What is the title of your research project?
Broadening Horizons for the Future @ OTH Regensburg (OTHorizont)
Who is involved in the project?
Prof. Dr Thomas Kriza (Scientific Project Leader), Manuel Glondys (Project Co-ordinator), Prof. Dr Ulrike Plach, Prof. Dr Julia Hartmann, Prof. Dr Birgit Rösel[BR1.1], Paul Boland, Theresa Kraus, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dr Irina Augustin, Verena Horrmann, Dr Xenia Justus, Sophia Barth, Dr Anamaria Mendl, Markus Rudolfi, Sophia Blanke and the colleagues from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Teaching
What is your funded project?
OTHorizont is developing new approaches to prepare students specifically for a dynamic, digital and complex world of life and work. The focus is on future skills in the areas of personal development, social responsibility, and digitalisation and transformation. The project brings together interdisciplinary teaching programmes, strengthens innovative teaching formats and creates new opportunities for developing skills alongside studies. This creates a forward-looking framework at OTH Regensburg that sustainably advances teaching, study programmes and continuing professional development.
What excites you about the project?
What particularly excites us about OTHorizont is that we can not only describe the future but also actively help shape it. The project brings people, perspectives and disciplines together and highlights just how much innovative potential already exists at OTH Regensburg. It is particularly motivating that ‘future skills’ do not remain abstract here, but are translated into concrete teaching programmes, formats and experiences. This results in a project that empowers students, supports lecturers and further develops the university as a learning organisation.
How can insights from the project be applied in practice?
The findings from OTHorizont feed directly into the further development of degree programmes, supplementary courses, teaching formats and continuing professional development programmes. Students benefit from practical learning opportunities in which they acquire skills that are becoming increasingly relevant in professional life and in processes of social transformation. Teaching staff are provided with inspiration, structures and support to systematically integrate ‘future skills’ into their teaching. External partners can also be involved through exchange formats such as sounding boards, ensuring that requirements from professional practice and society are incorporated into the university’s development at an early stage.
On our website, you will find an overview of OTH Regensburg’s current funded projects.
