"Festival University" program - Online and in Austria

"Festival University" program - Online and in Austria
August 30 to September 19, 2021

Does training robots sound like something you could get behind? What about cloning your house plant? Growing a piece of your skin? Or developing recycling technologies of tomorrow?

You got it!
The Festival University can make it happen.

3 weeks, 100 international students, and technological advancements that will change the world forever: The most significant international symposium for Art & Technology, the Ars Electronica Festival, and Upper Austria's largest institute of education, the Johannes Kepler University Linz, are joining forces to organize a very special Festival University program.

Apply now to receive a grant and take part in this unique summer university program!

Robotics, brain interfaces, artificial intelligence, digitization, a circular economy, and new forms of energy for the future: While you can’t stop new technologies from changing our world, you CAN be a part of the way they will shape our everyday lives – it’s all in your hands!

Together with highly experienced, international experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and other world-leading research institutions as well as artists you’ve probably only seen on YouTube, you will contemplate, plan, and develop ideas to support digital transformation:
What are the greatest issues of our time? How do we create more awareness to address problems as well as a desire to solve these problems? What will the future hold?

You can expect to take part in an exciting program complete with engaging presentations and real-world, hands-on workshops featuring state-of-the-art research findings and no limits when it comes to professional disciplines. Be surprised, inspired and challenged!