24.06.2025: Summer party Erasmus+ and 100 years DAAD

To celebrate the success of the Erasmus+ programme and the 100th anniversary of the DAAD, the University of Münster’s Career Service and International Office organised a summer party. Information stands provided details about the various Erasmus+ funding opportunities at the university, and participants exchanged information about their projects and programmes. The International Office selected the ACTIVATE project for inclusion in her poster presentation.

Informations: Ersamus+ Cooperation projects (DE)

Venue: Botanicum Münster (Münster, DE)

05. - 06.06.2025: Workshop Palliative Care Skillstraining and Debriefing Dashboard

Students of Computer and Media Science from HTWK Leipzig visited the Studienhospital in Münster to participate in a palliative care skills training course for medical students and collect feedback from teachers on their prototype debriefing dashboard.

Informations: Program and impressions

Venue: Study hospital (Münster, DE)

15. - 16.05.2025: National Conference Clinical Education, Örebro

The Education Centre, Region Örebro County and Örebro University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health organised the fourth national KU 2025 conference on clinical education. Over 200 participants from across Sweden gathered to discuss how academia and healthcare can collaborate to improve clinical education. PhD students presented their research contributions to the ACTIVATE project, which focuses on the design and piloting of simulation-based learning.

Informations: Article in local Kumla Municipality media (SE) and impressions

08.05.2025: Usability test of mobile app and e-portfolio for Deliberate Practice

The BMS Lab development team from the University of Twente came to the Studienhospital in Münster to conduct a usability test of the TIIM app with medical students who had completed standard individual skills training. The students were then shown mock-ups of the app and e-portfolio, after which they had to write down their perceptions and ideas in four quadrants on an A3 sheet of paper.

Informations: Usability test protocol and impressions

Venue: Study hospital / Limette (Münster, DE)

03.12.2024: Workshop Deliberate Practice, Twente

The design team from the University of Münster visited the BMS Lab at the University of Twente in Enschede to develop procedures that would support an earlier-formulated PACT scenario for deliberate practice in medical skills training within the ‘Twente Intervention and Interaction Machine’ application (TIIM). Each team developed a conceptual procedure in TIIM, and one of these was selected at a later stage for further development into a prototype.

Informations: Program and impressions

Venue: BMS Lab (Enschede, NL)

15.11.2024: Workshop Interprofessional Learning, Leipzig

The design team from the University of Münster visited the University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig to introduce students of Computer and Media Science, along with their supervisors, to the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). Together, we brainstormed ways in which the theory’s basic unit of analysis, the ‘activity system’, could be used to develop a debriefing dashboard for interprofessional learning.

Informations: Program and impressions

Venue: Trerfftz building (Leipzig, DE)

18. - 19.10.2024: Kick-Off-Meeting, Papendal

In the framework of the EU-project ACTIVATE (Agile Competency-Based Learning for Individuals and Teams) a kick-off meeting is organized by its strategic partnership (Universities of Münster, Leipzig, Twente and Örebro).

Informations: Scientific program

Venue: High Performance centre Papendal (Arnhem, NL)