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6 project teams. 3 partner organisations. 1 winter semester. Real challenges, real learning. 🚀 Over the last months, our winter semester 25/26 student cohort worked on challenges in collaboration with Blicki e.V., SPRIND - Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen and VoiceChain. In parallel teams, they explored the same problem spaces from different angles, resulting in diverse, sometimes contrasting, yet equally valid solutions. Across topics such as #safetyeducation, #intergenerationallearning, #digitalidentity and trust, and #AI-generated #voicecontent, students challenged assumptions, engaged with users, and continuously reframed problems as their understanding evolved. This week, the winter semester concluded with the final project presentations. What stood out was not only the range of thoughtful concepts, but also how confidently students navigated complexity, made decisions, and articulated their reasoning. A big thank you to our coaches and program team Lukasz Lucas Lata, Kilian Karg, Tina Dreisicke 🌱, Heike van Geel, Vasili Schewelow, Jochen Nünning, Teodora Zivkovic for their guidance, critical questions, and trust and to our project partners David Schrade, Lucas Licht, Chris Wan, Dirk Hendler, Wenke Poster, Hacer A., Emilia Thieme, Lukas Hüttis, Mario Münster, Linda Rath and Stephan Gensch for opening up real challenges and engaging deeply with the teams throughout the semester. And to the students: thank you for your energy, openness, and commitment - to the problems, to the users, and to each other. We’re excited to see which questions, skills, and perspectives you carry forward, and how they will shape what comes next. We hope to welcome many of you again - in future programmes, projects, or collaborations. ✨ Thank you to everyone who made this semester possible.

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