Digital skills, creative thinking and resilience - giving these future skills more space and time in the curriculum is the aim of the Future Skills Week from Monday, November 27 to Friday, December 1 at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).
With more than 30 seminars, lectures, workshops and discussions, Viadrina is promoting its students and employees in key skills relevant to the future. The topics range from artificial intelligence to digital well-being and innovative forms of work to creative podcasts.
"Good teaching is not about passing on traditional knowledge in traditional courses; good teaching is about using innovative teaching and learning formats to impart the skills that students need to shape a better future," says Prof. Dr. Christoph Brömmelmeyer, Vice President for Teaching and Learning, emphasizing the importance of Future Skills Week. Anja Voigt, Head of the Viadrina Center for Teaching and Learning, adds: "Today more than ever, universities have a responsibility to enable students to actively shape change, but they still have a lot to learn themselves. The Future Skills discourse can provide all university stakeholders with ideas and impetus to explore new formats, processes and spaces in teaching and learning."
The action week will open with a public panel discussion on Monday, November 27, 2023 at 1 p.m. in the foyer of the Gräfin-Dönhoff building, Europaplatz 1.
Under the title "Get ready for the Future: Living, learning and working in times of change", lecturers, students, alumni and representatives from the business world will talk about future-oriented education, sought-after skills and challenges for educational institutions.
Other public program items are:
Monday, November 27, 2023 | 6 p.m. | Room 104 in the Audimax building, Logenstraße 4
"Rhetoric – Past, Present or Future Skill?"
Talk with Prof. Dr. Christoph Brömmelmeyer and Dr. Thomas Lübbig with excerpts from the film "Contra" (2020)
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 | 6 :00 p.m. | Online
"What condoms and balcony power plants have to do with each other and why we need to think differently about entrepreneurship in the future"
Discussion round with Waldemar Zeiler (co-founder and managing director of "Einhorn Products")
Registration by e-mail to futureskills@europa-uni.de
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | 1:00 p.m. | Foyer Gräfin-Dönhoff Building
Panel discussion "AI and the future of academic writing" by the Center for Teaching and Learning
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | 4:30 p.m. | Gräfin-Dönhoff Building, Lecture Hall 2
Lecture "AI can't get no regulation? – On the future of AI regulation Artificial intelligence"
with Prof. Dr. Philipp Hacker from the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS) at Viadrina
Daily between 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. in the foyer of the Gräfin-Dönhoff building
Market of Opportunities with an interactive exhibition on practice-oriented teaching formats at the Viadrina, virtual reality glasses, a Lego lounge, portraits of founders and much more.
Background: The action week is part of the "Future Skills @ Viadrina" project, which will continue with further events throughout the semester and beyond. The project was developed as part of the Train-the-Trainer program "Learning in Networks – Designing Participatory Support Services" and was awarded by the Stifterverband. Future Skills @ Viadrina is a joint offer of the departments Co-Working, the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Career Center, the Start-up Center and lecturers of the three faculties as well as the European New School of Digital Studies of the Viadrina.
Further information and program
European University Viadrina
Department for University Communication
Phone +49 (0)335 5534 4515
presse@europa-uni.de
www.europa-uni.de