“Wissen bewegen” Program

• Summer School “Africa on the move” (“Afrika in Bewegung”): Inter- and transdisciplinary conference on the African diaspora with partners within and outside of the university for Mannheim students and citizens. A project by Andrea Chagas López (research assistant in Linguistics and Media Studies at the Department of Romance Languages) and Theresa Bührle (research assistant at the Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim (ZEW)).  For more information, please click here. 
• Shifting Perspectives: Creating spaces for discussion and discourse through workshops on the topics of migration, cultural heritage, and climate. For each topic, a podcast episode is recorded. A project by Abir Al-Laham (Coordination of incoming students of the School of Humanities of the University of Mannheim), Aline Schmidt (Coordination of International Cultural Studies (ICS) of the School of Humanities in Mannheim) and Lea Bastian (International Affairs Manager at the School of Humanities in Mannheim). For more information, please click here. 
• A room for us alone? Collective writing and feminist strategies on Wikipedia (“Ein Raum für uns allein? Kollektives Schreiben und feministische Strategien in der Wikipedia”): Implementation of a Wikipedia writing workshop and consultation hours at the University of Mannheim: A collaboration for equal opportunity and educational innovation. A project by Dr. Maja Linthe (academic staff member in German Linguistics at the Department of German Studies) and Daniela Brugger and Chris Regn of “Who writes his_tory?”. For more information, please click here. 

We would like to sincerely thank our reviewers, who have devoted a lot of time and expertise to the various project proposals! Thanks to (in alphabetical order):

• Sascha Adam, coordinator for the digitalization of administrative processes in Division I of the University of Mannheim
• Dr. Holger Backhaus-Maul, academic staff member at the Department of Education and Pedagogy and Institute of Sociology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
• Solrun Graham-Parker, Head of the Welcome Center at the University of Mannheim
• Dr. Dagmar Höppel, Head of the Conference of Equal Opportunities Officers at universities and academic institutions in Baden-Württemberg (LaKoG) Office Baden-Württemberg
• Professor emeritus Dr. Manfred Hofer, Professor Emeritus of Educational Science (Educational Psychology) at the University of Mannheim
• Dr. Pascal Kieslich, alumnus of the University of Mannheim, Senior Data Scientist at Merck Healthcare KGaA
• Dr. Melanie Seidenglanz, project manager labor market and education of the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region
• Dr. Julia Sonnberger, staff member in the field of student affairs and teaching at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
• Thomas Sporer, Head of the Department of Educational Innovation and Knowledge Transfer at KU Eichstätt
• Karin Storck, Human Resources developer at ENGAGE.EU, University of Mannheim

Maike Sambaß organized a workshop on mobile reporting. The video that was created during the workshop illustrates the techniques of mobile reporting, and at the same time documents the course of the workshop itself.