Digital transformation at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
What is digitalisation?
Digitalisation refers to the process of converting analogue information and processes into digital formats and technologies. It is a transformation that is taking place in almost all aspects of modern life and the economy.
In business, digitalisation refers to the integration of digital technologies into business processes, products and services. Companies use digital technologies to increase their efficiency, open up new business opportunities and offer their customers better products and services.
Digital technologies are omnipresent in everyday life, from smartphones and laptops to intelligent household appliances and connected vehicles. Digitalisation also has an impact on the way we communicate, work, learn and entertain ourselves.
Digitalisation has both benefits and challenges. The benefits include greater efficiency, improved products and services, more flexibility and better opportunities to respond to customer needs. The challenges of digitalisation include data protection, cyber security and the transition to new technologies.
How do we deal with digitalisation at h_da?
For Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, the CIO and CDO and the Digitalisation Office (DTO) form the unit that takes up and analyses the strategic and operational needs and concerns of the university's teaching, research and administrative (services) departments and translates them into strategic and operational implementation via the university committees.
More detailed information on the remit of the Digitalisation Office and committee work with regard to digitalisation projects can be found on our internal university pages and in the subject areas of digitalisation at the university and those involved.
Digital Day 2025
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences is participating in Digital Day 2025 with individual projects. Actions can be viewed via the Digital Day 2025 action map.
Digital Day! What is that actually? You can find information about the action day at digitaltag.eu.
Promptathon - Discover the possibilities of generative AI
Immerse yourself in the world of generative AI - practical, inspiring and collaborative. At the Promptathon, you can expect exciting impulses, concrete application examples and plenty of opportunities to get involved. Whether you're a beginner or an AI expert, you'll learn how to utilise the potential of generative AI in a meaningful and creative way.
📅 Agenda:
- From 15:30 - Arrival & registration
- 16:00 - Greetings and opening - Prof Dr Matthias Vieth
- 16:05 - Impulse: Current possibilities of AI and using them for yourself - Prof. Dr Stefan Kohn gives an overview of the status quo of generative AI and shows how it is already changing companies today.
- 16:10 - Impulse: AI at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences - We are developing the future - Prof. Dr Paul Grimm reports on the opportunities for working and researching with AI at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.
- 16.20 - Impulse: Using AI correctly - How do I create a good prompt? Gesine Torkewitz and Wolfgang Baier give directly realisable tips on prompting - for better results and more "aha" moments.
- 16:30-17:45 - Prompting Sessions: Working together on AI challenges In small groups, you will work on specific tasks with AI - creatively, experimentally and collaboratively.
- 17:45 - Presentation & exchange of results What was created? What was surprising? Brief insights into the best ideas and findings.
- 18:00 - Closing of the event With a head full of new impulses, ideas - and perhaps a spark of AI magic.
🎯 Target group: Students, lecturers and employees of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences - as well as anyone who is interested in the opportunities offered by AI and would like to get involved themselves.
✅ Be there - whether to learn, try things out or network. We look forward to seeing you!
Contact
Prof. Dr Stefan Kohn
stefan.kohn@h-da.de
Start 26.06.2025 | 15:30
End 26.06.2025 | 18:00
Special offer: https: //digitaltag.eu/aktion/promptathon-der-hochschule-darmstadt
Format: Seminar / Workshop
Location: Studierendenhaus (C23) Campus Schöfferstr. Room 3.05
Registration: https: //www.eventbrite.com/e/promptathon-der-hochschule-darmstadt-tickets-1413085880909
A clear view of the data jungle - digital participation and subsequent use of research data for doctoral students at HAWs
Good scientific practice (GSP) is a buzzword that has found its way into the general discourse as a result of plagiarism scandals. The basis of all research is research data, which can be analysed to gain new scientific insights. Careful handling of this data is a prerequisite for responsible research and therefore a central component of the GWP.
Digitalisation is creating new challenges and opportunities in the handling of research data, which will be presented in this practical lecture - true to the title "Transparency in the data jungle".
The event is aimed primarily at doctoral students at universities of applied sciences (HAW), but is open to anyone interested in dealing with research data in the digital age.
The topics covered include what research data is, what life cycle it goes through and how it differs between different disciplines. The central principles of the GWP are presented and it is explained how research data management (RDM) contributes to their compliance.
For doctoral candidates and interested parties, the requirements of universities and doctoral centres with regard to RDM are discussed and practical recommendations regarding technical implementation through metadata and file formats are given as well as tools and offers are presented. Data management plans (DMP) and questions on data protection and ethics in dealing with research data will also be addressed.
Start 27.06.2025 | 10:00 a.m.
End 27.06.2025 | 11:30 a.m.
Special offer: https: //digitaltag.eu/aktion/durchblick-im-datendschungel-digitale-teilhabe-und-nachnutzung-von-forschungsdaten-fuer
Format: Seminar / Workshop
Location: Online (BBB-Onlinemeeting)
https://rooms.h-da.de/r?room=Gute+Scientific+Practice+-+Digital+Day+2025
No further registration is necessary, the room is also open to guests.
Experience Future Learning Spaces (fuels)!
Goethe University Frankfurt/studiumdigitale, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
In the joint project Future Learning Spaces (fuels), Goethe University Frankfurt, TU Darmstadt and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences are developing, testing and researching innovative teaching/learning scenarios using 360°, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies.
The project fuels to get to know in advance in the magazine impact.
Start 27.06.2025 | 10:00 a.m.
End 27.06.2025 | 11:30 a.m.
Special offer: https: //digitaltag.eu/aktion/future-learning-spaces-fuels-erleben
Format: Seminar / Workshop
Location: On site
Goethe University Frankfurt, Casino Building, Room 1.812
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz
60323Frankfurt
Germany
Contact us
Prof. Dr. Arnd Steinmetz
Communication Office: C10, 14.36
Vision of Hessian universities with the Digital Pact 2025+
As part of the Digital Pact 2020 - 2024, the Hessian HAWs, music and art colleges and universities developed their visions for the future with the position papers "Digitalisation 2025+" and "Cloud Services for Research, Teaching and Administration at Hessian Universities" at the 2022 Hessian Digital Pact University Conference. With these papers, the universities are positioning themselves for the digitalisation of universities, particularly with regard to the future-oriented joint further development and expansion of cooperation in digitalisation projects for research, transfer, teaching and administration.
Digitalisation and research
Research at universities is benefiting from the digital transformation. For example, new insights can be gained through the use of big data analyses and artificial intelligence. Digital tools can also facilitate collaboration between scientists and the publication of research results.
AI - potential and risk?
AI is a focal topic in business, society and research. For universities, there are extensive fields of activity in technology development, technology use and the social impact of AI, including ethical issues, data protection, security and workplace changes.
Interesting articles from the field of AI can also be found in our science magazine impact.h-da.de.
Transfer from teaching and research
What input does the university have in terms of digitalisation and what output is created for the university community and our society.
Digitalisation at h_da
Digitalisation of the administration
In addition to the introduction of digital teaching and learning methods and the use of digital tools in research, universities must also digitalise their administrative processes in order to work more efficiently and transparently. This includes, for example, the electronic enrolment of students, the digital administration of examinations and the electronic archiving of documents.
Digital transformation in administration (under construction, intranet)
Interdisciplinary challenges of digitalisation
The digital transformation at universities also harbours challenges, such as ensuring data protection and IT security, training teaching staff and employees in the use of digital technologies and implementing new working methods (New Work).
The university's internal education and training programmes support the further development of our employees' skills.
In addition, universities must ensure that digital offerings are designed to be barrier-free and can be made accessible to all. Legal requirements for barrier-free IT systems and IT services: BITV 2.0
AI is not a short-term trend, but a technology that has established itself in our everyday lives.
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences is pursuing the goal of bringing its teaching content into line with the challenges and potential of AI development in order to continue to ensure a professionally qualifying education that meets the requirements of an increasingly digitalised world and integrates the skills for dealing with AI. In line with the digitalisation strategy, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences is pursuing the goal of establishing an appropriate technical infrastructure for AI operations for studying and teaching.
Since the summer semester 2025, our university members have had access to a test system in our learning system Moodle in the course KI@h-da Access. You can also find open information on the topic of AI on our communiteach networking platform.
Digitalisation in didactics and methodology
An important aspect of the digital transformation at universities is the introduction of digital teaching and learning methods. These include e-learning platforms, online tutorials and interactive learning materials. These digital offerings enable students to learn more flexibly and individually and prepare for examinations.
Offerings of University Didactics & Digitalisation (HDD) at h_da
Participations in the Digital Pact 2020 - 2024
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences is involved in various areas of "digitisation" within the framework of the Digital Pact 2020 - 2024. In addition to IT security and IT infrastructure, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences covers significant impulses of digitalisation in teaching, research and administrative processes of a university with its participations.
Accompanying the digital transformation at the h_da
The CIO Office provides steering and conceptual support for the digitisation projects that have emerged at the university (from the Digitalpakt 2024 and beyond). The focus is on supporting the digital transformation of administrative processes. The areas of teaching and studies are supported by the Department of Higher Education Didactics & Digitisation (HDD). Digitisation in research is supported by the HMWK Digitalpakt projects, among others. The library and the Media Department are among the project implementers with the projects "Long-term archiving at Hessian universities II (LaVaH II)" and "HeFDI II - Hessian research data infrastructures".
|
Digitalpact |
Participation in the project |
Department / Faculty |
Application start |
State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Project participation GDhH |
Project participation |
CIO Office |
01.09.2023 |
open |
|
Project participation OZG/CMS |
Implementation of the Online Access Act (OZG)/ CampusManagmentSystem(CMS) h_da |
CIO Office |
01.01.2023 |
continuous |
|
Project participation H ^3 h_da |
Project participation H^3 (formerly HeVa II) |
ITDuA |
01.01.2023 |
continuous |
|
Expression of interest HeXRM h_da |
Hessian Extended Relationship Management. |
CIO Office |
01.01.2023 |
open |
|
Project participation HeVa II Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences |
Hessian Virtual Workplaces 2 (HeVa II) will be replaced with H^3 on 01.01.2023. |
CIO Office |
01.01.2022 |
closed |
|
Project participation QIP - Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences |
Quality, innovation, plannability - migration of the hebis network to a new library management system (QIP) |
Library |
01.01.2022 |
continuous |
|
Projektbeteiligung LaVaH II - Hochschule Darmstadt |
Project participation LaVaH II - Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences |
Library |
01.01.2022 |
continuous |
|
Project participation DigLL2 - Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences |
Digitally Supported Teaching and Learning in Hesse 2 |
University Didactics & Digitisation |
01.02.2021 |
continuous |
|
Project participation HeFDI II |
HeFDI II - Hessian Research Data Infrastructures |
Department Media |
01.01.2021 |
continuous |
|
Project participation PMO-CIO structure Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences |
Competence for digital transformation - further development of CIO/PMO structures |
CIO Office |
01.08.2020 |
continuous |
|
Project participation IT security h_da |
Measures to increase information security, especially IT security |
ITDuA |
01.08.2020 |
continuous |
|
Project Participation High Availability HDA |
High availability |
ITDuA |
01.08.2020 |
closed |
|
Projektbeteiligung DMS h_da |
Project participation DMS h_da |
ITDuA |
01.08.2020 |
continuous |