Master’s programme in Photonics on the way to a digital future

Digital teaching, here with Johannes Kretzschmar, will further expand in Photonics. Image: Sabine Best - DAAD funds digitisation of international study programme at the University of Jena Imagine doing laboratory experiments in Jena from abroad: this should soon be possible with the help of Augmented and Virtual Reality, as part of the inter­national Master's programme in Photonics at the University of Jena in Germany. The further development of the programme will now be supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with 400,000 euros over two years, for the "digiPHOTON" project. " With this project we are responding to the increasing demand for digitally and flexibly available teaching content, especially among international students ," says project leader Prof. Thomas Pertsch. " This need is enormous and there is great potential, as the past semester under pandemic conditions has certainly shown. " Major aims are to develop the photonics programme into the University of Jena's first course that can be studied com­pletely online and to raise its profile internationally. Digital exams and virtual lab work.