The Media Lab

The Media Lab is a workspace and experimental environment located in the heart of the central campus.
Faculty members, students, and staff from institutes and administration collaborate with the Media Lab team to test new media technologies for use at the university—ranging from simple tools to complex setups. As part of the Project House, the Media Lab provides a platform for a dynamic exchange of knowledge and experiences related to media-supported teaching, learning, and working at TU Braunschweig. It consolidates key didactic and technical information on solution approaches and application scenarios. Through its diverse event formats, the Media Lab enriches university campus life. The team works closely with the university to enhance teaching, learning, and collaboration through the use of media technologies at TU Braunschweig.

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Our Achievements

New media and technologies present new opportunities, but also raise questions and challenges. As a result, employees require training and the freedom to experiment. The Media Lab, together with the ZPE and other partners, provided training to around 1,400 teachers, students, tarif employees, and research assistants at TU Braunschweig in the first year through in-person workshops, video training, and individual consultations. Training focused on topics of “artificial intelligence” and “XR in teaching.”

Artificial intelligence is a crucial topic for all TU employees and, of course, for our continuing education programs. The Media Lab's offerings for employees working under collective agreement tarifs and GradTUBS are an attractive component of our program — and almost always fully booked.
— Dr. Anne Fleige, Head of Central Human Resources Development

The largest conference on the future of academic education took place for the first time at TU Braunschweig in 2025 – conceived and organized by the Media Lab and the entire Project House. The University:Future Festival offered numerous exciting workshops and lectures, which were attended by a total of 1,800 guests from all over Germany, both on site and digitally.

Die Flagge vom University:Future Festival weht vor dem Altgebäude

The partner stage at TU Braunschweig has had a major impact on the University:Future Festival throughout the DACH region and in Lower Saxony. Some of the most-watched keynotes took place in Braunschweig. In addition, our participant numbers from Lower Saxony have risen significantly—this also applies to purely online participation. The Media Lab's dedicated, professional, and creative approach made this success possible in the first place.
— Sebastian Horndasch, Program Manager at Stifterverband and Festival Director at Hochschulforum Digitalisierung

Many thanks to the Media Lab team for the outstanding implementation of the partner stage at U:FF 2025! I felt very well taken care of and returned to Karlsruhe with many exciting impressions. The communication in the run-up to the event and the implementation itself were both professional and very friendly. Simply great and enriching – I am still drawing on the impressions, ideas, and new contacts!
— Prof. Dr. Robert Lepenies, President of Karlshochschule International University

Cooperations

Für verschiedene TU-interne Weiterbildungsprogramme und Kursangebote stellt das Media Lab Programmpunkte und Lerneinheiten bereit. Dazu gehören das WeiterbildungsProgramm der Zentralen Personalentwicklung, das Fortbildungsprogramm der Graduiertenakademie GradTUBS sowie das Postdoc-Programm und das Lehrangebot für Studierende des überfachlichen Programms Was mit Medien.

Für den weiteren Ausbau der Medientechnik auf dem Campus der TU steht das Media Lab in engem Austausch mit der Abteilung 32 – Elektrotechnik, Mechatronik und Medientechnik des Geschäftsbereichs 3 sowie der Abteilung Multimedia des Gauß-IT-Zentrums. Ziel ist der komplementäre Aufbau von Services, die Abstimmung bei der Beschaffung von Hardware und der allgemeine Erfahrungsaustausch.

Aktuell vernetzt sich das Media Lab inhaltlich insbesondere mit dem Netzwerkprojekt InterXR zum Themenfeld „XR in der Lehre“ und mit dem Verbundprojekt KI4ALL zum Thema „Künstliche Intelligenz in der Lehre“. Darüber hinaus steht das Media Lab durch seine Arbeit in mehreren Teilprojekten des Verbundprojekts Digitale Lehre Hub Niedersachsen mit allen 20 staatlichen niedersächsischen Hochschulen in Kontakt.

Die wichtigste internationale Kooperation des Media Labs sind die gemeinsamen Projekte zum „Joint Virtual Campus“ mit den Library Innovation Labs der University of Rhode Island, zu denen auch das CyberFestival gehört.

The Media Lab is an initiative of the Project House at TU Braunschweig and is largely financed by third-party funding raised by the university. The Project House serves as a source of ideas and an incubator, providing basic administrative processes and personnel, while the Media Lab team works largely independently as an agile team.

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