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The urgent strategic challenges in the field of sustainability make it necessary to provide students of economics with better academic training in sustainability issues in the future than has been the case to this point. Therefore the Faculty of Economic Sciences is striving to further develop its curriculum across the board with regard to sustainability topics and to successively expand its content. In order to express these efforts and to sensitise both students and teachers to sustainability issues, a sustainability certificate is to be developed, which, if successfully completed, will certify students as having special expertise in the area of sustainability and thus represent a highly attractive additional qualification. First of all, existing courses are to be surveyed in a differentiated manner with regard to their specific sustainability orientation. Based on this, the need for additional courses will be identified, a systematic overall offer defined and the concept of a sustainability certificate developed and implemented.

With the module "Intercultural Organizational Behavior", a thematically integrative framework on challenges for teams and organisations in the VUCA world was developed and tested with innovative teaching methods. The module consists of a lecture ("Intercultural Teamwork - Interactions in Organisations") and a seminar ("Bounce back, bounce forward? - Resilience in the Work Context"). In the lecture, "Classroom Experiments" enable students to put themselves in intercultural decision-making situations and to discuss underlying psychological and organisational theories and concepts on the basis of the results. In the seminar, the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method was introduced, which has proven itself both in research and in practice as a tool for promoting resilience. In future, the module will be anchored in the curriculum of the Bachelor's degree programme "Intercultural Business Communication" (supplementary subject) (BA.IWK.P3).

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In the project, students jointly created, discussed and continuously optimized wiki articles published online as seminar papers. The overriding goal was the transfer of scientific knowledge to representations that can be used in school practice. Through the media implementation as a wiki, study achievements continue to exist in the sense of a joint product, which demonstrates the overriding meaning of one's own contributions in a motivating way. Thus, a freely accessible knowledge network was created, which enables teachers and students to easily access information on the topics of orthography, grammar and school.

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The Institute for Sociology is in the process of restructuring sociological methods training with the aim of systematically linking the previously dominant quantitative methods training with qualitative methods training and training students equally in both methodological traditions. Such an undertaking comes with a variety of challenges: Firstly, both methodological strands have historically developed in distinction to each other and have each developed their own specialist languages; innovative forms of teaching must be developed accordingly. Secondly, teachers in academic practice conduct either qualitative or quantitative research and are often not familiar enough with the other methodological tradition. Therefore, an exchange of content between the lecturers is implemented by means of a workshop. Thirdly, based on the results of the first two steps, a methodological-methodical perspective was developed and published.

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