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DiveHack Project Presented at the GfHf Annual Conference

Group photo: Nina Bieling, Sude Pekşen and Anna-Lena Rose in front of a building, with a poster in the background displaying the logo of the German Society for Higher Education Research © Jana Otto​/​private
Nina Bieling, Sude Pekşen and Anna-Lena Rose (from left to right) at the 20th annual conference of the German Society for Higher Education Research (GfHf) in Heilbronn, Germany.
At this year's 20th annual conference of the German Society for Higher Education Research (GfHf) in Heilbronn, Prof. Liudvika Leišytė, Sude Pekşen, and Nina Bieling presented the Freiraum 2025 project 'DiveHack – Diversity Competence Through PBL and Hackathons'.

Their contribution 'Fostering students' diversity competence through problem-based learning and hackathons' highlighted the first findings from the implementation of problem based learning and hackathons in management learning to address the diversity management related issues in organizations.

In the DiveHack project, funded by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, students worked on real diversity issues in cooperation with partners from business and administration, linking scientific knowledge with practical solutions. The aim of the project is to develop a transferable model for innovative and practice-oriented diversity management teaching.

The evaluation results point out an increase in diversity competence of students as well as to student motivation and engagement with diversity issues.