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Chemical status of European surface waters decreases while monitoring improves

Scientists from the University of Landau, Germany, have shown that surface waters throughout Europe are frequently exposed to numerous organic contaminants (e.g., pesticides, industrial chemicals) at concentrations that are detrimental to ecosystem health. According to their findings published in the latest issue of Environment International, organic contaminants impair freshwater ecosystems across Europe, with particularly high threats to fishes and aquatic invertebrates. Freshwaters as one of the key anthropogenic resources thus remain threatened by chemical pollution, highlighting the urgent need for improved freshwater protection.

Record for new international enrollments on Campus Koblenz

For the winter term 2020/21, 154 international students started their studies on Campus Koblenz, Germany. In comparison to last year, the number of international students has not only increased by 67 but has also reached a new high.

Student team Koblenz wins iGOvDIGITAL Award

Master’s students of the Faculty of Computer Science win the Europe-wide iGOvDIGITAL Award. With their project proposal DyLoMoCo and the help of AI, IoT and interlinked infrastructure, the team developed a concept for dynamic urban traffic management. They won first place in a competition endowed with 5,000€.

Indian master's student wins DAAD Prize

Applied Mathematics student Hiba Saleel from India is honored for outstanding intercultural engagement by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The 2020 Prize was presented to Saleel at the University of Koblenz where she is a "Cultural Ambassador of her country".

Reference Extraction Made Easy

Speaking at the Open Citation Workshop in Bologna, Dr. Philipp Mayr-Schlegel (GESIS) on behalf of the EXCITE project consortium has accounced and demonstrated the release of the novel EXCITE toolchain that allows for extracting literature references from PDFs and matching them against available bibliographic databases.

Deutsche Welle interviews Professor Staab about provenance information in Facebook

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E-Democracy-Workshop: Political Opinion Formation in Social Media

As part of the Koblenz Democracy Weeks, the research focus E-Democracy organizes a workshop for the interested public.

First results of the GazeMining Project

In the GazeMining project, the Institute for Web Science and Technologies and the start-up company EYEVIDO are working together on the future of usability analysis of modern websites.

Institute WeST extends study programme cooperation with Chinese Universities

In April the Institute for Web Science & Technologies was a guest in Fujian province in China. Dr. Ulrich Wechselberger, managing director of Institute WeST, visited Fuzhou University and the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in Fuzhou. Subject of the visit were the joint 1+2 study programmes in Web Science and Computer Science. In these programmes, students study one year in China and two in Germany and earn both a Chinese and a German Master’s degree.

The impact of social bots on political discourses and elections: Expert talk with Markus Strohmaier from the University of Koblenz-Landau in the German Bundestag

How dangerous are computer programs that autonomously post news in social media („social bots“)? Can they affect political discourses in the Web and thereby elections? Experts discussed this issue on 26th January 2017 with the committee for education, research and technological impact assessment in the German Bundestag.

Southampton University, RPI and WeST publish Web Science Manifesto

27 years ago the World Wide Web was born. Since then many things have changed: The Web has become the largest socio-technical construct of mankind, its users evolved from information consumers to socially connected prosumers.