‘AI*Teaching 2026’ Ideas Competition Enables Funding for 15 Projects

In online programmes, psychology students will learn to use AI for methodological decisions, critically analyse it, and put it in practice for their own projects. Objective: using AI sensibly and purposefully.

Funding amount: 7.710,72 €

The ‘Python’ lecture course has been providing students with practical skills in software development and data engineering since 2023. In view of the far-reaching transformation sparked off by AI, the course will be extended to promote the reflective use of AI-supported tools in programming. Classical programming tasks will be combined with modern automation and assistance systems via practical scenarios with the aim of developing more efficient and higher-quality solutions.

Funding amount: 24.512,50 €

Our project aims to develop and implement a teaching programme that will work out a theoretical understanding of AI (particularly language models) and contrast it with the functioning of human cognition (Seminar 1, 26 summer semester). Through the subsequent use of AI and corresponding reflection (Seminar 2, 26/27 winter semester), we will promote the ability to engage critically with AI. In this way, we will qualify students to apply AI proficiently and effectively in their studies and careers.

Funding amount: 10.040,00 €

The project funding will be used to install the learning platform KI*Geist at the Faculty of Philology. In practice, this will involve combining philological expertise on everyday problems in teaching, technical knowledge on AI, and media-didactics experience on e-learning. The aim is to develop a taxonomy of philological AI competencies in cooperation with teachers and students, implement it as tasks in KI*Geist, and apply it to philological teaching starting in 2027.

Funding amount: 78.646,40 €

The Institute of Art History is establishing a model teaching format for combining AI and art literature with its new chatbot project. Students will investigate opportunities, limits, and epistemic questions of generative AI in practice; potential for interdisciplinary expansion and use.

Funding amount: 54.290,48 €

An AI-based tutor will support learners preparing for their qualifying examination in Latin by accessing the relevant learning material via a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system, providing individual assistance, and generating and correcting practice problems automatically.

Funding amount: 37.807,40 €

A locally operated AI FAQ system on the basis of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) will support students, teachers, and administrative units by providing reliable, data protection-compliant answers. Teachers will provide the content, and students will use it for information searches and learning support. Examination regulations and internal university documents will be integrated into the system, extending its applicability to all degree programmes and teaching activities.

Funding amount: 45.400,00 €

Smart Physics Exercises (SPEX)

How do we learn in times of ChatGPT and Co.? What (else) do we need to be able to do, and how can we train it? The ‘Smart Physics Exercises’ project asks these questions for the subject of physics – with the goal of developing new problem formats that apply generative artificial intelligence (AI) in a constructive and critical way. An active exchange on AI-based teaching within physics and beyond is an integral part of the project.

Funding amount: 60.388,40 €

Integration of innovative AI tools into teacher education: Students try out AI-supported reflection, classroom management, discussion skills, and video analysis in digital modules and workshops to specifically promote and reflect on AI literacy and personal skills.

Funding amount: 11.178,40 €

Development of documentation and best practices for the integration of OpenAI Whisper and LLM-based analytics tools into linguistics courses on automated transcription and multimodal annotation of language and video data.

Funding amount: 13.094,40 €

The project involves developing two modular courses on NLP and HTR/ATR that will qualify students to analyse texts with FOSS and local LLMs, establish ground truth, and train their own models. The jointly developed corpora and workflows will strengthen digital sovereignty and universal applicability in the area of text-based research and sensitize students to a critical approach towards AI, particularly the university’s internal Open WebUI.

Funding amount: 17.690,88 €

Systematic documentation and testing of AI methods for updating humanities teaching materials (updating of teaching materials with AI means that AI-supported systems adapt themselves dynamically to the individual needs of students as well as the specific content of the particular lesson); development of a practice-oriented catalogue of methods with validated prompts, workflows, and critical reflection for the permanent integration of LLMs into teaching using local infrastructure (OpenWebUI).

Funding amount: 18.380,80 €

Practice laboratory for AI applications in the journalistic media creation process (video, audio, text, social media).

Funding amount: 15.660,00 €

In this two-semester DH teaching project, students will digitize the Freiburger Zeitung from the epochal year 1933 with the help of AI and make it accessible via a RAG-based chatbot. In this way, they acquire practical AI skills for humanities and learn the functioning and limits of corresponding AI systems.

Funding amount: 12.001,20 €

The aim is to anchor AI competencies systematically by analysing and revising the competency goals of the degree programmes and developing learning programmes in which students are supported in their learning processes with AI and learn to apply AI purposefully and to guide others in the use of AI.

Funding amount: 51.679,40 €