EXAKT4YOU

Innovation Workshop: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Sustainability Communication – Climate Change

The innovation workshop was focused on this theme:

Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Sustainability Communication – Climate Change.

Thus, students will have to come up with strategies, applying new concepts in cultural intelligence and innovative mass communication, communication tools, sustainability frameworks and reporting, which enable and support different entities such as businesses, NGOs, government or social organizations, answering the following question:

How can we communicate sustainability needs and strategies to all stakeholders in a way that it positively activates their engagement and involvement to mitigate climate change?

The teams should consider the 3 dimensions of the sustainability triangle, the economic, environment and social dimensions.

At the same time students need to consider geographical aspects, and look at local, national and international perspectives. Students need to consider all 3 perspectives.

This leads to a perspective from different points of view, either as an individual, as a business or as a social entity. Students can select one or more perspectives.

Finally we aim to bring together different industry perspectives, with students coming from business, law, sciences, engineering, IT or social and socio-medical fields of study.

Sessions

The event has three separate, but related sessions and some social and team building activities.

1. Preparatory Classes

EXAKT4YOU participants will attend the online classes in the module Interdisciplinary Communication, a final year course with 5 ECTS in the International Business program at DHBW from 27 June to 5 July / 5 August.

2. Opening & Closing sessions

The opening session of the workshop starts on Monday, August 8th, in the afternoon with a welcome by Prof Dr Dr-Ing Rainer Przywara, Rector at DHBW Heidenheim.

During the orientation for all participating students, international and interdisciplinary teams of 4-5 students will be formed around the announced challenges under the theme of the event.

The closing session of the Innovation Workshop event is scheduled for Friday, August 13th, from 9.30 am. It will be opened with a welcoming note by Dr Abdallah Possi, Ambassador of the Republic of Tanzania in Germany (TBC).

In a pitch session the teams will present their prototype or concept for a product or service. Teams need to deliver their presentation material, electronically (on a thumb drive provided by EXAKT4YOU), no later than 8.30am on that day.

Presentations will be 15 minutes with 5 minutes per team for questions from panels or judges, followed by the innovation fair, where the teams have the chance to give more in-depth information to judges and visitors.

3. The Innovation Workshop

It will run from Monday, 8 August until Thursday, 11 August 2022. During this time the newly formed international teams will put together a concept for sustainability communication, including some samples or a prototype. Teams will use allocated rooms as work space. They are free to organize their days; there are no scheduled communal meals or fixed work times.

Online-BarCamp “Corona, the Future of Work and Sustainability”

EXAKT4YOU has been extended until next year (2022) -  a big thank you to Baden-Württemberg Stiftung! We hope to have our final Innovation Workshop at DHBW in Germany next year.  

To bridge the gap and to allow for exchange, this year we organize an Online BarCamp for you from 24 - 26 August under the theme “Corona, the Future of Work and Sustainability”. A BarCamp is a conference with an open agenda. To register for the BarCamp you need to submit an initial session. Please register by 21 August at the latest via our registration page.

Who can participate 

Students, lecturers, Corporate Partners from all DHBW-universities and students or researchers from EXAKT4YOU-partners.

Program

On the first day we include the presentations of a final year course in International Business at DHBW Heidenheim. Students have been working since the beginning of this year on one of three topics: 

• Business plan for Moshi Youth Village in Tanzania (1 group) 
• Business / Marketing plan for export of ReformAfrica products to Europe (2 groups) 
• Concept for Sustainable DHBW - How many SDGs can you do? (3 groups)

They will present their results and answer questions from the audience. 

On day 2 & 3 in the morning we will have a so-called line-up. In maximum 2 minutes you can introduce what you want to do: your name, what organisation or uni you are from, the topic you have prepared, the format you want to use (talk, discussion, etc.) and how long the session will be (either 45 minutes or 90 minutes). After each introduction we will ask the audience who would like to attend the session. If there are less than 5 people interested, we will put the session on the backlog. If there are more than five people interested, the session will be scheduled in one of two tracks. By the end of the line up the schedule for the day is set.

Participants can present at the line up the session they initially submitted or something else that fits under the theme “Corona, the Future of Work and Sustainability”. Participants can also extend a session from day 1 into day 2, presenting this at the line up on day 2 and if there is enough interest, it will go on the schedule. 

We look forward to your research, your discussion questions or any other creative interaction with the topic. 

More details and the links to the online sessions will be provided to registered participants before the BarCamp starts. 

Supporting Program

• Talk "My Life in Germany - Coming from Lake Victoria to Heidenheim"
  August 25, 5pm
• 3rd meeting "AK Nachhaltigkeit" - goals and agenda for a sustainable DHBW Heidenheim
  August 26, 6pm
  To register mail to heike.profendiener@dhbw-heidenheim.de

March 2020: Innovation Workshop Foot2Afrika, Moshi

Foot2Afrika Summer School - Innovation for local SMEs

Announced topics:

to be done during the Foot2Afrika Summer School

More information:

The first 4 days we will participate at the Foot2Afrika Summer School. We will all get to know the local participants, which are entrepreneurs, SMEs and start-ups. This week also allows for getting to know the other participants. 

During this first week all student participants will form Innovation-Teams around some of the Summer School participants. The local Summer School participants will be local hosts for innovation during the second week. According to the hosts’ needs and the skill set of the Innovation-Team, these will build little machines, program apps or write process documentation or whatever else is identified. Aim is to have a usable end result.

The innovation teams will work with and for their local hosts for a week. The results of the Innovation Workshop will be presented on Friday evening during a Farewell BBQ.

Audience:

• Selected students and staff from partner universities (see target group)
• AND interested industry and organisation partners of all universities (travel on own expenses)
• AND local entrepreneurs, SMEs and start-ups

Selection for funding (students only): Only complete application forms with convincing information will be considered.

February 2019: BarCamp & Hackathon Challenge (Innovation Workshop) UNIVEN, Thohoyandou

Solar power, water power or medical devices in rural areas

Announced topics:

to be done

More information:

The first 1,5 days are a BarCamp - an open conference. All participants are encouraged to briefly outline below what they could contribute: topic, the format (discussion, fishbowl, workshop, brainstorming session etc.) and time requirements (once or twice 45 minutes). Groups will be formed on day 2.

The rest of the week will be a hackathon (see description above). International and interdisciplinary groups will have time to work on implementing some of the ideas generated during the BarCamp.

The results of the Innovation Workshop will be presented on Friday evening during a Farewell BBQ.

Audience:

• Selected students and staff from partner universities (see target group)
• AND all others selected from the hosting institution
• AND interested industry and organisation partners of all universities (travel on own expenses)

Selection for funding (students only): Only complete application forms with convincing information will be considered.

August 2018: BarCamp & Hackathon Challenge (Innovation Workshop) NMAIST, Arusha

High Performance Computing Use Cases and Business Models Applications for South Africa, Tanzania and Germany

Announced topics:

1. ICT4 Development
2. Data driven agriculture for development in Africa
3. Market value chain for agricultural products in Africa
4. Business linkages using ICT to promote tourism and cultural relations for South Africa, Tanzania and Germany

More information:

The first two days there will be a BarCamp - an open conference. All participants are encouraged to briefly outline below what they could contribute: topic (based on 4 topics suggested below), the format (discussion, fishbowl, workshop, brainstorming session etc.) and time requirements (once or twice 45 minutes). Groups will be formed on day 2.

The 8 August is a holiday (Nane nane) and participants get the chance for some sightseeing; we might organize a trip to the nearby Arusha Nationalpark.

The last two days will be a hackathon (see description above). International and interdisciplinary groups will have 2 days to work on implementing some of the ideas generated during the BarCamp.

The results of the Innovation Workshop will be presented on Friday evening during a Farewell BBQ.

Audience:

• Selected students and staff from guest partner universities (see target group)
• AND all others selected from the hosting institution

Selection for funding (students only): Only complete application forms with convincing information will be considered.

Review

February 2018: Hackathon Challenge

Students from different countries talk about the first EXAKT4YOU Hackathon - their expectations and experiences.

Suggest a topic or pick one of those listed below:

• What does one need to know and consider when travelling to Germany, Tanzania, South Africa as a student?
• What do we know about each other and our culture?
• What do we know about each other and our health system?
• What do we know about each other and our education system?
• What do we know about each other and our economy?
• What do we know about each other and our start up scene?

Expected result: multimedia solution; can include print, video, audio, text, app, website, quiz, storytelling, checklists, board games, handbook, etc.