Leipziger Initiative für Nachhaltige Entwicklung — LINE

The LINE-cooperation strives to empower students to analyze complex societal problems from multiple perspectives, to scrutinize quantitative models that address these problems, and to develop, evaluate, and evolve solution strategies based on this assessment. Upon doing so the students will

• learn to present their point of view also to peers with no background in the topic,
• practice to examine problems from multiple perspectives in order to scrutinize their understanding and conclusion, and
• develop their skills act independently based on conclusions reached by autonomous learning.

The projects of the initiative address four topical fields

• Assessment on a global scale and technology assessment
• disciplines: meteorology ↔ economics ↔ geography

• Insights into diseases, epidemics, biodiversity, and the impact of the climate crisis
• disciplines: physics ↔ ecology ↔ geography ↔ ethics/theology ↔ history

• Organization of (missing) knowledge by models and data analysis
• disciplines: physics/measurement technology ↔ sclimate science ↔ digital humanities

• Foster conscious competence
• disciplines: physics/informatics/robotics ↔ biodiversity ↔ teacher training

These projects are cross-lined by two central competences

• K1. Connection to research
• K2.