How will the future labor market look and are European education systems endowing the next generation with the skills they will need to succeed? These questions are at the heart of a new research project at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Scientists, along with students, are developing new concepts for the use of digital media in education.
How do things stand with regard to the digital competences of populations in different European countries? Is Europe well prepared for an increasingly digitalised society and generative AI? These questions were the focus of a bidt event on 12 March 2024 in cooperation with the Bavarian Representation to the EU. The bidt study presented there provides findings for Germany and six other European countries – and offers approaches for expanding digital participation and competences.
Young people in Germany are less proficient in mathematics, reading and science as compared to 2018. This is revealed in the new PISA study. Around one third of the 15-year-olds tested achieved only a very low level of proficiency in at least one of the three subjects. The results confirmed a downward trend already in evidence in the preceding PISA studies. The mathematics and reading scores of German students are only at OECD average levels. They remain above that level only in natural sciences.
Inspiring children around the globe to learn about soil diversity - that is the aim of an initiative launched by Malte Jochum, an ecologist at the University of Würzburg (JMU).
In a study published in the Nature journal "Scientific Reports", a research team from the University of Passau compared the quality of machine-generated content with essays written by secondary school students. The upshot: The AI-based chatbot performed better across all criteria, especially when it came to language mastery.
Why do students go abroad for a semester or take part in international conferences? A study by the University of Würzburg has investigated this. The results provide recommendations for an internationalisation strategy.
Enabling higher education for young people in poverty-stricken areas, social hotspots and crisis regions on site – this has been the aim of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) since 2019 in collaboration with the Jesuit educational organization "Jesuit Worldwide Learning – Higher Education at the Margins" (JWL). One of the partnership’s offers is the "Learning Facilitator Program", which now has around 500 graduates in ten different countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Kenya and Sri Lanka. A detailed survey of graduates for a scientific study by JWL now shows the value of such offers not only for the students themselves, but also within their communities.
Prof. Dr Elisabeth Naurath, a protestant religious education teacher and project leader of a research fellowship at the Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum of the University of Augsburg, has been awarded an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership. Together with international partners, it aims to develop models for integrating learnings from interreligious studies and environmental ethics into the education of religious education teachers from various religions.
In order to give pupils impulses for a sustainable life, teachers need new competences and innovative teaching methods. Within the framework of the Green Call, material on the topic of "sustainability" is particularly in demand. This is now being developed by the international EU project SYNAPSES under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Franz X. Bogner from the University of Bayreuth. New concepts for sustainable citizenship are to be developed by 2026.
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