AIM is a research platform and center under the Rectorate of Universität Klagenfurt, dedicated to integrating human sciences and data sciences for the advancement of human flourishing.
— AIM Vision Statement
Integrates human sciences and data sciences across all AAU faculties
Advances Digital Health as a flagship research and innovation domain
Develops responsible, human-centered AI and data practices
Enables interdisciplinary research and provides internal seed funding
Connects AAU expertise with regional, national, and international partners
Strengthens societal resilience through evidence-based innovation
AIM is built on the deep integration of two historically separate but complementary fields, with Digital Health as the galvanising domain that brings them together in practice.
An interdisciplinary field focusing on the human condition — both material and non-material. Health is the natural starting point, spanning four key dimensions: ontological (material–non-material), level (individual–collective), causal (physical, social, technical), and teleological (resilient, antifragile, flourishing).
The galvanising domain through which AIM inspires innovations, fosters cross-faculty collaborations, and strengthens a common goal across AAU and its stakeholders.
Understood in both narrow and wide conception — encompassing technical and non-technical disciplines that investigate the useful and detrimental qualities of digital technologies across the same four human dimensions.
AIM's framework understands health as a multidimensional concept — going well beyond physiological health to encompass the full spectrum of what it means to flourish as a human being in a digitally mediated world.
Addresses the material and non-material dimensions of human existence — what it means to be a person in a world increasingly shaped by digital systems and artificial intelligence.
Material – Non-materialRecognises that health and wellbeing operate at multiple scales simultaneously — from the individual person to families, communities, populations, and societies as a whole.
Individual – CollectiveExamines health through the lens of its determinants — physical (biology, environment), social (relationships, institutions), and technical (digital systems, AI, data infrastructure).
Physical · Social · TechnicalFocuses on the goals and purposes of human health — from resilience and antifragility to the highest ideal of eudaimonic flourishing: living a meaningful, self-determined, and fully human life.
Resilient · Antifragile · Flourishing