WSTNet Web Science Summer School (WWSSS)
The annual WSTNet Web Science Summer School provides the opportunity to gather the required knowledge and communicate with other researchers and professionals.
Organisers of the summer schools get support from an experienced Steering Committee assuring the quality of the events.
They are renowned experts in their field, with many years of experience in both teaching and research and belong to a broad global network that shapes the discipline of Web Science.
This makes WWSSS the perfect events to gather insight into the Web and connect with other researchers and professionals.
WWSSS is non-profit and participation fees are kept at a minimum to allow students from all over the world and diverse backgrounds to participate.
The mission of WSTNet Web Science Summer School (WWSSS) is to provide its participants with a base knowledge in the core subjects of Web Science. Web Science investigates the web from many disciplines
Therefore, Web Science is inherently interdisciplinary: It combines research from such diverse disciplines as computer science, social sciences, economics, or mathematics. It includes methodologies from the formal and logical to quantitative and qualitative observations and descriptions.
- WWSSS is for researchers and professionals
- WWSSS is intended for researchers starting out in Web Science and for professionals who wish to know more about this increasingly important topic.
- Many topics in both science and industry require and understanding of how the Web works.
- WWSSS aims to provide people from these areas with the necessary knowledge and expertise
Web Science Courses
To ensure the Web serves future generations, the WST promotes and supports the development of Web Science curricula at all relevant educational levels around the world.
Web Science Education
Education is of paramount importance to the Trust and we look to assist in the definition of curricula at all levels, provide support and backing of summer schools across all our Labs. Ultimately to ensure that our students and members have the right skills and tools to approach this complex task of engagement with the complex socio-technical interactions on the Web.
Current Courses in Web Science
There are a number of institutions around the world where you can study Web Science. For further information please visit the institution’s site:
- UTAD offers a Ph.D, course in Web Science and Technology, which has been working for the last 5 years, in a joint offer between Universidade Aberta (The portuguese Open University) and Universidade de Tràs-os-Montes e Alto Douro
- Cologne University, Germany offers a Master Programme in Web Science. It is an extra-occupational course of studies that makes extensive use of the Web’s cooperation and e-learning technologies.
- Hof University offers a Masters in Internet-Web Science
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has various courses available
- Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute explores the research and engineering principles that underlie the Web
- The Oxford Internet Institute was founded as a department of the University of Oxford in 2001, as an academic centre for the study of the societal implications of the internet. There are various courses available
- The University of Edinburgh offers Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
- The university of Southampton offers an iPhD in Webscience
- The University of Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Web Science and Technologies, has offered a Masters in Web Science since October 2012
- The University of Linz, Austria runs a Studies of Web Science within the Master’s Degree Program since October 2011
- The University of the West of England in Bristol offers a professional course in Social Media and Web Science
Other Courses of interest
Training that will be of interest to potential Web Scientists, interdisciplinary researchers and others:
- Offering a deep dive into 35+ initiatives that should prove helpful for women exploring a career in Cybersecurity
- The Promotion of Women in Computer Science
- Coding at a young age
- A field that is eager for diversity – a guide for minorities and computer science
- Future Learn offers a free course titled Web Science: How the Web is Changing the World
- Aachen University offers MSc Informatik – a Web Science core course
- University of Glasgow offers MSc Computer Science with Web Science module
- Johannes Kepler University of Linz offers Economics of Web Science
- Knowledge Technology Institute Graz offers Web Science and Web Technology
- UCL offers MSc Computational Archeology which includes web science methods
If you wish to have your institution added to this list please email info@webscience.org
Before requesting a listing, please note that WST generally only lists direct providers of content/education rather than aggregators, resellers or other paid-for recommended services.
Thinking of running a Web Science Summer School? What you need to know
General Hosting Information
Hosting a WWSSS Edition
The successful institution will receive whatever advice is needed from the Steering Committee to ensure the smooth and effective running of the summer school. The institution is responsible for:
– finances,
– marketing,
– web site,
– running of the Summer School,
– reporting to the WWSSS Steering Committee and
– running the call for proposals for the subsequent edition.
Once a WWSSS edition has been finished, a main organizer nominated by the hosting institution will join the Steering Committee.
Call for proposals
An expression of interest based on a one page form, based on which the steering committee invites for full proposals.
The full proposal including programme and budget.
WWSSS Steering Committee
Once a WWSSS edition has been finished, a main organizer nominated by the hosting institution will join the Steering Committee.
Previous Summer Schools Click to visit each summer school site (*)
WSI, Southampton
L3S, Hannover
HSE, St Petersburg
IMSO, St Petersburg
WeST, Koblenz
Tsinghua, China
WSI, Southampton
WSI, Southampton
NUS, Singapore
Lorentz Centre, Leiden
DERI, Galway
RPI, New York
(*) Sites where the original site/server is no longer active are linked to the WayBack machine at the Internet Archive or to related resources for the event.