The eTeach Network Thuringia supports innovative teaching and learning projects at Thuringian universities with its funding lines. Exciting projects for media-supported teaching and learning were once again submitted in 2024. Below you will find an overview of the approved projects.
Cooperative impulse projects 2025
The current impulse projects include innovative approaches to the digital support of peer learning processes, the further development of media-supported teaching modules in interdisciplinary degree courses and the establishment of sustainable teaching formats based on Open Educational Resources (OER).
The focus is on projects that promote digital technologies, inclusion and practice-oriented learning. The funded projects are:
- Immersive Media for Practical and Active Classroom Training (IMPACT)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Broll and Prof. Dr. Ulf Sauerbrey are developing immersive media solutions to improve practice-oriented teaching scenarios. The project uses virtual and augmented reality technologies to create realistic and interactive learning environments. - Learning With Water: Between Land-Based Learning and E-Portfolio
Junior Professor Dr. Alexandra Toland from the Bauhaus University Weimar and Professor Dr. Caroline Rosenthal from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena combine ecological learning with digital e-portfolios. The project promotes a holistic understanding of environmental issues and combines practical experiences in nature with digital reflection and learning methods. - Analysis of the use of history education portals to promote practical relevance in computer science and history teaching studies
Dr. Anke John from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Prof. Dr. Marcel Spehr from Erfurt University of Applied Sciences are investigating how history education portals can promote practical relevance in teacher training. The aim is to effectively integrate digital platforms into the training of history and computer science teachers. - ICF! - Inclusion and Collaboration for the Future!
Prof. Dr. Sandra Neumann from the University of Erfurt and Prof. Dr. Andreas Seidel from Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences are focusing on inclusion and collaboration in university teaching. The project is developing concepts to better integrate students from different backgrounds and promote inclusive learning processes.
>>> You can find more information about the projects here.
The eTeach open spaces 2025
The eTeach open spaces offer teachers at Thuringian universities the opportunity to develop and test new methodological and didactic approaches for digital university teaching. This funding is intended to give teachers the freedom to find creative and sustainable solutions to current challenges in university teaching. Twelve projects were selected for 2025 that address various facets of digital teaching. Some of the funded projects deal with topics such as the use of artificial intelligence to improve students' self-learning skills and the development of digital examination formats. Other focal points are the integration of interactive learning methods into face-to-face and online teaching formats.
Funded projects in the 2025 funding round
- Interactive self-learning materials for sustainable, internationally oriented environmental technology teaching - implementation of the flipped classroom approach
Dr. Paul Engelke (Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena) - Digital inclusion and rehabilitation of people with physical, mental, intellectual and sensory disabilities through gaming approaches
Dr. med. Stefan Kunde-Siegel (Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences) - "Colonial educational institutions" - blended learning units on the topic of German colonialism
Prof. Dr. Diana Düring (Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena) - Interdisciplinary innovation in energy research - further development of a module into a cross-university course
Prof. Dr. Ing. Dirk Westermann (Ilmenau University of Technology) - Transformation in the physics practical course: Optimal support for data analysis and discussion of results!
Dr. Anke Sander (Ilmenau University of Technology) - Teaching profession meets Lego. Collaborative digital education projects in elementary school
Dr. Dagmar Brand (University of Erfurt) - Development of the online course "Logical argumentation"Matthias Rickes (Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences)
- Inverted classroom concept to improve science practicals (InvertedPrakt)
Dr. Birgit Hoffmann (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) - Playing Knowledge. An accessible set of cards to play, discuss and pass on.
Junior Professor Dr. Dorothee Rummel (Bauhaus University Weimar) - Simulative learning and teaching as an innovative approach in distance learning programs.
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Dangel (Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena) - Short self-study elements in the online curative education course to increase learning success
Dr. Andrea Kenkmann (Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences) - Creation of short films with students that present various fields of social work in practice.
Prof. Dr. Cordula Borbe (Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences)
These projects demonstrate the range of innovative approaches made possible by the eTeach open spaces. They are designed to meaningfully integrate digital technologies into university teaching and thereby achieve a sustainable improvement in the educational landscape in Thuringia.
>>> Further information on the eTeach free spaces can be found here.
