Projects

During the 20-month scholarship, the development and implementation of a student research project is the focus of activities. The topics are proposed independently by the scholarship holders and are interdisciplinary. During the research, the team members contribute their skills and continuously expand them.

The groups are encouraged to develop solutions independently. They are accompanied by supervisors (active or retired professors) and tutors, both professionally and personally.
In the initial phase of the project work, a hypothesis underlying the chosen topic must be developed and tested with scientific methods. The team then derives ideas for implementation from the research results, which have high practical relevance. Throughout the entire time, the group members contribute their expertise and deepen it at workshops and seminars.

In doing so, they acquire further interdisciplinary competencies and strengthen their soft skills.

Project News

Prof. Dr. Tilman Michaeli has recently been appointed supervisor of the CheckMate team, thereby completing the tandem of supervisors to include Prof. Dr. Sophia Armanini, who has been active in the project since its inception.

In 2021, Prof. Dr. Tilman Michaeli (*1992) was appointed to the TUM and took over the Professorship for Computer Science Didactics at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology in Munich. When the team CheckMate of #class22 approached him in early July requesting a supervisor engagement, he did not hesitate and accepted the invitation.

Team CheckMate deals with the interaction of children and young people who have daily contact with digital communication devices and for whom media consumption is a natural part of their everyday lives.
In this context, the perception of false and misleading information is also part of everyday life and is becoming more and more important.

The student research team plans to develop an interactive tool that indicates whether one is able to distinguish fake news from real information, based on the responses of the person taking the test. This is tailored to social media information and fake news. The tool aims to increase students' media literacy in a fun way and promote critical thinking when consuming information on social media.

Welcome to the team and to TUMJA, Tilman!

Learn about Prof. Michaeli: https://www.professoren.tum.de/michaeli-tilman and his field of research and teaching: https://www.edu.sot.tum.de/ddi/

Information about CheckMate: https://www.ja.tum.de/ja/projekte/2022/checkmate/

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