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Study on Doctoral Candidates in Germany – Call for Participation

University of Koblenz Landau is partner oft the Nacaps Study of the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW).

STIBET supports international PhD candidates and Postdocs

Announcements of the Scholarship and Support Programme (STIBET)

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

Read [the whole interview (in German)]

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.

WeST welcomes 28 new Web Science students at the University of Koblenz-Landau

On 24th October lecture period starts at the University of Koblenz-Landau. The Institute for Web Science and Technologies heartily welcomes 28 new Web Science students from Germany and abroad and wishes them a successful start!

Heise Online about WebSci’16 and the Web Science Trust

Heise Online just published an article about the WebSci’16 conference which has been co-organised by Institute WeST (Steffen Staab as Program Chair, Claudia Wagner as Tutorial Chair).

Web Science student Aemal Sayer wins first prize at Startup Weekend Koblenz

Aemal Sayer, Web Science student at the University of Koblenz-Landau, won first prize at the Startup Weekend Koblenz. The goal of the event was to within three days gather a team and develop a business concept together. In the end, a Jury of five selected the best ideas.