International STEM Summer School

Learning with case studies

Monat: April 2016

26. April 2016 – Christin Nenner

First challenge: TEAMBUILDING

Following our Kick off at April, 12th 2016, the participants got familiar with their teams and their cases. Before starting with the case study work, another challenge waited…

How to work together in an international team?

The teams have to handle with intercultural differences as well as with different locations. The intercultural differences manifest itself for example in different ways of learning and working as well as in different styles of communication. In addition the participants have various professional levels that lead into different working methods and expectations. The location and time differences impact organizational issues and schedules of participants. Already this short list of examples shows, that the implementation of a profitable and fulfilling team work in the context of internationalization is a quite big deal. To tackle all this, the teams established a common guideline that serves as a basis for their coming teamwork. The guideline comprises for instance following topics:

 

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12. April 2016 – Thomas Becker

Official project kick off

We are looking forward to the official start of our International STEM Summer School. For all, who are as excited as we are: Here you get a „little preview“ of the upcoming kick off at Tuesday 12th, April 2016 – 4 p.m. (UTC/GMT +2 hours*).

05. April 2016 – Christin Nenner

Let’s get started with the “warm up”!

Our in recent weeks and months intensively prepared “International STEM Summer School” is coming up. In the following weeks 15 STEM students of different nations and universities will work together on interdisciplinary case studies, which are based on real life events and experiences of industry partners. The team work will be based on diverse e-learning tools like virtual classroom, wiki and forum at a closed learning platform. During the “warm up” the participants get to know each other as well as the basics for working together in virtual groups.

Congratulations to the 15 students from all over the world, who applied successfully!

We all look forward to an exciting and eventful Summer School!

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Countries of origin and current countries of residence of our participants

Data & facts

  • 15 participants
  • 10 nationalities
  • 9 different countries of residence
  • 9 weeks
  • 3 case studies developed in cooperation with national and international industry partners
  • Supervision by professional consultants from university and industry partners

Interested? Here we will keep you up to date!