FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY of JENA (UNI JENA) in Germany is the largest university in Thuringia and one of the oldest in Europe. The professorship for Digital Humanities has a focus on image/object data research and particularly citizen involvement and co-design, educational research, scientometrics, automated 4D modelling. The professorship is significantly involved in the European Time Machine Initiative with 650 member organisations and coordinates the EU S3-Partnership for Virtual and Smart Cultural Tourism. In META-MUSEUM, it coordinates the design of prototypes for empirical evaluation and contributes by ensuring the design and development of testable prototypes to be evaluated in pilots.
Role in META-MUSEUM
UNI JENA is responsible for developing and designing testable components and prototypes to encourage co-creation and participatory processes in transforming CH, in line with TMt, and to be evaluated in the experiments and pilots. UNI JENA is the leader of WP4, namely “Pilots experimental components” as well as the team contributes and takes part in other WPs especially WP2 and WP6.
UNI JENA Team
Expertise & Capabilities
- Key competencies (scientific, technical, cultural):
Focuses on digital methods and infrastructures for the humanities and cultural studies, with an emphasis on 3D/4D data ecosystems, digital models of historical spaces, and multimodal data analysis, combining technological innovation with humanities and social science research to make cultural heritage more visible, accessible, and researchable.
Technology developer, Testing/validation of approaches and ideas, UX design, Contributions from the social sciences or/and the humanities.
Expertise in software development especially web development with HTML and Javascript.
- Unique contributions:
Developing and designing testable components and prototypes to encourage co-creation and participatory processes in transforming CH, in line with TransforMEANS Theory.
Relevant Past Experience
- EU/Horizon Europe or other research projects
- Urban Collective Design Environment (H2020-ICT19, WP lead “Methodology”) developed a digital methodology and participatory platform that enables urban designers, architects, and developers to co-design and communicate and visualize their projects with the larger public. Sander Münster was responsible for the NLP and big data analysis
- Time Machine (H2020-FET-Flag, WP lead “Innovation and Outreach”): The TMO is aiming to collect and utilise the big data of the past in order to develop and implement pioneering new digitalisation technologies using artificial intelligence (AI). The TMO arose from a FET Flagship CSA project which ran between March 2019 to February 2020 and developed a detailed roadmap for a Large Scale Research Initiative. TMO operates or is involved in ~20 projects on various scale to realize this roadmap.
- Virtual Multimodal Museum (H2020-CULT-COOP-8-2016, TG lead “International Partnering”) brings together Europe and the world’s leading public and private sector organisations working on Vir-tual Museums and in the wider sector of Digital Cultural Heritage, to support high uality policy devel-opment, decision making and the use of technical advances. Sander Münster was chairing the taskgroup “International Partnering”. www.vi-mm.eu
- EIT Culture & Creativity SUGA (HEU-KIC, Member elect of AP10 and SB selection committee). The starting EIT KIC CCIS is proposed to provide an innovation framework with a strong link to digital technologies for creative and cultural industries. DHI Accelerator provides a corresponding testbed for sustainable financing and funding schemes specifically for interregional scale and therefore provides input and synergies for successful financing and support schemes for CCI in Europe on regional and interregional scale.
- EU S3-partnership for Virtual and Smart Tourism (EU-S3, Coordinator). The partnership comprises 53 stakeholders from 7 regions and was mandated by the EC in 2021 to better align innovation activities and value chains and to develop innovation structures for cross-regional ventures.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Sander Münster: sander.muenster[at]uni-jena.de
