UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education

The UNESCO Chair is an Institution of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Together with the Canadian UNESCO Chair in Arts & Learning and a growing community of upcoming UNESCO Chairs, we are proud to serve as a dedicated chair to fostering UNESCO-related issues and perspectives on aesthetic, arts, and cultural education in a planetary and post-digital perspective.

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22JUL 2025
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Graduation Ceremony of the Children’s University of Nuremberg
On July 11, 2025, this year’s graduation ceremony of the Children’s University of Nuremberg took place at the Kulturwerkstatt Auf AEG. 99 children aged 8 to 12 received their diplomas for successfully participating in six events as part of the “General Studies” program. As UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education, we were […]
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22APR 2025
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Experimentieren – Gestalten – Reflektieren: Generative KI in der Kunstpädagogik und der Kulturellen Bildung
Im Rahmen unseres BMBF-geförderten Forschungsprojekts „Artificial Intelligence for Arts Education“ startet ab Mai unsere neue Schulungsreihe zur Anwendung von Generativer KI in der kulturellen Bildung und Kunstpädagogik. In praxisnahen Sessions vermitteln wir Grundlagen, erproben kreative Prompting-Techniken und testen gemeinsam unseren speziell entwickelten KI-Prototypen – und entwickeln diesen gemeinsam weiter. Die Schulungen richten sich an Kunstpädagog*innen, […]Im Rahmen unseres BMBF-geförderten Forschungsprojekts „Artificial Intelligence for Arts Education“ startet ab Mai unsere neue Schulungsreihe zur Anwendung von Generativer KI in der kulturellen Bildung und Kunstpädagogik. In praxisnahen Sessions vermitteln wir Grundlagen, erproben kreative Prompting-Techniken und testen gemeinsam unseren speziell entwickelten KI-Prototypen – und entwickeln diesen gemeinsam weiter. Die Schulungen richten sich an Kunstpädagog*innen, […]
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20DEC 2024
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Expert Workshop: Digitisation and Cultural Resilience: Afghan Music in the Diaspora
Together with albaKULTUR, Köln, the UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education is hosting an expert workshop on 8 and 9 January 2025 to identify the specific challenges of protecting and keeping intangible cultural heritage alive in times of crisis and to explore ways in which digital and AI-supported formats can make an […]
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09DEC 2024
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Keynote Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jörissen – Artificial Intelligence and the Politics of Machine Perception: Artistic Practice and Cultural Resilience
On Sunday, 8 December 2024, the Kulturbüro Muggenhof invited interested parties to the AkademieLAB of our UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education at the Kulturwerkstatt Auf AEG (Fürther Straße 244d, 90429 Nuremberg) to explore the intersections of artificial intelligence, visual culture and pedagogy. The event, which was part of the ‘(A) Eye […]
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06DEC 2024
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DiCuS-Workshop with Prof. Dr. Birgit Althans
On 5 December 2024, we had the great pleasure of welcoming Prof. Dr. Birgit Althans (Düsseldorf Art Academy) for a guest lecture in the context of the research field ‘DiCuS – Digital Cultural Spaces’ at our UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education. As part of a one-and-a-half-hour online workshop, Birgit Althans gave […]
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