The University of Bremen will organize the 26th Informatica Feminale – the international Summer University for women students and professionals in computer science. From 16 to 31 August 2023 as program on place in Bremen, Germany. Additionally, we will start a small meantime course program which will be online during the whole year 2023. Our focus will stay on physically personal meetings and communication which is the core of our concept.
We cordially invite women students of all disciplines, levels and different types of institutions of higher education as well as all women interested in computing and women ICT professionals from all over the world! Teaching languages will be English and German. For more information about how to participate, see our Informatica-Feminale-FAQ2023-en.pdf.
There will be no participation fees for online courses. For courses on place in Bremen there will be a participation fee.
For human resources managers we are particullarly pointing out that, during the whole summer school there will be plenty of opportunities to sponsor and to get in touch with graduates.
We are looking forward to meet keen and ambitious participants!
The University of Bremen will organize the 26th Informatica Feminale – the international Summer University for women students and professionals in computer science. From 16 to 31 August 2023 as program on place in Bremen, Germany. Our focus will stay on physically personal meetings and communication which is the core of our concept.
You can register for the courses and social program of the summer universities via this webpage:
Further on, you are invited to join several field trips and meetings at the summer university on place in the region of Bremen and north-western Germany in August 2023.
Detailed information on each social event is available on our website (see menue point “program”).
Further Information with a chronological list of courses and social events is available for downloads: https://www.informatica-feminale.de/re/IFIS2023-Kurse-Courses.pdf
Welcome Event of the 26th Summer University Informatica Feminale and the 15th Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni
Community live, IF-IS COM 01
Wednesday, August 16th, 2023, at 12:00 p.m.
Room: MZH 1470
Language: The languages will be German and English.
Lecturers and Participants are welcome!
We would like to ring in the 26th Informatica Feminale and the 15th Summer University for Women in Engineering with all participants.
We are especially looking forward to the opening of the international summer universities by the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Maren Petersen.
Afterwards, a warm lunch buffet will give everyone the opportunity to get to know each other, introduce themselves and get an insight into the coming two weeks.
In 2023, we will mostly concentrate on our course program that will be available on place at Bremen University from 16 to 31 August 2023. For us, the communication at a meeting in person is the core of our concept.
The registration as participant is possible via a common web-based registration system of the Informatica Feminale and the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni. The attendance of courses requires prior registration. You may attend several courses, but you will have to register for each course bindingly beforehand. In order to register, please select the courses which you’d like to attend from our website. You can register for the courses and social program of the summer universities via this webpage:
Places will be assigned according to time of registration. First come, first served!
Your course registration will be confirmed via e-mail from the University of Bremen after completion of your registration process. Further information regarding the program procedure will be e-mailed as well. The lecturers will contact their students beforehand with materials necessary for preliminary course requirements.
Participants may select additional courses. As soon as a course is fully booked it will appear as blocked in the online registration system.
Throughout the summer universities we offer a free daily child care for the participants’ and lecturers’ children.
Starting in early 2023, we will arrange a small meantime program, which will offer some online courses during the whole year.
Liability Disclaimer The organizers assume no liability for any damage to persons or to property, which is caused by participants or their children.
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.)
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.)
Institute visit and guided tour: Robotics Research in Bremen – Guided Tour of the DFKI Robotics Innovation Center
Institute visit and guided tour, IF-IS INS 01
Wednesday, August 16th, 2023
Time: 4.40 p.m.
Location: Will be announced in the conference office.
Language: If participants who are English-speaking (but not German-speaking) are present, the language will be English.
From intelligent technologies for space and the deep sea to robots for tomorrow’s production and logistics to medical exoskeletons – the Robotics Innovation Center of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) develops innovative robotic solutions for various application areas. For this purpose, a unique research infrastructure consisting of workshops, laboratories and test facilities is available to the currently around 170 employees.
During a 45-minute guided tour, you will gain insight into the 1,300 m² Maritime Exploration Hall, which is used to test robot systems for use on and under water. You will also visit the centerpiece of the extension opened in 2022, the 17-meter-high multifunctional hall with artificial crater landscape. Thanks to an overhead crane and extensive project areas, versatile research projects can be pursued here.
Institute visit and guided tour: Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM).
The drop tower Bremen. How does it work and what happens within?
Institute visit and guided tour, IF-IS INS 02
Wednesday, August 16th, 2023
Time: 4:40 p.m.
Location: Will be announced in the conference office.
Language: If participants who are English-speaking (but not German-speaking) are present, the language will be English.
The Bremen Drop Tower is a large laboratory, unique in Europe, which offers scientists from all over the world the possibility of earthbound experiments under short-term weightlessness. In contrast to orbital microgravity research, this facility can be used permanently and cost-effectively. Since its commissioning in September 1990, the 146m high concrete structure has been available on the grounds of the University of Bremen and is an important addition to the existing and planned laboratory units for orbital and suborbital microgravity research. Since then, about 400 experiment launches per year have been carried out continuously. The facility makes it possible to reach a state of weightlessness up to three times a day for 4.74 seconds each time.
In December 2004, a catapult facility was put into operation, which was developed at the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) and creates unique research conditions worldwide. As a result, experiments can nowadays be carried out under weightlessness with a flight duration of up to 9.3 seconds, with the trajectory describing a “vertical” parabola.
Total duration of the tour is 45 minutes.
Unfortunately a tour to the top of the tower is not part of the tour.
hmmh
Breaking down barriers with digital accessibility
Lunch Talk, IF-IS VOR 01
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
Time: 1:25-1:55p.m.
Location: Will be announced in the conference office.
Language: If participants who are English-speaking (but not German-speaking) are present, the language will be also English.
Creating accessible websites and webshops for all – through digital accessibility. Imagine you can see nothing or only a little. Then you want a high-contrast design or even need to have the offers of an online store read aloud. If users can’t hear, videos need subtitles. Large buttons make navigation easier for people with limited mobility. In all these cases, the implementation of digital accessibility plays an important role. We believe that accessibility online is not a trend, but a social responsibility that we at hmmh are happy to take on. That’ s how we try to make the world a little bit better with websites that can be used by all people regardless of their limitations. In this presentation, we will talk about accessibility metrics and what impact non-accessible websites have on users and website owners.
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
Zeit: 4:40 p.m.
Location: Will be announced in the conference office.
Language: The guided tour will be in German.
Der Focke-Windkanal ist das Forschungslabor des Bremer Luftfahrtpioniers Henrich Focke, dem Erbauer des ersten stabil und sicher fliegenden Hubschraubers der Welt und Begründer der gesamten Bremer Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie.
In der ehemaligen Tischlerei wurden 1923 die ersten Windkanalmodelle für Focke-Wulf gebaut, Anfang der 60er Jahre kaufte Prof. Focke die Immobilie und richtete sich ein privates Fluglabor mit Windkanal ein.
UNIVENTION GmbH Bremen Social Event: Working with Linux and Open Source in Bremen
Social Event, IF-IS SOC 01
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
Time: 4:45 p.m.
Location: Will be announced in the conference office.
Language: If participants who are English-speaking (but not German-speaking) are present, the language will be English.
Are you passionate about Open Source and Linux? Then get to know us.
We will introduce you to Univention, an open source software company, from Bremen and end the seminar day with food and fun.
We will pick you up at 16:45 at the excursion meeting point and walk with you to our office, which is not far away.
On site Monika, Head of Software Engineering at Univention, will introduce you to the company, the products and the work of a software developer.
In addition, we will provide you with food and drinks and the fun will not be neglected 🙂
We are looking forward to seeing you!
Your Univention Team
ADESSO social event: Watching ships at Weser promenade Schlachte
Social Event, IF-IS SOC 02
Friday, August 18th, 2023
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Will be announced in the conference office.
Language: If participants who are English-speaking, but not German-speaking, are present, the guided tour will be in English.
Why is there so much laughing below deck? Why is a ship build of concrete? Where are the green sails of the Alexander von Humboldt? Come with us on a maritime walk along the Weser promenade (called “Schlachte”).
Three adesso employees will be with you at the guided tour and invite you to explore Bremen together.
Saturday, August 19th, 2023
Time: from 7 p.m.
Location: Restaurant Meze by Evrim,
Konsul-Smidt-Straße 8U,
28217 Bremen-Überseestadt
Entrance from ‘Überseepromenade’. https://meze-by-evrim.de/
We want to celebrate with you! Therefore we cordially invite all new and old participants and their friends to the networking party!
All genders are welcome!
Sunday, August 20th, 2023
Time: 1:20 p.m.
Location: See below in the abstract.
Language: If participants who are English-speaking, but not German-speaking, are present, the guided tour will be in English.
Bunker Valentin is the ruin of a German Navy submarine shipyard from World War II. Between 1943 and 1945, thousands of forced laborers from all over Europe were deployed here: Civilian workers as well as prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates.
In a guided tour at the memorial site, the ruins, the exhibition and the outside area can be visited. a special focus of the tour aims at the question of responsibility of the engineers at the bunker construction site and the conditions of the workers.
The former submarine bunker “Valentin” is the second largest above ground bunker in Europe and the most visible legacy of three major Nazi armament projects that have transformed a predominantly agricultural region since the mid-1930s.
Lunch Talk encoway GmbH: Code reviews: Why they are so important
Lunch Talk, IF-IS VOR 02
Monday, August 21st 2023
Time: 1:25 p.m.
Location: Will be announced in the conference office.
Language: If participants who are English-speaking, but not German-speaking, are present, the guided tour will be in English.
Relaxed and fed up, we invite you to talk with one of our software developers from encoway GmbH. We are a modern software company and support industrial companies with our products for digital transformation. Our software developer Ria Zahn will guide you through this talk and give you an exciting and varied insight into her daily work.
To illustrate this, Ria will talk about code reviews and why they are so important. Are you up for a technically exciting conversation and practical insights into our world?
Then we look forward to welcome you!
DIGITAL HUB INDUSTRY* and encoway GmbH: Women’s Dinner
Social Event, IF-IS SOC 03
Monday, August 21st, 2023
Time: 4:45 p.m.
Meeting point: DIGITAL HUB INDUSTRY*
Konrad-Zuse-Straße 6A, 28359 Bremen
Language: If participants who are English-speaking, but not German-speaking, are present, the guided tour will be in English.
After an informative lunch with one of our software developers, we, encoway GmbH and DIGITAL HUB Industry*, invite you to a Women’s Dinner. Cold drinks and refreshments are waiting for you. Some of our IT women from different departments and levels will take part. There is no topic and no fixed agenda. Just you. At eye level in a nice talk with food. Do you have thoughts and questions that are on your mind, or do you want to make contacts? Then you’ve found the right place!
*The DIGITAL HUB Industry is in the neighborhood of the University of Bremen and is a hub where industries, research, start-ups and talents meet and work together on innovative ideas.
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023
Time: 4:35 p.m.
Location: Will be announced in the conference office.
Language: If participants who are English-speaking (but not German-speaking) are present, the language will be English in the beginning.
Please think of: proof of identity (ID Card), sturdy shoes and sturdy clothes
The power station Weserkraftwerk Bremen in Bremen-Hastedt was put into operation in 2011. The power station is located underground besides the given (river) Weser weir. It generates up to 42 million kilowatt hours electricity per year. It supplies more than 15.000 households in Bremen with electricity, – thus saving to the atmosphere some 13.000 tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). With its output of up to 10 megawatts (MW) it is the biggest run-of-river power station in Germany, that is dependent on tides.
At the Bremen Weser weir, the water level below the barrage changes regularly by about 4 meters within an average of 6.2 hours due to the tide. The turbine technology is set up for this special condition.
The power plant has an extensive, constantly optimized fish protection concept consisting of several ascent and descent barriers in conjunction with effective protection against passage through the turbines. The functionality has been recorded for many years in a year-round monitoring system.
The Weser did not have to be specially dammed because of the existing weir, existing possibilities were used sensibly.
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023
Time: 4:40 p.m.
Location: Will be announced in the conference office.
Language: If participants who are English-speaking (but not German-speaking) are present, the language will be English.
Innovation at your fingertips: The Bremen Ambient Assisted Living Lab (BAALL) is a fully furnished apartment, which adapts to the needs of the inhabitants. For research and development, the BAALL, opened in 2009, is the ideal environment: New intelligent technologies with focus on mobile assistance and support systems are being developed in a realistic environment, tested, and continuously improved with regards to their everyday usability. This includes smart appliances like a sink or toilet adjusting automatically to a person’s height, an intelligent wardrobe suggesting outfits, an intelligent wheelchair and walker, which are fitted with technical equipment to compensate declining physical and cognitive capabilities of elderly people.
Furthermore, we would like to show how we use BAALL as a learning and experimental environment to actively involve different stakeholders in development projects, to offer students attractive learning opportunities related to topics of Information Technology and Smart Environments and to make research transparent to an interested public.
Wednesday, August 23th, 2023
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Will be announced in the conference office.
Language: If participants who are English-speaking (but not German-speaking) are present, the language will be English.
Prerequisites:
– The food has to be paid by the participants themselves; participation and transport are free of charge
– Remember to bring drinks and sun protection
– Bring your identity card
We invite to the excursion to Cuxhaven.
1st stop: Alte Liebe, Cuxhaven
Before the company tour, there will be the opportunity to enjoy lunch on the Elbe riverside.
2nd stop: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
Take a close look behind the scenes of the Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy plant in Cuxhaven during an exclusive factory tour.
During the event you will
• receive information on the manufacturing of offshore wind turbines at Siemens Gamesa
• visit the factory halls in Cuxhaven live
• have the opportunity to ask our employees your questions
Lunch Talk neuland Büro.
Unser Frauennetzwerk unter Kolleginnen. Die Frauen in der Informatik Gilde bei neuland – Büro für Informatik GmbH
Lunch Talk, IF-IS VOR 03
Thursday, August 24th, 2023
Time: 1:25-1:55 p.m.
Location: Will be announced in the conference office.
Language: If students who are English-speaking (but not German-speaking) are present, the course will be taught in English.
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