Successful project ´liveSciences3`: The University of Göttingen receive funding through competitive DAAD program ´International Mobility and Cooperation through Digitalization`
To rethink international cooperation and to recognize digitalization as an opportunity is particularly important these days. Through the programme, ´International Mobility and Cooperation through Digitalization` (IMKD), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) seeks to substantially support German higher education institutions in this process. The project of the University Göttingen, ´liveSciences³ – Transnational digital linked life sciences` is one of the six successful projects out of more than 70 project applications within Germany. ´ liveSciences³` will receive funding of approx. 2.2 Million Euro within the next three years, starting from April 2020.
The main objectives of the project ´liveSciences³` are to simplify the Student International Journey through digital services and tools and to establish digital and transnational enriched and linked curricula and study programs within a newly founded Life Science Network. At the University of Göttingen, the project is jointly implemented by the departments ´Student and Academic Services` and the ´International Office (Göttingen International)` as well as the life sciences faculties. A key focus of liveSciences3 is the implementation of digital supported processes that are important to facilitate international student mobility. The aim is to the establish standardized methods for digital cooperation, which serve as prototypes for the entire University of Göttingen as well as other universities beyond the Life Sciences Network.
Under the roof of the Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL) and with the joint core topic ´sustainability`, the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, the Faculty of Biology and Psychology and the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology aim to establish a Life Science Network for learning and teaching. The international cooperation with partner universities in Chile, Costa Rica, France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the existing international and double degree programs are an important foundation for the implementation of the project. The goal is to integrate digital teaching and learning formats into the curricula and to foster new formats of mobility within a virtual campus exchange. Thereby students play a particular active role, as they are encouraged to share their international experience and contribute to the production of innovative teaching and learning material.
Contact:
Dr. Anne Sennhenn
liveSciences³ project coordinator
The International Office