**Our challenge**  

This course invites participants to design and fabricate 3D-printed structures that achieve maximum material efficiency while maintaining structural integrity. Central to this challenge is 3D printing technology, which embodies the democratization of production and a sustainable manufacturing strategy. Moreover, it allows individuals to design, prototype, and manufacture solutions autonomously.  

Through hands-on experience, students will develop technical skills and a mindset focused on innovation and resourcefulness. The course encourages critical thinking about how to optimize designs for minimal material use, exploring how 3D printing can revolutionize manufacturing by making it more accessible, customizable, and sustainable.  

**Expected impact**  

The course’s impact ranges from environmental sustainability to enabling independent design and production, with focus on material minimization and thus, resource efficiency. In a broader sense, by mastering 3D printing technology, participants will be prepared to contribute to a world where innovation is driven by people’s and societal needs, where the tools of creation are accessible to all.

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Hamburg University of Technology

Load-Bearing Efficiency: A 3D Printing Challenge

Circular economy

Critical and innovative thinking

Inter-personal skills

How we make and use products generates half of the emissions in our current economic system, as the production of goods and infrastructure generates emissions all along the value chain. Therefore, the circular economy is inherently cross-sectoral and requires engagement with stakeholders across value chains in pursuit of innovations that contribute to resilient and low-carbon local economies.  

This societal challenge requires a broad set of skills that is currently lacking in our increasingly specialized society and education. It is therefore crucial that learners at all levels learn to collaborate, to solve ill-structured, complex problems that they get confronted with, by dividing them into smaller, doable tasks. Being able to create criteria and come to fact based decisions is one of the most valuable future skills.  

In this particular challenge, TUHH together with HiiCCE Hamburg Institute of Innovations in Climate protection and Circular Economy GmbH and the interreg project https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/ceo are taking a closer look on the transition of the office furniture sector towards a circular economy, integrating financial aspects and business cases. As in the office furniture sector many resources are still being wasted and new office furniture is usually not designed for reuse, repair, refurbishment or recycling. At the same time, the way we work is changing rapidly and constantly and requires office furniture that is modular, adaptable and recyclable. Considering financial aspects and business cases in the context of this challenge is essential for creating sustainable solutions that are economically viable. Learners will explore how sustainable practices can reduce costs. They will investigate how modular and adaptable furniture can extend product lifecycles, reducing the need for frequent replacements and lowering overall expenditures.  

We are inviting learners to engage on particular, self-chosen aspects to approach the economic aspects of this challenge, always taking into account their individual interests and ideas.

Circular economy for office furniture

Help to speed up the office furniture sector’s transition towards a circular and innovative economy with a focus on economic feasibility

Entrepreneurship, technology and innovation

This Micro-Module is structured into introduction, self-learning, and implementation phases. First, you will get input on recent feature extraction and data analysis methods. You will work in a small team of three to four students solving detection and classification tasks on medical image data. In particular, your task is to automatically detect surgical tools and their motion in endoscopic images. To tune and test your algorithms we will provide image data from a surgical daVinci imaging system acquired in our laboratory. Participating in image annotation also allows you to better understand AI models and their limitations. Finally, we will test your algorithms on real medical image data. You can compare your results directly with other groups through our online leaderboard.

Image Analysis for Intelligent Systems in Medicine

Gain hands-on experience in developing AI for medical image analysis

Media and information literacy

The UN's eleventh sustainable development goal (SDG-11) aims at creating sustainable cities and communities. Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and University of Twente (UT) alongside ECIU University support this goal and, wants to contribute to a more sustainable future. Climate change is one of the major challenges facing global society. Extreme weather, such as droughts and heavy rain, are expected to increase with climate change, and as recent events show, expose unforeseen vulnerabilities. ECIU University can contribute in (at least two) ways to realizing the SDG by firstly reducing its carbon footprint, and secondly by providing technological solutions that help increase resilience to climate and weather extremes.  
  
Reducing the impact of climate change is a very important issue and one of the most discussed questions in politics and society. While climate change outpaces the current scientific understanding, new technology can offer opportunities to face the impact of climate change as well as contributing to making a more climate neutral world. ECIU University seeks for learners who take responsibility and shape a sustainable future with new mindsets, behaviours, ways of learning, thinking and working in support of new solutions, technologies and innovations. The big idea is to develop a climate neutral campus with innovative ideas and bold solutions and thereby, advance climate protection and reduce CO2 production. Develop a concept that enables your home university or any other university to have a climate neutral campus in the future. Get ready to make a start now. You can be a pioneer and help make a climate neutral campus.

Climate neutral Campus in Europe

The ECIU University’s Strategic Challenge

Energy and sustainability

Intra-personal skills

In the face of the current AI revolution, Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides recently cautioned against blindly studying STEM subjects and emphasised the need to foster creativity skills which he considers increasingly valuable in the workplace of tomorrow. Pointing in a similar direction, the World Economic Forum identifies creative thinking and AI as two essential future skills. This ECIU Challenge creates a learning context in which students in STEM and other areas of study can train these two highly important skills. In order to develop a relevant and sustainable solution to a challenge revolving around creativity in the era of AI, it is necessary to combine insights from different domains and disciplines. The course provides an environment in which the students bring their different disciplinary backgrounds and skills to the table to collaboratively work on such a solution.

Creativity and Artificial Intelligence

Use your creativity to identify a challenge at the intersection of creativity and AI!

Observations from weather stations have been widely used to study climate change over a long period of time. However, due to the scarcity of point-based weather observations, our understanding of the Earth’s changing climate is very limited. This impedes the advancement in our knowledge of the Earth’s climate system and our capability to develop well-suited climate models to simulate future climate change, which further results in considerable uncertainties associated with future climate projections. How to quantify and minimize these uncertainties is thus becoming one of the most challenging issues to be addressed for climate change impact assessment and adaptation studies. Remote sensing offers a new way of observing the Earth’s climate system with continuous and high-resolution spatial coverage through satellite-based, aircraft-based, or drone-based sensor technologies. This can significantly improve our understanding of climate change and its potential impacts at global, regional, and local scales. The data collected with remote sensing technologies can also be used to validate our climate models, improve our knowledge of the physical and dynamical processes of the climate system, and help us to project future climate change and its impacts with minimized uncertainties.

When it comes to the term’s sensors and research, you have to look very closely at what it is all about in the end. From the Smart Sensors department, research focuses on the sensor systems themselves, while at the same time sensors are an important component in various multidisciplinary research activities. In this Challenge, that is embedded in a course for Master students of Microelectronics and Microsystems the relevant aspects in interdisciplinary sensor research will be taught and explored together.

The Challenge aims to plan a mission for a small satellite that is actually capable of flight and that is built in one of the TUHH's Bachelor's programme. As a starting point we will explore the capabilities of fluorescence sensing. Vegetation fluorescence that can reflect photosynthetic activity and plant health and stress. In turn, this is not only important for a better understanding of the global carbon cycle, but also for agricultural management and food security.

Facing Climate Change with remote sensing

Plan a mission of Edusat

The course begins by providing a broad motivation for the design of multi- and many-core processors such as graphics processing units (GPUs). The first phase covers basic GPU concepts, including the evolution of GPU computing, a high-level overview of GPU architecture, and key differences from CPU architecture. Supplementary material is provided for students without a background in computer architecture fundamentals. Once a basic understanding is established, the module introduces the programming of GPUs using CUDA. The curriculum then delves into advanced concepts from both an architectural and programming perspective. To reinforce the theoretical knowledge gained in the lectures, students will engage in progressively more complex exercises throughout the module.

GPU Architectures and Programming

Providing you with hands-on experience in solving computationally intensive tasks faster and with lower energy consumption

How we make and use products and how we produce food generates almost half of the emissions in our current economic system, as the production of goods and infrastructure generates emissions all along the value chain. Therefore, the circular economy is inherently cross-sectoral and requires engagement with stakeholders across value chains in pursuit of innovations that contribute to resilient and low-carbon local economies.  
   
 This societal challenge requires a broad set of skills that is currently lacking in our increasingly specialized society and education. It is therefore crucial that learners at all levels learn to collaborate, to solve ill-structured, complex problems that they get confronted with, by dividing them into smaller, doable tasks. Being able to create criteria and come to decisions is also a valuable future skill.  
   
 In this particular challenge, TUHH together with HiiCCE *Hamburg Institute of Innovations in Climate protection and Circular Economy GmbH* and the interreg project [https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/ceo](https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/ceo) are taking a closer look on the transition of the office furniture sector towards a circular economy. As in the office furniture sector many resources are still being wasted and new office furniture is usually not designed for reuse, repair, refurbishment or recycling. At the same time, the way we work is changing rapidly and constantly and requires office furniture that is modular, adaptable and recyclable.  
   
 We are inviting learners to engage on particular, self-chosen aspects of this challenge, always taking into account their individual interests and ideas. This could be design, materials, refurbish, the creation of eco-balance evaluations or even health aspects.

Help to speed up the office furniture sector’s transition towards a circular and innovative economy

In the face of the current AI revolution, Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides recently cautioned against blindly studying STEM subjects and emphasised the need to foster creativity skills which he considers increasingly valuable in the workplace of tomorrow. Pointing in a similar direction, the World Economic Forum identifies creative thinking and AI as two essential future skills. This ECIU Challenge creates a learning context in which students in STEM and other areas of study can train these two skills. In order to develop a relevant and sustainable solution to a challenge revolving around creativity in the era of AI, it is necessary to combine insights from different domains and disciplines. The course provides an environment in which the students bring their different disciplinary backgrounds and skills to the table to collaboratively work on such a solution.  

At the end of the seminar, a student delegation will get the opportunity to present their results at an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Cambridge.

Use your creativity to identify a challenge at the intersection of creativity and AI and act collaboratively on an interdisciplinary solution

Global citizenship

Hydrogen has great potential to contribute to the decarbonization of industry and transport. One sector in which hydrogen is expected to play an important role is aviation. Aircraft manufacturers, airlines and airports are developing new technologies and utilization concepts. Hamburg Airport, for example, is preparing for the future use of hydrogen.

But is it realistic to believe that we are moving towards a carbon-free aviation? What are the limiting factors? What ideas do you have for designing an efficient and reliable hydrogen supply system?

Many factors need to be considered and can be analyzed in this challenge. Be part of this journey and get to know Airbus' current plans and visions, work on alternatives and scenarios that you consider important and bring in your own creativity.

Experience working in an international group under the supervision of the teamcher and industry stakeholders. Present your results and ideas to the others.

Whether you focus on one detail or think bigger – your ideas will make a difference.

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Hamburg University of Technology

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Hamburg University of Technology

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