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With the sTUDies 3.0 teaching strategy, TU Dresden has created a comprehensive framework to make studying and teaching fit for the future. Following the Senate's decision in December 2024, the active implementation phase will begin in 2025 with clear focal points and prioritized action plans from the University Executive Board.

Prioritized action plans for 2025

The focus is on six key areas:

• Cross-disciplinary core competencies: Development of a university-wide skillset that encompasses interdisciplinary skills.
• Freedom for new teaching formats: Concepts for creating flexible freedoms are created to test and permanently establish experimental teaching-learning formats (e.g. project-based learning).
• Research-oriented teaching: Definition of the term research orientation and strengthening the practical relevance by integrating the "Dresden-concept Science and Innovation Alliance" as well as sensitizing teachers to research-oriented teaching
• Learning culture in the digital space: Definition of a learning culture throughout the university, strengthening of open educational resources (OER) and of "digital change agents" as multipliers
• Interdisciplinary cooperation: Curricular linking of interdisciplinary formats and greater involvement of non-university partners in practical projects
• Lifelong studies: Development of flexible study programs, consideration of lifelong learning in the context of other core competencies and the learning culture in the digital space

Milestones and working methods

The sTUDies 3.0 teaching strategy team will continue to work in a participatory and cross-status group manner in 2025. A draft for a TUD core competence set has been drawn up by the teaching strategy team based on the proposed solution, comparison with good practice examples and EU/OECD/UNESCO frameworks and literature research, and will be evaluated by university members in May 2025. The Vice-Rectorate Education is using the systemic consensus method. As part of a workshop with over 40 people, possible resistance to individual competencies is explored and mitigated through a reassessment. The feedback from university members forms the basis for the further development of the set.

Status reports on all measures and the forwarding of non-prioritized plans to other responsible stakeholders are planned for 2025. The teaching strategy also integrates cross-cutting topics such as the Sustainability Strategy 2023-2030 and the diversity audit "Shaping Diversity". This ensures that aspects such as ecological responsibility and inclusion are structurally anchored in teaching.

Target vision for 2025

By the end of the year, the first structural changes should have been made: These include, for example, the development of the university-wide core competence set. With the sTUDies 3.0 teaching strategy, TU Dresden is positioning itself as a pioneer for modern, responsible university teaching that meets the requirements of the 21st century - flexible, diversity-oriented and closely networked with science and society.

To the strategy document

(Note: The long version of the strategy is only available after ZIH login, an English short version is available to all interested parties).