KOMO projects

2024

• Coordination of the visit of the Czech Paralympics medallist David Kratochvíl at the Centre for Performance Diagnostics and Sports Medicine (ZLS) (November 2024) Report
   
• Support for the presentation of the ‘Unissued Diplomas’ exhibition on the OTH campus in Weiden (November 2024) Report
   
• Support for information events for prospective students from Ukraine in Amberg, Weiden and online (November 2024)
   
• Excursion for OTH students to Prague to participate in the ‘International Seminar on Agile Project Management Frameworks’ at the ČVUT University of Technology (November 2024)
   
• Participation in the one-week final management meeting at the Netherlands Business Academy in Dordrecht as part of the Erasmus KA2 project INTERADIS (October 2024) Report
   
• Study tripfrom the University of Pardubice to OTH AW (as part of the BTHA project „To Weiden (not only) to learn German - future prospects for students from Pardubice”) (October 2024) Report
   
• Participation in the online university fair „Study in Bavaria” for prospective students from Ukraine (October 2024) Report
   
• KOMOvino - Wine Tasting Event presenting wines from the region of Central Eastern Europe (October 2024)
   
• Awarding of four new UAre@OTH AW scholarships and extension of seven scholarships for Ukrainian students(DAAD programme „Future Ukraine”) (September 2024) Report
   
• Participation in a one-week sustainability training as part of the Erasmus KA2 project INTERADIS (August 2024) Report
   
• Product management seminar for OTH Master's students in Pilsen as part of the project „Innovation skills for internationally active project managers” (funded by BTHA) (June 2024) Report
   
• International Day with hands-on activities organised by KOMO (photo booth and world map „Where are you from?”) (June 2024) Report
   
• Visit from 20 Czech pupils who are completing the EUREGIO EGRENSIS guest school year (June 2024) Report
   
• Joint Erasmus+ Staff Week with the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (June 2024) Report
   
• Study visit as part of the INTERADIS project - 18 Ukrainian students spend two weeks in the Upper Palatinate (April - May 2024) Report
   
• Excursion for students to Pilsen (March 2024) Report
   
• Awarding of UAre@OTH AW scholarships to six Ukrainian students ( DAAD programme „Future Ukraine”) and a further two scholarships (DAAD programme „Eastern Partnerships”) (March 2024) Report
   
• Application for the project „Creative Software Engineering” in the DAAD programme „Eastern Partnerships 2025-2027” with project partners from the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Croatia and Albania (approved)
   
• Project week „Cross Cultural Process Management” (DAAD programme „Eastern Partnerships”) in cooperation with the Ukrainian University of Czernowitz and the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (January 2024) Report

2023

• Coaching workshop "Resilience and Career Planning" for UAre@OTH AW fellows (September 2023 online and December 2023 in presence in Amberg) Report
   
• Implementation of two workshops "Developing Key Skills through Design Thinking" for OTH students led by Tomáš Chochole, Ph.D. from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (BTHA project "Strengthening Soft Skills of Students with a Focus on Product and Process Innovation") (October + November 2023)
   
• Excursion for OTH students to Prague within the project "International Standards - Seminar on Project and Process Management at ČVUT in Prague" (funded by BTHA) (November 2023) Report
   
• Information event for prospective students from Ukraine at the OTH location Amberg (October 2023) Report
   
• Participation in the online university fair 2023 "Studium in Bayern" for prospective students from Ukraine (October 2023)
   
• Awarding of five scholarships of the UAre@OTH AW project (DAAD program "Future Ukraine") (October 2023)
   
• KOMOvino - Wine Tasting Event presenting wines from the region of Central Eastern Europe (October 2023)
   
• Participation in the DAAD Ukraine Conference "Education in Times of War" in Berlin (September 2023) Report
   
• Participation in the TCA network event  “A New Vision for European Cooperation” in Regensburg (September 2023) Report
   
• Participation in an INTERADIS Study Visit as part of the project management meeting at the University of Foggia in Vieste Report 
   
• Study Visit within the INTERADIS project - 37 Ukrainian professors and university staff visiting the university in Amberg (July 2023) Report
   
• International Summer School on Sustainability with the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and the company BHS Corrugated Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH, (June 2023) Report
   
• Implementation of two workshops "Developing Key Skills through Design Thinking" for OTH-S students under the leadership of Tomáš Chochole, Ph.D. from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (BTHA project "Strengthening Soft Skills of Students with a Focus on Product and Process Innovation") (May 2023) Report
   
• Joint Erasmus+ Staff Week with University of West Bohemia in Pilsen 2 universities, 2 countries, 3 cities (May 2023) Report
   
• Excursion for master students to Pilsen within the project "Strengthening soft skills of students with focus on product and process innovation" (funded by BTHA) (April 2023) Report
   
• Lecture for students of the master program "Areal Studies: Bavarian Studies" at the Department of German and Slavic Studies of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen on the topic "Projektmanagement grenzüberschreitend – von A wie Antrag bis Z wie Zwischenmenschliches.” Projects of the OTH Amberg-Weiden with the Czech Republic and other partner countries (April 2023)
   
• Awarding of eight scholarships of the project UAre@OTH AW (DAAD program "Future Ukraine") (February 2023) Report
   
• Presentation of OTH Amberg-Weiden at the three-day university fair GAUDEAMUS in Prague (January 2023) Report
   
• Project week „Cross Cultural Process Management” (DAAD program Eastern Partnerships + BTHA funding) in cooperation with the Ukrainian University of Chernivtsi and the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (January 2023) Report

2022

• Welcome UKRAINE - Bundling of information, support of Ukrainian students as well as fundraising, communication with Ukrainian partner universities
  Further information
   
• UAre@OTHAW - After project approval, announcement of scholarships for Ukrainian students in the DAAD funding program „Zukunft Ukraine” (Future Ukraine)
  Further information
   
• Study trip for students from the University of Pardubice to the OTH AW and meeting with int. students (BTHA project "Blick über die Grenze”) (November 2022) Further information
   
• KOMOvino - Wine Tasting Event presenting wines from the region of Central Eastern Europe (November 2022)
   
• Job Speed Dating 3.0 at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (October 2022) Further information
   
• Application to the DAAD funding program „Future Ukraine - Scholarship Program for Refugees from Ukraine at German Universities” (selection decision has been postponed for the time being)
   
• International Summer School on Sustainability with the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and the company emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA (Juni 2022) Report
  Report of the UWB: Weiden hosts an international summer school focusing on sustainability
   
• Student excursion to Pilsen for the „Innovate Pilsen” festival (June 2022) Report
   
• Joint Erasmus+ Staff Week with the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen - university staff from all over Europe visit WBU Pilsen and OTH Amberg-Weiden (May 2022) Report
  Report of the UWB: International Staff Week 2022, this year with OTH Amberg Weiden
   
• Workshop „Be creative! Strengthen your teamwork and problem solving!” led by Tomáš Chochole, Ph.D., Head of Interdisciplinary Cooperation of Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, West Bohemian University in Pilsenfor OTH students (online and in presence in Amberg) (April 2022) Report
   
• Cooperation with the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen - academic exchange, preparation of the workshop „Be creative!”, the joint Erasmus+ Staff Week and Job Speed Dating 3.0 (March 2022) Report
   
• Project week „Cross Cultural Process Management” (DAAD Programme Eastern Partnerships) in cooperation with the Ukrainian University of Chernivtsi and the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (February 2022) Report

2021

• Participation in the Erasmus KA2 project „Interadis” (International Students Adaptation and Integration) - alongside eight Ukrainian as well as one Italian, one Lithuanian and one Dutch higher education institution (organisation of the 3rd Online Study Visit and participation in Study Visits in Lithuania and Ukraine) Further information on the project
   
• Participation in eight virtual university fairs
   
• KOMOvino - Wine Tasting Event presenting wines from the region of Central Eastern Europe (November 2021)
   
• Art project „CEE People” in cooperation with the FOS/BOS Weiden (autumn 2021)
   
• Job Speed Dating 2.0 on the campus in Weiden (September 2021) Report
   
• Launch of the interactiveKOMO video presenting different ways to CEE
  (in cooperation with eventmedia and students of the degree programme Media Technology and Media Production)
   
• Online lecture for OTH students „Doing Business in Russia” with Luc Jones (June 2021)
   
• Participation in the Online Staff Week of the University of Szeged in Southern Hungary
   
• First joint International Erasmus Staff Week with the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (May 2021) Report
   
• Successful application to the DAAD programme „Eastern Partnerships” for the project „Cross-Border Process Management” with the Ukrainian University of Chernivtsi and the West Bohemian University of Pilsen as partners

2020

• Participation in four virtual university fairs - Online International Education Fair Ukraine/Belarus/Georgia/Azerbaijan, EDU Fairs of Begin Group Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan/Kyrgyzstan and Russia, German School Prague (autumn 2020) Report
   
• Virtual Job Speed Dating and Job Fair MOEglichkeiten (October 2020) Report
   
• Visit to the Technical University of Liberec (March 2020) Report
   
• Organisation of the participation of two students and two lecturers from the Faculty of Education of the South Bohemian University České Budějovice / Budweis (JCU) in the practical course „Thermodynamics” within the study programmes Mechanical Engineering and Plastics Engineering (January 2020) Report
   
• Delegation trip to Russia (Tambov and Moscow) with OTH President Prof. Dr. Andrea Klug (January 2020) Report + DWIH Moscow report on the delegation visit.

2019

• Preparation for a Bavarian-Czech Erasmus+ Staff Week with the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (December 2019)Report
• Event Typically Hungarian?! - Visiting professor from Budapest for an intercultural exchange in Weiden (December 2019) Report
• Call for entries "Pohár - Prize for Central Eastern Europe" for the first time (November 2019) Report on the award ceremony AUSGEZEICHNET!
• Video mapping projecton "25 years OTH" with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Media and Computer Science (EMI) of the OTH Amberg-Weiden and the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Pilsen (funding: BTHA) (June - October 2019)
• Report on the preparatory meeting (July 2019) + Night of Science (25.10.2019)
   
• Participation in the Bavarian University Dayat the Representative Office of the Free State of Bavaria in Prague (October 2019) and in the International Day of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (November 2019)
   
• Delegation visit to the Technical University of Liberec (October 2019) Report
   
• Presentation at the IEF 2019 education fair in Kazakhstan (05.-06.10.2019, Nur-Sultan /Almaty) Report 
   
• Cooperation talks in Ukraine, including on double degree programme with the German-Ukrainian Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (September 2019) Report
   
• Planning and implementation of the panel "Gateway Central-Eastern Europe" at the Science Day of the European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg (19.07.2019 in Weiden) Report
   
• Co-organisation of a workshop on research and application of ORC technologies (Organic Rankine Cycle) with CEE partners, organiser: Competence Centre Cogeneration of the OTH Amberg-Weiden (27 and 28.06.2019 in Amberg) Report
   
• Organisation and supervision of STA visits by five staff members from universities in the Czech Republic and Hungary (June 2019) Report
   
• Application under the Erasmus+ (Mobility with Partner Countries) and DAAD (Eastern Partnerships) programmes to facilitate student exchanges and summer schools in cooperation with universities in Ukraine and Serbia (rejected)
   
• Participation in the Czech-German Erasmus+ Staff Training Week at TU Liberec and Hochschule Zittau-Görlitz (May 2019) Report
   
• Organisation and supervision of stays for students from Czech universities in Pardubice and Pilsen (March 2019) Report
   
• Organisation of the public panel discussion "Let's talk about Europe!" (March 2019) (Funding: Euregio Egrensis) Report & Report Onetz
   
• Partner and student acquisition in Serbia and Hungary (March 2019) Report

2018

• Launch of the Competence Centre with more than 20 professors from partner universities from six CEE countries and more than 30 representatives from OTH Amberg-Weiden (mid-December 2018) Report