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COIL-Project in Business Administration
Butterfly - Project: Intercultural Communication in the Context of Sustainable Innovation
| Faculty 2 | Business Administration |
| Lead | Prof. Dr. Simone Roth Simone.Roth hs-ruhrwest "«@&.de |
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Butterfly is an extracurricular international activity based in a curricular module, which takes place in spring of each year and lasts for about 6 weeks. In a combination of workshops, lectures, and teamwork phases, the students follow a problem-based teaching / learning concept, which is finalised in a joint project week. During this final project week, each participating university designs one day by creating tasks around a specific topic.
The objective of this project is to foster 21st century skills such as working collaboratively across countries / cultures, the effective use of technology, problem solving, and communication in diverse teams. Moreover, students deepen their knowledge in methods of diverse topics such as sustainability. The main aim of the Butterfly project is to foster intercultural understanding while at the same time create competences in digital collaborations.
COIL-Project in Management
Strategic Management in Turbulent Times
| Faculty 2 | Business Administration |
| Lead | Prof. Dr. Isabel Lausberg Isabel.Lausberg hs-ruhrwest "«@&.de |
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In 2020, our first COIL project started as a cooperation between Coventry University in Great Britain and Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences in Muelheim, Germany. In this COIL-Project we realized a virtual student conference on “Strategic Management in Turbulent Times”. In 2021/22 the project was expanded. Students worked together on different topics and questions of strategic management on the topic of “Strategies in a Post-COVID World – Ways out of the Crisis“. At the end of the project a (virtual) student conference was held where the results of the course were presented. The project included 5 jointly organised days plus independent work done by students in mixed groups. The course was conducted as a pure online project. Mutual visits were intended but could not be realized due to the COVID19 - pandemic. The project is part of the curriculum of Ruhr West's Master programmes in Business Administration.
COIL-Project in Mathematics
Boosting Mathematical Reasoning Across Borders
| Faculty 4 | Institute of Measuring and Sensor Technology & Institute of Natural Sciences |
| Lead | Prof. Dr. Klaus Giebermann |
| Project Partner | Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece |
This COIL-project focuses on the use of the award-winning MathWeb online platform, developed by Prof. Dr. Giebermann at Ruhr West. By participating in this project, students will be globally engaged at an early career stage and will expand new approaches to digital and collaborative education, learning mathematics in a more dynamic, interactive and motivating context. At the same time they develop a wide set of competences and skills of great value for their incorporation in the job market.
Within the frame of this COIL-project, the use of MathWeb is conceived as a supplemental tool for lectures and other learning activities, in which the mathematical content is previously provided. Students from both universities will team up to explain to their peers the logical path to solve a specific mathematical type of tasks and they will cooperate via MathWeb and other digital tools to solve multiple exercises. The scope is to create positive interdependence between teams, to foster the interaction among students and to guarantee that they are not only able to solve mathematical exercises, but also to understand the logical behind the resolution paths.
This project overview is summarized in the following table:
COIL Project Overview | |
Project leader from HRW | Prof. Dr. Klaus Giebermann |
Faculty/ Discipline of the proposal´s project leader at HRW | Insitute of Natural Sciences/Applied Mathematics |
Contact project leader from HRW | Affiliation: Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences (HRW) Duisburger Str. 100, 45479 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Building 01 e-mail address: Klaus.Giebermann@hs-ruhrwest.de |
Subject | Fundamentals of Mathematics |
Module | One or several modules (depending on the curriculum overlap), ranging from quadratic equations to the solution of odes using Laplace-transform |
Level of study of participants | Undergraduate, first year, first/second semester. Focused to students requiring fundamental mathematical knowledge |
Number of participants | 10-15 from each university (depends on enrolment interest) |
Faculty/ Subjects of the ideal partner university | Fundamental Mathematics for Engineering or related disciplines |
COIL-Project in Computer Science
Digitalisierung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft
| Faculty 1 | Institute of Computer Science & Institute of Energy Systems and Energy Management |
| Lead | Prof. Dr. Uwe Handmann Uwe.Handmann hs-ruhrwest "«@&.de Prof. Dr. Sabrina Eimler Sabrina.Eimler hs-ruhrwest "«@&.de |
| Project Partner | Babeș-Bolyai-University, Cluj, Romania |
This COIL project of the Institute of Computer Science is an innovative, digitally supported course format with several individual modules that merge future trends and Sustainable Development Goals into a coherent overall package. For the second time, students from the University of Babeș-Bolyai and HRW met in this module. In November 2021, over 40 students worked in online groups for a week on nine business ideas to promote a sustainable, inclusive digital lifestyle. All teams presented their ideas in a 7-minute pitch. Among other things, they came up with ideas for eliminating the need for returns when ordering clothing and ways to provide better and faster medical care in rural areas.
The individual modules consist of instructive parts, interactive workshops and self-learning material, which are designed by a team of lecturers and research assistants around Prof. Dr. Sabrina Eimler and Prof. Dr. Uwe Handmann. In addition to the topics of gender and diversity in technology development, positive computing, social robotics and virtual and augmented reality, the course also covers the topics of circular value creation and artificial intelligence. It concludes with an idea hackathon. The collaborative online course will be offered again in the summer semester of 2022. At HRW, the course is open to students of all degree programmes at the Institute of Computer Science.
