Interdisciplinary Teaching for impact

Dear teachers and educational staff,

With our discursive format Meet2Talk, we offer a regular platform for those involved in higher education to exchange views on current topics of teaching and learning and to engage in discussion based about innovative teaching. For the first event in this series in 2025, we are happy to invite you to the following talk (and subsequent discussion):

INTERDISCIPLINARY TEaCHING FOR IMPACT HOW TO FACILITATE INTERACTIVE AND SOLUTIONS-ORIENTED LEARNING FORMATS ON COMPLEX SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES

Dr. Max Jungmann

Executive Manager, Heidelberg Center for the Environment, Heidelberg University Founder and CEO Momentum Novum, Strategy Consultancy for Sustainability Founder and CEO Falk Momentum, ESG-Compliance Consultancy

The event will take place online via MS Teams. Participation is possible via this link.

In this talk, Max Jungmann presents practical approaches to interdisciplinary teaching in the field of sustainability. He illustrates how interactive and solution-oriented formats enable students to master complex sustainability problems through systemic thinking and creative methods. In this context, innovation management, design thinking, and agile strategy development play a central role.

Using concepts and learning experiences that have proven successful in various seminars, Dr. Jungmann will show how teaching formats can be designed not only to impart knowledge, but to specifically foster problem-solving skills and entrepreneurial thinking. To do so, he draws on experiences from simulation and scenario workshops, media seminars, innovation management projects, and seminars on methods of strategy development in which students developed proposals for Heidelberg University's sustainability strategy.

The talk is aimed at teachers, researchers, and practitioners looking to design interdisciplinary educational formats with a clear purpose and impact. In an interactive exchange, participants will learn how to incorporate innovation methods and strategic approaches into their own teaching – be it in university courses, company workshops, or cross-sector projects. The goal is to design sustainability education in a manner that leads to transformative effects and initiates tangible change