Hub for Education on ICT for Sustainability

The 3rd HEdIS summer school will take place from the 24th of November to the 4th of December 2019. Applications for acceptance into the summer school are open to interested participants. All applications should be made through the application form provided. The closing date forapplications is the 1 st of August 2019. The theme for this summer school is “Digital Transformation for Sustainability in Smart Cities”. The objective of the summer school is to introduce students to technologies that have…

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The project Hub for Education on ICT for Sustainability offers every year within the project runtime a Summer School. This year’s Summer School is on Sustainability Entrepreneurship in the frame of ICT and will take place at the University of Cape Town from the 19th to 30th November 2018. The main objective is to raise awareness of the topic and the potential of ICT in this regard, and aims to facilitate and encourage entrepreneurship by providing skills and tools to…

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On May 22 and 23, the second workshop of our collaborative project Hub for Education on ICT for Sustainability (HEdIS) took place at Oldenburg University. Every year, we develop module curricula that we test in a Summer School at our South African partner universities. The topics that we will cover over the four-year project runtime are Water & Waste Management, Mobility and Energy Efficiency, as well as Education on Sustainability. This year’s topic is Sustainability Entrepreneurship in the frame of…

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Ten African and German students participated in the YEEES Idea Jam, a LAB on sustainability oriented entrepreneurial solutions at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, from 22 January to 9 February 2018. The research project YEEES, an abbreviation for Yields of Evocative Entrepreneurial approaches on Environment and Society, is a collaboration of the German universities Leuphana University and Oldenburg University – at the department for Business Information Systems – , and the African universities Nelson Mandela University, University of Namibia and Universidade…

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In the frame of the DAAD and BMZ sponsored project HEdIS, the 1st HEdIS Summer School “IoT for Sustainable Citizens” took place from 22nd to 30th November 2017. The Summer School was organized and run in partnership with the Nelson Mandela University (NMU, Port Elizabeth), the University of Cape Town (UCT, Cape Town) and the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (UOL, Oldenburg), at the NMU Embizweni Building on the South Campus in Port Elizabeth. Approx. 65 people, from the…

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Artombo was also present at the 1st HEdIS Summer School.  Artombo is a cultural project which offers art workshops for children and young people from communities surrounding Port Elizabeth. It aimed at providing high quality art classes to learners who would otherwise not have the opportunity. In addition to art skills, they learners are taught various life skills through the process. It is a continuing project which started as a results of an initial combined DAAD sponsored research project between NMU…

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On November 22nd, 2017 the 1st HEdIS Summer School started with a Welcome Event at the Summerstrand Hotel in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Students and some industrial partners had the opportunity to register early for our summer school and also exchange some words to get to know each other. The first day of the Summer School (November 23rd 2017) focused on an introduction to IoT, overviews on sustainability topics (water, mobility and energy study cases), and a presentation on design…

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All participants of our first HEdIS Summer School “Innovative IoT for Sustainable Citizen” are supposed to participate in the virtual pre-module. Each confirmed participant got an invite to the Summer School platform, on which the participants of the Summer School find preparing ressources and pre-module assignments,  and are supposed to work through the four themes the Internet of Things, Water, Mobility and Energy. Assignments have to be uploaded and quizzes have to be conducted before the start of the Summer…

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