ChangeMakers: Entrepreneurial and Design Competencies for Societal Transformation

What it is about

You work in interdisciplinary teams on real societal challenges in a future scenario. You learn entrepreneurial and design competencies: to identify problems in a focused way, to develop ideas, to prototype, and to plan the next steps toward realization.

What you will be able to do

• Problem-focused thinking
• Courage to actively shape change
• Imagination for the development and presentation of ideas
• Ability to act to implement ideas
• Project planning and management
• Mobilization of resources and action under uncertainty
• Teamwork, presentation and reflection
• Creative self-confidence as well as analytical and strategic abilities

What the module consists of

• Impulse (Symposium)provides inspiration and context through high-profile speakers before the project week
• Project Week (immersion)intensive one-week team work with methodological impulses, exercises and project work
• Iterationreview and further development of the work created in the project week based on feedback
• Presentationpublic presentation of team solutions with discussion and feedback
• Reflectionreflection on the experience and planning of possible next steps
• Reading packagesupporting literature and materials for preparation and deepening

Teaching method

• Impulse (Symposium)sets the context, inspires and stimulates future visions
• Immersive Project Weekpractically conveys methods through team-based application, discussions and flipped-classroom elements
• Iteration with Peer-Feedbackenables further development and improvement of the results
• Presentationdisplays results and trains communication skills
• Reflectionsupports the integration of experiences and planning of further steps
• Reading packagestrengthens methodological understanding and sensemaking