Community-oriented teaching projects offer our students the opportunity to look beyond the boundaries of the campus. You can find everything you need to know about the “Community-oriented teaching” funding line and projects funded to date here.
Society-oriented Teaching
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As a “Bürgeruniversität” (Citizens’ University), MUHS aims to encourage its students to enter into dialogue with society. To this end, it has provided funding of up to €200,000 per year since 2018 under the “Bürgeruniversität in der Lehre” (community-oriented teaching) programme for society-oriented learning and teaching formats at all faculties. Proposals can be submitted for projects focusing on science communication, learning through research or service learning.
Society-oriented teaching opens up opportunities for students to learn, research and act beyond a university context. It aims to bring the mutual relationship between science and society to life in teaching by actively involving practical cooperation partners and external target groups in the teaching and learning process. In the course of this process, students not only learn specialist and methodological skills, but also gain a deeper understanding of social challenges and the role of science in society.
The Citizens’ University blog, which primarily presents science communication projects that have arisen within the framework of teaching at MUHS, evolved from this funding programme. However, the blog also offers a platform for citizen science projects and other Citizens’ University activities.
