News — ifgeo

News and Results of the Project

KlimaOER Logo © Ellen Arimond

In November 2025, KlimaOER organised a workshop on licensing OER materials in Hamburg. Presentations on topics such as ‘(Copyright) Legal Foundations of Open Educational Resources’, ‘Licensing in Practice in the OER Context’ and ‘Licence Management and Compliance’ gave workshop participants a deeper insight into the topic of licensing.

OERcamp 2025 Hannover

At the beginning of October, some of our team took part in OERcamp 2025 in Hannover. The aim of the camp is to facilitate exchange between participants. We gained many new insights through exciting workshops and lectures. Ellen Arimond gave a workshop on OEP on our behalf, and we also began the first test phase of our best practice example there.

OER

OER stands for Open Educational Resources. In short, this means learning materials that are available to everyone free of charge.There are learning materials in all conceivable subject areas and levels that are provided with open licenses: the so-called Creative Commons or CC licenses. This means that the materials can be used, shared, edited, mixed, stored and reproduced.

European Geoscience Union in Vienna

The EGU (European Geoscience Union) took place in Vienna at the beginning of May: an international conference by and for 20,000 geoscientists, most of whom took part on site, but also online. Among others, a few people from our institute went there and informed themselves and networked in the most diverse sub-areas of meteorology.

Survey on the start of studies in meteorology

In a national survey, we are shedding light on the expectations, hopes and challenges of first-year meteorology students. Our aim is to better understand what drives young students - and where they need support. The results will provide valuable insights into how to make the start of their studies more successful.

„Open Source Tools“ – Our second workshop

How do I create animations for my OER module? How do I separate an image from the background for my new logo? How do I put a voice recording over an educational video - and all in the spirit of OER? In conversations at OER conferences, within our team and with the OER community, we have learned that we at KlimaOER are not the only ones who have asked ourselves these questions. In order to gain an overview ourselves and share it with the community, we organized an online workshop on open source tools.

OER Festival - Session report

How can formulas be made accessible for everyone? This question was the focus of our session at the OERcamp 2024. In addition to an introduction to digital accessibility, the exchange with participants from different disciplines provided valuable new impulses - from technical solutions to interdisciplinary project ideas.

Contact

If you have any questions about the project, are interested in working with us or would like to request a school visit, you can contact us at klimaoer@uni-bonn.de or using the contact details below.