IAFeS International Conference NETTIES

Digital Culture and Heritage & AugmentedWearEdu Workshops

25 - 26 May 2023

Timisoara, Romania and Online

Organised jointly by

Politehnica University of Timisoara

International Association for eScience - IAFeS

E³UDRES² European Universities Alliance

Theme

Digital Society:

Synergies between Arts, Culture and Digital Technologies

Politehnica University of Timisoara organizes the Digital Spotlight Heritage Workshop on May 25, 2023, dedicated to all creative industries experts.

Politehnica University of Timisoara together with IAFeS - International Association for Sciences have the pleasure of organising the NETTIES (Network Entities) Conference 2023 in Timisoara, Romania, May 25 - 26. https://iafes.net/

We also organise a seminar dedicated to the Augmented and Virtual Reality and to Wearables supported by the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project Integrating virtual and AUGMENTED reality with WEARable technology into engineering EDUcation (https://augmentedwearedu.uia.no/).

Supporting the concept of interdisciplinarity, scientific works for "Digital Society: Synergies between Arts, Culture and Digital Technologies" are presented by international experts with the schedule:

Thursday 25 May 2023, 09:00 - 17:45 (EET)

Location: Polivalent Room, UPT Library, Bul. Vasile Parvan no. 2B, Timisoara

 & Online - please register here for Zoom

https://upt-ro.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__wTcq1TOTmiLtFukiTKycw

09:00 - 09:15 Opening

Prof. Radu Vasiu - IAFeS President, President of Politehnica University of Timisoara Senate, Multimedia Center Director

Conf. Florin Dragan - Rector, Politehnica University of Timisoara

Prof. Johann Gunther - General Secretary, IAFeS - presentation of IAFeS

09:15 - 10:45 Digital Technologies of Society

9:15 - 9:30 Radu Vasiu, Romania, European Universities strategies for Creative Industries

9:30 - 9:45 Johann Gunther, Austria, Transhumanism

9:45 - 10:00 Hannes Raffaseder, Austria, Compose, Orchestrate & Perform - A musical approach to strategy and further development of higher education institutions (online)

10:00 - 10:15 Matthias Gelbmann, Austria, The dangers of modern AI

10:15 - 10:30 Felix Edelmann, Austria, ChatGPT from a user perspective

10:30 - 10:45 Pekka Silvén, Finland, From the current status to speculative design and scenarios - inspired by the results

10:45 - 11:00 Fredrik Stohm Kronfeld, Sweden, Digital culture, art and environment

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 13:00 AugmentedWearEdu Workshop

11:15 - 11:35 Filippo Sanfilippo, University of Agder, Norway, A Haptic-enabled Framework for Hands-on e-Learning to Facilitate Safe, Digital Access to Laboratories in the Metaverse, Erasmus+ Augmented WearEdu

11:35 - 11:50 Francisco Silva, University of Minho, Portugal, Immersive Learning and its Technologies, Erasmus+ Augmented WearEdu

11:50 - 12:05 Tomas Blažauskas, Egle Butkeviciute, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, Virtual Reality for kinesthetic learning, Erasmus+ Augmented WearEdu

12:05 - 12:20 Silviu Vert, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, Augmented reality technologies for immersive learning, Erasmus+ Augmented WearEdu

12:20 - 12:35 Gionata Salvietti, University of Siena, Italy, Haptics for Learning, Erasmus+ Augmented WearEdu

12:35 - 13:00 Sabin Serban, Ioana Calinescu, Augmented Space Agency, Romania, Museum of Abandonment; Immersive technologies in artistic and educational applications

14:00 - 15:30 Digital Culture and Heritage Workshop

14:00 - 14:15 Diana Andone, Spotlight Heritage Timisoara project

14:15 - 14:35 Antonella Poce, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, Museum and Cultural mediation and the new technologies

14:35 - 14:55 Mark Frydenberg, Bentley University, USA, Meet me in the Metaverse

14:55 - 15:15 Ingrid Kristensen Bjornali, Independent Artist, Norway, Nature and technology

15:15 - 15:30 Filippo Sanfilippo, University of Agder, Norway, A Low-Cost Multi-Modal Auditory-Visual-Tactile Framework for Remote Touch

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 - 17:00 Digital Culture and Heritage Workshop

15:45 - 16:00 Pekka Silvén, Finland, Edukamu - another LMS - why

16:00 - 16:15 Cristian Blidariu, UPT, Romania, UPT Creative Campus

16:15 - 16:30 Sorina Jecza, Triade Foundation & Jecza Gallery, Romania, Creative Industries Entrepreneurship

16:30 - 16:45 Guenter Koch, Konstantinos Kalemis, Konstantina Kallini, Austria, Greece, Introducing Sustainability Management in SMEs - Resolving a Conflict Between Large and Small Companies (online)

16:45 - 17:00 Konstantinos Kalemis, Konstantina Kallini, Greece, Strategies for Managing and Utilizing Human Resources in Times of Prolonged Crisis (online)

Friday 26 May 2023, 10:00 - 16:30 (EET)

10:00 - 17:00 visits 

Spotlight Heritage Timisoara - Parallel Worlds Exhibition, National Museum of BanatBastion Theresia 

Victor Brauner - Inventions and Magic, National Art Museum

International Digital Culture & Spotlight Heritage Festival - Science and Tech Playground, ExperimentariumTM and UPT Technical Museum 

International Digital Culture & Spotlight Heritage Festival - Electro Atrium - Culture Fun Space 

International Digital Culture & Spotlight Heritage Festival - Cazarma U - Digital Culture Space

The event is part of the Spotlight Heritage Timișoara digital cultural initiative, part of the Cultural Programme Timișoara 2023 European Capital of Culture and is co-financed by EEA and Norway Grants and the Municipality of Timișoara through the Project Centre.