Courses

This course focuses on restoring and strengthening public values on the internet. Using the Public Stack model, you will learn to critically examine digital technology as a set of choices (such as design, governance, ownership and values).

The course is:
– Accessible to everyone (no prior technical knowledge required)
– Flexible (you may follow all modules or select specific ones)
– Practice-oriented and action-driven
– Designed for a wide range of participants, including designers, developers, policymakers, educators, journalists and citizens

It aims to support participants in contributing to a fairer, more transparent and sustainable internet.

In this summer school students will learn about all aspects of workspace management and will develop an interdisciplinary concept and improvement suggestion for a real-world organisation. This will include:

• Knowledge of sustainable workplace concepts, designs, technologies, and operations.
• Analysis of workplace-related issues through diverse theoretical and methodological approaches from multiple disciplines, including sociology, psychology, management, real estate, facility management and information technology
• Solutions for enhancing workplace design, culture, and management by applying interdisciplinary insights.
• Evaluation and recommendation of alternative designs and operations tailored to specific needs using established criteria.

The course is a blended offer and consists of both online and on site sessions:

• Online: 29.04.2026 Kickoff / 27.07.-07.08.2026, half-day, afternoon, focus: knowledge inputs from international specialists
• On site: 24.-28.08.2026, campus of Frankfurt UAS, full day, focus: case group work

Advanced statistics course

Demographic and social change, migration and cultural diversity, economic and technological transformation processes as well as the consequences of global climate change are just a few of the challenges that clearly show us the need for sustainable and integrated urban development. This is also underlined by the global sustainability goal SDG 11 “Sustainable Cities and Communities” of the United Nations. In order to cope with this, sustainable urban development must overcome the boundaries of the traditional sectoral single disciplines and develop an integrated and interdisciplinary perspective through critical reflection and a systematic scientific approach.

DigiPulse offers training courses on digital skills for professional caregivers, such as occupational therapists, psychologists, social workers, special education teachers, nurses, gerontologists and rehabilitation experts. After finishing the course they can make better use of new technologies, and support people using these technological aids.

The course is specifically targeted for social workers and nursing/care staff, but open to all.

This course introduces fundamental statistical concepts and methods, from descriptive and inferential analysis to time series and data visualisation, with practical applications using Python.