The ZML is involved in the international project of the European university network EPICUR (European Partnership for Innovative Campus Unifying Regions). EPICUR aims to create an attractive, innovative European university for a new generation - a generation that will face the major social challenges of the future Europe.
The European Commission is funding the European university consortium EPICUR with five million euros over the next three years. The members of this consortium are the four EUCOR partners in Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg and Mulhouse, as well as the universities of Amsterdam, Thessaloniki, Poznań and Vienna (BOKU). The consortium was initiated by the EUCOR universities.
In the additional funding initiative EUN (European University Networks), various priority topics will be funded at KIT and the University of Freiburg over the next three years. One of the focus areas is the development and use of digital teaching/learning materials. Exemplary for the basic chemical training of the degree programs, study programs in natural sciences at KIT, the project aims to develop teaching and learning materials that provide students with the necessary basics in an adaptive, self-directed learning process. In cooperation with the Institute for Functional Interfaces (IFG), a supporting course concept will be developed parallel to the basic lecture in inorganic chemistry. In-depth learning materials, as well as test and exercise scenarios to accompany the individual learning process, should help students to get a positive introduction to the fundamentals of chemistry.
In addition, there are plans to partially virtualize the inorganic chemistry [Hochschulveranstaltung/im Labor:] lab(oratory) (course) / within the Uni: practical course, practical work, internship, practical training. As an inverted lab, phases of the analysis, such as the preparation and follow-up of the individual analyses, are to be carried out online. This transfer can improve individual skills in the laboratory phases that take place in person.