Students learn to examine, measure and creatively improve usability.

Duration

2 hours

Group size

max. 30 persons (workouts of 4 persons each)

Language

German/English

Content

The students work together in small groups to test the usability of an application, website or product (e.g. Ikaros). Each team member tests the perspective of the user and the person testing. To measure usability, they use the System Usability Score (SUS). The students first work on this score with the workshop leader. Afterwards, the results are compared and discussed together under supervision. In the final step, the students develop improvements to the application, website or product using the design thinking method (a method that helps to find new creative solutions).

Goal

After the workshop the students know the concept of usability and the tool (SUS) to make usability measurable. The students are able to use this tool under guidance and can develop structured improvements to a concrete product with the help of design thinking.

Students learn about security and observation tools and how to protect themselves.

Duration

2 hours

Group size

max. 30 persons (workouts for 4 persons each)

Language

German/English

Content

In the workshop, the students work together with the workshop leader on the topic of web security. They will learn about techniques that modern websites use to observe and influence the behaviour of users (e.g. web tracking technologies, fingerprinting, smart calls to action, recommender systems, etc.). Afterwards, the students will analyse their personal internet presence in small groups with regard to privacy and learn methods and tools to better protect themselves on the internet.

Goal

The students know the concept of privacy and the techniques that modern websites use to circumvent privacy protection. They can analyse websites in terms of privacy and know methods and tools to protect themselves against privacy attacks.

Pupils learn to digitise their own sketches and to realise them using modern equipment (laser cutter, 3D printer or milling machine).

Duration

4 hours

Group size

max. 15 persons

Language

German

Content

It has never been easier than today to create something new. In the Makers Lab at the FH Kufstein Tirol, new products are created quickly and easily that can be completely customised. In the workshop "Just make it", the workshop leaders show how this is possible. The students learn to sketch out design ideas by hand and then to represent them with a simple drawing programme. This is then transferred to the milling machines, 3D printers and laser cutters. With the laser, the objects can be cut and also engraved. In this way, the students can realise their idea in a very short time and create a new product.

Goal

The pupils can sketch their own ideas by hand and map them in a drawing programme. They can also operate milling machines, 3D printers and laser cutters to implement their ideas and develop new products.

Students develop an understanding of processes and creative improvement measures.

Duration

4 hours

Group size

max. 20 persons

Language

German

Content

Our organisations need to become more efficient and digital. The students explore the production laboratory of the FH Kufstein Tirol and look for waste and optimisation potential in operational processes. Together with their team, they eliminate inefficiencies and find solutions to improve the company. In addition, the students learn about IT systems with which they can digitalise the manual factory. Together they produce a physical product in the new factory that they can take home as a give-away.

Goal

The students can evaluate processes for their efficiency and the degree of digitalisation and work out and implement solutions to increase efficiency.

The students will gain an initial insight into the dynamics of digitalisation using concrete examples. This workshop will outline changes but also critically reflect on the dangers.

Duration

2 hours

Group size

max. 30 persons (individual application sequences in small groups)

Language

German

Content

The students learn about digitalisation and how it changes not only the economy (companies, customers...) but also society. Concrete examples are used to discuss applications and future solutions. It is not about (IT) technical questions of digitalisation, but about concrete effects and the change of markets or social developments. For example, it will be shown why the city of Kufstein is suddenly becoming a competitor of VW and what the shortage of kitchen staff has to do with digitalisation.

Goal

The students get a first insight into the dynamics of digitalisation by means of concrete examples. The opportunities and advantages of digitalisation are addressed, but at the same time the dangers and disadvantages are critically reflected upon.

Students learn how XR technologies work and can try them out themselves.

Duration

2 hours

Group size

max. 25 persons  

Language

German/English

Content

The students work in small groups to test various virtual and augmented reality applications. Each team member learns about the differences and how applications must be designed so that they appeal to users and are fun to use. Afterwards, the students develop their own simple XR application.

Goal

The students are familiar with different technologies in the field of extended reality and know what factors make an XR application good as well as what role they could play in the future.

With the help of a simulator, students discover how certain influences will affect climate development up to the year 2100.

Duration

2 hours

Group size

up to 30 people

Language

German

Content

En-ROADS is a simulator that allows you to design scenarios to limit global warming. It runs on a Smart Desk, which is a table with a touchscreen embedded in it. The options of human action are described with the help of 18 "Levers". The simulator shows the consequences for climate development up to the year 2100 in real time. The task of the groups is to evaluate the levers (e.g. taxation of CO2-emissions, etc.) and to measure them in such a way, that global warming can be limited. Various interest groups are represented.

Goal

The causality of physical and technical processes, aspects of environmental justice and the effects on health and lifestyles can be addressed, discussed and deepened. The aim is to achieve the politically binding 2° -target with suitable measures.

Insights

(in German only)

• Klimasimulation an der FH Workshop Academy

Nature as a role model: Students develop their own product ideas through biomimicry

Duration 

1,5 Stunden

Group size 

max. 25 persons

Language 

German

Content 

Biomimicry is the art of drawing inspiration from nature to find innovative and sustainable solutions to human challenges. Pupils learn how to transfer functions from nature into products, that improve life and protect the environment. With practical examples from flora and fauna, the students are encouraged to develop their own product ideas that are based on nature.

Goal
The workshop is designed to be interactive and creative and promotes curiosity, critical thinking and teamwork among the students. At the end of the workshop, the students present their product ideas and receive feedback from their classmates and the workshop leaders

Pupils slip into a role play in which they learn how to deal with real estate portfolios, the opportunities and risks involved and the first rough key figures.

Duration

1-2 hours

Group size

max. 20 persons

Language

German

Content

The students take on the role of a real estate investor in a business game. In the group, they play and simulate purchases and sales of selected real estate over a period of time. In this way, the students learn about the key figures that are relevant for investments. In addition to purchases and sales, optimisations through renovations or refurbishments can also be considered as scenarios.

Goal

The aim of the game is to learn how to deal with real estate portfolios, the opportunities and the risks, and to get to know the first rough key figures.

Pupils acquire basic skills in financial mathematics, markets and monetary policy in order to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of buying a property.

Duration

2 hours

Group size

max. 30 persons

Language

German

Content

Owning a home is part of many people's fixed life plans. But is it really always the better decision to buy a property instead of simply renting? In the workshop, the participants will deal with this question on the basis of terms such as equity, interest rates, maintenance costs, etc. The workshop will be followed by a general discussion and explanation of terms. After a general discussion and explanation of terms, the participants will jointly examine a purchase situation with the help of an Excel file. In this way, the participants gain insight into essential decision-making criteria and can implement financial analyses autonomously.

Goal

The students acquire elementary competences from financial mathematics in order to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of a real estate purchase. In addition, basic knowledge from areas such as monetary policy and financial markets is imparted, which are closely related to the decision-making situation under consideration.

How can one estimate as well as possible what the further share price trend might be? When is the right time to buy and/or sell?

Duration

approx. 2 hours

Group size

max. 15 persons (1 person per computer in the FinanceLab of the FH Kufstein Tirol)

Language

German

Content

The development of share prices and especially their future prognosis still pose great challenges to investors. How can one estimate as well as possible what the future course of the share price might be? When is the right time to buy and/or sell shares? One possible approach is technical chart analysis, which can be used to make price forecasts through simple pattern recognition. In the workshops, the chart technique and selected indicators will be presented and discussed using a wide variety of practical examples.

Goal

The students

• know the difference between fundamental analysis and technical chart analysis of shares,
• can independently apply and interpret simple pattern recognition of technical chart analysis and
• can apply selected trend indicators and interpret their significance in comparison to a share price trend.

In this interactive workshop, we will work out what is needed to recognise and evaluate start-up ideas and how to go about developing viable and sustainable business models.

Duration

2 hours

Group size

max. 30 persons (workouts of 5 persons each)

Language

German

Content

You have a brilliant idea and want to know if and how you can develop a business out of it? In an interactive workshop, we will work out what it takes to recognise and evaluate start-up ideas and how to go about developing viable and sustainable business models. How can you successfully develop(e) new products and services in a team using creativity techniques? Does your idea have the potential to create real value for customers? And do you have the potential to be a start-up entrepreneur?

Goal

After the workshop, the students know the basics of a business model and are able to use creativity and analysis tools in a meaningful way. The first innovative business models are developed together.

The students discover how they can improve their own team skills and those of others, while raising motivation and increasing the fun of working together.

Duration 

1,5 – 2 hours

Group size 

max. 24 persons

Language 

German

Content

• Team vs. individual work and their advantages and disadvantages
• Team phases (according to Tuckman)
• Team roles (according to Belbin)
• Importance of communication and culture in teams
• Practical exercises and subsequent reflection

Goal

The students reflect on their own experiences in teams and experience and practice in the workshop, how they can use and optimize the potential of teamwork. The participants will also learn when teamwork is counterproductive and when it is better to solve a task individually

The social media platforms that we regularly use are designed and programmed in such a way that we have to become dependent on them. Students find out why this is the case.

Duration 

1,5 hours

Group size 

max. 130 persons

Language

German/English

Inhalt

This lecture explains why we can't help but constantly look at our smartphone to see if anything new has happened. This mainly has to do with the way our brain and the social media platforms, that are perfectly adapted to it, work. After a theoretical input, the participants will analyse in the interactive workshop whether and to what extent they have had similar experiences.

Ziel

Participants will get to know the mechanism that causes us to become dependent on social media and learn about the impact this has on (young) people. This workshop is designed to raise awareness and to offer alternatives.

Young people in particular should not believe everything they read. But how can they get information, how do they know that the sources are reputable?

Duration

45-60 minutes

Group size

max. 30 persons

Sprache

German/English

Content

It's supposedly easy to get information. Through groups on the Internet one can receive information that fits one's attitudes and opinions, so they become more entrenched. However, we are often subject to certain errors in our perception and inform ourselves too one-sidedly. This workshop presents students with the most common mistakes and they will learn how to form their own opinion. This is an interactive workshop with small role plays that reflect critical thinking. The workshop is based on the book “Thinking Clearly” by Woo-kyoung Ahn (similar to Kahneman, “Thinking fast and slow”)

Goal

Students will learn commonly made errors of thinking and perception, so that they can avoid them in the future. The workshop will show the importance of critical thinking on the way to forming independent opinions.

Digital ads are displayed precisely and auctioned off to the highest bidder - Google & Co earn a lot of money from them. The participants find out how these companies get sensitive data and why the users as suppliers come away empty-handed.

Duration

45-60 minutes

Group size

max. 30 persons

Language

German/English

Content

Very few users know that digital ad spaces are auctioned off behind the scenes in a split second and the highest bidder's ad is then shown to users. This workshop will illustrate where advertisers get the necessary information about users and how retargeting works. This is an interactive workshop in which participants will learn what personal data is stored for each individual and the students will reflect on how companies manage to obtain this data.

Goal

The students will get to kow the business models of Google and other advertising intermediaries and will learn that most of the data disclosed on the Internet is used for business purposes.