Author: Admiral

We look back on the 25th International Summer University for Women in Computing. The Informatica Feminale took place at the University of Bremen in Germany from 14th to 29th August 2024.

Our thanks…
As organizer team we give special thanks to our lecturers for their teaching with full engagement and collegiality.

We were very pleased with the greeting and the warm, committed speech of Katharina Kunze, deputy State Women’s Representative of the Freie Hansestadt Bremen.

We were equally pleased with the interested and exchange-oriented participants who traveled to Bremen and actively participated in courses, excursions, discussions and the plenary session. Thank you very much for your support, networking and ideas!

We are especially pleased, that many grants could be given to student participants for the stay in Bremen.

Thank you so much to our sponsors who again supported us to realize some core elements of personal encounter for participants and lecturers.

Last but not least we want to thank our student assistants in Bremen. Whether in the conference office or in the cafeteria, you were a top team!

Our look back…
60 courses, each lasting several days, were offered on current specialist topics and interdisciplinary subjects. The wide range of teaching topics was aimed at women students and professionals in technical sciences as well as students of all subjects. There were basics and special topics in engineering, computer science, interdisciplinary topics as well as offers relating to studies, jobs and careers. The courses were very popular.

On place in Bremen, lecturers and participants could visit an extensive social program.

See more information in detail:

• Overview of courses and social program at summer universities 2024.
• Read all about the social events here.

Additionally again, we arranged a smaller ‘meantime’ online course program during the whole year 2024.

We as organizers hope to comply with needs of lecturers and participants, as well as to strengthen again the core elements of teaching and learning with physical, personal meeting.

The women´s network Informatica Feminale and its sister Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni is a place to exchange about technical and social developments, which we meet in our every-day life and which are designed by ourselves as technical experts. The Summer Universities want to give space and time for critical reflections and highly welcomes experimental debates on the relations of technological knowledge and developments in societies. We especially offer teaching, which deal with applications of technical know-how in spaces for work and life (for example within care, education, health, food, household, mobility, social networking, publicity, sports, militarization, etc.) from feminist perspectives.

All, who want to receive information about future Summer Universities, are invited to subscribe to our mailing list. Please send an email to ifis-summerschools@uni-bremen.de.

Companies with gender sensible organizational concepts and successful personal management strategies to promote women engineers to a broad spectrum of leading positions are invited to present their best practices to the participants of Informatica Feminale. There will be plenty of other opportunities to sponsor.

We invite you all to partcipate and look forward to welcoming you next summer in Bremen!

Greetings
Henrike Illig and Veronika Oechtering

[top]

We look back on the 26th International Summer University Informatica Feminale for Women in Computer Science/Informatics. It took place at the University of Bremen in Germany from 16th to 31st August 2023.

Our thanks…
As organizer team we give special thanks to our lecturers for their teaching with full engagement and collegiality.

Many thanks to all participants, who travelled to Bremen and enriched the summer university with lively discussion and networking.

We are especially pleased, that some grants could be given for the stay in Bremen. Thank you so much to our sponsors who again supported us to realize some core elements of personal encounter for participants and lecturers.

Last but not least we want to thank our student assistants in Bremen. Without you, we would not have been able to realize the summer university.

Our look back…
Some 50 courses in Computer Science, ICT, and Informatics were offered to women students in computing studies as well as to practitioners in the field. Students from other subjects got to know basic ICT and interdisciplinary course topics. There were basic, special and interdisciplinary course topics as well as course offers concerning studies, jobs and careers. On place in Bremen, lecturers and participants could visit an extensive social program.

See more information in detail:

• Overview of courses and social program at summer universities 2023.
• Read all about the social events here. (pdf 3.3 MB)

Additionally again, we arranged a smaller ‘meantime’ online course program during the whole year 2023.

We as organizers hope to comply with needs of lecturers and participants, as well as to strengthen again the core elements of teaching and learning with physical, personal meeting.

The women´s network Informatica Feminale is a place to exchange about technical and social developments, which we meet in our every-day life and which are designed by ourselves as technical experts. The Summer University wants to give space and time for critical reflections and highly welcomes experimental debates on the relations of technological knowledge and developments in societies. We especially offer teaching, which deal with applications of technical know-how in spaces for work and life (for example within care, education, health, food, household, mobility, social networking, publicity, sports, militarization, etc.) from feminist perspectives.

All, who want to receive information about future Summer Universities, are invited to subscribe to our mailing list. Please send an email to if@informatica-feminale.de.

Companies with gender sensible organizational concepts and successful personal management strategies to promote women engineers to a broad spectrum of leading positions are invited to present their best practices to the participants of Informatica Feminale. There will be plenty of other opportunities to sponsor.

We invite you all to partcipate and look forward to welcoming you next summer in Bremen!

Greetings
Henrike Illig and Veronika Oechtering

[top]

Dear Participants, Lecturers, and Friends of the Summer Universities 2022,

we look back on a very special year. For the first time, the Informatica Feminale was organized in hybrid ways: online from 25 July to 5 August and physically in Bremen from 1 to 14 September 2022. Moreover, a special training program for lecturers about the topics privacy, facilitation, and protection from discrimination in teaching was offered online. On place in Bremen, lecturers and participants could visit an extensive social program.

Our thanks…
As organizer team we give special thanks to our lecturers for their teaching with full engagement and collegiality.

Many thanks to all participants, who enriched the summer university with lively discussion and networking. We are especially pleased, that participants travelled to Bremen despite the many obstacles in 2022. Courses were without fees again and some grants could be given for the stay in Bremen.

Thank you so much to our sponsors who again supported us to realize some core elements of personal encounter for participants and lecturers.

Last but not least we want to thank our student assistants in Bremen. Without you, we would not have been able to realize the summer university.

Our look back…
The year 2022 was the first, to organize the Informatica Feminale and the “sister” Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni in both the formats online and physically in Bremen. Nearly online courses were fully booked. Courses on place in Bremen were taken to smaller extent, presumably because the Corona situation was to worsen further in September. Many courses could realize settings with few students and very intensive learning. We as organizers got the wonderful chance to intensive personal exchange with our guests. In September on place, we could also arrange a general assembly of lecturers and participants and we received many valuable hints for the year 2023.
We are also pleased, that the lecturers again followed with interest our special online training program for them about the topics privacy, facilitation, and protection from discrimination in teaching.

Our preview…
In 2023 we will emphasize the personal encounter and concentrate more on physical courses in Bremen. The summer university will be organized from 16-31 August 2023 at Bremen University. It will be our main activity. Additionally, we will arrange a smaller ‘meantime’ online course program during the whole year. We as organizers hope to comply with needs of lecturers and participants, as well as to strengthen again the core elements of teaching and learning with physical, personal meeting.

We invite you all to partcipate and look forward to welcoming you next summer in Bremen!

Greetings
Henrike Illig, Isabel Matthias, Veronika Oechtering

A Summary

The University of Bremen organized the 25th Informatica Feminale – the international Summer University for women in computer science – together with the 14th Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni. From 25th July to 5th August as online courses and from 1st to 14th September 2022 on place in Bremen. The program of the Summer Universities 2022 included more than 60 courses. Furtheron a broad daily available social program was offered.

The listing below shows the courses in 2022

Courses on campus at Bremen University from 1 to 14 Sept 2022 (chronologically):
– Zielsetzung mit ZRM® – Motto-Zielen [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022]
– Sexismus – ohne mich! Ein Reflexions- und Argumentations-Workshop [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022]
– Spring im Einsatz [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022]
– Do it yourself! Feministisches Netzwerken und Empowerment [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022]
– Datenschutz und Datensicherheit — Aufbaukurs [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022]
– Hack your CAD models! Foundations of Computer Aided Design (CAD) with FreeCAD and Python / Hack your CAD models! Foundations of Computer Aided Design (CAD) with FreeCAD and Python [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022]

– Hilfe, ein Konflikt – weglaufen bringt nichts! [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022]
– Regenerative Design – co-create the world with intelligent solutions [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022]
– QM I – Grundkurs Qualitätsmanagement. QM-Methoden in Entwicklung, Produktion und Beschaffung [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022]
– Introduction to Stream Processing Paradigm [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022]
– Netzwerk- und Hardwarelabor – Teil 1 [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022]
– Get cupcake: Create your own text adventure in python [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022]
– Einführung in das Projektmanagement [Mo 05.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]
– Penetration testing and ethical hacking for beginners [Mo 05.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]

– Embodied Communication [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]
– And now what? Design your life and work [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]
– QM II – Aufbaukurs Qualitätsmanagement. Agile Prozessentwicklung [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]
– FIND YOUR INNER STRENGTH – Empowerment für deine berufliche Laufbahn [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]
– Raspberry Pi, heute mal als autonomer mobiler Roboter [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]
– Netzgekoppelte Photovoltaikanlagen in der Praxis [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]
– Netzwerk- und Hardwarelabor – Teil 2 [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]
– Klar hab’ ich was zu verbergen! Digitale Selbstverteidigung und Datensouveränität für mich und andere [Fr 09.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]

– Sprachverarbeitung – Verfahren und Anwendungen [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022]
– Führung und Teamwork in Aktion [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022]
– Dream it, think it, make it. A project-based introduction to 3D-printing, Open Source Hardware and the Concept of Fab City [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022]
– QM III – Zertifikatskurs Qualitätsmanagement. Agile Projekte im QM. Zertifikatsprüfung „Applied Agile Quality Master“ [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022]
– Grundlagen in Python [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022]
– Linux Systems Management Schwerpunkt Firewall und Datensicherung [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022]
– Datenschutz und Datensicherheit — Datenschutzaudits. Zertifikatskurs zum Datenschutz [online-Kurs Mo 26.09. – Fr 30.09.2022]

Online Courses in July and August 2022:
– Storyboard und Storytelling [Mo 25.07. – Di 26.07.2022]
– Big Data Analytics using Distributed Platforms [Mon 25th Jul – Thu 28th Jul 2022]
– Einführung in Python [Mo 25.07. – Fr 29.07.2022]
– Sketchnoting – Denken mit den Augen und Visualisieren von Hand [Mo 25.07. — 05.08.2022]
– Software-Entwicklung in der Medizin. Einblicke in den Alltag einer Informatikerin / Software development in medicine. Insights into the daily work of a computer scientist [Mo 25.07. – Fr 29.07.2022]
– How (not) to Master your Thesis – Akademische Arbeiten in technischen Fächern meistern [Mo 25.07. – Fr 29.07.2022]
– Scrum I – Agiles Projektmanagement. Rollen im Scrum Team, Theory of Scrum und Artefakte [Mi 27.07. – Sa 30.07.2022]
– Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Grundkurs [Mi 27.07. – Sa 30.07.2022]
– Blockchains, Crypto & Web3 – eine praktische Einführung [Do 28.07. – Fr 29.07.2022]
– Bio? Das ist doch grün, oder nicht? – Nachhaltigkeit in der Prozessentwicklung [Do 28.07. – Sa 30.07.2022]
– Einstieg in die Kryptografie [Mo 01.08. – Do 04.08.2022]
– Wie wir Maschinen beibringen sexistisch zu sein – Ursachen, Probleme und Folgen von Diskriminierung durch Maschinelles Lernen/KI [Mo 01.08. – Fr 05.08.2022]
– Scrum II – Agiles Projektmanagement. Events, Sprints und Storyboard [Mi 03.08. – Sa 06.08.2022]
– Scrum III – Agiles Projektmanagement. Präsentation des Scrum-Projekts und Zertifikatsprüfung «Applied Scrum Master» [Mi 10.08. – Fr 19.08.2022]

Lecturer Program in June and July 2022:
– Antidiskriminierung und Diskriminierungsschutz [Mi 29.06.]
– Antidiskriminierung und Diskriminierungsschutz [Mi 29.06.]
– Antidiskriminierung und Diskriminierungsschutz [Mo 04.07.]
– Antidiskriminierung und Diskriminierungsschutz [Mo 04.07.]
– Basiskurs Datenschutz in der Lehre [Mo 04.07.]
– Interaktive Online-Lehre / Interactive & Engaging Online Facilitation [Mo 11.07.]
– Interaktive Online-Lehre / Interactive & Engaging Online Facilitation [Mo 11.07.]
– Warum Technik nie neutral ist. Einführung und Austausch [Di 12.07.]
– Geschlechtergerechte und diversitätssensible Sprache in der Lehre [Mo 18.07.]
– Interaktive Lehre vor Ort bei den Sommerunis / Interactive Co-Located Sessions [Di 19.07.]
– Interaktive Lehre vor Ort bei den Sommerunis / Interactive Co-Located Sessions [Di 19.07.]
– Why Technology is Never Neutral. Introduction and Exchange [Wed 20th July]

[top]

Conference September 8^th, 2022

In honor of 25 years of Informatica Feminale, the Center of Excellence Women in Science and Technology of the University of Bremen presented the conference „Women’s Spaces in Computer Science – Experiences and Perspectives“ on September 8^th, 2022. The conference was part of the international summer university Informatica Feminale (1-14 September 2022; www.informatica-feminale.de).

Gender-political reforms in informatics have not lost their relevance. Monoeducative teaching and learning spaces like the summer university for women* are a part of enhancing gender equality in informatics / computer science. The Informatica Feminale focuses on educational structure and specialist cultures. It is a place for experimentation, for new impulses in studying informatics. Due to that, the Informatica Feminale developed into a summer university with an enormous reach, potency, and scope. In 25 years, an extensive network and multi-generational community have formed. Because of the continuous, strong orientation on specialization, the summer university’s resonance is still going strong.

The Informatica Feminale has become a beacon of gender-political reforms for gender in STEM.  The conference „Women’s Spaces in Computer Science – Experiences and Perspectives“ aims focus attention: Beginning with a review on 25 years of Informatica Feminale, we continue to the current situation of informatics in German universities, towards a preview of needed gender-political reforms.

The conference took place on the 8^th of September 2022 from 11 am until 4 pm in House of Science in Bremen.

• Greetings by
  – Senator Dr. Claudia Schilling, Senator of Science and Harbors of Freie Hansestadt Bremen,
  – Bettina Wilhelm, State Representative of Women of Freie Hansestadt Bremen, and
  – Rector Professor Dr. Jutta Günther, University of Bremen
• Presentations by
  – Professor Dr. Juliane Siegeris, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin University of Applied Sciences, and
  – Private lecturer Dr. habil. Sigrid Schmitz, Freiburg
• Look back on 25 years of Informatica Feminale by Veronika Oechtering, Henrike Illig and Isabel Matthias
• Panel discussion with
  – Professor Dr.-Ing. Karin Vosseberg, Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences,
  – Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge, University of Bremen,
  – Patricia Jung, Munich,
  – Veronika Oechtering, University of Bremen,
  Moderation: Henrike Illig, Universität Bremen.

In the evening, a dinner at the restaurant “Falstaff” in Bremen’s Neustadt offered opportunities for informal networking and exchange.

Dear Participants, Lecturers, and Friends of the Summer Universities 2021,

again as last year, the 24th Informatica Feminale had to stay online and our plans for courses in Bremen were stopped.

But as always the lecturers were flexible, the students’ echos great, and from July to October, some 50 courses went ahead. Some course were booked out in hours after publication; others realized settings with few students and very intensive learning. Lecturers sent hardware for experiments to their students; participants organized their own lunch meetings and got happy about virtual networking.

Many thanks to the wonderful lecturers, who participated with full engagement. We are especially pleased, that you followed with interest our special online training program for lecturers about the topics privacy, facilitation, and protection from discrimination in online teaching.

Many thanks also to all the 180 participants for active participation, discussions, comments and criticism, networking and collegiality!
We as organizers have again learnt much about a reasonable design of the Summer University. Some courses with huge practical parts are difficult to realize online. At the same time we will support the wish of those participants, who for different reasons, would never have been able to travel to Bremen. In future, we will arrange weeks with online teaching as well as physical courses in Bremen. Hopefully, both the plans will be realized next year already!

But we miss you all – lecturers and participants – on place in Bremen. No cafeteria, no field trips, no guests. Next year, the 25th Informatica Feminale will be organized – a good reason to celebrate a “real” party.

We invite you all to partcipate and look forward to welcoming you next summer in Bremen!

Greetings
Henrike Illig, Isabel Matthias, Veronika Oechtering

The program of the Summer Universities 2021 included some 50 courses. The listing below shows all, sorted chronologically and along categories of topics. All the teaching and the social program were offered online. There were no participation fees in 2021.
Teaching and study times were different in every course – ongoing from 19th July until middle of October.

Upcoming courses  sorted chronologically:

– Einführung in die moderne Webentwicklung [Mi 18.08.- Fr 20.08.]
– Sexismus – ohne mich! [Do 19.08. ]
– Work-Out für Energieeffizienz im Haushalt [Do 19.08.- Do 26.08.]
– Gendersensible Sprache. Wie es geht und warum sie wichtig ist [Fr 20.08.]
– Python Basics [Fri 20 Aug – Sat 21 Aug ]
– Retro Computing – Eine Einführung in BASIC für den Commodore 64 [Sa 21.08.- So 22.08.]
– Scrum III – Agiles Projektmanagement. Agile Storyboard und Zertifikatskurs zu Scrum [Mo 23.08.- Mi 25.08., Fr 27.08.]
– 3D-Druck mit Blender – Herstellung von 3D-Objekten mit Blender und Resindrucker [24.08.- 14.09.]
– Einführung in die Programmierung mit Python [Mi 25.08.- Mi 22.09.] 
– Alle gleich? Diversität und Ungleichheiten im Studium [Fr 27.08.]
– Software development in medicine. Insights into the daily work of a computer scientist [Mon 30th Aug- Fri 3rd Sep]
– Wie nehmen Roboter ihre Umgebung wahr? Computer Vision und Bildauswertung für Robotersysteme [Mo 30.08.- Mi 08.09.]
– Wie frau einen Tiefseeroboter baut [Mo 30.08.- Do 23.09.]
– Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Grundkurs [Mi 01.09.- Fr 03.09.]
– Einführung in das Projektmanagement [Do. 02.09.- Di. 07.09.]
– Functional Programming. Approach in Building Software Applications with Clojure [Fri 03 Sep – Sat 25 Sep]
– Sketchnoting. Denken mit den Augen und Visualisieren von Hand [So 05.09.- Mo 27.9.]
– Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Aufbaukurs [Mo 06.09.- Mi 09.09.]
– Netzwerk- und Hardwarelabor [Mo 06.09. – Do, 09.09.]
– Prozessentwicklung im Qualitätsmanagement [Do 09.09.- Mo 13.09.]
– Sprachverarbeitung – Verfahren und Anwendungen [Do. 09.09.- Di. 14.09.]
– Introduction to Machine Learning [Sat 11 Sep – Sun 12 Sep ]
– Faire Elektronik in der Praxis – von den Rohstoffen bis zur selbst gelöteten Computermaus [Mo 13.09.– Mi 15.09.]
– IT-Forensik: Windows Analyse [Mo 13.09.- Fr 17.09.]
– Netzwerklabor, Teil 2, mit Wireshark [Mo 13.09. – Do, 16.09.]
– Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Datenschutzaudits mit Zertifikatsprüfung [Di 14.09.- Do 16.09.]
– Hands on Deep Learning [Fri 17 Sep – Sat 25 Sep]
– Hands on – Programming own Bots and Systems for Smart Homes and Gardens [Mon 20 Sep – Thu 23 Sep ]
– Engineering for social transformation: climate change, technology and gender [Mon 20 Sept – Thu 23 Sept ]
– Introduction on the Android Operating System [Mon 20 Sep – Thu 23 Sep]
– Hack your CAD models! Foundations of Computer Aided Design (CAD) with FreeCAD and Python [Mon 20 Sep – Fri 24 Sep]
– Erfolgreich Verhandeln nach dem Harvard Konzept [Mi 29.09-Mi 13.10]
– Hilfe, ein Konflikt – Weglaufen bringt nichts! [Di 05.10-Sa 16.10]
– Embodied Communication [Mo 04.10-Fr 15.10]

Courses sorted along categories:

Nachhaltigkeit und Technologien / Sustainability and Technologies

• Mobilität, Verkehr und Gesellschaft [Do 05.08.- Do 19.08.]
• Engineering for social transformation: climate change, technology and gender [Mon 20 Sep – Thu 23 Sep]
• Regenerative Design – co-create the world with intelligent solutions [Fri 06th Aug- Mon 09th Aug]

Erneuerbare Energie / Renewable Energy

• Netzgekoppelte Photovoltaikanlagen in der Praxis [Do 05.08.- Di 10.08.]
• Work-Out für Energieeffizienz im Haushalt [Do 19.08.- Do 26.08.]

Biotechnologie / Bioengineering

• Klein, Kleiner, Mikro. Die kleinsten Reaktoren für Biokatalysatoren [Mo 02.08.- Fr 13.08.]

Technische Netze / Technical Networks

• Netzwerk- und Hardwarelabor [Mo 06.09. – Do, 09.09.]
• Netzwerklabor, Teil 2, mit Wireshark [Mo 13.09. – Do, 16.09.]

Robotik und Elektronik / Robotics and Electronics

• Faire Elektronik in der Praxis – von den Rohstoffen bis zur selbst gelöteten Computermaus [Mo 13.09.– Mi 15.09.]
• Hands on – Programming own Bots and Systems for Smart Homes and Gardens [Mon 20 Sep – Thu 23 Sep]
• Wie frau einen Tiefseeroboter baut [Mo 30.08.- Do 23.09.]

CAD-Modellierung / CAD-Modeling

• 3D-Druck mit Blender – Herstellung von 3D-Objekten mit Blender und Resindrucker [24.08.- 14.09.]
• Hack your CAD models! Foundations of Computer Aided Design (CAD) with FreeCAD and Python [Mon 20 Sep – Fri 24 Sep]

Maschinelles Sehen / Computer Vision

• Wie nehmen Roboter ihre Umgebung wahr? Computer Vision und Bildauswertung für Robotersysteme [Mo 30.08.- Mi 08.09.]

Datenanalyse / Data Analysis

• Matrix-Based Programming and Data Visualization using Matlab or GNU Octave [Mon 26th July – Mon 09th Aug]

Maschinelles Lernen / Machine Learning

• Einführung in maschinelles Lernen / Introduction to Machine Learning [Sat 11 Sep – Sun 12 Sep ]
• Hands on Deep Learning [Fri 17 Sep – Sat 25 Sep]
• Wie wir Maschinen beibringen sexistisch zu sein – Ursachen, Probleme und Folgen von Bias in Maschinellem Lernen/KI [fällt leider aus]

Programmieren / Programming

• Retro Computing – Eine Einführung in BASIC für den Commodore 64 [Sa 21.08.- So 22.08.]
• Functional Programming. Approach in Building Software Applications with Clojure [Fri 03 Sep – Sat 25 Sep]
• Einführung in die Programmierung mit Python [Mi 25.08.- Mi 22.09.]
• Build your own: Digitale Escape Games als Einstieg und Unterhaltung für Fachinteressierte [fällt leider aus]
• Python Basics [Fri 20 Aug – Sat 21 Aug ]
• Grundlagen in Python [Mo 26.07. – Do 29.07.]

Betriebssysteme und Infrastrukturen / Operating Systems and Infrastructures

• Linux für Einsteigerinnen. Praktischer Einstieg in die Linux Nutzung [Mi 04.08.- Mi 11.08.]
• Linux Systems Management Schwerpunkt Firewall [Mo 16.08. – Do, 19.08.]
• Introduction on Android Operating System [Mon 20 Sep – Thu 23 Sep]

Projektmanagement / Project Management

• Einführung in das Projektmanagement [Do. 02.09.- Di. 07.09.]
• Storyboard und Storytelling [Di 20.07.- Do 22.07.]
• Scrum I – Agiles Projektmanagement. Rollen im Scrum Team und Theory of Scrum [Mo 09.08.- Mi 11.08.]
• Scrum II – Agiles Projektmanagement. Artefakte und Sprint [Mo 16.08.- Mi 18.08.]
• Scrum III – Agiles Projektmanagement. Agile Storyboard und Zertifikatskurs zu Scrum [Mo 23.08.- Mi 25.08., Fr 27.08.]

Qualitätsmanagement / Quality Management

• Qualitätsmanagement in Entwicklung, Produktion und Beschaffung [Fr 06.08.- Fr 20.08.]
• Prozessentwicklung im Qualitätsmanagement [Do 09.09.- Mo 13.09.]

Datenschutz und Sicherheit / Privacy and Security

• IT-Forensik: Windows Analyse [Mo 13.09.- Fr 17.09.]
• Einstieg in die Kryptographie [Mo 26.07.- Do 29.07.]
• Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Grundkurs [Mi 01.09.- Fr 03.09.]
• Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Aufbaukurs [Mo 06.09.- Mi 09.09.]
• Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Datenschutzaudits mit Zertifikatsprüfung [Di 14.09.- Do 16.09.]

Mobile Web und Internet / Mobile Web and the Internet

• Einführung in die moderne Webentwicklung [Mi 18.08.- Fr 20.08.]

Mensch-Computer-Interaktion / Human Computer Interaction

• Sprachverarbeitung – Verfahren und Anwendungen [Do. 09.09.- Di. 14.09.]
• Make a Chatbot. An Introduction to Natural Language Processing using Python [tba]

Gender und Diversity in der Technikinnovation / Gender and Diversity in innovating technology

• Technofeministische Debatten und Theorien – ein Lektüre- und Diskussions-Workshop [tba]
• Diskriminierung durch Algorithmen? Technikethische Reflexionen zu aktuellen Herausforderungen [Mi 04.08.- Fr 06.08.]

Ethik in der Technikgestaltung / Ethics in Technology Design

• The Ethics of Technology. An Interdisciplinary Approach [tba]
• Informatik & Verantwortung. Technik-ethische Reflexionen zur Entwicklung und Anwendung innovativer Technologien [tba]

Technik interdisziplinär / Interdisciplinary Technology

• Software development in medicine. Insights into the daily work of a computer scientist [Mon 30th Aug- Fri 3rd Sep ]

Kompetenzen für Studium und Beruf / Professional Skills

• And now what? Design your life and work [Fri 13th Aug- Fri 20th Aug]
• Erfolgreich Verhandeln nach dem Harvard Konzept [Mi 29.09-Mi 13.10]
• Find your inner strength. Empowerment für deine berufliche Laufbahn [Do 12.08.- Fr 20.08.]
• Hilfe, ein Konflikt – weglaufen bringt nichts! [Di 05.10-Sa 16.10]
• Genossenschaft – Unternehmensform, Gründung, Erfahrungen [Di 03.08. – Do 05.08.]

Gender- und Diversity-Kompetenzen / Gender and Diversity Skills

• Alle gleich? Diversität und Ungleichheiten im Studium [Fr 27.08.]
• Sexismus – ohne mich! [Do 19.08. ]
• Do it yourself! Feministisches Netzwerken und Empowerment [fällt leider aus]

Schreiben / Writing Skills

• Sketchnoting. Denken mit den Augen und Visualisieren von Hand [So 05.09.- Mo 27.9.]
• How (not) to Master your Thesis. Akademische Arbeiten in technischen Fächern meistern [fällt leider aus]

Kommunizieren / Communicative Skills

• Standpunkte vertreten. Gesprächsstrategien für den Unialltag [fällt leider aus]
• Gendersensible Sprache. Wie es geht und warum sie wichtig ist [Fr 20.08.]
• Embodied Communication! [Mo 04.10-Fr 15.10]

[top]

Dear Participants, Lecturers, and Friends of the Summer Universities 2020,

we look back on exciting months full of new intensive experiences: The 23rd Informatica Feminale went online! From July to Oktober 2020 some 50 courses got lots of applaus from student participants nearby and far away.

The International Summer University for Women in Computer Science at Bremen University switched to flexible online teaching in 2020 and the echos of participants were enormous. More than 230 students took part in courses, and were happy about online exchange, talks and discussions.

Our thanks…
As organizing team we thank our fantastic lecturers – the new as well as the familiar – for the exciting, personal and compact teaching.

Many thanks also to all the participants for active participation, discussions, comments and criticism, networking and collegiality. A big ‘Thanks’ goes to those, who for different reasons, would never have been able to travel to Bremen; but they sent us their joy about this online opportunities. We will now think about future ways to combine online and physical teaching in Bremen.

We are MUCH aware that online teaching is not at all comparable to the common, wonderful contacts between lecturers and students we all wish for every summer university. Not to be able to see you in person, to join you during lunch break, to go to excursions or to party together was a great pity and we were missing all of this and more.

Last but not least we warmly thank our student assistants team. It was good to have you as the only students in place at the University during the summer.

Our Review
Our focus 2020 brought some unexpected topicality:

“Boundaries of the Body” 
(Women’s) Bodies are sites of technological developments. Boundaries and limits become increasingly blurred: either through the optimization of health parameters, or the digital and technical enhancement of the body, up to unregulated collection of body-related data, and the bodies suffering the consequences of technology-based warfare. The Summer University 2020 wanted to give space and time for critical reflections and welcomed experimental debates on the relations of technological knowledge and developments in societies. We saw that several online courses integrated these topics.

Our motivation is to present the topics about gender diversity and feminist perspectives on teaching and society as cross-cutting issues, to integrate these into teaching and prevent these from “staying aside” of courses in separate courses.

Our Outlook…
We are curious to read your evaluations and to receive you suggestions. These will be taken into the planning of the next summer university year 2021.

The next upcoming online period will be a good moment to improve teaching methods. But we hope that at least a short version of summer university offers at Bremen will be possible.

We invite you all to partcipate and look forward to welcoming you next summer!

Greetings from Bremen,
Henrike Illig and Veronika Oechtering

See below the entire course program. Teaching and study times were different in every course – ongoing until October. We also prepared a social program with talks and discussions. There were no participation fees in 2020.

Short information about the published courses:

• Python für Anfängerinnen (Mo 20.7.- Do 23.7.)
• Wie wir Maschinen beibringen sexistisch zu sein – Ursachen, Probleme und Folgen von Bias in Maschinellem Lernen/KI (Mo 20.07.- Fr 24.07.)
• Diskriminierung und Antidiskriminierung im Arbeitsleben – Probleme und mögliche Handlungsstrategien, (Di 21.- Do 23.7.)
• How (not) to Master your Thesis – Akademische Arbeiten meistern (Mo 27.07.- Fr 31.07.)
• Apps selbst entwickeln (Mo 03.08.- Fr 07.08.)
• Diskriminierung durch Algorithmen? – Technikethische Reflexionen zu aktuellen Herausforderungen, (Di 04.-06.08.)
• Qualitätsmanagement in Entwicklung, Produktion und Beschaffung (Mi 05.08.- Fr 19.08.)
• Mikrocontrollerplatine programmieren: Calliope mini /Programming microcontroller board Calliope mini (Mo 10.08.- Di 11.08.)
• Einführung in das Projektmanagement (Mo 10.08.- Sa 15.08.)
• Grafisch programmieren mit Calliope mini (Teil 2) (Do 13.08.- Fr 14.08.) Sprachverarbeitung – Verfahren und Anwendungen (Fr 14.08.- Mo 17.08.)
• Einführung in maschinelles Lernen /Introduction to Machine Learning (Fr 14.08.- Sa 22.08.)
• Hands on Deep Learning (Fr 14.08.- So 30.08.)
• Kreativitätstechniken und Ideenmanagement (Mo 17.08.- Di 18.08.)
• Netzwerk- und Hardwarelabor, Teil 1 (Mo 17.08.- Mi 19.08.)
• Einführung in die Strömungssimulation mit OpenFOAM / Introduction into Computational Fluid Dynamics using OpenFOAM (Mo 17.08.- Do 20.08.)
• Software-Entwicklung in der Medizin. Einblicke in den Alltag einer Informatikerin (Mo 17.08.- Fr 21.08.)
• Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (Mo 17.08.- Mo 24.08.)
• Gender & Diversity als Schlüsselkompetenzen in Studium und Beruf (Mi 19.08.-Do 20.08.)
• Netzwerklabor Teil 2 mit Wireshark (Mi 19.08.- Fr 21.08.)
• Sexismus – ohne mich! Ein Reflexions- und Argumentations-Workshop (Fr 21.8.)
• Prozessentwicklung im Qualitätsmanagement (Fr 21.08.- Mi 26.08.)
• Erfolgreich Verhandeln (Mo 24.08- Di 25.08.2020)
• Regenerative Design – mit intelligenten Konzepten die Welt verändern / Regnerative Design – co-create the world with intelligent solutions (Mo 24.08.- Mi 26.08.)
• Einführung in Java (Mo 24.08.- Fr 28.08.)
• Einführung in die Welt der Datenbanken und der Datenbankmanagementsysteme (Mo 24.08.- Sa 29.08.)
• Dem Werkstoffversagen auf der Spur (Praxisorientierte Schadensanalyse) (Mi 26.08.- Fr 28.08.)
• Und was jetzt? – Gestalte dein Leben selbstbestimmt (inclusive deiner Arbeit) / And now what? – Design your life and work (Do 27.08.- Sa 29.08.)
• Alle gleich? Diversität und Ungleichheiten im Studium (Fr 28.08.)
• Scrum Project: Agile Storyboard – Applied Scrum Master Certification (Fr 28.08.- Sa 05.09.)
• Hilfe, ein Konflikt – weglaufen bringt nichts! (Mi 02.09.- Do 03.09.)
• Einführung in die Programmierung mit Python (Mi 02.09.- Do 10.09.)
• Bildanalyse mit Neuronalen Netzwerken / Image analysis with neural networks (Mo 07.09.- 10.09.)
• Embodied Communication (Mo 14.09.- Di 15.09.)
• Einstieg in Python (Mo 14.09.- Do 17.09.)
• Programming for Data Analysis and Statistics with R (Mon 14.09.- Thu 17.09.)
• Gendersensible Sprache. Wie es geht und warum sie wichtig ist (Fr 18.9.)
• OpenSCAD (Sa 19.09.- So 20.09.)
• Data Feminism – Erkundungen zwischen Cyber-, Xeno- und Technofeminismen (Mo 21.09.- Do 24.09.)
• Grundlagen des Computer-Aided Design mit FreeCAD und Python / Hack your CAD models! Foundations of Computer Aided Design (CAD) with FreeCAD and Python (Mo 21.09.- Fr 25.09.)
• Engineering for social transformation: climate change, technology and gender (Tue 22.09.- Wed 23.09.)
• Let’s Play! Zoom-Theater, Telefon-Games und andere digitale Kulturformate (Mo 28.09.-Fr 02.10.)
• Think Global, Act Local: the impact of the ‚New Urban Agenda‘ on our everyday life. (Tue 29.09.-Thu 01.10.)

[top]