About us
What happens when and who’s who? There's loads of people in the Children's University team. You will see most of them at the lectures when they stamp your student ID cards, allocate seats, and check you in at the entrance.
But there are also many helpers working behind the scenes to make the Children's University a success. Take a look behind the scenes!
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The makers of the Children's University Dresden
The Children's University is organized by the Deutschen Hygiene-Museum Dresden und and TU Dresden.
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden
You've probably visited the Children's Museum or the permanent exhibition at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum? Then you know that this museum is all about what we know about humans – and it has been around for more than a hundred years.
The exhibitions are also often interactive and great fun. They explain difficult questions in simple terms and are therefore just as interesting for children and young people as they are for adults.
TUD Dresden University of Technology
TUD Dresden University of Technology is the Children’s University Dresden’s big sister. On June 22, 2012, it became one of Germany's Universities of Excellence. There are over 30,000 students in 17 Faculties, meaning they all study different subjects. Young mathematicians, doctors, philosophers, and engineers learn the basics for their chosen careers here.
The Dresden Children's University gives you a taste of Saxony's largest university and lets you experience what it's like to be a student in a lecture hall.
Where do the topics come from?
New and exciting topics await you each semester, which will be answered by the lecturers. While you sit excitedly in your first lecture, the new semester is already being planned at TUD Dresden University of Technology and the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, your lecturers are being selected, topics are being worked out, the large lecture hall is being reserved for you, and the program is being put together.lt.
So that everything runs smoothly...
Frank Schmidt has been welcoming participants to the Children's University lectures since the summer of 2013. He explains how the lectures work, introduces you to the lecturers, and explains how students behave in lecture halls so that everyone gets the most out of the classes. You can also ask him any questions you have for the lecturers.
Picture and sound in the lecture hall
The lecturers will show pictures and information during the lectures. And the lecturers have a microphone to make sure everyone, even those in the back row, can hear everything well.
To ensure that all this technical equipment works well, there are TU Dresden technicians at hand. The team sets up the equipment, takes care of video transmission to the parents' lecture hall, and ensures good sound.
And who are the people wearing red and white in the back row?
There are also two helpers dressed in red and white who follow every lecture. You've probably already wondered what these two in the back row are doing – since they are clearly too old for the Children's University. They are from the German Red Cross and are there just in case.
We have never needed them yet, but just in case you do need a plaster, the helpers in red and white are always on hand.