Knowledge Transfer for Early Career Researchers and Lecturers

With PORT-O, PhD student Cindy Demuth from the ITL is developing an interactive learning setting that gets girls interested in STEM subjects. A simulated harbour hinterland scenario is created on a mobile table using Lego, in which Ozobots are programmed to playfully implement real logistical challenges.

In workshops at schools, girls in particular learn through practical programming tasks and direct insights into research that technology and logistics are not male domains.

PORT-O thus combines the early promotion of young talent with the aim of making sustainable transport solutions visible and tangible - and boosts the self-confidence of young women to go their own way in engineering.

How can cultural infrastructure in rural areas be established, maintained and developed in the long term?

The project by Ludger Voigt, PhD student at the Institute for Corporate Management and Organisation, and Julia Beideck, PhD student at the Department of Cooperatives at the University of Cologne, in collaboration with the theatre cooperative Traumschüff e.G., is dedicated to this question.

The aim of the project is to show how cultural services can be provided in rural areas and at the same time enable cultural participation. In addition, the project examines how cultural offerings can promote social exchange in rural regions - especially in places that have not had access to theatre to date.

The social relevance of "Questions of building research and monument preservation" will be explored using examples from the Institute of Architectural History's research projects on libraries, churches and a school. Research methods and interim results will be discussed in a workshop with keynote speeches, an exhibition and an information trail.

What aspects of the projects will be considered in terms of a shared responsibility for the built heritage? The aim is to strengthen the perception of the project results in the community, to recognise the values of the built environment and to ensure the preservation of knowledge about building as a shared cultural heritage for future generations.

Post-doctoral student Marie Ritter and doctoral student Darien Tartler from the Department of Work, Organizational and Social Psychology at the Institute of Psychology want to develop MeetingHacks, a short content video format that prepares tips from meeting research for practical use. The videos will be presented to people from companies and start-ups as well as students, their needs will be discussed in a workshop and new impulses will be fed back into research. The knowledge gained from the MeetingHacks can thus be applied directly in everyday working life. This project is co-funded by the Braunschweigischer Hochschulbund e.V.

Research assistant Ayat Tarik from the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and the City (GTAS) is planning to work with two master's students, Jennifer Baus and Burcu Daglayan, in a so-called KO:Lab to jointly develop and test participatory methods for implementing low-threshold participation formats in the Schwarzer Berg district of Braunschweig. With their project, they are committed to sustainable urban development geared towards the common good, in which opportunities for participation and co-determination in urban design processes are promoted. The aim is to strengthen identification with the place and the neighborhood for everyone who lives or spends time there.

Promoting sustainable construction through collaborative exchange is the aim of the impact project by post-doctoral student Sandra Rothenbusch from the Department of Work, Organizational and Social Psychology at the Institute of Psychology. The idea of the project is to bring together players in the construction industry through “speed dating” and “fuck-up events” on the topics of “sustainable construction” and “sustainable collaboration”, thus enabling discussions and exchanges of experience as well as approaches to solutions on these topics. The results of the discussions are to be recorded visually using note sketching and shared via social media.

In her research, PhD student Grace Abou Jaoude from the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (ISU) plans to develop a web-based tool that analyses and visualizes different scenarios for the reintegration of urban production in order to investigate their impact on resource efficiency. The tool will provide evidence-based information on potential benefits for local manufacturers and their production networks to become more integrated into urban production.