Hub for Crossdisciplinary Learning
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Clear the stage for the data literates of tomorrowEight data literacy student projects to be funded in the DDLitLab from October 2022 following data science slam
10 August 2022
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At the Data Science Slam, the final part of the selection process to promote student data literacy projects, eight selected student groups took to the stage of the Wolfgang Pauli lecture theatre in Jungiusstraße 9 on 14 July.
The event was introduced by Prof Dr Ingrid Schirmer, who welcomed all those present and briefly introduced the Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab project. Matthias Wieckmann, Head of Digital Strategy at the City of Hamburg's Office for IT and Digitalisation, then addressed the data-driven society, current urban projects and the need for data-savvy specialists in his welcoming speech. Prof Dr Mathias Fischer then hosted the evening and handed the stage over to the invited student groups.
In 7-minute, varied short presentations, they presented their innovative, data-driven project ideas to the audience in an accessible and creative way. The students covered a wide range of topics: from country comparison discourse analyses on Covid-19, predictions of share price trends and the availability of rental bicycles to improved analyses of apple orchards and bee health, the variety of project ideas left nothing to be desired. The jury, impressed by the remarkable pitch performances, then decided to fund all eight projects with up to EUR 10,000 each.
The projects will start in the winter semester 2022/2023 and will run for six to twelve months. We will publish details of the projects on our website in the coming weeks.
At the subsequent get-together with finger food and cold drinks, the student groups were able to get to know each other, make new contacts and also discuss further project ideas, for example with the invited representatives from Ankerplatz, Inovex and LangTec.
On behalf of the DDLitLab team, we would like to thank everyone involved, including the student groups for their high-quality pitches, Matthias Wieckmann for the introductory greeting, the jury, the audience, the external guests and the organisation team!
If you would like to get some impressions of the evening, please take a look at our picture gallery:
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Prof Dr Ingrid Schirmer introduces the DDLitLab and emphasises the importance of student projects for data literacy education at the University of Hamburg.
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Matthias Wieckmann, Head of Digital Strategy at the City of Hamburg's Office for IT and Digitalisation, during his welcome address.
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Moderator Prof Dr Mathias Fischer gives the floor to the first group of students with the project ‘COVID-19 Discourses in Traditional and Social Media in India and the United Kingdom’.
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Two students from the group ‘Study Toolkit for Human Perception of Video Material’ present their project.
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Prof Dr Mathias Fischer announces the funded data literacy student projects.
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Prof Dr Kai Uwe Schnapp congratulates the students of the data literacy project ‘Citizen Science for Wheelchair Indoor Positioning’.
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Students of the project ‘Data-driven university didactics: practice-oriented teaching and learning in law’ present their EUR 10,000 cheque. Also visible in the background: Student groups from the projects ‘Automatic and continuous recording of the health of bee colonies’ and ‘Data-driven application for analysing apples on apple orchards’.
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Stimulating discussions in the backyard of Jungiusstraße 9 at the end of the day and in the best weather.
