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!

Three 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.

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!

Because one thing is certain: the future is coming.

And you will be a driving force behind it.