AtUM, digital technology comes naturally
A “digital fountain” for Professors students: this connected space lets you discover or propose innovative projects, all at your fingertips. It also helps strengthen the network of current and former students. It’s atUM, and nowhere else…
It was officially inaugurated on Monday, January 23. But at the heart of (S)pace—a space for dining, socializing, and activities in the heart of the Triolet campus—the digital fountain is already a well-known attraction amongUM students.
The Digital Fountain? A connected space where people can gather around innovative touchscreen devices to foster co-creativity and imagination. Professors students can experiment, discover, and propose projects, applications, event activities, and more—all while having unrestricted access to digital tools that are usually off-limits.
By and for students
The digital resource center offers its users a wide range of shared content: digital educational resources, as well as freely shared documents that are useful for their student life.
The primary goal of this new type of funding initiative is to encourage the development of digital applications or projects created entirely by students.
It thus helps highlight their work by providing a space to showcase their achievements, test projects that are in progress or nearing completion, and foster interaction among them.
Collaborative Tools
The Digital Fountain is more than just a place to meet and share ideas. It fosters the creation of digital projects by providing everyone with access to a team of experts to support their projects, testing and demonstration equipment, a modular space, and a production workshop.
It is part of the overall policy for digital development aimed at serving students, particularly through its integration with university libraries. This is because La Fontaine also facilitates the development of collaborative work tools that are made freely available in university libraries, in line with the ongoing transformation of these libraries into Learning Centers.
Building Connections
A collaborative space and gathering place, the fountain helps break down barriers between different disciplinary “communities” and forge connections among them. Open not only to the campus but also to the city and the world, the fountain is also designed to highlight students’ academic journeys and bring together current and former students. This initiative is part of the university’s mission to promote career readiness and aligns with the creation of ResUM,UM professional network.
Some examples of projects: a music video game; optimizing a geolocation app for internships for touchscreen use; mapping contemporary artworks at the University of Montpellier; a demonstration of the “Environmental Symphony” app; and more.
- Check out the digital fountain and its Pearltrees: fontaine-numerique.umontpellier.fr