International Cooperation Online (ICON)

 

The continuous improvement of teaching and learning through meaningful use of didactically sound methods of blended learning as well as strategic and complementary international cooperations have high priority at RWTH.

In order to support the expansion of existing and initiation of strategic pioneering partnerships in teaching, the "International Cooperation Online (ICON)" competition was organized for the first time in 2021.

In the first call, 11 internationally oriented, online-based teaching formats were funded with up to 15,000 euros each. The total funding amounted to around 157,000 euros. Among the successful projects were innovative approaches to foster collaboration between students at RWTH and partner universities, as well as English-language MOOCs.

The MOOCs will be developed in collaboration between the responsible chair, CLS and, where appropriate, strategically significant partners such as the Idea League universities. A number of the MOOCs will be published on edX.

The projects run until May 2023 and successfully developed concepts will be curricularly anchored.

 

Funded Projects

International Cooperation Online (ICON): 1. Call – March 2021

Project	Contakt	Faculty/Department
The impact of technological innovation on the transformation of city-regions (TCR-MOOC) Collaboration between all Idea-League Universities	Prof. Christa Reicher Dr. Ceren Sezer	Faculty of Architecture
Learning from avian nest constructions Collaboration with Buenos Aires University, Argentina	Prof. Martin Trautz	Faculty of Architecture
Zusatzförderung für die Erstellung eines MOOC auf Grundlage des ETS Projektes „Cloud Robotics Teaching Space“	Prof. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan	Faculty of Architecture
Introduction to Wind Engineering – Digital Education Sino-German Lectures Collaboration of RWTH Aachen University and Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China)	Prof. Frank Kemper	Faculty of Civil Engineering
Masonry Shear Wall Experiments in Virtual Reality Collaboration with University of Belgrade, Serbia	Prof. Sven Klinkel Prof. Heribert Nacken	Faculty of Civil Engineering
MOOC in Sustainable Water Engineering Collaboration with GUtech, Oman	Prof. Thomas Wintgens	Faculty of Civil Engineering
Virtual Reality Labs Incubator GUtech – RWTH Aachen University	Prof. Heribert Nacken	Faculty of Civil Engineering
	Prof. Robert Schmitt	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
ICOVIS – International Course on Virtual Image Processing Software Collaboration with GUtech, Oman	Prof. Robert Schmitt	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
edX MOOC – Applied Numerical Optimization (ANO)	Prof. Alexander Mitsos	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
International Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Education Collaboration with Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil	Prof. Johannes Schleifenbaum	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Jupyter4Power: Design of Future Power Systems using Jupyter Notebooks Collaboration with Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Comillas University, Spain	Prof. Antonello Monti	Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology