The project ‘Didactic Twin-Engine Aircraft for Digital Education in STEM Subjects (D4MINT)’ is based at the STEM Centre of Excellence and focuses on the development and evaluation of modules and innovative professional development formats for various subjects and school levels. Professor Ira Diethelm and Professor Maja Brückmann are contributing to this project by developing professional development concepts and materials relating to Computing Science education in Years 3 to 6, and are researching the conditions for the success of these training programmes. The consortium is coordinated by RWTH Aachen University; in addition to the University of Oldenburg, other consortium partners include Justus Liebig University Giessen and the University of Potsdam. The project will run from April 2023 to September 2025.
Further information on the project is available on the website https://uol.de/d4mint.

The “ComᵉMINT Network” project consortium focuses on the development and research of professionalisation concepts and aims to impart expertise in the design of digital and digitally-supported teaching and learning processes. Among the 14 universities collaborating on this project, the University of Duisburg-Essen will act as the consortium coordinator for the duration of the project, from April 2023 to September 2025. From the University of Oldenburg, Prof. Dr Maja Brückmann from the Department of General Studies Didactics and Prof. Dr Ira Diethelm from the Department of Computing Science Didactics are participating in the ‘ComᵉMINT Network’ project. Whilst the ComᵉMINT Network in General Studies focuses on education for sustainable development within the field of health education, the ComᵉMINT Network in Computing Science is developing and researching professional development programmes aimed at enhancing teachers’ competences.

Further information on the sub-projects can be found on the websites https://uol.de/ddi/forschungsgebiete-und-projekte/comemint,
and uol.de/comenet-su

The MINT Centre of Excellence also encompasses the ‘LFB-Labs-digital’ project . In this project, eight universities are developing school laboratories as venues for teacher training, with a focus on digitalisation. During the project period from April 2023 to September 2025, Bielefeld University will coordinate the consortium. The University of Oldenburg is represented by Prof. Dr Maja Brückmann.

Further information is available on the website https://uol.de/paedagogik/sachunterricht/lfb-labs-digital.

The project ‘Digitality – Diversity – Producing: Practices of Popular Music in Schools and Further Education (DiDiPro)’ is part of the Centre of Excellence for Music, Art and Sport and focuses on the development of diversity-sensitive in-service and further education programmes for music teachers, with a particular emphasis on digital music production. To this end, the music departments of the University of Oldenburg, Leuphana University of Lüneburg and the University of Münster are collaborating until spring 2026, with the University of Oldenburg, under the leadership of Prof. Dr Mario Dunkel, coordinating the consortium. In addition to Prof. Dr Mario Dunkel, Dr Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo from the field of media music practice and Prof. Dr Lars Oberhaus from the field of music education are also participating in the project.

Further information is available at https://uol.de/pressemitteilungen/2023/169.

The “DigiProSMK” project consortium is also part of the ‘ ’ Centre of Excellence for Music, Art and Sport. Its focus is on the digitalisation-related and digitally supported professional development of sport, music and art teachers. Ten higher education institutions are working on developing concepts and modules for the use of digital media in sport, music and art lessons, as well as on the professional development of teachers to enable them to teach within a culture of digitalisation. The consortium is coordinated by Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and is scheduled to run until 2026. The University of Oldenburg is participating through the involvement of Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser in two sub-projects: the first deals with algorithmicity and platform logics, and the second with the teaching of VR art in art lessons.

Further information can be found at https://uol.de/pressemitteilungen/2023/169 and at https://lernen.digital/verbuende/digiprosmk/.

One of the projects being carried out within the Centre of Excellence for School Development is the ‘DigiSchuKuMPK’ project, which aims to provide digitalisation-related professional development for teachers at all-day primary schools. This is to take place between August 2023 and March 2026 through the development of professional development programmes designed to promote multi-professionalism and foster the development of an inclusive school culture. The University of Osnabrück is coordinating the consortium of the five participating higher education institutions, and the University of Oldenburg is represented by Prof. Dr Till-Sebastian Idel.

Further information on the project consortium can be found on the website https://lernen.digital/verbuende/digischukumpk/.

Under the leadership of Prof. Dr Dirk Loerwald, the Institute for Economic Education (IÖB) is participating in the ‘WÖRLD’ project (‘Business Education and Economics Education: Teacher Training and Digital Teaching’) with its sub-project WiDiX. In the ‘WÖRLD’ project, 14 higher education institutions are working on digitalisation-related teacher training and professional development in Business Education and Economics Education, as well as on the development and evaluation of concepts for designing digital and hybrid teaching and learning programmes. The project consortium is affiliated with the Centre of Excellence for Languages, Society and Economics and will be coordinated by the University of Kassel for the duration of the project until 2025.

Further information on the project is available at https://www.ioeb.de/de/beitrag/bmbf-projekt-woerld-zum-digitalen-lernen-gestartet.html.