Campus in Transition (CiT)
A joint project with TU Braunschweig and the University of Göttingen
In a time of multiple, interconnected crises, universities are being called upon to fundamentally rethink their structures, educational offerings and forms of cooperation. Campus in Transition (CiT) responds to these challenges with an innovative, cross-university approach: through their strategic alliance, the TU Braunschweig, Leuphana University Lüneburg and Georg August University Göttingen are pursuing the common goal of structurally renewing and flexibly developing university teaching, thereby making it sustainable for the future.
Cooperation as the key to transformation
In ‘Campus in Transition’, the three partners are pooling their complementary strengths. Together, they are developing new, flexible study and teaching architectures that enable interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary educational offerings, facilitate transitions between courses of study and adapt administrative processes to the requirements of agile university teaching.
A model for the whole of Lower Saxony
At the same time, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) supports ‘Campus in Transition’ as a model initiative for cross-university cooperation in Lower Saxony. Prof. Joachim Schachtner, Lower Saxony's State Secretary for Science and Culture: ‘Pooling resources, combining strengths and working together to develop innovative and future-oriented study and teaching programmes: “Campus in Transition” has the potential to set new standards in inter-university cooperation and to identify new solutions at the state level. We are accompanying and supporting this in close coordination with the universities.’
With funding from the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education, the project will receive the necessary resources to implement the desired structural innovations and, at the same time, create an example of transferable models for sustainable university development.
Three areas of action for structural renewal
The project focuses on three areas of action: firstly, a fluid study architecture for individual, cross-location educational pathways; secondly, a cooperative teaching architecture for the joint development of innovative, transdisciplinary educational programmes; and thirdly, an adaptive administrative architecture for legal and organisational frameworks that enable agile cooperation.
In all areas, the focus is on the transfer of good practices, the scalability of results and the active participation of all relevant stakeholder groups.