sustAInability – advanced topics in sustainability and artificial intelligence
Sustainability, digitalisation, artificial intelligence
sustAInability is a joint project between Hochschule München and the Technical University of Munich, in which interdisciplinary Master’s students explore the opportunities and challenges at the intersection of AI and sustainability.
Project description
The “sustAInability” seminar aims to explore, together with students from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Hochschule München (HM), the tension between artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainability goals. Through an innovative, challenge-based teaching and learning approach, students are empowered to engage with complex issues relating to the potential, pitfalls and challenges of AI in the context of sustainability, and to work independently in teams to develop solutions to real-world problems. The seminar is aimed at master's degree and advanced bachelor's degree programmes from both technical and non-technical degree programmes and is explicitly designed to be interdisciplinary.
Team members
MUC.DAI – Munich Center for Digital Sciences and AI
Technical University of Munich
October 2022 – September 2026
This project is funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts and coordinated by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt).
• Zönnchen, B.; Böhm, C.; von Schwichow, H.; Socher, G.; Wurster, S. (2024). Empowering interdisciplinary expertise: evaluating the impact of challenge-based learning on AI and sustainability literacy in higher education. EDULEARN24 Proceedings, 5998–6007.
• Zönnchen, B.; Böhm, C.; Socher, G. (2024). Bridging Disciplines in Higher Education: The Convergence of AI and Sustainability. 10th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’24). Valencia, 18–21 June 2024. Web link