SummerSchool - Social Innovation Workshop

SummerSchool: Together for social innovation - Interdisciplinary thinking, shaping the future!

Registration to Katharina Hunger (8 places still available)

The Social Innovation Workshop is designed to inspire School of Engineering Sciences students for innovative ideas and interdisciplinary development processes. Working together in diverse teams enables students to use skills from the STEM subjects for the development of social innovations (SI) and to jointly create concrete concepts for implementation. The challenges to be addressed (e.g. demographic change, climate crisis, mobility of the future, social injustice, etc.) come from the students themselves or from their environment. In the workshop, solutions are sought, developed and presented together. The Advisor team is made up of experts from various TUD departments and companies and serve as contact persons during the workshop.

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Would you like to use your STEM skills to develop social innovations and immerse yourself in a world of interdisciplinary collaboration? Then our three-day SummerSchool is just the thing for you. The Social Innovation Workshop takes place from August 19 to 21, 2024, daily from 9:00 am. For three days, you will have the opportunity to learn new things about innovation processes, project management, business model development and interdisciplinary work, alternating between theory and practical work. Advisors from various fields will be on hand to offer you valuable insights into their areas of expertise. Highlights include the networking picnic on Monday evening and the pitch event on Wednesday evening, where your ideas will be presented in front of an audience.

What can you expect?

• Inspiring workshops and discussions
• Interdisciplinary teamwork
• Practical approaches to solving social challenges
• Experts from various fields
• Networking with like-minded people and potential cooperation partners

Why should you take part?

• Unleash your full potential in an inclusive environment
• Acquire skills for the future of work
• Design solutions for the world of tomorrow
• Receive a certificate for interdisciplinary collaboration in innovation projects

Register via the continuing education catalog: Registration is open to students of the School of Engineering Sciences, BAU and MANA. Registration to Katharina Hunger (8 places still available): Please write 4 sentences why you want to be part of the SummerSchool. Please also mention in your application which degree program you are enrolled in and what your pronouns are. Application deadline: 05.08.2024

Participants should be selected as diverse as possible, including at least 50% FLINTA* and equal distribution of degree programs.

Financed by equal opportunity funds from the School of Engineering Sciences.

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Seminar language: German

Planned course program (19.-21.08.2024)

1st day (9:00 - 17:00): Monday, 19.08.2024

• 9:00-12:00 Teaching block 1 (2 x 75 minutes)
• lunch
• 13:00 - 14:00 Training block: Group formation + group contract
• 14:00 - 17:00 Creative session for innovative ideas
• Optional: From 17:00 Get-together at the end of the day with a picnic in the countryside

2nd day (9:00 - 17:00): Tuesday, 20.08.2024

• 9:00 - 11:00 Teaching block 2 Methods (2 x 50 minutes)
• 11:00 - 17:00 Training block: Apply method kit to innovative idea (lunch is organized by the group)

3rd day (9:00 - 19:00): Wednesday, 21.08.2024

• 9:00 - 11:00: Training block 3 (2 x 50 minutes)
• 11:00 - 16:00: Training block: Prepare and practice pitch (lunch will be organized by the group)
• From 17:00: Presentation in the evening in front of an audience