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The Jacobs Foundation and Jacobs University Bremen are organizing an international challenge to find innovative and radical ideas for future higher education. The guidelines were developed in November 2018 during the symposium "B³ - Bildung Beyond Boundaries". Applications can be submitted effective immediately. In the course of the challenge, the Jacobs Foundation will fund selected projects with a total amount of up to 650,000 Euros (750,000 Swiss francs).

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Digitization is all-encompassing, it also fundamentally changes higher education. International education experts discussed how it can be shaped in the sense of innovative teaching, what opportunities, but also what risks it offers, in front of around 100 academic guests on the campus of Jacobs University. The two-day symposium "B³ - Bildung Beyond Boundaries" also developed the outlines of an international challenge to promote radical ideas in higher education. Supported by the Jacobs Foundation, particularly progressive ideas are honored and supported with a total sum of 650,000 Euros.

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CODE is a new kind of university for the digital pioneers of tomorrow that wants to offer students an education that reflects the reality of professional life. Co-Founder and President Manuel Dolderer is one of the educational experts speaking at B³ - Bildung Beyond Boundaries on 8 November.

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Universities must embrace both elements of innovation – new technologies as well as advances in classroom teaching, writes Sandro Giuliani, Managing Director of the Jacobs Foundation in BOLD blog. In November he will be co-hosting B³ - Bildung Beyond Boundaries together with Prof. Dr. Michael Hülsmann, President of Jacobs University.

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How will higher education develop in the 21st century? What demands will digitization place on research and teaching? B³ - Bildung Beyond Boundaries – under this heading international education experts from a wide range of disciplines will discuss new concepts and radical ideas for a first-class and innovative higher education on the campus of Jacobs University in Bremen on 8 and 9 November. On the second day of the symposium, Jacobs University and the Jacobs Foundation will design an international challenge together with the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Particularly progressive ideas for future higher education are sought. In the course of the challenge, the Jacobs Foundation will be funding selected projects with a total amount of up to 650,000 euros (750,000 Swiss francs).

Read the full article here: https://www.jacobs-university.de/news/jacobs-university-and-jacobs-foundation-seek-radical-ideas-first-class-higher-education