Doctoral Webinar Challenges of Digital and Technological Transformations is back
Open to all doctoral/ postgraduate students in CIVIS, the 2025-2026 edition of the webinar takes a critical look at how recent and complex DTT shape and reshape the lives of European children, youth, their families and communities. While younger generations have been decidedly socialized into a digitally mediated world, emerging technologies, new social challenges and legal frameworks pose unexplored challenges, opportunities and questions for and about children and youth in a contemporary context.
The webinar will present a series of case studies, ongoing projects and socio-educational infrastructures that shed light on debates and questions formulated over the very past few years.
Sessions
The 90 minutes meetings take place each month, on a Friday morning, at 9:00 AM GMT:
- 20 February 2026: Bridgette Wessels - Growing up with digital technologies in families with low incomes: childhood and family experiences in Scotland
- 20 March 2026: Dimitris Gouscos - Children participation(s) in digital transformations
- 24 April 2026: Elena Pérez-Hernández - Digital literacy for social equity among adolescents
- 22 May 2026: Gottfried Schweiger - Adolescence and the ethics of trustworthy AI
- 18 June 2026: Closing Roundtable discussion with all participating speakers.
In order to receive a certificate of attendance, registrants must attend at least 4 of the 5 scheduled sessions. The total workload and certification of this series is 1 ECTS.
Good to know
This doctoral webinar series is structured as an annual event and showcases the ground-breaking work conducted by CIVIS faculty connected to Digital and Technological Transformations (DTT).
The speakers come from different CIVIS universities and the focus of each annual series changes, allowing doctoral researchers and postgraduate students to participate in each edition of the webinar.