Pact for Information Technology 2.0

The aim of the project is to develop an extracurricular offer with modular content that is to be carried out at a low-threshold basic level with programming courses in the EnergyLab school laboratory.

The aim of the project is to set up a series of workshops for teaching and researching practical ICT application fields, involving various practice partners as extracurricular learning locations in the sense of an agile, mobile distributed student laboratory. At its core are five implementation-oriented work packages, each with a specific IT application area in collaboration with a relevant practice partner.

On the one hand, the aim of the project is to develop the "Learning module kit for the development of IT skills in school pupils (LiKES)", which includes extracurricular learning modules on the use cases of companies in the smart city sector for pupils in grades 5-9. In addition, the "DO IT together" part of the project is designed to align extracurricular activities with the special needs of pupils in the social area of Dortmund's Nordstadt district and promote them in a diversity-sensitive manner.

Five different workshop series are to be developed as part of the joint project, in which young people will explore application-related topics such as climate and environmental protection (ESD = Education for Sustainable Development) and thus gain access to the subject of computer science.

The project is an innovative (playful) concept for imparting knowledge. The innovation lies in particular in the combination of the game Minecraft, which is very well-known and popular with pupils, with issues relating to climate protection and sustainability.

The project aims to develop action-oriented concepts with which pupils can haptically perceive and visually study algorithms, data structures and automata in extracurricular events. Through multidimensional learning, "Alvis pro" is exploring new ways to enable more intensive and sustainable processing of algorithmic learning material.

The aim of the project is to design and implement learning content for pupils based on the Calliope single-board computer.

The "coding4u" project focuses on five innovative professional fields with a promising future on the job market, which are developed with companies along the areas of expertise of the degree programs and related training courses: Applied Computer Science, Energy Informatics, Business Informatics, Human-Technology Interaction and E-Commerce.

A game-based learning approach is used as the didactic basis for the project: Programming with a game framework in conjunction with mobile robots is intended to provide a playful and explorative approach to the information technology topics of "modeling, programming and algorithms" that are being taught. Current, state-of-the-art scientific knowledge from the university is conveyed and at the same time the input with regard to the technical and development-relevant needs of the companies is taken into account.

The aim of the project is to develop a step-by-step model for categorizing IT offerings and developing such offerings in various areas of competence based on the IT curricula. Furthermore, the integration of additional partners and networking with schools in the regional implementation area is a focal point. The focus is on the development of offerings in rural areas and the evaluation of subsequent implementation.

The "Digi-Health Heroes" project has set itself the goal of getting secondary school pupils interested in the digital health sector and promoting the necessary programming and IT skills for a corresponding (university) education.

The aim of the project is to prepare fields of innovation and priorities of the innovation location NRW for socially disadvantaged young people in terms of media education, to make them understandable and to convey them in a way that is appropriate for the target group. In addition to good knowledge of the didactic communication of difficult content, this also requires skills in dealing with a disadvantaged target group. The workshops to be designed should always include a large practical part in which the young people themselves develop mechanisms, programs or functioning models. This gives them in-depth, holistic and sustainable knowledge of how things work and how things are connected.

The "IT4Teens" project aims to provide children and young people aged 10 to 16 in the Aachen city region with motivating, everyday, learner-centered IT education. The planned concepts are intended to establish an educational chain and reach new target groups. StädteRegion Aachen carries out the needs assessment of the participants and offers older pupils an insight into Aachen's start-up and corporate culture as part of a job teaser and expands the STEM fair to include the topics of computer science and digitalization. The network partners develop the extracurricular concepts, carry them out and evaluate them. The concepts are divided into three age groups in order to build them up in line with demand.

The project aims to develop and implement two modules relating to the topics of programming/robotics and AI in combination with sustainability issues. The concepts will be divided into two levels to appeal to all pupils in grades 7 to 9 at all types of school. In addition, a second concept is being developed, which is located in the leisure area of the youth centers. Three workshops will be designed for the two subject areas. After each school semester, a joint event will be held, e.g. in the form of a BarCamp, where young people can exchange ideas and network.