A cornerstone of the HESCOR project is our commitment to education and outreach to university students, school children, and the general public.

At the university and schools: At the university, we are committed to education through open lectures, such as our Ringvorlesung series, and online lectures as Open Educational Resources. Through the university, we participated in KinderUni, a month of courses for children in 3rd to 6th grade. We are also creating comics to document the interdisciplinary scientific process for a broad audience.

For the public: Through social media, we will extend the outreach of our comics to the public. We will also post scientific, but digestible blogs to extend our research to a broader audience. In addition, towards the conclusion of our project, we will host an exhibition on our findings on human cultural evolution.

Educational Research: In the HESCOR project, data are critically important. We are therefore pursuing scientific research in collaboration with the Institute of Geography Education to assess the data competence of future teachers and create an educational framework that extends data awareness within the classroom. The guiding research questions are:

1. What ideas do students have about data?
2. How do students assess data quality?
3. What skills do students have to critically assess data?
4. What difficulties do students have in structuring and evaluating data?
5. Which methods can be used to promote data literacy among students?