Minister Schüle awards Brandenburg Science Awards: State Teaching Award for Prof Dr Uwe Demele from HNEE
Brandenburg's Minister of Science, Research and Culture, Dr Manja Schüle, presented the Brandenburg Science Awards, endowed with 70,000 euros, at the Potsdam Science Day on 4 May 2024. Uwe Demele, Professor of Responsible Business Management & Ecological Sustainability, in particular Ethics, Design and Business Administration at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE), was recognised for excellent university teaching and received the state teaching award for his teaching module 'Sustainable Management of Limited Resources'.
Science Minister Dr Manja Schüle presented the Brandenburg Science Awards at the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam: "Today is a premiere: for the first time, we have presented our Brandenburg Science Awards as part of the Potsdam Science Day. And this is where they belong - on Germany's smartest mountain. After all, science and research are the key to solving numerous social challenges. That is why I am delighted that this year we are honouring three outstanding teaching projects on the mega-topic of artificial intelligence with the State Teaching Prize. And because excellent teaching and outstanding research go hand in hand, we are also honouring two innovative postdoctoral projects. The two winning topics demonstrate the diversity and relevance of research 'Made in Brandenburg'. And because we believe that scientists and researchers deserve a big stage, we are also awarding the prizes in the Great Refractor - a place where people have literally been reaching for the stars for decades. Congratulations to the prizewinners - their success is a win for us all!"
This year's 12th State Teaching Prize, which is endowed with a total of 30,000 euros, is themed 'Artificial Intelligence in University Teaching'. The prize was awarded for the multidisciplinary approach of Prof Dr Demele's teaching concept, which combines AI, sustainability technologies and ethics of responsibility in the management of limited resources. To this end, he developed a 4-D didactic design model with an AI-Future-Skill competence bundle in the sense of a Living-Learning-Lab. Ethical-reflexive, holistic-systemic, anticipatory and digital-technological skills, especially in the innovation field of circular economy, are combined with research-developing and collaborative skills to enable co-creative teaching-learning settings for students, especially in the Bachelor's programme 'Sustainable Economics and Management'. The individual promotion of the interests and potential of young academics takes centre stage. The motto is: "Fun and learning success are positively correlated variables," summarises the award winner in response to the Minister's question about a guiding principle for modern teaching. Prof Dr Demele will take the award as an opportunity to expand his teaching concept in the overarching research fields of Future Economies, Awareness and Personality Development in line with the credo "Mind-Set, Skill-Set, Tool-Set".
Prof. Dr Lydia Göse, Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau (TH Wildau), was also honoured for the course 'International Marketing Management', and Prof. Dr Ulrike Lucke, Dr Tobias Moebert, Ann-Marie Gursch and Lilian Hasse, University of Potsdam, for the course 'Ethics for Nerds'.
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