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Krefeld / Mönchengladbach. On December 1, the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences started a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, which aims to acquire skills in artificial intelligence. The four-year funding project “Public Understanding of AI through Transdisciplinary Teaching” is funded with around two million euros and has a transdisciplinary focus. Lecturers from the five faculties of social affairs, ecotrophology, textile and clothing technology, health care as well as electrical engineering and computer science design courses that enable students to acquire application-oriented AI competencies and thus important future skills for their professional career.
The focus is on collaborative learning beyond the boundaries of the department. “In this way, today’s students are getting fit in two ways for what awaits them as tomorrow’s specialists,” explains the project manager, Professor Dr.-Ing. Jens Brandt. “The students not only develop future-oriented skills and methods in the field of AI. You also learn to think outside the box by working in multidisciplinary teams. “
The didactic approach in the project is very important. The University Didactics department is responsible for this. “We strive for the students in interdisciplinary groups to jointly solve practice-relevant questions by using AI methods that they have previously developed,” says Dr. Sylvia Ruschin, Head of University Didactics at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences.
The project underlines one of the main goals that the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences pursues as a university of applied sciences: to give its graduates skills that enable them to understand the importance and dynamics of social change processes and to actively and positively shape these processes .
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