TEACH 5In-Person Event

29 Sept 2025, 12:00 → 1 Oct 2025, 14:15 Europe/Berlin

HIDA Hub

The fifth edition of the "Talking about Education Across Communities at Helmholtz" (TEACH) community conference will take place from 29 September to 1 October – live in Berlin!

The TEACH conference is a participant-driven community event that brings together individuals passionate about teaching. Teaching staff, educational researchers, training coordinators, and HR developers join forces to share methods, best practices, and experiences. The aim: to strengthen the teaching community across the Helmholtz Association and its partner institutions – because high-quality education is the foundation of high-quality research.

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Program overview

This year’s program will offer a vibrant mix of contributions from both the Helmholtz education community (talks, workshops, and a barcamp session) and invited external experts (keynotes and workshops). TEACH 2025 will provide rich opportunities for peer-to-peer exchange and structured professional development.

To kick off the event, we’re excited to welcome Dr. Leah Sharp from the Technical University of Munich (Department: ProLehre – Media and Didactics), who will deliver a keynote (title tba).

Additionally, two half-day workshops are scheduled:

• Workshop 1: Interactions, Tools, and Methods in Online Teaching
  (Dr. Patricia Wohner, Hanke Teachertraining)

• Workshop 2: Effective Use of Large Language Models (e.g. ChatGPT) in Teaching
  (Speaker: tba)

The remainder of the program will be shaped by you – see the "Call for Contributions" below for details.

The final program will be published mid July.

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Call for Contributions

TEACH thrives on your input. As a small, dynamic community conference, its strength lies in your active participation – whether through talks, workshops, or new formats of knowledge sharing.

We welcome a wide range of topics – if it might interest other educational enthusiasts in the Helmholtz Association, we want to hear about it!

In past years, contributions have covered areas such as transferable skills, open educational resources, unconventional workshop formats, and the use of AI tools in education.

Read the full Call for Abstracts for submission guidelines.
Abstract deadline: 4 July 2025

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Registration

Registration will be open until 5 September 2025.

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Date & Location

29 September – 1 October 2025
HIDA Hub
Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Straße 2
10178 Berlin

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Fees

Participation is free of charge.

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TEACH in the past

Here, you can find the event pages of the last four TEACH events. 

TEACH I    -   TEACH II    -    TEACH III   -   TEACH IV

 

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Monday 29 September

13:00 Arrival & Networking

1 Opening

Welcome to this year's TEACH!

Speakers: Dr Anna-Lisa Doering (HIDA), Fredo Erxleben (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Ines Schmahl (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Mirl Trösch (Geomar Helmholtz Research Center)

2 Keynote

• Dr. Lea Sharp (Technical University of Munich - Department: ProLehre - Media and Didactics)
• Title: tba
• 45 min Talk + 15 min Q&A

Speaker: Dr Lea Sharp (TUM)

Talks or workshops by participants

16:10 Ice breaker & coffee break

3 Bar Camp Session

No Pre-set Agenda
This session follows no rigid schedule—we go with the flow. You and your peers propose the topics, and together, you decide which ones to explore.

Diverse Voices Welcome
Everyone has a voice here. Share your passions, dive into dynamic discussions, and learn from the experiences of your peers.

Bring a Topic If You Want To...
* Ask a question you’re seeking answers to
* Explore a challenge you’re currently facing
* Share an innovative solution you’ve discovered
* Brainstorm ideas with others in a collaborative space

BarCamp topics might center on teaching practices, navigating the balance between everyday work and teaching commitments, experimenting with different instructional settings or tools—and much more. The possibilities are as open as the session itself.

18:30 Networking & Dinner

Tuesday 30 September

Workshops (swapping groups)

4 Workshop 1: Interactions, tools and methods in online teaching

Learning objectives:
Participants can develop methods and didactic concepts for online training. They can apply principles to motivate participants and get them to interact so that learning content is actively processed.

Contents of the workshop:
The workshop provides basic didactic knowledge for online teaching and introduces methods and principles that maintain a consistently high level of learning ability among participants. Special reference is made to the ‘flipped classroom’ method. In addition, the ‘Method Shower’ section of the workshop offers the opportunity to collaboratively develop your own methods together with the other participants and interactively try out tools.

Speaker: Dr Patricia Wohner (Hanke Teacher Training)

5 Workshop 2: Effective use of Large Language Models (e.g. ChatGPT) in teaching

In this hands-on workshop, participants
* learn basic techniques in prompt engineering
* get inspiration on how to use Large Language Model tools in teaching or to prep for courses.

To take part, particiants must have/create a (free) ChatGPT-Account. To make working with ChatGPT more secure, you will receive a Team license from HIDA for the duration of the workshop.

13:00 Lunch

Talks and workshops by participants

16:00 Coffe break

Talks and workshops by participants

18:30 Networking & Dinner

Wednesday 1 October

Workshops (swapping groups)

6 Workshop 1: Interactions, tools and methods in online teaching

Learning objectives:
Participants can develop methods and didactic concepts for online training. They can apply principles to motivate participants and get them to interact so that learning content is actively processed.

Contents of the workshop:
The workshop provides basic didactic knowledge for online teaching and introduces methods and principles that maintain a consistently high level of learning ability among participants. Special reference is made to the ‘flipped classroom’ method. In addition, the ‘Method Shower’ section of the workshop offers the opportunity to collaboratively develop your own methods together with the other participants and interactively try out tools.

Speaker: Dr Patricia Wohner (Hanke Teacher Training)

7 Workshop 2: Effective use of Large Language Models (e.g. ChatGPT) in teaching

In this hands-on workshop, participants
* learn basic techniques in prompt engineering
* get inspiration on how to use Large Language Model tools in teaching or to prep for courses.

To take part, particiants must have/create a (free) ChatGPT-Account. To make working with ChatGPT more secure, you will receive a Team license from HIDA for the duration of the workshop.

Speaker: tba tba

8 Closing Event

Thank you for joining the TEACH!

• Summary of the conference
• Feedback

13:15 Lunch & Departure