […]

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11/15/2024

DigiEduHack 2024: Transform Futures of Higher Education through Analytics in Action 

In an increasingly data- and AI-driven world, learning analytics has the potential of transforming teaching and learning practices. Reflecting this potential, IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria hosted a hackathon within the framework of the EU initiative DigiEduHack initiative with the challenge “Transform Futures of Higher Education through Analytics in Action”. 17 participants of eleven nationalities […]

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11/04/2024

IT:U welcomes new PhD students

The IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria welcomed its first group of PhD students today during an engaging and informative Welcome Day event. This day was designed to help students connect with each other, explore the campus, and prepare for their academic path ahead. The day started at 10:00 AM with a friendly check-in. This was […]

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09/09/2024

IT:U Summer School 2024 – Transforming Ideas into Impact

41 students from 26 nations showed how interdisciplinary collaboration leads to tomorrow’s solutions. This year’s IT:U Summer School once again demonstrated the power of interdisciplinary collaboration and underlined its crucial role in shaping the technologies of tomorrow. Neurodiversity, ambient living, value-oriented giving and the representation of seismic processes were the main topics of this year’s […]

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07/26/2024

IT:U demonstrates the future of education with digital innovations

The groundbreaking initiative to integrate digital technologies into education received an overwhelmingly positive response from participants during the “Long Night of Research”. Nearly 1000 attendees gathered in Linz to learn about IT:U’s mission and vision. Wolfgang Kienreich provided a clear explanation of what Interdisciplinarity entails. “Our students learn how to use digital technology to achieve […]

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06/24/2024

Advanced Tech Meets Traditional Art: Digital Study of Kathak and Tabla

The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) and IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria successfully conducted a groundbreaking experiment to explore deep communication between a Kathak dancer and a Tabla player. The event, held at IT:U’s motion capture lab, attracted dozens of people who wanted to see the mix of classical Indian dance and […]

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06/10/2024

Talking with Hands and Feet

A digital investigation of the coordination between Kathak dancer and Tabla drummer. Topic Kathak, a classical northern Indian dance form, is danced to the rhythmical beats of the tabla drums. A deep communication between dancer and musician is obvious in the beautiful, improvised synchronization of dance and music. However, the way in which this communication […]

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05/17/2024

Interdisciplinary Digital Innovation at Summer School 2024

IT:U’s summer school is designed for visionaries from varied disciplines to collaborate & solve complex challenges of today’s world. Step into a world where diverse minds and cutting-edge technologies converge to redefine the possibilities of tomorrow. Our IT:U summer school ‘Interdisciplinary Digital Innovation – Transforming Ideas into Impact’ is designed for visionaries from varied disciplines […]

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04/18/2024

Explore the Future of Innovation at the Long Night of Research 2024

This year’s Long Night of Research promises to be an unforgettable event, taking place on Friday, May 24, 2024, from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. across more than 200 exhibition venues throughout Austria. A highlight of the event will be the participation of IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria located at Science Park 4 on the […]

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