We look back on the 16th International Summer University for Women in Engineering. The Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni took place at the University of Bremen in Germany from 14th to 29th August 2024.
Our thanks… As organizer team we give special thanks to our lecturers for their teaching with full engagement and collegiality.
We were very pleased with the greeting and the warm, committed speech of Katharina Kunze, deputy State Women’s Representative of the Freie Hansestadt Bremen.
We were equally pleased with the interested and exchange-oriented participants who traveled to Bremen and actively participated in courses, excursions, discussions and the plenary session. Thank you very much for your support, networking and ideas!
We are especially pleased, that many grants could be given to student participants for the stay in Bremen.
Thank you so much to our sponsors who again supported us to realize some core elements of personal encounter for participants and lecturers.
Last but not least we want to thank our student assistants in Bremen. Whether in the conference office or in the cafeteria, you were a top team!
Our look back… 60 courses, each lasting several days, were offered on current specialist topics and interdisciplinary subjects. The wide range of teaching topics was aimed at women students and professionals in technical sciences as well as students of all subjects. There were basics and special topics in engineering, computer science, interdisciplinary topics as well as offers relating to studies, jobs and careers. The courses were very popular.
On place in Bremen, lecturers and participants could visit an extensive social program.
Additionally again, we arranged a smaller ‘meantime’ online course program during the whole year 2024.
We as organizers hope to comply with needs of lecturers and participants, as well as to strengthen again the core elements of teaching and learning with physical, personal meeting.
The women´s network Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni and its sister Informatica Feminale is a place to exchange about technical and social developments, which we meet in our every-day life and which are designed by ourselves as technical experts. The Summer Universities want to give space and time for critical reflections and highly welcomes experimental debates on the relations of technological knowledge and developments in societies. We especially offer teaching, which deal with applications of technical know-how in spaces for work and life (for example within care, education, health, food, household, mobility, social networking, publicity, sports, militarization, etc.) from feminist perspectives.
All, who want to receive information about future Summer Universities, are invited to subscribe to our mailing list. Please send an email to ifis-summerschools@uni-bremen.de.
Companies with gender sensible organizational concepts and successful personal management strategies to promote women engineers to a broad spectrum of leading positions are invited to present their best practices to the participants of Informatica Feminale. There will be plenty of other opportunities to sponsor.
We invite you all to partcipate and look forward to welcoming you next summer in Bremen!
New online courses are published and open for registration. In September to November 2025 certificates and credits can be acquired in the fields of scrum and agile teamwork (course languages are German and English).
Meantime, between the annual summer universities we offer some online courses. There will be no participation fees for online courses of the meantime program.
To receive up-to-date information on new courses, you can sign in our mailing-list [MeantimeIFIS]:
The University of Bremen will organize the 17th Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni – international summer university for women students and professionals in engineering and technology. From 20 August to 4 September 2025 as program on place in Bremen, Germany. Additionally, we will start a small meantime course program which will be online during the whole year 2025. Our focus will stay on physically personal meetings and communication which is the core of our concept.
We cordially invite women students of all disciplines, levels and different types of institutions of higher education as well as all women interested in engineering and engineering professionals from all over the world! Teaching languages will be English and German. For more information, see the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni-FAQ2025-en.pdf.
All courses of the summer school are on place in Bremen and there will be a participation fee.
For human resources managers we are particullarly pointing out that, during the whole summer school there will be plenty of opportunities to sponsor and to get in touch with graduates.
We are looking forward to meet keen and ambitious participants!
The University of Bremen will organize the 17th Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni – international summer university for women students and professionals in engineering and technology. From 20 August to 4 September 2025 as program on place in Bremen, Germany. Our focus will stay on physically personal meetings and communication which is the core of our concept.
We look back on the 15th International Summer University for Women in Engineering. The Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni took place at the University of Bremen in Germany from 16th to 31st August 2023.
Our thanks… As organizer team we give special thanks to our lecturers for their teaching with full engagement and collegiality.
Many thanks to all participants, who travelled to Bremen and enriched the summer university with lively discussion and networking.
We are especially pleased, that some grants could be given for the stay in Bremen. Thank you so much to our sponsors who again supported us to realize some core elements of personal encounter for participants and lecturers.
Last but not least we want to thank our student assistants in Bremen. Without you, we would not have been able to realize the summer university.
Our look back… Some 50 courses in Computer Science, ICT, and Informatics were offered to women students in computing studies as well as to practitioners in the field. Students from other subjects got to know basic ICT and interdisciplinary course topics. There were basic, special and interdisciplinary course topics as well as course offers concerning studies, jobs and careers. On place in Bremen, lecturers and participants could visit an extensive social program.
Additionally again, we arranged a smaller ‘meantime’ online course program during the whole year 2023.
We as organizers hope to comply with needs of lecturers and participants, as well as to strengthen again the core elements of teaching and learning with physical, personal meeting.
The women´s network Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni and its sister Informatica Feminale is a place to exchange about technical and social developments, which we meet in our every-day life and which are designed by ourselves as technical experts. The Summer Universities want to give space and time for critical reflections and highly welcomes experimental debates on the relations of technological knowledge and developments in societies. We especially offer teaching, which deal with applications of technical know-how in spaces for work and life (for example within care, education, health, food, household, mobility, social networking, publicity, sports, militarization, etc.) from feminist perspectives.
All, who want to receive information about future Summer Universities, are invited to subscribe to our mailing list. Please send an email to ifis-summerschools@uni-bremen.de.
Companies with gender sensible organizational concepts and successful personal management strategies to promote women engineers to a broad spectrum of leading positions are invited to present their best practices to the participants of Informatica Feminale. There will be plenty of other opportunities to sponsor.
We invite you all to partcipate and look forward to welcoming you next summer in Bremen!
Dear Participants, Lecturers, and Friends of the Summer Universities 2022,
we look back on a very special year. For the first time, the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni was organized in hybrid ways: online from 25 July to 5 August and physically in Bremen from 1 to 14 September 2022. Moreover, a special training program for lecturers about the topics privacy, facilitation, and protection from discrimination in teaching was offered online. On place in Bremen, lecturers and participants could visit an extensive social program.
Our thanks… As organizer team we give special thanks to our lecturers for their teaching with full engagement and collegiality.
Many thanks to all participants, who enriched the summer university with lively discussion and networking. We are especially pleased, that participants travelled to Bremen despite the many obstacles in 2022. Courses were without fees again and some grants could be given for the stay in Bremen.
Thank you so much to our sponsors who again supported us to realize some core elements of personal encounter for participants and lecturers.
Last but not least we want to thank our student assistants in Bremen. Without you, we would not have been able to realize the summer university.
Our look back… The year 2022 was the first, to organize the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni and the “sister” Informatica Feminale in both the formats online and physically in Bremen. Nearly online courses were fully booked. Courses on place in Bremen were taken to smaller extent, presumably because the Corona situation was to worsen further in September. Many courses could realize settings with few students and very intensive learning. We as organizers got the wonderful chance to intensive personal exchange with our guests. In September on place, we could also arrange a general assembly of lecturers and participants and we received many valuable hints for the year 2023. We are also pleased, that the lecturers again followed with interest our special online training program for them about the topics privacy, facilitation, and protection from discrimination in teaching.
Our preview… In 2023 we will emphasize the personal encounter and concentrate more on physical courses in Bremen. The summer university will be organized from 16-31 August 2023 at Bremen University. It will be our main activity. Additionally, we will arrange a smaller ‘meantime’ online course program during the whole year. We as organizers hope to comply with needs of lecturers and participants, as well as to strengthen again the core elements of teaching and learning with physical, personal meeting.
We invite you all to partcipate and look forward to welcoming you next summer in Bremen!
Greetings Henrike Illig, Isabel Matthias, Veronika Oechtering
A Summary
The University of Bremen organized the 14th Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni – the international Summer University for women in engineering –together with the 25th Informatica Feminale – the international Summer University for women in computer science. From 25th July to 5th August as online courses and from 1st to 14th September 2022 on place in Bremen. The program of the Summer Universities 2022 included more than 60 courses. Furtheron a broad daily available social program was offered.
The listing below shows the courses in 2022
Courses on campus at Bremen University from 1 to 14 Sept 2022 (chronologically): – Zielsetzung mit ZRM® – Motto-Zielen [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022] – Sexismus – ohne mich! Ein Reflexions- und Argumentations-Workshop [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022] – Spring im Einsatz [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022] – Do it yourself! Feministisches Netzwerken und Empowerment [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022] – Datenschutz und Datensicherheit — Aufbaukurs [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022] – Hack your CAD models! Foundations of Computer Aided Design (CAD) with FreeCAD and Python / Hack your CAD models! Foundations of Computer Aided Design (CAD) with FreeCAD and Python [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022] – Introduction to the Android Operating System [Do 01.09. – Sa 03.09.2022]
– Hilfe, ein Konflikt – weglaufen bringt nichts! [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022] – Regenerative Design – co-create the world with intelligent solutions [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022] – QM I – Grundkurs Qualitätsmanagement. QM-Methoden in Entwicklung, Produktion und Beschaffung [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022] – Introduction to Stream Processing Paradigm [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022] – Netzwerk- und Hardwarelabor – Teil 1 [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022] – Get cupcake: Create your own text adventure in python [Mo 05.09. – Mi 07.09.2022] – Einführung in das Projektmanagement [Mo 05.09. – Sa 10.09.2022] – Penetration testing and ethical hacking for beginners [Mo 05.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]
– Embodied Communication [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022] – And now what? Design your life and work [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022] – QM II – Aufbaukurs Qualitätsmanagement. Agile Prozessentwicklung [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022] – FIND YOUR INNER STRENGTH – Empowerment für deine berufliche Laufbahn [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022] – Raspberry Pi, heute mal als autonomer mobiler Roboter [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022] – Netzgekoppelte Photovoltaikanlagen in der Praxis [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022] – Netzwerk- und Hardwarelabor – Teil 2 [Mi 07.09. – Sa 10.09.2022] – Klar hab’ ich was zu verbergen! Digitale Selbstverteidigung und Datensouveränität für mich und andere [Fr 09.09. – Sa 10.09.2022]
– Sprachverarbeitung – Verfahren und Anwendungen [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022] – Führung und Teamwork in Aktion [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022] – Dream it, think it, make it. A project-based introduction to 3D-printing, Open Source Hardware and the Concept of Fab City [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022] – QM III – Zertifikatskurs Qualitätsmanagement. Agile Projekte im QM. Zertifikatsprüfung „Applied Agile Quality Master“ [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022] – Grundlagen in Python [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022] – Linux Systems Management Schwerpunkt Firewall und Datensicherung [Mo 12.09. – Mi 14.09.2022] – Datenschutz und Datensicherheit — Datenschutzaudits. Zertifikatskurs zum Datenschutz [online-Kurs Mo 26.09. – Fr 30.09.2022]
Online Courses in July and August 2022: – Storyboard und Storytelling [Mo 25.07. – Di 26.07.2022] – Big Data Analytics using Distributed Platforms [Mon 25th Jul – Thu 28th Jul 2022] – Einführung in Python [Mo 25.07. – Fr 29.07.2022] – Sketchnoting – Denken mit den Augen und Visualisieren von Hand [Mo 25.07. — 05.08.2022] – Software-Entwicklung in der Medizin. Einblicke in den Alltag einer Informatikerin / Software development in medicine. Insights into the daily work of a computer scientist [Mo 25.07. – Fr 29.07.2022] – How (not) to Master your Thesis – Akademische Arbeiten in technischen Fächern meistern [Mo 25.07. – Fr 29.07.2022] – Scrum I – Agiles Projektmanagement. Rollen im Scrum Team, Theory of Scrum und Artefakte [Mi 27.07. – Sa 30.07.2022] – Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Grundkurs [Mi 27.07. – Sa 30.07.2022] – Blockchains, Crypto & Web3 – eine praktische Einführung [Do 28.07. – Fr 29.07.2022] – Bio? Das ist doch grün, oder nicht? – Nachhaltigkeit in der Prozessentwicklung [Do 28.07. – Sa 30.07.2022] – Einstieg in die Kryptografie [Mo 01.08. – Do 04.08.2022] – Wie wir Maschinen beibringen sexistisch zu sein – Ursachen, Probleme und Folgen von Diskriminierung durch Maschinelles Lernen/KI [Mo 01.08. – Fr 05.08.2022] – Scrum II – Agiles Projektmanagement. Events, Sprints und Storyboard [Mi 03.08. – Sa 06.08.2022] – Scrum III – Agiles Projektmanagement. Präsentation des Scrum-Projekts und Zertifikatsprüfung «Applied Scrum Master» [Mi 10.08. – Fr 19.08.2022]
Lecturer Programin June and July 2022: – Antidiskriminierung und Diskriminierungsschutz [Mi 29.06.] – Antidiskriminierung und Diskriminierungsschutz [Mi 29.06.] – Antidiskriminierung und Diskriminierungsschutz [Mo 04.07.] – Antidiskriminierung und Diskriminierungsschutz [Mo 04.07.] – Basiskurs Datenschutz in der Lehre [Mo 04.07.] – Interaktive Online-Lehre / Interactive & Engaging Online Facilitation [Mo 11.07.] – Interaktive Online-Lehre / Interactive & Engaging Online Facilitation [Mo 11.07.] – Warum Technik nie neutral ist. Einführung und Austausch [Di 12.07.] – Geschlechtergerechte und diversitätssensible Sprache in der Lehre [Mo 18.07.] – Interaktive Lehre vor Ort bei den Sommerunis / Interactive Co-Located Sessions [Di 19.07.] – Interaktive Lehre vor Ort bei den Sommerunis / Interactive Co-Located Sessions [Di 19.07.] – Why Technology is Never Neutral. Introduction and Exchange [Wed 20th July]
Further on, you are invited to join several field trips and meetings at the summer university on place in the region of Bremen and north-western Germany.
Welcome Event of the 28th Summer University Informatica Feminale and the 17th Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni
Community live, IF-IS COM 01
Wedesday, August 20, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 1:50 p.m.
Room: Cafeteria MZH 1090
Language: The languages will be German and English.
Lecturers and Participants are welcome!
We would like to ring in the 28th Informatica Feminale and the 17th Summer University for Women in Engineering with all participants.
We are particularly looking forward to the opening of the international summer universities by the State Councillor for Environment, Climate and Science Mrs. Irene Strebl.
Afterwards, a warm lunch buffet will give everyone the opportunity to get to know each other, introduce themselves and get an insight into the coming three weeks.
Dear Participants, Lecturers, and Friends of the Summer University 2021,
again as last year, the 13th Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni had to stay online and our plans for courses in Bremen were stopped.
But as always the lecturers were flexible, the students’ echos great, and from July to October, both the summer universities Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni and Informatica Feminale with some 50 courses went ahead. Some course were booked out in hours after publication; others realized settings with few students and very intensive learning. Lecturers sent hardware for experiments to their students; participants organized their own lunch meetings and got happy about virtual networking.
Many thanks to the wonderful lecturers, who participated with full engagement. We are especially pleased, that you followed with interest our special online training program for lecturers about the topics privacy, facilitation, and protection from discrimination in online teaching.
Many thanks also to all the 180 participants for active participation, discussions, comments and criticism, networking and collegiality!
We as organizers have again learnt much about a reasonable design of the Summer University. Some courses with huge practical parts are difficult to realize online. At the same time we will support the wish of those participants, who for different reasons, would never have been able to travel to Bremen. In future, we will arrange weeks with online teaching as well as physical courses in Bremen. Hopefully, both the plans will be realized next year already!
But we miss you all – lecturers and participants – on place in Bremen. No cafeteria, no field trips, no guests. Next year, the 25th Informatica Feminale will be organized – a good reason to celebrate a “real” party.
We invite you all to partcipate and look forward to welcoming you next summer in Bremen!
Greetings
Henrike Illig, Isabel Matthias, Veronika Oechtering
The program of the Summer Universities 2021 included some 50 courses. The listing below shows all, sorted chronologically and along categories of topics. All the teaching and the social program were offered online. There were no participation fees in 2021.
Teaching and study times were different in every course – ongoing from 19th July 2021 until middle of October 2021.
Upcoming courses sorted chronologically:
– Einführung in die moderne Webentwicklung [Mi 18.08.- Fr 20.08.]
– Sexismus – ohne mich! [Do 19.08. ] – Work-Out für Energieeffizienz im Haushalt [Do 19.08.- Do 26.08.] – Gendersensible Sprache. Wie es geht und warum sie wichtig ist [Fr 20.08.] – Python Basics [Fri 20 Aug – Sat 21 Aug ] – Retro Computing – Eine Einführung in BASIC für den Commodore 64 [Sa 21.08.- So 22.08.]
– Scrum III – Agiles Projektmanagement. Agile Storyboard und Zertifikatskurs zu Scrum [Mo 23.08.- Mi 25.08., Fr 27.08.] – 3D-Druck mit Blender – Herstellung von 3D-Objekten mit Blender und Resindrucker [24.08.- 14.09.] – Einführung in die Programmierung mit Python [Mi 25.08.- Mi 22.09.] – Alle gleich? Diversität und Ungleichheiten im Studium [Fr 27.08.] – Software development in medicine. Insights into the daily work of a computer scientist [Mon 30th Aug- Fri 3rd Sep] – Wie nehmen Roboter ihre Umgebung wahr? Computer Vision und Bildauswertung für Robotersysteme [Mo 30.08.- Mi 08.09.] – Wie frau einen Tiefseeroboter baut [Mo 30.08.- Do 23.09.]
– Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Grundkurs [Mi 01.09.- Fr 03.09.] – Einführung in das Projektmanagement [Do. 02.09.- Di. 07.09.]
– Functional Programming. Approach in Building Software Applications with Clojure [Fri 03 Sep – Sat 25 Sep] – Sketchnoting. Denken mit den Augen und Visualisieren von Hand [So 05.09.- Mo 27.9.]
– Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Aufbaukurs [Mo 06.09.- Mi 09.09.] – Netzwerk- und Hardwarelabor [Mo 06.09. – Do, 09.09.] – Prozessentwicklung im Qualitätsmanagement [Do 09.09.- Mo 13.09.]
– Sprachverarbeitung – Verfahren und Anwendungen [Do. 09.09.- Di. 14.09.] – Introduction to Machine Learning [Sat 11 Sep – Sun 12 Sep ]
– Faire Elektronik in der Praxis – von den Rohstoffen bis zur selbst gelöteten Computermaus [Mo 13.09.– Mi 15.09.] – IT-Forensik: Windows Analyse [Mo 13.09.- Fr 17.09.] – Netzwerklabor, Teil 2, mit Wireshark [Mo 13.09. – Do, 16.09.]
– Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Datenschutzaudits mit Zertifikatsprüfung [Di 14.09.- Do 16.09.] – Hands on Deep Learning [Fri 17 Sep – Sat 25 Sep]
– Hands on – Programming own Bots and Systems for Smart Homes and Gardens [Mon 20 Sep – Thu 23 Sep ] – Engineering for social transformation: climate change, technology and gender [Mon 20 Sept – Thu 23 Sept ] – Introduction on the Android Operating System [Mon 20 Sep – Thu 23 Sep] – Hack your CAD models! Foundations of Computer Aided Design (CAD) with FreeCAD and Python [Mon 20 Sep – Fri 24 Sep]
– Erfolgreich Verhandeln nach dem Harvard Konzept [Mi 29.09-Mi 13.10]
– Hilfe, ein Konflikt – Weglaufen bringt nichts! [Di 05.10-Sa 16.10]
– Embodied Communication [Mo 04.10-Fr 15.10]
Courses sorted along categories:
Nachhaltigkeit und Technologien / Sustainability and Technologies
Mobilität, Verkehr und Gesellschaft [Do 05.08.- Do 19.08.]
Engineering for social transformation: climate change, technology and gender [Mon 20 Sep – Thu 23 Sep]
Regenerative Design – co-create the world with intelligent solutions [Fri 06th Aug- Mon 09th Aug]
Erneuerbare Energie / Renewable Energy
Netzgekoppelte Photovoltaikanlagen in der Praxis [Do 05.08.- Di 10.08.]
Work-Out für Energieeffizienz im Haushalt [Do 19.08.- Do 26.08.]
Biotechnologie / Bioengineering
Klein, Kleiner, Mikro. Die kleinsten Reaktoren für Biokatalysatoren [Mo 02.08.- Fr 13.08.]
Technische Netze / Technical Networks
Netzwerk- und Hardwarelabor [Mo 06.09. – Do, 09.09.]
Netzwerklabor, Teil 2, mit Wireshark [Mo 13.09. – Do, 16.09.]
Robotik und Elektronik / Robotics and Electronics
Faire Elektronik in der Praxis – von den Rohstoffen bis zur selbst gelöteten Computermaus [Mo 13.09.– Mi 15.09.]
Hands on – Programming own Bots and Systems for Smart Homes and Gardens [Mon 20 Sep – Thu 23 Sep]
Wie frau einen Tiefseeroboter baut [Mo 30.08.- Do 23.09.]
CAD-Modellierung / CAD-Modeling
3D-Druck mit Blender – Herstellung von 3D-Objekten mit Blender und Resindrucker [24.08.- 14.09.]
Hack your CAD models! Foundations of Computer Aided Design (CAD) with FreeCAD and Python [Mon 20 Sep – Fri 24 Sep]
Maschinelles Sehen / Computer Vision
Wie nehmen Roboter ihre Umgebung wahr? Computer Vision und Bildauswertung für Robotersysteme [Mo 30.08.- Mi 08.09.]
Datenanalyse / Data Analysis
Matrix-Based Programming and Data Visualization using Matlab or GNU Octave [Mon 26th July – Mon 09th Aug]
Maschinelles Lernen / Machine Learning
Einführung in maschinelles Lernen / Introduction to Machine Learning [Sat 11 Sep – Sun 12 Sep ]
Hands on Deep Learning [Fri 17 Sep – Sat 25 Sep]
Wie wir Maschinen beibringen sexistisch zu sein – Ursachen, Probleme und Folgen von Bias in Maschinellem Lernen/KI [fällt leider aus]
Programmieren / Programming
Retro Computing – Eine Einführung in BASIC für den Commodore 64 [Sa 21.08.- So 22.08.]
Functional Programming. Approach in Building Software Applications with Clojure [Fri 03 Sep – Sat 25 Sep]
Einführung in die Programmierung mit Python [Mi 25.08.- Mi 22.09.]
Build your own: Digitale Escape Games als Einstieg und Unterhaltung für Fachinteressierte [fällt leider aus]
Python Basics [Fri 20 Aug – Sat 21 Aug ]
Grundlagen in Python [Mo 26.07. – Do 29.07.]
Betriebssysteme und Infrastrukturen / Operating Systems and Infrastructures
Linux für Einsteigerinnen. Praktischer Einstieg in die Linux Nutzung [Mi 04.08.- Mi 11.08.]
Linux Systems Management Schwerpunkt Firewall [Mo 16.08. – Do, 19.08.]
Introduction on Android Operating System [Mon 20 Sep – Thu 23 Sep]
Projektmanagement / Project Management
Einführung in das Projektmanagement [Do. 02.09.- Di. 07.09.]
Storyboard und Storytelling [Di 20.07.- Do 22.07.]
Scrum I – Agiles Projektmanagement. Rollen im Scrum Team und Theory of Scrum [Mo 09.08.- Mi 11.08.]
Scrum II – Agiles Projektmanagement. Artefakte und Sprint [Mo 16.08.- Mi 18.08.]
Scrum III – Agiles Projektmanagement. Agile Storyboard und Zertifikatskurs zu Scrum [Mo 23.08.- Mi 25.08., Fr 27.08.]
Qualitätsmanagement / Quality Management
Qualitätsmanagement in Entwicklung, Produktion und Beschaffung [Fr 06.08.- Fr 20.08.]
Prozessentwicklung im Qualitätsmanagement [Do 09.09.- Mo 13.09.]
Datenschutz und Sicherheit / Privacy and Security
IT-Forensik: Windows Analyse [Mo 13.09.- Fr 17.09.]
Einstieg in die Kryptographie [Mo 26.07.- Do 29.07.]
Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Grundkurs [Mi 01.09.- Fr 03.09.]
Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Aufbaukurs [Mo 06.09.- Mi 09.09.]
Datenschutz und Datensicherheit – Datenschutzaudits mit Zertifikatsprüfung [Di 14.09.- Do 16.09.]
Mobile Web und Internet / Mobile Web and the Internet
Einführung in die moderne Webentwicklung [Mi 18.08.- Fr 20.08.]
Mensch-Computer-Interaktion / Human Computer Interaction
Sprachverarbeitung – Verfahren und Anwendungen [Do. 09.09.- Di. 14.09.]
Make a Chatbot. An Introduction to Natural Language Processing using Python [tba]
Gender und Diversity in der Technikinnovation / Gender and Diversity in innovating technology
Technofeministische Debatten und Theorien – ein Lektüre- und Diskussions-Workshop [tba]
Diskriminierung durch Algorithmen? Technikethische Reflexionen zu aktuellen Herausforderungen [Mi 04.08.- Fr 06.08.]
Ethik in der Technikgestaltung / Ethics in Technology Design
The Ethics of Technology. An Interdisciplinary Approach [tba]
Informatik & Verantwortung. Technik-ethische Reflexionen zur Entwicklung und Anwendung innovativer Technologien [tba]
Dear Participants, Lecturers, and Friends of the Summer Universities 2020,
we look back on exciting months full of new intensive experiences: The 12th Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni went online! From July to Oktober 2020 some 50 courses got lots of applaus from student participants nearby and far away.
The International Summer University for Women in Engineering at Bremen University switched to flexible online teaching in 2020 and the echos of participants were enormous. More than 230 students took part in courses, and were happy about online exchange, talks and discussions.
Our thanks… As organizing team we thank our fantastic lecturers – the new as well as the familiar – for the exciting, personal and compact teaching.
Many thanks also to all the participants for active participation, discussions, comments and criticism, networking and collegiality. A big ‘Thanks’ goes to those, who for different reasons, would never have been able to travel to Bremen; but they sent us their joy about this online opportunities. We will now think about future ways to combine online and physical teaching in Bremen.
We are MUCH aware that online teaching is not at all comparable to the common, wonderful contacts between lecturers and students we all wish for every summer university. Not to be able to see you in person, to join you during lunch break, to go to excursions or to party together was a great pity and we were missing all of this and more.
Last but not least we warmly thank our student assistants team. It was good to have you as the only students in place at the University during the summer.
Our Review
Our focus 2020 brought some unexpected topicality:
“Boundaries of the Body”
(Women’s) Bodies are sites of technological developments. Boundaries and limits become increasingly blurred: either through the optimization of health parameters, or the digital and technical enhancement of the body, up to unregulated collection of body-related data, and the bodies suffering the consequences of technology-based warfare. The Summer University 2020 wanted to give space and time for critical reflections and welcomed experimental debates on the relations of technological knowledge and developments in societies. We saw that several online courses integrated these topics.
Our motivation is to present the topics about gender diversity and feminist perspectives on teaching and society as cross-cutting issues, to integrate these into teaching and prevent these from “staying aside” of courses in separate courses.
Our Outlook… We are curious to read your evaluations and to receive you suggestions. These will be taken into the planning of the next summer university year 2021.
The next upcoming online period will be a good moment to improve teaching methods. But we hope that at least a short version of summer university offers at Bremen will be possible.
We invite you all to partcipate and look forward to welcoming you next summer!
Greetings from Bremen,
Henrike Illig and Veronika Oechtering
There were no participation fees in 2020. Short information about the published courses:
Python für Anfängerinnen (Mo 20.7.- Do 23.7.)
Wie wir Maschinen beibringen sexistisch zu sein – Ursachen, Probleme und Folgen von Bias in Maschinellem Lernen/KI (Mo 20.07.- Fr 24.07.)
Diskriminierung und Antidiskriminierung im Arbeitsleben – Probleme und mögliche Handlungsstrategien, (Di 21.- Do 23.7.)
How (not) to Master your Thesis – Akademische Arbeiten meistern (Mo 27.07.- Fr 31.07.)
Apps selbst entwickeln (Mo 03.08.- Fr 07.08.)
Diskriminierung durch Algorithmen? – Technikethische Reflexionen zu aktuellen Herausforderungen, (Di 04.-06.08.)
Qualitätsmanagement in Entwicklung, Produktion und Beschaffung (Mi 05.08.- Fr 19.08.)
Mikrocontrollerplatine programmieren: Calliope mini /Programming microcontroller board Calliope mini (Mo 10.08.- Di 11.08.)
Einführung in das Projektmanagement (Mo 10.08.- Sa 15.08.)
Grafisch programmieren mit Calliope mini (Teil 2) (Do 13.08.- Fr 14.08.)
Sprachverarbeitung – Verfahren und Anwendungen (Fr 14.08.- Mo 17.08.)
Einführung in maschinelles Lernen /Introduction to Machine Learning (Fr 14.08.- Sa 22.08.)
Hands on Deep Learning (Fr 14.08.- So 30.08.)
Kreativitätstechniken und Ideenmanagement (Mo 17.08.- Di 18.08.)
Netzwerk- und Hardwarelabor, Teil 1 (Mo 17.08.- Mi 19.08.)
Einführung in die Strömungssimulation mit OpenFOAM / Introduction into Computational Fluid Dynamics using OpenFOAM (Mo 17.08.- Do 20.08.)
Software-Entwicklung in der Medizin. Einblicke in den Alltag einer Informatikerin (Mo 17.08.- Fr 21.08.)
Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (Mo 17.08.- Mo 24.08.)
Gender & Diversity als Schlüsselkompetenzen in Studium und Beruf (Mi 19.08.-Do 20.08.)
Netzwerklabor Teil 2 mit Wireshark (Mi 19.08.- Fr 21.08.)
Sexismus – ohne mich! Ein Reflexions- und Argumentations-Workshop (Fr 21.8.)
Prozessentwicklung im Qualitätsmanagement (Fr 21.08.- Mi 26.08.)
Erfolgreich Verhandeln (Mo 24.08- Di 25.08.2020)
Regenerative Design – mit intelligenten Konzepten die Welt verändern / Regenerative Design – co-create the world with intelligent solutions (Mo 24.08.- Mi 26.08.)
Einführung in Java (Mo 24.08.- Fr 28.08.)
Einführung in die Welt der Datenbanken und der Datenbankmanagementsysteme (Mo 24.08.- Sa 29.08.)
Dem Werkstoffversagen auf der Spur (Praxisorientierte Schadensanalyse) (Mi 26.08.- Fr 28.08.)
Und was jetzt? – Gestalte dein Leben selbstbestimmt (inclusive deiner Arbeit) / And now what? – Design your life and work (Do 27.08.- Sa 29.08.)
Alle gleich? Diversität und Ungleichheiten im Studium (Fr 28.08.)
Hilfe, ein Konflikt – weglaufen bringt nichts! (Mi 02.09.- Do 03.09.)
Einführung in die Programmierung mit Python (Mi 02.09.- Do 10.09.)
Bildanalyse mit Neuronalen Netzwerken / Image analysis with neural networks (Mo 07.09.- 10.09.)
Embodied Communication (Mo 14.09.- Di 15.09.)
Einstieg in Python (Mo 14.09.- Do 17.09.)
Programming for Data Analysis and Statistics with R (Mon 14.09.- Thu 17.09.)
Gendersensible Sprache. Wie es geht und warum sie wichtig ist (Fr 18.9.)
OpenSCAD (Sa 19.09.- So 20.09.)
Data Feminism – Erkundungen zwischen Cyber-, Xeno- und Technofeminismen (Mo 21.09.- Do 24.09.)
Grundlagen des Computer-Aided Design mit FreeCAD und Python / Hack your CAD models! Foundations of Computer Aided Design (CAD) with FreeCAD and Python (Mo 21.09.- Fr 25.09.)
Engineering for social transformation: climate change, technology and gender (Tue 22.09.- Wed 23.09.)
Let’s Play! Zoom-Theater, Telefon-Games und andere digitale Kulturformate (Mo 28.09.-Fr 02.10.)
Think Global, Act Local: the impact of the ‚New Urban Agenda‘ on our everyday life. (Tue 29.09.-Thu 01.10.)
The registration as participant of the summer school is possible via a common web-based registration system of the Informatica Feminale and the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni. The attendance of courses requires prior registration. You may attend several courses, but you will have to register for each course bindingly beforehand. In order to register, please select the courses which you’d like to attend from our website.
You can register for the courses and social program of the summer universities via this webpage (until May 2025 it will show the courses from last year for your information):
In 2025, we will additionally arrange a small meantime program, which will offer some online courses during the whole year.
Places will be assigned according to time of registration. First come, first served!
Your course registration will be confirmed via e-mail from the University of Bremen after completion of your registration process. Further information regarding the program procedure will be e-mailed as well. The lecturers will contact their students beforehand with materials necessary for preliminary course requirements.
Participants may select additional courses. As soon as a course is fully booked it will appear as blocked in the online registration system.
The University of Bremen in Germany will host the 17th International Summer University for Women in Engineering, the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni. It will be on place in Bremen from August 20 to September 4, 2025. Women engineers from academia or industry and women working interdisciplinarily are cordially invited to develop course offers.
We invite interested lecturers to two online info meetings: on Tuesday, 21 January 2025 from 7:30 p.m. and on Wednesday, 22 January 2025 from 12:00 a.m. (both German time). The Zoom link will be mailed after your registration at ifis-summerschools@uni-bremen.de.
Topics from the broad field of engineering and technology are welcome. Especially teaching in electrical engineering, information technology, chemical and mechanical engineering is invited.
The Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni is an open, explorative teaching and learning environment. Topics such as entering higher education, developing a student career, transition into labor market and lifelong academic learning are addressed. Courses on elementary skills are in demand from undergraduate students. Combinations of theory and practical units – including excerpts to deepen regular courses – are of great interest. Special topics from all areas are also particularly welcome. Courses to strengthen the social skills of female students are also included.
Inter/national lecturers and students meet at the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni in Bremen to exchange and to use the summer universities as a place for experimentation, with the intention to develop and imply new impulses in engineering. The summer university is aiming at professional networking of students and advanced training for women engineers on an academic level.
Lecturers could take the summer university as a test field for new teaching formats, to integrate topics such as sustainability or new teaching methods into their engineering courses and to get experience with highly engaged and interested participants. Furthermore, a special training program for lecturers will be arranged. The Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni is part of the regular course program at the University of Bremen. Teaching assignments can be given to lecturers.
The women’s network Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni and its sister Informatica Feminale are a place to exchange about technical and social developments, which we meet in our every-day life and which are designed by ourselves as technical experts. Proposals from the field of engineering and its interdisciplinary subjects are welcome.
An important topic will be sustainability with focus on ecological and social impacts of technologies. Desired courses could address for example protection of natural resources and optimization within technical systems and infrastructures, energy efficiency, recycling and circular economy, regulations and standardization, human rights and labor law in production processes, participatory design, development and consumption of technical products or services that better serve the common good. We also welcome offers, that teach basics about the sustainability goals of the agendas 2030 in UN and EU, as well as about the cross-sectional dimension of gender equality.
We especially invite teaching offers, which deal with applications of technical know-how in areas of life and work (for example within care, education, health, food, household, mobility, social networking, publicity, sports, militarization, etc.) from feminist perspectives. Submissions on topics such as gender, equality, technology and ethics are highly welcome.
A program committee will decide on the contributions. We are particularly encourage international lecturers to apply. Course languages are German and English.
Companies with gender sensible organizational concepts and successful personal management strategies to promote women engineers to a broad spectrum of leading positions are invited to present their best practices to the participants of the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni. There will be various chances to meet graduates of computer science and engineering at both the parallel summer universities Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni and Informatica Feminale. Concurrently, we are offering multiple possibilities for sponsorship.
Please forward this Call for Contributions to interested colleagues, co-workers and students.
Hint: In parallel to the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni, we will organize the Informatica Feminale, the Summer University for Women in Computing. Your are invited to submit your course also there. >Call for Contributions for the Informatica Feminale.
Women professors who are looking for motivated students to experiment with new concepts of teaching
Women researchers who prepare independent courses and would like to teach in a pleasant atmosphere
Women practitioners who would like to share their work experiences or to gain teaching experience for a university career
Women researchers and practitioners from different fields who deal interdisciplinarily with engineering
Students who would like to offer subject-specific discussions of experience
Experts offering orientation for students being in the course of their studies or preparing for the transition to working life.
Interested lecturers who apply for the first time for the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni in Bremen should give a short overview of their professional background. Furthermore, we ask for some personal information in the course submission form, which might be used for advertising the summer university in the program on the website.
Please send us your teaching offer via our course submission forms. Submission deadline: February 10, 2025
TEACHING only on Campus
Following the situation in January 2025, we are planning the Summer University on place in Bremen. We do not look for offers for online courses. We welcome multi-day offers or (only on one Saturday) one-day workshops. All teaching will be on campus in the rooms of the University of Bremen.
In 2025, we wish again to gain the interest of international participants with courses in English and in German. More languages combined with these are welcome, too. You can offer your teaching only in German or only in English or combine these with other languages.
Submissions will be send via the common form used together for Informatica Feminale.
What you need to know about planning your course offer
On the following pages we would like to outline the general conditions for teaching at the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni and to give you advice on submitting a course. You can also find this information in the submission form for course offers.
The most important facts, to develop a course offer, are summarized in a planning guide. We recommend all lecturers to read it before applying. We recommend all lecturers to read it as well as our schedule with fixed teaching blocks before applying.
For questions and further information please contact:
University of Bremen Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni P.O. Box 330440 D-28334 Bremen Germany Phone +49 (0)421 218-64469 Email: info@ingenieurinnen-sommeruni.de
We are looking for courses that cover the whole range of electrical engineering and information technology, chemical and mechanical engineering, ethics and society, as well as courses that cover interdisciplinary topics.
Undergraduate students highly request courses that train basic skills such as experimental work and context skills. Combining theoretical and practical work – especially to deapen knowledge from regular courses – is very interesting for the summer university. Any engineering topics on advanced level and soft skills training are welcome as well!
Lecturers could take the summer university as a test field for new teaching formats, to integrate new topics or methods into their engineering courses and to get experience with highly engaged and interested participants. Furthermore, a special training program for lecturers will be arranged. The Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni is part of the regular course program at the University of Bremen. Teaching assignments can be given to lecturers.
The women’s network Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni and its sister Informatica Feminale are a place to exchange about technical and social developments, which we meet in our every-day life and which are designed by ourselves as technical experts. Proposals from the field of engineering and its interdisciplinary subjects are welcome. Somer examples:
We especially invite teaching offers, which deal with applications of technical know-how in areas of life and work (for example within care, education, health, food, household, mobility, social networking, publicity, sports, militarization, etc.) from feminist perspectives. Submissions on topics such as gender, equality, technology and ethics are highly welcome.
Additionally, a related topic is sustainability with focus on ecological and social impacts of technologies. Desired courses could address for example protection of natural resources and optimization within technical systems and infrastructures, energy efficiency, recycling and circular economy, regulations and standardization, human rights and labor law in production processes, participatory design, development and consumption of technical products or services that better serve the common good. We also welcome offers, that teach basics about the sustainability goals of the agendas 2030 in UN and EU, as well as about the cross-sectional dimension of gender equality.
Teaching languages are German and English.
We invite scientists, to take the summer university as test field for changed teaching formats and to get experience with highly engaged and interested participants. This open situation surprises our new lecturers every year and gives motivation to the teaching at their home universities.
Joint courses offered by two lecturers have proved their worth during the past summer universities; this can be a chance to promote interdisciplinarity.
Please note: We cannot accept courses that deal with single commercial products. It is recommended to focus on general concepts instead.
The following teaching methods and course types are possible:
Course Teacher-centered teaching alternates with practical exercises or presentation by the participants during the course.
Project The participants work on a topic that is related to a larger project.
Lab Skills are trained with practical tasks.
Workshop All topics are worked out and developed with the consultation of the participants.
Several types may be combined.
When you prepare a course, you should make clear which participants you want to reach and what prior knowledge you are expecting.
Teaching is expected in a gender- and diversity-sensible way. We will offer online trainings on these topics for specific groups of lecturers.
We will group all courses into categories of time and topic. The length of your course can vary (according to our block scheme). We will arrange the schedule by taking other courses into account as well.
Official coordinator and venue (also for online teaching) will be the University of Bremen. All teaching regulations in Bremen University are also relevant for the summer courses. Technical infrastructures of the participating departments at Bremen University will be available for use. Especially the learning management system STUD.IP and the video conference systems are given.
External lecturers will receive a lecturer account, which authorizes to use most of tools within the learning management and the video conference systems of Bremen University. Participants will receive a guest account.
Bremen University uses the learning management system STUD.IP, so that every class group has also direct access to pad, wiki, videos, etc. Lecturers can also use the tools DoIT and EduWork Builder, to prepare time-scheduled tasks. As soon as a course will be accepted for the summer universities we will offer individual or group trainings for lecturers.
For privacy reasons we will not accept any use of tools which are not hosted within the European Union. There will be no exception. We will also offer trainings on privacy aspects within teaching; our training is obligatory for new lecturers.
Necessary software installations, which need to be hosted at Bremen University, have to be communicated early in advance. No adminstration rights for computer labs are given to lecturers.
We recommend early exchange with the organizers of the summer university if the installation process of a specific software is part of the course content or if applications with critical administration rights will be used.
If courses are going to be run in place at Bremen University WiFi and other necessary teaching materials (e.g. projector, moderating materials, etc.) are available free of charge in every classroom. Further details will be arranged individually.
In the submission form you can choose the course type. We will check your specifications and, if necessary, recommend modifications.
You will be expected by motivated participants, who are:
Women students from universities, colleges and other institutions, studying engineering either as major or minor subject
Women students from the fields of engineering, sciences, social sciences and the humanities
Women experts from practice who want to study further on a high level of qualification as well as
(sometimes) Pupils with an interest in studying engineering.
This variety of life experiences and perspectives in particular is what evolves vivid discussions during the courses and is a special quality of the summer university.
We are usually expecting 200 to 250 participants in Bremen with courses of 10 to 12 women. Teachers are able to limit the course size. The teaching in small groups guarantees an intensive working atmosphere. Courses with practical elements should plan with no more than 10 participants.
Based on experience, women participate in the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni voluntarily because they are highly motivated by their interest in the given topics or by the experimental possibilities during the courses. Most participants are women students and women experts. Many participants are attending the summer university regularly.
Students are coming from international universities and colleges. This requires a lot of communication before and during the first hours of the course to determine a common basis. Participants, who attend the Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni for advanced vocational training, often have to take time off from work.
Employed participants are paying a higher participation fee than students.
When preparing a course offer, you should identify the group of participants you want to reach and what previous knowledge they should have. It should be clear whether, for example, only students in a specific phase of their studies are addressed or if a broad variety of participants is desired. Examples from past summer studies can give you an idea.
The submission form for courses contains phrasings of the past years.
The summer university will be planned on place in Bremen from 20 August to 4 September 2025. For physical teaching at the summer school in Bremen, we as organizers have developped a 3-week schedule with fixed teaching blocks. The schedule cannot be changed by lecturers.
Download Teaching Blocks
The schedule is prepared to enable approval of credit for student participants and teaching assignments to teachers.
The course slots within the three weeks of the summer school are arranged by the organizers in Bremen, based on the wishes of the lecturers. During the planning there will be a consultation with the lecturers.
A course needs to be planned at least with 14 class hours with 45 minutes each (= 1 SWS), more hours are possible. Also, working hours of participants have to be calculated to offer possible credit points. For the summer university 2025, some one-day workshops are only possible on the 1st Saturday (August 13, 2025). We have collected some best practice examples for teaching processes and sequences.
A calculation is integrated in the submission form. You can also include your preferred dates there. (We publish no public call for our meantime online program.)
