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“FREIRAUM 2025” FUNDING PROGRAM

Ten Teaching Projects at TU Dortmund University Selected for Funding

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Five students are sitting in a seminar room with a green door. Three students are sitting in the foreground with iPads and laptops in front of them. © Hesham Elsherif​/​TU Dortmund
TU Dortmund University is once again the university in Germany with the most funded projects in the “Freiraum 2025” program.
Within the “Freiraum” funding program, which has no thematic restrictions, university members can develop new ideas and test them in practice. Following its 2025 invitation to tender (ITT), the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education (Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre) has selected ten applications from TU Dortmund University. Of the total funding of around 50 million euros for 153 projects throughout Germany, about 3.6 million euros have been allocated to TU Dortmund University’s projects.

From hackathons and geocaching to VR applications: These are just a few of the creative ideas with which teaching staff at TU Dortmund University have been successful within the “Freiraum 2025” funding line. “I am very pleased that TU Dortmund University is once again the university with the most funded projects nationwide,” says Professor Wiebke Möhring, Vice President Academic Affairs. TU Dortmund University was already successful with ten projects in the 2023 invitation to tender. “This shows that we at TU Dortmund University have imaginative and enthusiastic teachers and that our dedicated team was able to support them with competent advice on how to apply for and manage third-party funding.” When submitting their applications, the participating teaching staff received in-house support from the Center for Higher Education, the team in the Section Third-Party Funding Management and other contacts at TU Dortmund University.

The innovation potential of the successful projects convinced the foundation: Their approaches go beyond existing teaching and learning settings and test new ideas for teaching and studies. “It is great that a large proportion of the projects awarded funding are linked to topics from digital teaching – whether VR applications, AI or digital labs,” says Tobias R. Ortelt, Coordinator Digital Teaching.

List of newly selected projects

The following ten projects at TU Dortmund University will be funded within the “Freiraum 2025” program from April 2025 onwards:

  • Space For Interaction: Art (Professor Andreas Zeising, Department of Arts and Sports Sciences)
  • Simulation of Traffic Flows in New Trading Concepts (Clemens Balke, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
  • Development of Models and Algorithms in the Cloud (Maximilian Kiefer, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
  • Diversity Competence Through PBL and Hackathons (Sude Pekşen, Center for Higher Education)
  • Access@DigitalLabs (Finnja Lüttmann, Division of Disability and Studies (DoBuS) at the Center for Higher Education)
  • Advance Organizer in VR for Process Engineering (Stefan Höving, Center for Higher Education)
  • Intersectionality in Teaching and Learning (Professor Liudvika Leisyte, Center for Higher Education)
  • Teacher Training in the Age of AI (Dr. Nadine Sonnenburg, Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology)
  • Virtual and Physical Exploration of the Load-Bearing Behavior of Wood (Simon Loske, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering)
  • mappingNRW – Building Material, Building Construction, Building Culture (Marius Westermann, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering)

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