What is "BeING Inside"?

BeING Inside is the realistic simulation of an industrial project. Within one week, prospective and first-year students work in interdisciplinary teams on a problem from business practice. The groups compete for the best solutions. After the final presentations at the end of the project week, the best team of pupils and the best team of students will be awarded a prize. Trained specialist and team coaches accompany the interdisciplinary teams during the practical task. Professors, doctoral students and representatives from the business community additionally support the groups.

Project Phases

BeING Inside consists of 2 phases:

1^st Phase:

The specialist and team coaches are trained in a three-day training course, the so-called TrainING. The training of the coaches corresponds conceptually to the project week in a shortened form. This means that the coaches are also divided into teams and confronted with the same tasks as the participants of the project week.

2^nd Phase:

During the BeING Inside project week, the interdisciplinary teams work on the task and are supported and supervised by the specialist and team coaches.

Foto von vier Studenten. Sie sitzen gemeinsam an einem Tisch und schauen auf ein Tablet, das in der Mitte des Tisches steht. — BeING Inside Project Week 2017: Teamwork

Mentoring concept

During the project week, prospective students and students are supported and accompanied at three different levels: by specialist and team coaches, experts and professionals.

Tasks of the specialist coaches:

professional monitoring of the interdisciplinary groups
conducting question-and-answer discussions on specific problems
intervention in the event of serious technical mistakes
support in project management (e.g. compliance with content specifications)
final evaluation of the professional output of the group

Tasks of the team coaches:

methodical-didactical monitoring of the interdisciplinary groups
critical analysis of the group dynamic development (distribution of roles, communication structures etc.)
guiding teamwork and development
conflict and role management
final evaluation of the teamwork in the respective group

Tasks of the experts:

answering specific technical questions
model representation of technical processes in the laboratory time

Tasks of the professionals:

joint elaboration of the task with the organisation team
participation in the "professional round"
selection of the winning teams as jury members at the final event

Grafik aller Beteiligten und ihrer Rollen in 5 Kästchen übereinander angeordnet. Die Kästchen sind durch Pfeile verbunden. Oben stehen die „Profis“ darunter die „Experten“, darunter nebeneinander „Fach- und Teamchoaches“ und ganz unten „Teilnehmer“.

In addition, the organisation team (ORP coordinators) will be available to answer questions from prospective and regular students throughout the entire project week.

The monitoring is rounded off by an extensive script with detailed schedules as well as a team USB stick with links to helpful websites, pictures and videos.

Foto einer Treppe, die in ein Foyer führt. Viele Studierende unterhalten sich dort und bedienen sich am Buffet. — BeING Inside Project Week 2017: Get-together at the final event

Business partners

business partner 2019: TEAG Thüringer Energie AG
business partner 2017 and 2018: BASF Schwarzheide GmbH

Videos

Partner projects

The idea for an interdisciplinary project week (today: KI²VA) ), which originated at the TU Darmstadt in 1998, was adapted 8 years later by the FH Kiel (under the name startIng!) and the FH Aachen (under the name pro8).

The BeING Inside format took place for the first time at TU Dresden in the summer semester of 2017.

Videos about the partner projects:

TU Darmstadt: KI²VA

FH Kiel: startIng!

FH Aachen: pro8

Awards

Recognition of the Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der TU Dresden e. V. (presented at the Tag der Lehre 2017)
Nomination for the Saxon Teaching Award 2018

Conferences / Lectures / Publications

Presentation of the project week at the MINT Coordination Meeting of TU Dresden on 28^th September 2017
Poster presentation in the context of the Lehr-/Lernkonferenz zur Studieneingangsphase in Berlin on 26^th October 2017
Poster presentation for the Tag der Lehre TU Dresden on 15^th November 2017
Poster presentation and workshop "Interdisziplinäre Studienprojekte gestalten" at the Science and Congress Centre Darmstadt from 19^th to 21^st September 2018
Lecture on "Tried and tested diversity: Transfer and further development of incoming study projects at technical universities and universities of applied sciences" at the BMBF conference in Regensburg from 6^th to 7^th December 2018
Article in the magazine Magazin "Europa fördert Sachsen" (p. 14)
Presentation of the project week for the exchange of experiences "Maschinenhaus" of the VDMA on 13^th June 2019

What is "BeING Inside"?

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