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.
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Team Quintessence conducts case study at ETH Zurich
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Two members of our team traveled to Zurich, Switzerland this morning to conduct a two-day case study at ETH.
As part of this, we interviewed Benno Volk, an expert in curriculum and faculty development at the department of Educational Development and Technology. His inputs in the context of lecture structures established here in Zurich, as well as his ideas on successful lecture environments, were extremely helpful.
We then attended lectures and documented key observations, in order to help us in designing our own lecture-structure concept. Concluding these lecture visits tomorrow, we will return to Munich with our results and lessons for Project Quintessence.
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