From 3-5 Sept. 2025, the SRH Campus Berlin will host a continuing education festival in cooperation with re:publica. Three workshops will deal with future topics at the interface of digitalisation, innovation and the world of work.
Immerse yourself in three practical workshops on future skills and professional effectiveness - developed in cooperation with re:publica:
🧠 Workshop 1: Co-Creation & Open Innovation
Learn how to design collaborative innovation processes and develop creative solutions in a team.
Language: German
🛡 Workshop 2: Cyber Security & AI
Strengthen your digital sovereignty: from AI ethics to practical protective measures against digital threats.
Language: English
💪 Workshop 3: Resilience & crisis competence
Develop personal resilience strategies and promote stability and orientation in your team.
Language: German
🎓 With certificate of participation & LinkedIn badge
📍 Interactive methods | Small groups | Flipped classroom
Secure your place now and make an impact!
📍 SRH Campus Berlin, Sonnenallee 221
🗓️ 3-5 September 2025, time: tbd
Cost: EUR 1390,-
Further training
In a complex, dynamic world, you need more than specialised knowledge: Anyone who wants to act effectively - in teams, projects or leadership roles - must have future skills. Strong communication skills, personal responsibility and solution-oriented thinking are therefore at the centre of the re:publica & SRH continuing education festival. The special learning concept combines flipped classroom, interactive methods and practical project work - for training that lasts and has an impact. Participants in the workshops receive a certificate o participation (as well as a digital LinkedIn badge).
Thinking ahead
The future and innovation do not come from repetition - but from new thinking. The training festival offers space for a change of perspective, methodological impulses and reflection. This creates new knowledge that is not just consumed, but developed further together.
Impact
The content of the workshops is not only aimed at personal learning - it also empowers people to make changes in their own environment. Whether driving innovation, strengthening digital security or leading teams through crises: The knowledge acquired helps participants to actively take responsibility and help shape sustainable developments in their organisation.
Shaping the future together: Many organisations struggle with innovation because they remain stuck in rigid structures and silo thinking. Different perspectives, competences and worlds of experience are rarely brought together - potential remains untapped.
What participants learn:
How to design innovation processes collaboratively - across departmental, company or industry boundaries. The workshop teaches methods such as design thinking, prototyping and participative work to develop creative solutions in a team.
Goal:
Participants use co-creation specifically for innovation processes in their everyday work, learn how to systematically set up innovation processes and how to moderate teams productively.
Lecturer: Prof. Julia Leihener & re:publica speaker: Dodo Vögler
Workshop language: German
Prof Julia Leihener is a Senior Strategic Designer in Berlin and currently co-director of the international Master's programme in Strategic Design at the SRH University of Applied Sciences Berlin.
She is co-founder of the 'Product Visionaires - Siemens BenQ Mobile Think Tank' and the 'Creation Centre - Innovation Lab of Telekom Innovation Laboratories'.
She works as a trainer, speaker and moderator in various innovation hubs and educational institutions, e.g. ESCP and HPI School of Design Thinking.
Digital resilience in a networked world
Technological progress brings efficiency - but also new risks. Companies are confronted with the speed of digital developments and the uncertainty of dealing with AI and data.
What participants learn:
How to deal responsibly with artificial intelligence, actively shape data protection and recognise and avoid threats such as phishing or data leaks. The workshop offers basic knowledge, practical tools and ethical guidelines and risks.
Objective:
Digital sovereignty - participants gain confidence in dealing with AI systems, learn to assess risks and implement protective measures in their own working environment.
Lecturer: Prof. Dr Christian Kapteyn & re:publica speaker: Janosch Delcker
Workshop in English language
Christian has a background in semiconductor physics and initially worked in technological innovation management in the semiconductor industry. In 2010, he became an entrepreneur and founded startups in the fields of peer-to-peer car sharing and 3D printing. As a consultant, coach and business angel, he has supported numerous innovative start-ups in developing and refining their products, strategies and business models as well as in raising venture capital. He also advises companies as a strategy consultant specialising in business model innovation, platform business models and corporate venture creation. Since 2021, Christian has been teaching part-time at SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences as Professor of Digital Business and Head of the Master's programme "Digital Transformation Management".
Prof. Daniel Arias-Aranda (born 1972 in Madrid) is Full Professor of Business Organisation at the University of Granada (Spain), specialising in business management, innovation management and technology. He holds a PhD in Economics and Management and has worked as an external examiner and tenured professor at several Spanish universities. His research focuses on areas such as ERP systems in supply chain management and supply chain management in humanitarian disasters with notable EU-funded projects. Arias-Aranda has also been a visiting professor at several national and international institutions, notably at the SRH University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. He is a member of the Department of Business Organisation at the Faculty of Economics. He is also a science fiction author. His latest novel "The Answer to Everything (La respuesta a todo)" describes the influence of technology on our future lives.
Prof Dr Alexander I. Iliev received his PhD from the College of Engineering at the University of Miami in 2009. He holds two patents in the fields of digital audio watermarking and data enhancement and is the author of several books on applied psychoacoustics, speech coding, emotion recognition and the development of intelligent systems using artificial intelligence. As an active researcher, Prof Iliev regularly publishes scientific articles in leading journals and speaks at international conferences. His research interests include signal processing, personalisation through speech and image analysis, intelligent systems, big data, artificial intelligence and, more recently, machine quantum learning.Prof. Iliev is currently the academic director of the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence course at SRH University of Applied Sciences. His academic affiliations also include teaching and research activities at the University of California, Berkeley, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the University of Miami, the University of Wisconsin, Kadir Has University in Istanbul and more recently at the University of Granada in Andalusia, Spain.his current research is closely linked to the rapid advances in artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), big data and cybersecurity.in addition to his academic activities, Prof Iliev has extensive experience in industry. He is co-founder of Innovatia Valley, a centre for digital innovation established in 2021. Previously, he was Director of the Internet Division at bTV, Bulgaria's leading digital media company founded by Rupert Murdoch. He was also a product manager at Gracenote in Emeryville, California, where he led the development of data access technologies and personalised recommendations for the company's home division. He has also worked as a consultant for Labcyte (San Jose, CA) and Stealth Media Labs (Chicago, IL), among others.
Stay strong - personally and as a team
Constant stress, pressure to change and uncertainty lead to overload or exhaustion for many professionals. Teams easily lose direction and cohesion in crises.
What participants learn:
How to strengthen their own resources, act in a stress-resistant manner and apply resilience strategies in everyday working life - for themselves and their team. The focus is on systemic methods, emotional self-management and team communication in crisis situations.
Objective:
Participants develop personal resilience skills and learn how to remain stable, reflective and capable of acting in dynamic working environments - and how to support others in doing so.
Lecturer: Prof. Dr Franziska Schölmerich, Prof. Katrin Girginson & re:publica speaker: tbd
Workshop language: German
Prof. Dr Franziska Schölmerich heads the MBA Business Coaching and New Work Organisational Development course at SRH. As a psychologist, she is passionate about bringing people together and creating experiences that create a desire for the future and courage for change. She is enthusiastic about transformation in organisations with the aim of shaping work in such a way that it contributes to social cohesion and has positive effects for people and the planet. She uses her extensive experience in science and in supporting organisations, teams and people to design and implement effective transformation concepts.
Katrin Girgensohn is Professor of Writing Studies at SRH University in Berlin. After studying literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin, she completed her doctorate at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the European University Viadrina and obtained a teaching qualification in higher education research at the Humboldt University, specialising in teaching and learning research. The common thread of this interdisciplinary journey has always been the topic of writing in all its facets.
At the European University Viadrina, she founded the Writing Centre and headed the Centre for Teaching and Learning. At SRH University, in addition to teaching, especially in the Creative Writing and Copywriting programme, she led the process of developing the CORE Future Skills and is currently conducting theoretical and practical research on teaching methods for promoting the future skills of coping and changing through writing. She is the Executive Director of the Institute for Writing Studies.
