EUTOPIA at TU Dresden - A look at the year 2025

This year, EUTOPIA at TU Dresden has further strengthened exchange across locations and disciplines and established new formats that bring students and teaching staff together.

Connected Communities - places for exchange and new learning formats

In 2025, the Connected Communities once again worked intensively on projects and innovative learning formats. The community continued its activities under the new name New Technologies for Learning and Transfer Skills and organized the Robots for Music Summer School. Keynote speeches, including one by Moritz Simon Geist, provided exciting impetus for the use of robotics in learning and creative processes.

At the same time, the participants in the Agile in Biomechanics community supported students working on international projects with a focus on agile methods and biomechanics. Benjamin Kruppke led this community until the end of September and previously reflected on the results to date in an interview. Franziska Alt is now taking over its continuation.

The Community United Minds: A Connected Approach to Trauma, Resilience and Mental Health was newly launched. It began its work under the leadership of Philipp Kanske and Annika Konrad. A symposium is planned for the coming year to bring together the results to date and facilitate further discussion.

MicroCredentials and EUTOPIA label

The introduction of MicroCredentials has opened up new avenues for learning in 2025. These compact learning formats make specific competencies visible and enable students to demonstrate the skills they have acquired in a targeted manner. They can be flexibly integrated into existing curricula and can be combined with each other, supporting individual learning paths.

In addition, MicroCredentials were successfully used for the first time in the Connected Community Digitalization for Hydro-Climatic Risk Reduction, in which TU Dresden is involved as a partner. Catalin Stefan supervised the implementation and integration into the teaching formats. Students were able to document the skills they had acquired, while teachers tested and evaluated the formats. This shows how innovative learning formats can be directly integrated into teaching and at the same time provide transparent feedback on acquired knowledge.

In addition, the EUTOPIA label was introduced, which identifies courses that are open to cross-campus learning within the alliance. Together with the MicroCredentials, a network of formats is being created that directly supports collaboration, exchange and European learning.

TeamWork program

The TeamWork program was also continued: International student teams work on real-life problems from companies or public institutions (such as SKD) over a period of four weeks. The format shows how well students from different countries can work together and develop solutions together.

Exchange and events

Exchange on campus also played a major role in 2025. EUTOPIA Day in November provided an opportunity to present projects and network. The International Day in cooperation with the ERASMUS program will follow on 16 December, providing new impetus for students and teaching staff.

EUTOPIA is thus firmly anchored at TU Dresden. Initiatives are meshing, new collaborations are emerging and the alliance is becoming increasingly visible in everyday university life. The coming year opens up exciting opportunities for learning, teaching and research.