Digital Changemaker powered by CDTM

<aside> ➡️ Join the next generation of Digital Changemakers! The Digital Changemaker course is designed to give highly motivated students from technical, business and social sciences a comprehensive understanding of digitization from a holistic point of view. Therefore, students work closely on a real-life project given by a project partner and develop a concrete and feasible ethical digitization concept that can be implemented. Already excited? Applications are open until March 24, 2024! Submit your application here.

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In person (at Marsstr. 20, room 133)

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About the Digital Changemaker Course

The Digital Changemaker Course (DCM) is designed to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of digitisation, encompassing its economic, technical, and societal aspects. Our goal is to empower you with the necessary tools to identify and validate problems, develop solutions, test them with users, evaluate their potential, and present them convincingly.

Along with providing you a hands-on digitalisation experience, we aim to create value for SMEs, family companies and NGO´s. Therefore, each student will work in a group of 4-6 students on a real-life digitalisation project given by the project partner. A unique element of DCM is the integration of the ethical component of digitalisation. Each team is required to analyse the ethical implications of their proposed digitisation concepts, ensuring a responsible and sustainable approach to innovation.

To achieve these goals, we employ a variety of methods from different fields such as user research and design thinking, business planning, project management, and prototyping. Additionally, the teams are solely responsible for the professional interaction and communication with the project partner, developing their project management skills.

The teams are supported by coaching and weekly input workshops, organised by the CDTM. Progress is presented in two milestone presentations throughout the semester and a final presentation including all outcomes. The course can be structured into 3 phases that transition into each other.

Program structure

The course lasts for 12 weeks with a total of 25 students taking part each batch. We offer a batch each semester.

1. Research Phase

4 weeks

During this phase you’ll find your team and project, understand the project and jumpstart with user research.

2. Problem Phase

4 weeks

During this phase you’ll evaluate the problem space and consider the ethical consequences of digitalisation.

3. Solution Phase

4 weeks

During this phase you’ll transform your analysis into an actionable digitalisation concept.

ECTS & Time Commitment