Past Events

Simply a Small Room – How Digital is a University? Lecture with Dr. Michael Jäckel

Dr. Jäckel with Prof. Pfeiffer

Dr. Michael Jäckel, President of the University of Trier, spoke to German department students and faculty on higher education and digitization, specifically how universities are preparing themselves for a digitized landscape.

Dr. Jäckel is a sociologist with a research focus on the sociology of media and consumption. Under the auspices of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, he is the chair of the Stakeholder-Dialogue, and a member of the German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures.