Aurora Hubs

Zohra Hassan-Pieper

What are Aurora Hubs and what do they do? These hubs serve as transdisciplinary platforms for the cooperation of students, researchers, teachers, administrators and internal / external stakeholders from across the Aurora universe of European universities and their respective academic ecosystems. These hubs are testbeds for new forms of teaching, learning, research and outreach. This means, for instance, that

  • the sustainability hub works on the scalability of learning units and the junior-research-to-innovation-pipeline
  • the digital society hub works on viable paths towards a rebuilding of higher education, with the course “A Broader Mind” as one of its signature pieces
  • the health hub has identified vulnerability as one of the most effective thematic nodes for the improvement of joint learning. Together with the culture hub it is also building a track record of learning units on healthy cities.
  • the culture hub cooperates with the sustainability hub, the Aurora recognition team and the digital campus and mobility team to develop and issue micro-credentials and to make them joint and stackable.

Contact

Barbara Buchenau (UDE) and Zohra Hassan Pieper (UDE)

aurora-hubs@uni-due.de