Events

Outreach Workshops

  • On 14 December 2023 we organised a panel discussion on "Data Trustees in Education: Caught between Open Data and Data Protection" at the German Architecture Center DAZ in Berlin. The event took place as part of a series of outreach workshops for the project "BIRD - Bildungsraum Digital" following the outreach workshop "Building Trusted Digital Infrastuctures for Education".

    These were the panellists:

    Portrait Stefan Stürmer

    Prof Dr Stefan Stürmer is a German social psychologist and university professor. Stürmer was the founding dean of the Faculty of Psychology from 2018 to 2021. Since 2022, he has been Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies at the FernUniversität and heads the FernUniversität's Center for Learning and Innovation. He is also a member of the FernUniversität's Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analytics (CATALPA), where he leads a research group on diversity and adaptive collaborative learning.

     

    Portrait Velislava Hillman

    Dr Velislava Hillman is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, founder of Education Data Digital Safeguards (EDDS) which provides evaluation and assessment of educational technologies. As a researcher Hillman’s work broadly lies in education, policy, and governance with focus on the impact of advancing data-intensive systems on children’s learning and fundamental human rights. She additionally occupies the role of governor in a public secondary school in England and is partner at Etoile Partners where she leads research on education data with the EU-Horizon consortium TRUSTEE.

     

    Portrait Jan Sürmeli

    Dr Jan Sürmeli has been researching topics relating to trust, sovereignty and privacy in the networked world since 2017. His current focus is on secure digital identities and data trust models in his role of Senior Expert Digital Identity and Trust. After completing his doctorate in computer science at the Humboldt University of Berlin in the field of modelling and analysis of distributed systems and post-doctoral work, he began working as a research associate at the FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik in 2019 and headed the Strategic and Interdisciplinary Projects department from 2021-2023.

     

    Panel discussion with four speakers and audience members

    The discussion explored the questions of what lessons we can learn from previous experiences with research data for the governance of educational infrastructures and which successful practical examples and models can offer guidance to data trustees in the education sector. We had an open debate on the question of how universities can maintain a practical balance between the open use of data for scientific purposes and data protection.

     

  • On 13 and 14 December 2023, our outreach workshop "Building Trusted Digital Infrastructures for Education" took place in Berlin as part of the BIRD project.

    Six people sit around a table in front of pinboards with post-its

    The workshop examined the creation of trusted infrastructures for the education sector with a spotlight on digital identity. How can national, regional and European infrastructure projects work together and coordinate to enable interoperability along the learner’s journey?
    We connected actors from both the German and European Higher Education sector, governance and policy actors as well as service providers. The aim was to document recommendations on interoperability for the further development of a networked learning infrastructure with various high-quality educational programmes from an international perspective.

    A public event on “Data Trustees in Education: Caught between Open Data and Data Protection“ took place following the workshop on 14 December at 4pm at the German Architecture Center DAZ.

    You can find the event documentation here:

    • "BIRD - Bildungsraum Digital" by Kathleen Clancy and Julia Dinier (DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service): Presentation
    • "Mein Bildungsraum" by Dr Stephan Pfisterer and Vera Kerber (On behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research): Presentation
    • "Viewpoint - Trust context as viewpoint for EA" by Patrik Maltusch (Aalto University): Presentation
    • "From Learner’s Journeys to Trust Journeys - Challenges and Concepts for Building a European Trust Infrastructure in Education" by Dr Jan Sürmeli (FZI Research Center for Information Technology): Presentation
    • "Updates on the European Digital Credentials for Learning and the European Learning Model" by Céline Jambon (European Commission DG EMPL Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Unit B.2 Skills Agenda): Presentation
    • Visual workshop documentation by Christian Ridder: Documentation
  • Speaker: Vedrana Pavletić Digital Education Regulars March 14, 3-4 pm CET

    14 March 2024. How does the International Baccalaureate (IB) support learner mobility and digital education efforts? Find out at our upcoming Regulars, on Thursday, March 14th at 3 p.m. CET when we will be talking to Vedrana Pavletić about the International Baccalaureate’s role for learner mobility and her work on the development and recognition of IB programmes in the Africa, Europe and Middle East region. The IB recognised the importance of learner mobility from its very beginnings in 1968 and has continued to contribute to the expansion of the global digital learner data ecosystem. How has the IB adapted to the changing needs of learners and educators in the digital age and how is equitable access to learning resources provided? 

    Vedrana Pavletić is the Senior Development and Recognition Manager at the International Baccalaureate (IB), based in the Netherlands, responsible for IB developments in a number of countries across Europe, Middle East and Eurasia. She is a versed international educator whose professional background and experience spans the education, non-for-profit and business. Over the past decade she has been working with schools, universities, associations, governments and global organizations to raise awareness of the continuum of IB education and to develop the implementation and recognition of the IB programmes. Vedrana’s main professional motivation is a perpetual endeavor of providing children and youth with an unrestricted access to the best possible education, and in that way making the world a better and more peaceful place.

    About the IB 

    The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a global leader in international education—developing inquiring, knowledgeable, confident, and caring young people. IB programmes of international education empower school-aged students to take ownership in their own learning and help them develop future-ready skills to make a difference and thrive in a world that changes fast.

    If you are interested in attending, please register via this link.

Older issues of the series can be found here.

2024

Goossens, D., Jarmatz, L. (2024, February 22). Den digitalen Bildungsraum prototypisch erforschen und gestalten: Einblicke in das BIRD-Projekt [Presentation]. didacta - die Bildungsmesse, Cologne, Germany.

 

2023

Dinier, J., Peil, R. (2023, December 12). Recognition Culture in Higher Education. International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning and Student Mobility [Presentation]. HRK MODUS Conference, Bonn, Germany.

Rathjens, M., Neumann, K. (2023, November 10). BIRD bundesweite digitale Bildungsplattform [Presentation]. eSALSA, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Bustorff, A., Bacher S. (2023, November 09). Der Buddy-Finder – Ein Kollaborationstool auf einer digitalen Bildungsplattform [Presentation]. World Usability Day (WUD), Stuttgart, Germany.

Peil, R. (2023, October 17). Bridging the Gap: Promoting the adoption of digital credentials to advance learner mobility [Presentation]. Groningen Declaration Network Annual Meeting, Amman, Jordan.

Lucke, U. (2023, June 15). Personalized Recommendations for Individual Learning Pathways: Supporting Ukrainian Refugee Students in Continuing their University Education [Presentation & Paper]. EUNIS, Vigo, Spain.

Knoth, A., Clancy, K. & Lucke, U. (2023, June 14). A Distributed Infrastructure for Secure Diplomas. Proof of Concept and First Experiences [Presentation & Paper]. EUNIS, Vigo, Spain.

Peil, R., Willems, E., Ravaioli, S., Ariño Martín, L.A. & Camilleri, A. (2023, June 09). Digital credentials to support better recognition of skills and diplomas European Digital Credentials for Learning. How can they provide more transparency of skills (the example of micro-credentials) [Workshop]. Making Skills Count Confernce, Brussels, Belgium.

Lucke, U. & Clancy, K. (2023, June 01). BIRD: a cross-sectoral digital
education infrastructure for Germany [Presentation]. NAFSA 2023, Washington D.C., USA.

Lucke, U. (2023, May 24). The National Education Platform - Myths and Reality [Presentation]. digitale Hochschule Conference, LEARNTEC 2023, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Blum, F., Wilhelm-Weidner, A., Vogt, A., Fünfhaus, A., Pengel, N. & Bernoth, J. (2023, April 27). Just Don't Pass on Knowledge - A Guide to Transfer Avoidance [Workshop]. University: Future Festival 2023, virtual, -.

Blum, F. & Peil, R. (2023, April 26). BIRD - a cross-sector digital education infrastructure [Presentation]. University: Future Festival 2023, virtual, -.

 

2022

Knoth, A., Blum, F. & Benn, K. (2022, December 01). Digital Education Environment BIRD [Presentation]. Moving Target Digitalisation: Increasing the Impact of Internationalisation in Higher Education, Berlin, BE, Germany. Watch here

Lucke, U. (2022, November 15 ). BIRD - Pilot Project on the Way to the National Education Platform [Presentation]. Network Meeting Digital Education Environment - BMBF, virtual, -.

Peil, R. & Bub, V. (2022, September 15). Internationalisation through digitalisation: Interfaces, international cooperation and mobility in education [Presentation]. Immersion module Internationaisation Speyer University, Bonn, NRW, Germany.

Blum, F., Ziehe, F., Peil, R., Benn, K. & Dinier, J. (2022, September 06-09). BIRD - Bildungsraum Digital [Information booth]. Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA), Berlin, BE, Germany.

Lucke, U. & Knoth, A. (2022, August 30). The Digital Campus as an international showcase of the National Education Platform [Presentation]. Center of Brandenburg Universities for Digital Transformation (ZDT), virtual, -.

Lucke, U., Macgilchrist, F., Seemann, M., & Gleibs, H. E. (2022, June 9). The politics of the education platform: values and standards in digital learning infrastructures (in German) [Panel discussion]. re:publica 22, Berlin, BE, Germany. Watch here

Lucke, U. (2022, May 17). Pilot Project BIRD (in German) [Presentation]. National Education Platform - Status quo, university and country perspectives, virtual, -.

Lucke, U., Knoth, A., Peil, R., Benn, K., & Blum, F. (2022, May 12). BIRD at the German Parliament (in German) [Demonstration]. -, Berlin, BE, Germany.

Knoth, A. (2022d, April 25). National Education Platform Part 1 - Presentation of the Digital Education Space (BIRD) (in German) [Presentation]. Digitale Hochschule NRW (DH.NRW), Hagen, NW, Germany.

Knoth, A. (2022c, April 19). Internationalization & Digitalization (in German) [Impulse workshop]. Initiative Digital Learning Campus Schleswig-Holstein und Future Skills Plattform. Kiel, SH, Germany.

Knoth, A. (2022b, April 8). National education platform (in German) [Presentation]. Digital Transformation | Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Transformation and Digitalization of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Speyer, RP, Germany.

Knoth, A. (2022a, January 18). BIRD as a pilot project of the National Education Platform. A workshop report. (in German). Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs | BMAS NOW, Berlin, BE, Germany.

Knoth, A. (2021, November 12). Groningen Declaration Network Annual Meeting [Presentation]. Digital Cultural Diplomacy and International Study Abroad/Learner Exchange, Ottawa, Canada.

Dimitroff, M., & Turnwald, M. (2021, November 10). Facilitated student journey by linking digital educational services [Presentation]. German-Brazilian Digital Education Forum, São Paulo, Brazil.

Knoth, A., Blum F., Parekhelashvili, M., Wisniewski, S., Beschorner, P., Peil R., Köster, R., & Kuska, D. (2021, September 22). Presentation of the BIRD project at the Federal Chancelor’s Office (in German) [Presentation]. Presentation session on the topic of "BIRD and Wallet status" by invitation, Berlin, BE, Germany.

Hagen, A. (2021, June 16). Taking over from behind – Open standards in Germany [Prasentation]. MINDTREK X DXTERA | Connect with Open Education Standards, virtual.

DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst - German Academic Exchange Service