In November 2025, we hosted the 2nd interdisciplinary workshop on “Teaching Science-Technology-Society Topics in STEM Fields”. This 2nd workshop builds on a 1st workshop, opens an external URL in a new window in 2024 and continued scientific exchange on how to do this kind of teaching well and in innovative ways.

This time, the workshop design took students’ perspectives as a starting point, which made it a great opportunity for reflecting “Teaching S-T-S” from learners’ perspectives. The organising students developed an amazing concept for structured student-teacher exchange on motivations and approaches to addressing Science-Technology-Society Aspects in STEM Fields.

With our guest speaker Prof. Kathrin Otrel-Cass (University of Graz), we discussed our teaching approaches before the background of different learning theories, as well as the implications of Large Language Models (LLMs) for teaching, and institutional support for S-T-S in STEM.

The organising team  included both lecturers and students: Lisa Sigl (TU Wien) Susanne Oechsner (TU Wien), Hannah Fabro (Université Paris-Est Crèteil, previously: TU Wien), jackie/Andrea Ida Malkah Klaura (TU Wien / Angewandte), Tobias Christoph (TU Wien), Ingrid Metzler (KL Krems), Maximilian Fochler (Universität Wien), Alexander Bagattini (KIT)

A huge thank you to the organising team and all participants!

For further information on teaching S-T-S at TU Wien, please see:

https://www.tuwien.at/en/research/rti-support/responsible-research-practices/teaching, opens an external URL in a new window