Projects

As today’s businesses become more and more data-intensive, a competent handling of technologies for data-based decision-making, e.g. artificial intelligence (AI) which prepares or makes business decisions, increasingly becomes a key competence in the economy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transition. While teleworking and distance learning have become a reality for millions of people in the EU, the limitations of the current level of digital readiness have also often emerged.

The project focuses on two systemic obstacles for the implementation of Austria’s ambitious reform agenda for the digital transformation of the education system. Firstly, there is currently no systematic, curriculum-based approach to ensure that teacher educators at Austrian university colleges of teacher education have the necessary skills to effectively develop teachers’ digital competences.

To successfully accomplish a course of study in the STEM field (natural science, technology, engineering, mathematics), students must have basic knowledge and skills as well as an understanding of mathematics. Nevertheless, these skills and abilities differ among interested students because of different types of schools and individually differing mathematical emphases in the teaching field.

Progressive digitization is noticeably changing the way we live, learn and work, so that this technological change also requires altered qualifications as well as lifelong learning. The project “DigiFit4All” aims within the framework of the cluster “Computer Science Education” to impart the necessary competencies digitally and in a form tailored for different user groups (pupils, teachers, general employees, students as well as generally interested people).

CodeAbility is a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, which aims to create teaching and learning environments for programming education for students of all subjects in order to enable high-quality and individual programming education.