Research Series
Research Series
Infobroschüre mit KI-Praxisprojekten
KI-Kompetenzen in Studiengänge integrieren
Diese Broschüre erklärt das KI-Kompetenzmodell AIComp, gibt Impulse aus der Hoschschulpraxis und zeigt Good Practices.
Future Skills im Vergleich (2025)
Future Skills Metaanalyse
Welche Future Skills brauchen wir wirklich – und wie unterscheiden sich die zahlreichen bestehenden Frameworks? Die Metastudie Future Skills 2025 liefert erstmals einen systematischen Vergleich von acht aktuellen nationalen und internationalen Ansätzen (2020–2025) und ordnet sie anhand von 17 Future-Skills-Profilen ein.
KI & Challenge-Based Learning in der Lehre
Kategorisierung von Einsatzmöglichkeiten
Der Beitrag zeigt auf, wie die Integration von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) die Weiterentwicklung offen strukturierter Hochschullehrveranstaltungen, die auf dem Modell des Challenge-Based Learnings (CBL) basieren, ermöglicht und untersucht den gezielten Einsatz von KI zur Unterstützung der verschiedenen CBL-Phasen
Wie wollen wir Leben?
KI & unser Menschenbild
Die Entwicklung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) scheint unser Menschenbild infrage zu stellen. Denn was ist die Bedeutung von Intelligenz, wenn Maschinen intelligent werden? Fangen die ungeheuren Entwicklungen im Bereich der Digitalisierung an, den fundamentalen Unterschied zwischen menschlichem Denken und Maschineller Informationsverarbeitung zu verwischen?
Embrace Diversity, Foster Excellence!
Resources for promoting inclusive student engagement in higher education
Many students face specific challenges and barriers for becoming an integral part of the institution. In order to address these barriers, we must understand them and work towards representing all students on different levels. All students must feel welcome in student engagement and representation in order to reflect barriers and challenges for making higher education institutions adapt and change.
Future Skills for Future Teachers
Guiding Learners at the Workplace
The report presents a competence framework for teachers and trainers in VET (vocational education and training) and other applied and practice-related educational contexts such as dual study programmes and learning on the job. It has been created within the DEAL with Digital Work-Based Learning initiative, an Erasmus+ project.
Credentialing learning in the European OER Ecosystem
The Challenge for the Credentialing of Learning from OERs
This report, based on expert interviews, was produced as part of the Encore+ project to explore the methods of credentialing in the European OER ecosystem.
Future Skills Compared (2022)
Future Skills Meta-Analysis
This paper describes how the variety of existing future skills approaches can be compared conceptually. For this purpose, a framework model for future skills is proposed ...
Changing Futures in Higher Education (2022)
Assessment of Future Skills Learning
„Changing Futures in Higher Education: Assessment of Future Skills Learning” is the second report of the research series in the DIRK Dual project. It emphasizes the urge to support students in developing learner agency (Schoon, 2018) to learn FS in a self-organised way.
Competence Inventory (2021)
A New Research Competence Framework for Professional Higher Education. Enhancing the European Research Agenda
The RECAPHE Research Competence Framework is designed to build research capacity of different target groups, e.g. professionals working as lecturers, professors and other educational professionals in Universities of Applied Sciences and specifically in Professional Higher Education Institutions.
Open Education and Training (2021)
Where does Europe go from here?
Currently, the potential of open educational resources (OER) in Europe in higher education and business is not fully harnessed.
Blockchain Skills for Europe (2020)
STUDY ON SKILLS MISMATCHES IN THE EUROPEAN BLOCKCHAIN SECTOR
Europe is in a leading position in many sectors that can successfully apply blockchain or other Distributed Ledger Technologies.
Future Skills (2019)
International Delphi Study on Future Skills and Future Higher Education
Future Skills Report 2019 is based on a number of prior research studies and presents a validated concept and elaborates a model of Future Skills, data on Future Learning and consolidated scenarios for Future Higher Education.
Playbook Agile Studiengangentwicklung
6 Prinzipien und 7 Schritte
Dieses Playbook enthält ein Vorgehensmodell für agile Studiengangsentwicklung für KI-bezogene Future Skills
HUCO LABS
Collaborative HVET-University-Company Labs for Research
In the context of Europe’s twin transition – digital and green – mid-level technicians are essential actors in driving innovation and implementing sustainable solutions. Yet, existing vocational education frameworks often do not fully capture these changing competence demands. This growing expectation requires vocational systems to anticipate change and provide a future-oriented learning environment.
Anforderungen und Qualitätskriterien für Open Educational Badges
Ergebnisse und Fallbeispiele aus einer Fokusgruppe mit Unternehmen im Rahmen des Projekts Open Educational Badges
Das Ziel dieses Forschungsprojekts war es, durch eine Serie von Roundtables mit Unternehmensvertretern von DM, KOB und SAP die Potenziale und Herausforderungen von Open Educational Badges (OEB) zu analysieren. Dieser Bericht gibt eine detaillierte Darstellung der Ergebnisse und leitet daraus Implikationen für die Weiterentwicklung von OEB ab.
AICOMP Research Report 1
Future Skills
Find out everything you need to know about the theory, methodological design and results of our AI skills study in the detailed AIComp Research Report 2024.
State of the Art Report on OER Quality
Quality for the Future OER Ecosystem
This report introduces quality concepts and approaches related to OER. It provides an overview of definitions of quality for OER and suggests a conceptual mapping as well as an overview of major issues related to quality for OER.
Skills for the world of AI
Future Skills Framework
Whether as a sparring partner in creative processes, discussion partner, tutor in the learning process or individualized feedback service - AI can be enormously valuable in the world of work. However, how well it really performs will depend above all on how we humans involve it and interact with it. A research team from the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University has described the skills we need for this in a new competency framework model.
DIGI-HE Final Report
The future of digitally enhanced learning and teaching in European higher education institutions
DIGI-HE aims to develop and improve HEIs' capabilities in digitally enhanced learning and teaching (DELT). The report summarizes the project results and emphasizes that the impact and benefits of DELT need to be further assessed in relation to various aspects such as flexible delivery, student-centeredness and quality.
Future Skills - The Future of Higher Education and the Future of Learning (2022)
Future Skills in a nutshell
This report is an executive summary of the NextSkills study on the topic of Future Skills. The starting point is the realization that current higher education is not yet able to provide sufficient future concepts to meet the urgent challenges of our society.
Competence Learning in Theory-Practice Studies (2022)
This is only available in german language
"Competence Learning in Theory-Practice Studies" describes how learners can develop their Future Skills through experiential learning and reflection, how Future Skills can be integrated into dual studies, and the role portfolio work plays in dual studies for competence development.
Inclusive Engagement of Non-Traditional Students in Professional Higher Education (2021)
Stronger together
The world is changing, and so is higher education. The challenges of tomorrow cannot solely be resolved with today’s knowledge but by equipping all students with the necessary skills for doing so.
Digitally enhanced learning and teaching (2021)
in European higher education institutions - Survey Report
In Europe today, almost every higher education institution uses digitally enhanced learning and teaching.
KI und die Gesellschaft der Zukunft (2021)
Students‘ Research Papers
We attach great importance to a creative, practical and collaborative approach that encourages students to work in an interdisciplinary and future-oriented way. For this purpose we develop concepts and tools for teachers and students.
EngageComp - A Framework for Student Civic Engagement
Making Civic Engagement Competences Visible and Recognisable
This report introduces the EngageComp (Student Civic Engagement Competences) framework as a competence framework for student civic engagement, developed through a systematic literature review, cross-analysis of existing frameworks, and qualitative interviews and focus groups across different European contexts. It outlines competences that emerge through student civic engagement and offers practical guidance in addressing these and has been developed within the EngageAll initiative.
Zertifizierungs-konzept für Future Skills
Whitepaper zur Beschreibung eine Vergabeprozesses für Future-Skills-Badges
Im Rahmen des Projekts „DIRK DUAL“ wurde das vorliegende Zertifizierungskonzept für ein Open-Badge-System für Zukunftskompetenzen (Future Skills) entwickelt, das darauf abzielt, aufzuzeigen, wie Lehrende ihre Future-Skills-Entwicklung dokumentieren und zertifizieren können. Hierbei wird das dem Konzept zugrundeliegende Future-Skills-Framework im Einklang mit der Europäischen Kompetenz- und Qualifikationsdatenbank definiert und durch Blooms Lernzieltaxonomie dargestellt.
Open Educational Badges für Future Skills
Whitepaper zur Metadatenbeschreibung von Future Skills auf Basis des ESCO Vokabulars
Das Projekt "Open Educational Badges" verfolgt das Ziel, Kompetenzen durch standardisierte digitale Zertifikate sichtbar und klar beschreibbar zu machen und so neben der technischen auch eine inhaltliche Standardisierung der abgebildeten Kompetenzen aufweisen. Das vorliegende Whitepaper entwickelt einen Vorschlag für ein solches Metadatenset zur Beschreibung von Future Skills und legt damit den Grundstein für eine standardisierte Vergabe und Anerkennung von Open Educational Badges in diesem Bereich.
AICOMP Research Report 2
Future Skills
Here you will find everything you need to know about the empirical construction and a detailed description of the AIComp competency model, which was developed as part of our AI competency study.
AICOMP
Future Skills for a world shaped through AI
Publication of the first part of the AIComp study - as of 06/2023
The ENCORE+ Quality Transparency Framework (ENCORE QTF)
Developing a Quality Framework for OER Repositories
Quality and transparency with regard to quality play a central role in the acceptance of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education and adult education. The ENCORE+ project took this as a starting point to ask European experts from the field of OER repositories how they believe the quality of OER repositories can be improved.
Foresight on the European OER Ecosystem 2030 (2022)
Hybrid Delphi study
Formulating a Positive Vision for the Future of OER in Europe
Recaphe Enhancing Staff Research and Innovation Capacity in Professional Higher Education (2022)
Report on Research, Development and Innovation for Professional Higher Education
The RECAPHE project intends to broaden insight and awareness of applied research and innovation activities within Professional Higher Education Institutions in Europe and to create a platform for imparting further competences to research staff and students related to their specific experiences and needs.
Curriculum and assessment (2022)
LEARNING & TEACHING PAPER #16
As part of the DIGI-HE project, which focuses on Supporting European universities in their strategic approaches to digital learning, a Thematic Peer Group „Curriculum and Assessment“ has been looking at how digitally enhanced learning and teaching (DELT) and digital technologies can be integrated into curricula.
Awareness, Experience and Organizational Maturity of Open Education (2021)
Data analysis of different attitudes and preferences
Current research is lacking to provide such individual target profiles representing subjective preferences of usage as well as awareness and expectations (Mishra et al. 2016).
Developing a high performance digital education ecosystem (2021)
INSTITUTIONAL SELF-ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS
Digitally enhanced learning and teaching is widely used across the European Higher Education Area, with general acceptance growing over the years and institutions widely acknowledging the benefits it brings to the student experience.
KI und die Gesellschaft der Zukunft (2020)
Students‘ Research Papers
We attach great importance to a creative, practical and collaborative approach that encourages students to work in an interdisciplinary and future-oriented way. For this purpose we develop concepts and tools for teachers and students.Infobroschüre mit KI-Praxisprojekten
KI-Kompetenzen in Studiengänge integrieren
Diese Broschüre erklärt das KI-Kompetenzmodell AIComp, gibt Impulse aus der Hoschschulpraxis und zeigt Good Practices.Playbook Agile Studiengangentwicklung
6 Prinzipien und 7 Schritte
Dieses Playbook enthält ein Vorgehensmodell für agile Studiengangsentwicklung für KI-bezogene Future Skills
EngageComp - A Framework for Student Civic Engagement
Making Civic Engagement Competences Visible and Recognisable
This report introduces the EngageComp (Student Civic Engagement Competences) framework as a competence framework for student civic engagement, developed through a systematic literature review, cross-analysis of existing frameworks, and qualitative interviews and focus groups across different European contexts. It outlines competences that emerge through student civic engagement and offers practical guidance in addressing these and has been developed within the EngageAll initiative.Future Skills im Vergleich (2025)
Future Skills Metaanalyse
Welche Future Skills brauchen wir wirklich – und wie unterscheiden sich die zahlreichen bestehenden Frameworks? Die Metastudie Future Skills 2025 liefert erstmals einen systematischen Vergleich von acht aktuellen nationalen und internationalen Ansätzen (2020–2025) und ordnet sie anhand von 17 Future-Skills-Profilen ein.HUCO LABS
Collaborative HVET-University-Company Labs for Research
In the context of Europe’s twin transition – digital and green – mid-level technicians are essential actors in driving innovation and implementing sustainable solutions. Yet, existing vocational education frameworks often do not fully capture these changing competence demands. This growing expectation requires vocational systems to anticipate change and provide a future-oriented learning environment.
Zertifizierungs-konzept für Future Skills
Whitepaper zur Beschreibung eine Vergabeprozesses für Future-Skills-Badges
Im Rahmen des Projekts „DIRK DUAL“ wurde das vorliegende Zertifizierungskonzept für ein Open-Badge-System für Zukunftskompetenzen (Future Skills) entwickelt, das darauf abzielt, aufzuzeigen, wie Lehrende ihre Future-Skills-Entwicklung dokumentieren und zertifizieren können. Hierbei wird das dem Konzept zugrundeliegende Future-Skills-Framework im Einklang mit der Europäischen Kompetenz- und Qualifikationsdatenbank definiert und durch Blooms Lernzieltaxonomie dargestellt.KI & Challenge-Based Learning in der Lehre
Kategorisierung von Einsatzmöglichkeiten
Der Beitrag zeigt auf, wie die Integration von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) die Weiterentwicklung offen strukturierter Hochschullehrveranstaltungen, die auf dem Modell des Challenge-Based Learnings (CBL) basieren, ermöglicht und untersucht den gezielten Einsatz von KI zur Unterstützung der verschiedenen CBL-PhasenAnforderungen und Qualitätskriterien für Open Educational Badges
Ergebnisse und Fallbeispiele aus einer Fokusgruppe mit Unternehmen im Rahmen des Projekts Open Educational Badges
Das Ziel dieses Forschungsprojekts war es, durch eine Serie von Roundtables mit Unternehmensvertretern von DM, KOB und SAP die Potenziale und Herausforderungen von Open Educational Badges (OEB) zu analysieren. Dieser Bericht gibt eine detaillierte Darstellung der Ergebnisse und leitet daraus Implikationen für die Weiterentwicklung von OEB ab.Open Educational Badges für Future Skills
Whitepaper zur Metadatenbeschreibung von Future Skills auf Basis des ESCO Vokabulars
Das Projekt "Open Educational Badges" verfolgt das Ziel, Kompetenzen durch standardisierte digitale Zertifikate sichtbar und klar beschreibbar zu machen und so neben der technischen auch eine inhaltliche Standardisierung der abgebildeten Kompetenzen aufweisen. Das vorliegende Whitepaper entwickelt einen Vorschlag für ein solches Metadatenset zur Beschreibung von Future Skills und legt damit den Grundstein für eine standardisierte Vergabe und Anerkennung von Open Educational Badges in diesem Bereich.Wie wollen wir Leben?
KI & unser Menschenbild
Die Entwicklung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) scheint unser Menschenbild infrage zu stellen. Denn was ist die Bedeutung von Intelligenz, wenn Maschinen intelligent werden? Fangen die ungeheuren Entwicklungen im Bereich der Digitalisierung an, den fundamentalen Unterschied zwischen menschlichem Denken und Maschineller Informationsverarbeitung zu verwischen?AICOMP Research Report 1
Future Skills
Find out everything you need to know about the theory, methodological design and results of our AI skills study in the detailed AIComp Research Report 2024.AICOMP Research Report 2
Future Skills
Here you will find everything you need to know about the empirical construction and a detailed description of the AIComp competency model, which was developed as part of our AI competency study.Embrace Diversity, Foster Excellence!
Resources for promoting inclusive student engagement in higher education
Many students face specific challenges and barriers for becoming an integral part of the institution. In order to address these barriers, we must understand them and work towards representing all students on different levels. All students must feel welcome in student engagement and representation in order to reflect barriers and challenges for making higher education institutions adapt and change.State of the Art Report on OER Quality
Quality for the Future OER Ecosystem
This report introduces quality concepts and approaches related to OER. It provides an overview of definitions of quality for OER and suggests a conceptual mapping as well as an overview of major issues related to quality for OER.AICOMP
Future Skills for a world shaped through AI
Publication of the first part of the AIComp study - as of 06/2023Future Skills for Future Teachers
Guiding Learners at the Workplace
The report presents a competence framework for teachers and trainers in VET (vocational education and training) and other applied and practice-related educational contexts such as dual study programmes and learning on the job. It has been created within the DEAL with Digital Work-Based Learning initiative, an Erasmus+ project.Skills for the world of AI
Future Skills Framework
Whether as a sparring partner in creative processes, discussion partner, tutor in the learning process or individualized feedback service - AI can be enormously valuable in the world of work. However, how well it really performs will depend above all on how we humans involve it and interact with it. A research team from the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University has described the skills we need for this in a new competency framework model.The ENCORE+ Quality Transparency Framework (ENCORE QTF)
Developing a Quality Framework for OER Repositories
Quality and transparency with regard to quality play a central role in the acceptance of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education and adult education. The ENCORE+ project took this as a starting point to ask European experts from the field of OER repositories how they believe the quality of OER repositories can be improved.Credentialing learning in the European OER Ecosystem
The Challenge for the Credentialing of Learning from OERs
This report, based on expert interviews, was produced as part of the Encore+ project to explore the methods of credentialing in the European OER ecosystem.DIGI-HE Final Report
The future of digitally enhanced learning and teaching in European higher education institutions
DIGI-HE aims to develop and improve HEIs' capabilities in digitally enhanced learning and teaching (DELT). The report summarizes the project results and emphasizes that the impact and benefits of DELT need to be further assessed in relation to various aspects such as flexible delivery, student-centeredness and quality.Foresight on the European OER Ecosystem 2030 (2022)
Hybrid Delphi study
Formulating a Positive Vision for the Future of OER in EuropeFuture Skills Compared (2022)
Future Skills Meta-Analysis
This paper describes how the variety of existing future skills approaches can be compared conceptually. For this purpose, a framework model for future skills is proposed ...Future Skills - The Future of Higher Education and the Future of Learning (2022)
Future Skills in a nutshell
This report is an executive summary of the NextSkills study on the topic of Future Skills. The starting point is the realization that current higher education is not yet able to provide sufficient future concepts to meet the urgent challenges of our society.Recaphe Enhancing Staff Research and Innovation Capacity in Professional Higher Education (2022)
Report on Research, Development and Innovation for Professional Higher Education
The RECAPHE project intends to broaden insight and awareness of applied research and innovation activities within Professional Higher Education Institutions in Europe and to create a platform for imparting further competences to research staff and students related to their specific experiences and needs.Changing Futures in Higher Education (2022)
Assessment of Future Skills Learning
„Changing Futures in Higher Education: Assessment of Future Skills Learning” is the second report of the research series in the DIRK Dual project. It emphasizes the urge to support students in developing learner agency (Schoon, 2018) to learn FS in a self-organised way.Competence Learning in Theory-Practice Studies (2022)
This is only available in german language
"Competence Learning in Theory-Practice Studies" describes how learners can develop their Future Skills through experiential learning and reflection, how Future Skills can be integrated into dual studies, and the role portfolio work plays in dual studies for competence development.Curriculum and assessment (2022)
LEARNING & TEACHING PAPER #16
As part of the DIGI-HE project, which focuses on Supporting European universities in their strategic approaches to digital learning, a Thematic Peer Group „Curriculum and Assessment“ has been looking at how digitally enhanced learning and teaching (DELT) and digital technologies can be integrated into curricula.Competence Inventory (2021)
A New Research Competence Framework for Professional Higher Education. Enhancing the European Research Agenda
The RECAPHE Research Competence Framework is designed to build research capacity of different target groups, e.g. professionals working as lecturers, professors and other educational professionals in Universities of Applied Sciences and specifically in Professional Higher Education Institutions.Inclusive Engagement of Non-Traditional Students in Professional Higher Education (2021)
Stronger together
The world is changing, and so is higher education. The challenges of tomorrow cannot solely be resolved with today’s knowledge but by equipping all students with the necessary skills for doing so.Awareness, Experience and Organizational Maturity of Open Education (2021)
Data analysis of different attitudes and preferences
Current research is lacking to provide such individual target profiles representing subjective preferences of usage as well as awareness and expectations (Mishra et al. 2016).Open Education and Training (2021)
Where does Europe go from here?
Currently, the potential of open educational resources (OER) in Europe in higher education and business is not fully harnessed.Digitally enhanced learning and teaching (2021)
in European higher education institutions - Survey Report
In Europe today, almost every higher education institution uses digitally enhanced learning and teaching.Developing a high performance digital education ecosystem (2021)
INSTITUTIONAL SELF-ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS
Digitally enhanced learning and teaching is widely used across the European Higher Education Area, with general acceptance growing over the years and institutions widely acknowledging the benefits it brings to the student experience.Blockchain Skills for Europe (2020)
STUDY ON SKILLS MISMATCHES IN THE EUROPEAN BLOCKCHAIN SECTOR
Europe is in a leading position in many sectors that can successfully apply blockchain or other Distributed Ledger Technologies.KI und die Gesellschaft der Zukunft (2021)
Students‘ Research Papers
We attach great importance to a creative, practical and collaborative approach that encourages students to work in an interdisciplinary and future-oriented way. For this purpose we develop concepts and tools for teachers and students.KI und die Gesellschaft der Zukunft (2020)
Students‘ Research Papers
We attach great importance to a creative, practical and collaborative approach that encourages students to work in an interdisciplinary and future-oriented way. For this purpose we develop concepts and tools for teachers and students.