Funded Teaching Projects
International Teaching in Practice
The Global Teaching Labs support innovative teaching projects that bring international perspectives, collaboration and new forms of teaching and learning to Ulm University.
Explore the funded projects and discover the different approaches, international experiences and teaching ideas they put into practice.
Global Teaching Labs 2026
In the first funding round of the Global Teaching Labs, eight international teaching projects from different departments at Ulm University are being funded.
Cognimize Classroom – Live Cognitive-Psychology Experiments in the Lecture Hall (CogClass)
CogClass turns every lecture into a cognitive science lab: students take part in classic experiments using their smartphones and compare their results with international partner courses.
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Cognimize Classroom is a free, browser-based platform that lets teachers run 33 classic cognitive-psychology experiments live in class – students join via QR code, with no app and no account. Minutes after the start, the anonymous class result appears on the projector with confidence intervals and is discussed right on the class's own data.
What makes it special: international partner courses compare their class results directly through a COIL link – same task, two countries, one shared plot.
- Experience classic cognitive-psychology effects on the class's own data
- Low-threshold use: browser-based, free of charge, no app installation, no accounts
- Enable international class comparisons between partner courses (COIL linking)
- Strengthen methods and data literacy (confidence intervals, outliers, replication)
- Build an open, bilingual platform for teaching staff worldwide
Project Team
Dr. Marian Sauter,
Frol Sapronov
Faculty
Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology
Cooperation Partners
Prof. Dr. Dejan Draschkow (University of Oxford, UK)
The Quantum Leiden Ulm Milan ETH Network (Q-Lumen)
Q-LUMEN implements a scalable model for research-based international teaching that connects students with leading quantum information research groups across Europe.
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Q-LUMEN enables MSc and final-year BSc students to work on real research projects in quantum information as part of small international teams.
The projects are supervised remotely by researchers from partner universities, giving students direct insight into current research and international collaboration.
The programme combines online teamwork with an in-person meeting to provide a research-oriented learning experience while developing scientific, collaborative, and intercultural skills.
- Enable students to gain international research experience
- Foster international and intercultural collaboration
- Deepen students' understanding of quantum information
Project Team
Dr. rer. nat. Patrick Emonts,
Dr. rer. nat. Mirko Rossini,
Dennis Herb (M.Sc.), Miriam Resch (M.Sc.)
Faculty
Natural Sciences
Cooperation Partners
Dr. Julius Mildenberger (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Dr. Owidiusz Makuta (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Dr. Johannes Knörzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Prof. Dario Tamascelli (University of Milano, Italy)
Dr. Albert Gasull Celades (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Recovery Across International Contexts: A Global Mental Health Teaching Lab (RAIC)
Three countries. One classroom. RAIC brings together future physicians, psychologists, and lived-experience experts to reimagine recovery across borders.
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RAIC connects universities in Germany, the UK, and Egypt, embedding international perspectives on global mental health directly into existing medicine and clinical psychology programmes.
The idea is to bring students together with experts by experience from different countries to explore how recovery and lifestyle based interventions are understood in different contexts.
What makes RAIC special is its combination of peer-led international learning, a replicable and scalable training format that requires no student mobility, and its embeddedness in a broader European agenda for lifestyle psychiatry and recovery oriented care.
- Fostering attitude and sensitivity: openness, humility, and critical reflection among students
- Developing a transferable training format with tandem teaching and peer experts
- Co designing a practice oriented toolkit on context sensitive lifestyle interventions
- Building lasting international partnerships and laying the groundwork for a joint future projects
- Sharing project outcomes with the wider community through a public symposium in Ulm and a peer reviewed publication
Project Team
Prof. Dr. Annabel Sandra Müller-Stierlin,
Dr. Ramona Hiltensperger, Jakob Kilian,
Prof. Dr. Iris-Tatjana Graef-Calliess,
Vera Mohwinkel, Prof. Dr. Sarah Wilker
Faculties
Medical Faculty,
Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology
Cooperation Partners
Dr. Nashwa Ibrahim (Mansoura University, and British University in Egypt, Egypt)
Dr. Yasuhiro Kotera (University of Nottingham, UK, and Osaka University, Japan)
PD Dr. Astrid Röh (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Karl Mitchell (REACH – Research Ensemble for Advancement in Cross-cultural Healthcare., UK)
Dr. Sara Fawzy & Dr Ahmed Samir (Psychiatrists in clinical practice, Egypt)
Global NeuroAction Lab (GNAL)
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Global NeuroAction Lab is an internationalised teaching initiative in which students translate knowledge from clinical and cognitive neuropsychology into original creativity projects aimed at advancing neuroinclusion.
Building on this teaching format, the project is developing a research extension, the Global NeuroAction Study, to examine explicit and implicit attitudes, stigma, social distance, and readiness for neuroinclusive practices across cultural contexts, beginning with a German pilot study.
In the long term, the initiative aims to bring together teaching, international cooperation and cross-cultural research, and to develop into a transnational research and teaching network.
- Strengthen students’ understanding of neurodiversity and neuroinclusion through internationalised and research-informed neuropsychology teaching
- Engage students in developing original creativity projects that translate academic knowledge into socially relevant and inclusive ideas
- Examine explicit and implicit attitudes, stigma, social distance, and readiness for neuroinclusive practices through an initial German pilot study
- Develop a culturally meaningful, cross-national research and teaching network with partners in different countries
- Increase the visibility and practical relevance of the project through student presentations, research dissemination, and future dialogue with relevant stakeholders
Project Team
Ayşegül Akgöz,
Prof. Dr. Daniel Zimprich
Faculty
Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology
Cooperation Partners
Prof. Aaron S. Benjamin (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
ULMA Economic Olympiad (ULMA EO)
The ULMA Economic Olympiad brings together students from around the world for an international competition in microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, and finance, combining academic competition with international exchange.
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The ULMA Economic Olympiad (ULMA EO) is an international competition hosted by Ulm University for students of economics and related quantitative fields, combining talent development with international exchange.
Participants tackle problems in microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, and finance while applying and deepening their knowledge in practice.
For international guests, the Olympiad is complemented by a scientific and cultural program featuring research seminars, project presentations, networking opportunities, and insights into studying and conducting research at Ulm University.
- Strengthening international and intercultural exchange between students and universities.
- Promoting academic networking between students, researchers, and educators.
- Deepening and applying economic knowledge in the fields of microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, and finance.
- Promoting talent in the field of economics.
Project Team
Luca Cermak,
Simon Maier,
Christoph Kiesl
Faculty
Mathematics and Economics
ULMA Economic Workshop (ULMA EW)
The ULMA Economic Workshop brings together Master's students from Ulm University and international partner universities in mixed research teams that, after an on-site workshop at their home university, jointly conduct AI-supported replication studies.
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The ULMA Economic Workshop (ULMA-EW) adds an international component to the Master seminar "Applied Data Science: Replication & Extension": lecturers from Ulm University deliver three-day on-site workshops on econometrics, R and the use of AI agents in empirical research at selected partner universities.
International and Ulm students then replicate published empirical studies in mixed teams and present their results in a hybrid session in English. The format combines intercultural collaboration, research-based teaching and the critical use of AI agents as research tools.
- Building intercultural competence through international research teams
- Deepening empirical methods: causal inference, econometrics and R
- Critical and productive use of AI agents as research tools
- Reproducible research through the replication of published studies
- Expanding Ulm University's international teaching cooperations
Project Team
Simon Maier, Luca Cermak,
Dr. Alexander Rieber,
Philipp Klotz, Dennis Steinle
Faculty
Mathematics and Economics
Cooperation Partners
Dr. B. P. Makhoba (University of Zululand, South Africa)
Dr. Mzwanele Ntshwanti (University of South Africa (UNISA))
Dr. Carl Camilleri (University of Malta)
Dr. Gowokani Chijere Chirwa (University of Malawi, South-East Africa)
Startup Master Classes des Entrepreneurs Campus (SMC)
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The German-language Entrepreneurship lecture series is being developed in cooperation with THU into a fully English-taught course offering ECTS credits.
For the first time, this will provide an Entrepreneurship course specifically accessible to international students.
- Develop entrepreneurship skills in English
- Raise awareness of entrepreneurship
- Expand the Entrepreneurs Campus’s international network for future projects
- Integrate experienced external practitioners into teaching
Project Team
Thomas Rehmet, Lena Schmid
Institution
Entrepreneurs Campus
Cooperation Partners
Johanna Krappe (Turku AMK, Finland)
Vera Lyco (econoyou, Germany)
Dr. Jürgen Moosburger (Moosburger Consulting, Germany)
Lena-Marie Brenner (Wärmeanker GmbH, Germany)
Emre Akyel (Inaia GmbH, Germany)
From Quantum Engineering to Digital Twins Across Scales: An International Challenge-Based Teaching (QDTS-Lab)
Further information will follow.
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Questions & Contact
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UGo! – Team
Simone Beyerlin: Project Lead (ZLE)
Sophia Bosio: Project Officer (ZLE)
Katharina Benz: Coordinator for
International Collaboration (IO)
Lisa Kwapich: Evaluation and
Quality Management (QBR)
