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.
Advance your skills with future-focused topics and innovative learning methods – guided by renowned experts from the re:publica stages and community, together with experienced SRH professors. Welcome to the first re:publica x srh CAMPUS Berlin!
From 3rd to 5th September 2025, we’re bringing together expert knowledge, cutting-edge didactics and inspiring networks in a unique learning experience.
The programme is based on key insights from the re:publica Call for Participation (CfP) and is designed to build essential future skills. Alongside valuable content, all participants will receive a certificate of participation and a digital LinkedIn badge to showcase their learning achievements.
Stay tuned – detailed programme information is coming soon.
📍 SRH Campus Berlin, Sonnenallee 221
🗓️ 3-5 September 2025, time: tbd
Cost: EUR 1390,- netto
Participants of the re:publica x srh CAMPUS Berlin can choose from three topics and thus set their own personal training focus:
The didactic concept is based on the CORE principle of SRH University to enable an in-depth and interactive learning experience. During the event, keynote speeches, workshops and group work alternate. Work and consolidation materials help to apply the acquired knowledge in practice after the training programme.
The program combines expert knowledge, innovative methodological skills, and inspiring networks in a unique setting. In small groups and various workshop units, the topics will be explored interactively and creatively, and then transferred into participants’ professional practice. This includes inspiring keynotes, expert talks and impulses, activating method trainings, and joint reflection and presentation sessions.
Artificial intelligence has long been part of our everyday lives - in apps, on platforms and in medicine. It can support us, but it can also control us. What happens when machines not only know what we do, but also how we think? And who actually decides what an AI is allowed to do - and what not?
This module is for anyone who wants to explore the fundamental questions of AI and ethics: What does it mean to develop technology responsibly? How can we ensure that AI does not discriminate or manipulate? Who owns our data - and how do we protect our thoughts?
We will talk about digital security as part of a living democracy. About the role of politics, tech companies and society. And about why we need diverse perspectives to shape fair technologies for everyone. An invitation to have a say, to think - and not to leave everything to AI.
Our experts:
Annette Zimmermann is a political philosopher working on the ethics and politics of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data.
Annette is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and an Affiliate Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before that, Annette was a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at Harvard University and a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of York as well as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. Annette holds a DPhil (PhD from the University of Oxford).
Annette's research explores questions like: what is algorithmic injustice, and how do its effects compound over time? What role do risk and uncertainty play in this context? What does it mean to trust AI? Whose voices should we prioritise in collective decisions about AI design and deployment-and whose voices are currently excluded? Whose rights are most at risk? How can we place AI under meaningful democratic control-and would that solve the problem of algorithmic injustice?
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.
Prof. Daniel Arias-Aranda (born 1972 in Madrid) is a 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.
The future is not something that just happens - it is what we make of it. The thematic focus "Co-Creation & Open Innovation" is about thinking together instead of alone: with methods such as scenario development, strategic foresight and radical collaboration. Because only with diverse perspectives can thought patterns be questioned and new possibilities opened up.
We look at cultural change in organisations: How can an open mindset emerge? What structures do we need to not only enable innovation, but to live it together?
Storytelling and prototyping also play a central role here - as a means of making the future tangible, developing arguments for change and bringing collective imagination to life.
Whether through creative tools from strategic and systemic design, life-centred processes or holistic visions: This is about futures that we actively and sustainably shape - instead of just chasing after them.
Lecturers:
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.
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".
Crises challenge us - individually, socially and globally. But they also offer opportunities for new togetherness, shared knowledge and solidarity-based solutions. The focus of this topic is on resilience strategies: emotional, digital, social.
What does it mean to be crisis-competent in a world of climate anxiety, the skills gap, demographic change and constant digital fire? We look at re-skilling and up-skilling for a sustainable working world, cross-generational learning processes and the respectful exchange of experiences.
The focus is also on mental health: how can we promote mental strength - with mindfulness, digital tools and new dialogues about what really matters to us?
Whether climate conflicts, self-worth in social media or community resilience strategies: This module invites you to use writing in particular as an effective tool to strengthen resilience and crisis competence, to seek answers together - and to remain capable of acting in times of permanent crisis.
Lecturers:
SRH University, Campus Berlin
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.
From problem space to solution space, you will experience a short strategic design thinking journey in interdisciplinary teams.
In an iterative, life-centred and strategic way, we will run through a divergent and convergent thinking model, also called 'double-diamond', in two days. You will be introduced to a range of valuable tools and principles from the areas of research, synthesis, ideation, prototyping, testing and implementation.
Building on the expert input from re:publica and the SRH Academia, the content will be reflected on in order to jointly derive a focus topic for each track. These challenges will be explored in greater depth using research tools such as cross-interviews, a writing workshop and GenAI.
The aim of the first day is to systematically define potential areas of opportunity, which will serve as a starting point for the creative phase on day 2.
A more practical impulse is the prelude to a creative day on which the areas of opportunity are put into practice. Ideation and prototyping principles will be used to make initial concepts and future strategies tangible. A selection will be presented on stage and reflected on across all tracks.
The aim of the second day is to transfer expert content to your professional environment.
By working in dynamic teams in close collaboration with experts and exchanging ideas across the tracks, you can gain an insight into the widespread language of innovation.
Let's make the world a better place with forward-looking expertise and an innovative mindset!
Tracks
I: Who Controls the Code: Ethics and Responsibility in AI
II: Thinking Futures Together: Co-Creation & Open Innovation
III: Remaining Able to Act in the Poly-Crisis: Resilience & Crisis Competence
