UOC COMPETENCE DAYS

AI in Higher Education

From February 2nd to 4th, 2026, the Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies and the ITCC are inviting you to the UoC Competence Days ‘AI in Higher Education’.

The transformation brought about by (generative) Artificial Intelligence (AI) goes to the heart of the university's core tasks: generating and imparting new insights, knowledge, and education. (Generative) AI is radically changing how we (are going to) teach, learn, and educate ourselves. A wide range of perspectives and approaches (Busse und Kleiber 2025) are already available, as are numerous attempts to classify and systematise so-called AI competencies and AI literacy. In any case, the urgency of continuing to address the epistemic, ethical, didactic, and pedagogical consequences of AI transformations in all areas of knowledge cannot be overemphasised.

Therefore, the UoC Competence Days "AI in Higher Education" aim to support, initiate, and promote current AI planning and AI developments in your disciplines, subjects, domains, and in teaching and learning, as well as in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects.

Programme

Please find the programme (PDF) on Sciebo.

Registration

Please register via ILIAS | EduLabs.

Programme

Monday, 2 February 2026

Schedule	Agenda
9:30 a.m.	Welcome and Opening Professor Dr Beatrix Busse Vice-Rectorate for Teaching and Studies
10:00 a.m.	Keynote Eine neue Epoche. KI als Gamechanger! Claudia Nemat Board Director (ABB, IQM) and Tech Entrepreneur
11:00 – 11:30 a.m.	Coffee break
11:30 a.m.	Skalierbare souveräne KI-Infrastruktur als Verbundaufgabe Professor Dr.Eng. Stefan Wesner IT Center University of Cologne (ITCC)
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.	Lunch break
1:30 p.m.	[EN] Much ado about AI – Introduction to (Generative) AI in Higher Education Professor Dr Beatrix Busse, Ingo Kleiber Vice-Rectorate for Teaching and Studies
3:00 p.m.	Zukunftsrelevante Kompetenzen erschließen. Handlungsfähigkeit im Zeitalter der KI Kathrin Andree, Lena Apfel Innovation Platform for Future-Relevant Competencies (InZuKo)

Tuesday, 3 February 2026

Schedule	Agenda
9:00 a.m.	Skalierbare souveräne KI-Infrastruktur als Verbundaufgabe Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Wesner IT Center University of Cologne (ITCC)
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.	Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen zum Einsatz von KI in der Lehre Christine Kirsch & Kathrin Kölle Administrative Unit 02.1 - Legal Department
9:30 – 10:00 a.m.	Zulässigkeit der Verwendung von KI in Prüfungen Christine Kirsch & Kathrin Kölle Administrative Unit 02.1 - Legal Department
10:00 a.m.	Best Practices on AI in Higher Education
	Damit wir KI unsere Prozesse sinnvoll unterstützen kann müssen wir erst einmal selbst verstehen, welchen Sinn unsere Prozesse eigentlich haben Professor Dr André Bresges Institute of Physics Education Förderung von Digitalitäts- und KI-Kompetenzen angehender Lehrkräfte im „DaZ-Modul“ der Universität zu Köln Cedric Lawida Mercator Institute for Literacy and Language Education Warum Künstliche Intelligenz kein Han erzeugen kann – Haegeum, verkörperte Praxis und die Grenzen algorithmischer Kreativität Dr Yookyung Nho-von Blumröder Institute of Musicology / Institute of East Asian Studies SongwrAIting. Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI/AI) beim Songwriting im Musikunterricht Veronika Phung & Katharina Reich Department of Art and Music
10:00 a.m.	[EN] What is ‘independent academic work’? Students’ and teachers’ views on AI use in academia Dr. Esther Odilia Breuer Dekanat der Philosophischen Fakultät Kompetenzzentrum Schreiben [EN] AI with Corporates Dr. Dadhichi Parektar Gateway Excellence Start-up Center [EN] Beyond the Browser: Using AI with Confidence Robert Hadfield Institute of Zoology Department of Biology
11:30 a.m.	KI und Kompetenzorientierung: Was verändert sich, was nicht? Dr. Ursula Gießmann Zentrum für Hochschuldidaktik
11:30 a.m.	AI-Chat in ILIAS: Potenziale für Lehre und Lernen Nicole Adam & Nadimo Staszak CompetenceCenter E-Learning
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.	Lunch break
1:30 p.m.	Nebenfach “KI und Data Science” im Masterstudiengang Mathematik Prof. Dr. Axel Klawonn Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Mathematics
3:00 p.m.	Viel Lärm um KI – Einführung in (generative) KI in der Hochschulbildung Professor Dr Beatrix Busse, Ingo Kleiber Vice-Rectorate for Teaching and Studies

Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Schedule	Agenda
9:00 a.m.	KI und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in der Lehre thematisieren - cancelled - Dr Miriam Gertzen Centre of Higher Education Development
	AI-Chat in ILIAS: Potenziale für Lehre und Lernen Nicole Adam & Nadimo Staszak CompetenceCenter E-Learning
10:00 a.m.	Best Practices zu KI in der Hochschullehre
	Zwischen Unterstützung und Fehlleitung: KI-Kompetenz im wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten Philipp Schmeling Office of the Vice Dean of Studies & Teaching, Faculty of Medicine Code review strategies in AI-assisted programming for linguistics research and teaching projects Job Schepens CRC 1252: Prominence in Language, Project S – Data, Design and Sustainability Einige Gedanken zur Vereinbarkeit der Integration generativer KI in die Lehre mit den Qualitätskriterien Lehre und Studium der UzK Eva Scheel-Huber, Institute for Linguistics & Elen Le Foll, Department of Romance Studies, Data Center for the Humanities
10:00 a.m.	KI-Qualifizierungskonzept Lehrkräftebildung Meggi Wiesmann Center for Teacher Education KI im naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht – Ein Seminarkonzept zur Förderung KI-gestützter Lehrkompetenz Cilia Rücker Institute of Physics Education, Digital Education with focus on AI [EN] Can AI help teachers? Experimental evidence on the effects of AI use and AI training on teaching preparation Philipp Appel German Institute for Adult Education, Department of Teaching and Learning
10:00 a.m.	Lehre im Dialog: KI in Studium und Prüfung Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation
11:30 a.m.	Skalierbare souveräne KI-Infrastruktur als Verbundaufgabe Professor Dr.Eng. Stefan Wesner IT Center University of Cologne (ITCC)
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen zum Einsatz von KI in der Lehre Christine Kirsch & Kathrin Kölle Administrative Unit 02.1 - Legal Department
12:00 – 12:30 p.m.	Zulässigkeit der Verwendung von KI in Prüfungen Christine Kirsch & Kathrin Kölle Administrative Unit 02.1 - Legal Department
2:00 p.m.	Closing event Professor Dr Beatrix Busse Vice-Rectorate for Teaching and Studies

Picture credits

Source header graphic: image created using artificial intelligence (OpenAI, ChatGPT 5.2)