Training series

In our increasingly digitalized world, the functional processes of the digital media we use every day are becoming increasingly difficult for most people to understand. Computer science is often perceived as a very complex subject that only a few people can understand. But that doesn't have to be the case! As part of this training course, you will therefore make your first, action-oriented and fun approaches to computer science, build up your own computer science skills, but also develop ideas for teaching a computer science mindset to primary school children and take away concrete concepts for everyday (subject) lessons.

Special prior knowledge in the field of computer science or in dealing with digital media is NOT required.

Participants learn about different approaches to basic computer science education, acquire knowledge about the various approaches and improve their skills in teaching initial computer science content in elementary school subject lessons.

Methodological design: Input phases, practical testing of different approaches, discussion of possible teaching concepts, reflection on practical implementation of the concepts discussed during the training.

• Leader: Marc Heinemann
• Lecturers: Marc Heinemann
• Dates: February-June 2026, 5 events of 3 hours each
• Location: Zoom and in presence (blended learning)
• Costs: Free of charge
• Registration by 15.01.2026 (please state your type of school)

• Head: Dr. Ann Katrin Düben and Prof. Dr. Christine Pflüger
• Dates: 14.11. - 15.11.2025, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day
• Location: Breitenau Memorial, Brückenstraße 12, 34302 Guxhagen

• Lecturer: Dr. Julian Timm

• Target group: Teachers, trainee teachers, student teachers

• Registration by 01.11.2025 to info@gedenkstaette-breitenau.de

• Maximum number of participants: 15

Since 1984, the Breitenau Memorial has been located on the historical site of a Prussian workhouse, which housed an early concentration camp and a "labor education camp" (AEL) during the Nazi era. Breitenau was the central place of persecution and imprisonment for the town and administrative district of Kassel. Among the approximately 10,000 prisoners between 1933 and 1945 were almost all groups persecuted by the National Socialists, including 186 Jews.

Using sources from the archives of the Breitenau Memorial, it is possible to reconstruct individual biographies of Jewish persecutees and those imprisoned in Breitenau (1933-1945) and to recognize and examine various forms and effects of anti-Semitism.

After an introductory lecture by Dr. Julian Timm, the participants will examine individual life stories and forms of anti-Semitism on the basis of the sources. They will recognize the different linguistic formulations and everyday actions in which anti-Semitic attitudes were expressed, how these were experienced by the Jewish persecutees and what consequences they had for the people. In addition, the specific examples will show which forms of anti-Semitism influenced the decisions of those in power. In a concluding work phase, approaches for didactically dealing with the knowledge gained will be discussed.

• Head: MBA, M.A. Verena Pfeiffer
• Dates:
  • 02.10.2025, 18:00-19:00
  • 23.10.2025, 18:00-19:00 h
  • 30.10.2025, 18:00-19:00 hrs
• Location: Online self-study units; reflection meetings at the University of Kassel and online (hybrid)

• Head: Prof. Dr. med. Reinhard Lindner, Prof. Dr. phil. Meinolf Peters
• Various lecturers
• Date:
  • 05.12.2025, 09:00 to 06.12.2025, 13:00
• Location: Gießhaus of the University of Kassel
• Costs: 150€ for the entire conference; discounts available
• Registration until 15.11.2025
• Further information at: https://psychoanalyse-und-altern.de/
• Contact person: Reinhard Lindner: lindner@uke.de