Digital transformation poses complex challenges for research and society. This makes it all the more important to have spaces where different disciplines can come together and work on solutions collaboratively. The network meeting of the bidt Graduate Centre in Bernried provided the perfect setting for this.
Funded doctoral students and postdocs from the bidt came together to further develop interdisciplinary work in a targeted manner. The focus was on a workshop with Dr Iris Mencke (Interdisciplinary Minds), in which participants worked in mixed working groups to develop new perspectives on future issues of digital transformation:
- How can AI organise mobility in smart cities more effectively?
- What role do data donations from educational platforms (e.g. Duolingo) play in researching learning behaviour?
- What opportunities and risks does online or virtual identity bring?
The meeting highlighted the added value that interdisciplinary collaboration brings to research on digital transformation: different methodological and technical approaches open up new perspectives on questions that cannot be answered from a single discipline.
An inspiring lecture with a short workshop on career development rounded off the programme on the second day. Dr Martina Schuster, CEO of ai.dopt, used the example of start-ups to show how research and entrepreneurship can be productively combined.
