The project work took place on several levels:

• Theoretical work was done on innovation management and development stages of projects. The state of affairs was prepared for internal discussion; the results were published.
• Elements to support the digitisation strategy of the University of Paderborn in teaching were developed. These include the E-Learning Strategy Circle, the Teaching homepage on the homepage, the introduction of the E-Learning label, various documents on the further development of E-Learning at the University of Paderborn, the innovation prize for students, innovation seminars for students.
• Both "technical" and "competence-oriented" innovations were identified, catalogued and classified. These innovations were developed especially by teachers and students and are already being tested in the everyday life of the University of Paderborn. InnoVersity has made these innovative projects visible on the university's homepage, accompanying, advising and supporting the university in the selection and implementation of suitable networking, further development and perpetuation models. Additional funds were raised for the PINGO tool in order to develop a sustainable business model in cooperation with InnoVersity.
• The results were disseminated through lectures, workshops and publications.

The university is a place where groundbreaking technological advances, concepts and usage scenarios are created. If the university wants to profit more from these many innovative ideas and developments for its own digital research and teaching, it must accompany them more systematically than before. With InnoVersity, it is expanding its existing successful digitisation strategy. To support digitisation, a systematic innovation management system will be prototypically developed and evaluated on the basis of concrete scenarios.

In the area of innovation management, a number of fields of action arise: innovative ideas and projects are collected, documented, evaluated and, if necessary, accompanied, supported, innovators are networked with others and, if necessary, a way is worked out for a transfer to broader use and anchoring. Based on this, a process model is to be designed and established for the conception of innovation management. Part of the InnoVersity project is therefore to define the exact process. The process model will be developed, abstracted and evaluated on the basis of existing innovations.

The digitisation strategy resulting from the mission statement of the University of Paderborn pursues the goal of closely linking research and teaching and providing digital support in order to offer students and young researchers attractive study and research conditions. Research results and new methods and tools should be quickly disseminated in teaching. To this end, students and researchers must be supported by well-developed central services, both in terms of infrastructure and competence development. However, there should be no obligation for standardisation beyond organisational necessities (e.g. central campus management system), but coordination is nevertheless necessary to enable continuity and permanent dissemination.

The further development of the digitisation strategy is therefore on the one hand about maintaining the achieved status at a high level and expanding it in accordance with the university's strategic development plans. On the other hand, the university would like to reach a further qualitative level: The university's staff should not only have optimal working opportunities and make adequate use of them, but they should also actively participate in shaping the development of digital media and thus promote digitisation in research and teaching in a user-oriented manner.

At the Paderborn University, digitisation is not only a contemporary means of technical support, process optimisation and interaction such as communication. At the same time, it is also a strategic approach that is intended to expand the possibilities and implementation of knowledge work as a whole.  In this context, "digitisation" is understood to mean the support of university processes of teaching, research and administration through the use of information and communication technologies.

The University of Paderborn is moving between standardized and automated procedures suitable for everyday use, which are rolled out nationwide at a high level, and decentralized, but perfectly fitting lighthouses close to the core processes of research and teaching.

In order to consistently improve teaching, organisational and didactic measures must be developed, tested and anchored in addition to technical offers. The university has invested over 11 million euros in the project "Heterogeneity as an opportunity" – setting the course in decisive phases of the student life cycle" since 2011, which aims to improve the quality of studies and teaching in the long term.

Digitally supported teaching receives further impetus through various incentive systems. For example, the Presidential Board awards an annual prize for innovation and quality in teaching worth a total of €150,000, which is used to regularly support e-learning ideas and projects. In addition to the centrally initiated and responsible "top-down developments", promising ideas and concepts from students or from the chairs are to be supported ("bottom-up developments"). Furthermore, there are many ideas and approaches to support studies and teaching, but also to facilitate everyday university life, which are developed by teachers, young researchers and students alike.

At the Paderborn University there are numerous projects in the field of digitisation of teaching. An overview of the teaching projects can be found in this documentation.

An overview of students' projects can be found on the pages on the innovation award for students.

The analysis of the current status of innovation management in universities showed that there are very few studies on this area. The available studies clearly indicate the difficulty of innovation management at universities. The decentralised structure and the relative autonomy of the individual professors and working groups promote innovation activity, but this in turn prevents new concepts and methods from being anchored across the board. Due to the decentralised structure of the university, the Open Innovation approach was chosen in the project, which opens up the innovation process and thus allows a variety of different places for innovation. This approach supports the search for innovative teachers, but also students, for example through workshops, tool kits and the creation of communities/networking.

The ACTUAL analysis of digitisation projects at the University of Paderborn revealed a high level of innovation among teachers. Around 30 projects were identified. It became clear that the decentralised and inconsistent presentation of the projects on their own websites, subwebsites of the professorships and decentralised institutions is a challenge for innovation management. For the conception of a university-wide innovation management there are also consequences regarding the conception of a new IT infrastructure and services: Projects must be presented centrally and uniformly. The current status is documented under https://www.uni-paderborn.de/lehre/lehrinnovationen/lehrprojekte/.

With regard to student innovations, it has become clear that there is a great need here for support measures by the university, but at the same time implementation is not easy. Courses, information, incentives such as prizes, but also self-designed laboratory environments and carers have proven to be successful measures.

Within the University of Paderborn, the digitisation strategy for teaching and studies has been further developed together with the results from InnoVersity.

The project results were regularly reported on at workshops and conferences. All results were summarised in a guideline with recommendations for action, which is currently being published.

Andreas Brennecke, Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnologien (IMT)

Dr. Dietmar Haubfleisch, Direktion Universitätsbibliothek

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Keil, Professur für Kontextuelle Informatik am Heinz Nixdorf Institut

Prof. Dr. Dennis Kundisch, Professur für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Projektleitung PINGO

Prof. Dr. Johannes Magenheim, Professur für Didaktik der Informatik

Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister, Professur für Medienpädagogik und empirische Medienforschung

Anna Michel, Lehrstuhl Materielles und Immaterielles Kulturerbe UNESCO

Iris Neiske, Hochschuldidaktik Paderborn Bereich E-Learning

Prof. Dr. Birgit Riegraf, Vizepräsidentin für Lehre, Studium und Qualitätsmanagement

Prof. Dr. Niclas Schaper, Professur für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

Dr. Harald Selke, Fachgruppe für Kontextuelle Informatik

Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Seng, Professur für Materielles und Immaterielles Kulturerbe UNESCO

Paderborn University
Information and Media Technologies Center (IMT)

Project InnoVersity
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn

Project leadership:

Prof. Dr. Gudrun Oevel, head of the Information and Media Technologies Center (IMT)

Project management:

Jannica Budde
Information and Media Technologies Center (IMT)
Phone: 0 52 51 / 60-5370
E-mail: jannica.budde@uni-paderborn.de