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The Academic and Research Department Engineering Hydrology and the UNESCO Chair of Hydrological Change and Water Resources Management combine innovative approaches to solutions from the field of water management in research and teaching. Emphasis is placed on the Water-Food-Energy Nexus and working in interdisciplinary teams implementing tasks in Europe and the Arabic-speaking world. The main focus of funding is obtained from European institutions.
Equal to research, the teaching area as well as the UNESCO chair focuses on the tasks of digital teaching. In this area, new methods (e.g. avatar-based teaching and learning) are designed, developed, implemented and made available to the general public for open use.
To support digital teaching, the UNESCO Chair organises training measures worldwide on the topic of blended learning. Prof. Nacken has been the rectorate representative for blended learning and the Exploratory Teaching Space since 2012 and actively supports the implementation of the digitalisation strategy for teaching at RWTH Aachen University.
As a UNESCO Chair, a further focus is on the creation of open educational resources in the form of OER (Open Eductional Resource). The department and the UNESCO Chair make all teaching materials available for general use under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).
We are regularly looking for participants for scientific studies on VR. If you are interested, please send an e-mail with 'subscribe' in the subject line to study-lfi-join@lists.rwth-aachen.de.
Activities

2. Platz beim XR Hackathon des Projekts Praxwerk
Beim XR Hackathon hat das Team unseres Matse-Azubis Vincent François den zweiten Platz belegt! Ein interdisziplinäres Team aus Studierenden der RWTH Aachen, Burg-Halle, Gutenbergschule Leipzig

VR/AR Learning Days 2025
Wir freuen uns, an den VR/AR Learning Days teilzunehmen. Am Dienstag den 25.02.2025, öffnen wir von 14:00-15:15 Uhr unsere digitalen wie auch analogen Türen. Wir

We combine VR & Lego® Serious Play®
At the weekend, we held a two-day workshop with students from our English-language Sustainable Management - Water and Energy course. The goal was to generate an
New Projects

ImPreSSion
Ghana is one of the up-and-coming African countries that are experiencing both strong population growth and economic progress. The agriculture, water and energy sectors are

BRIDGE
Building Resilient Communities through Integrating Climate Adaptation with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the University Education and Research (BRIDGE) ist ein durch den Deutschen

SWEM
In close collaboration, RWTH Aachen University and Politecnico di Milano have created a co-teaching project to enable students and teachers to learn through avatar-based virtual reality.