Open Source Hardware (Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme)

The joint ENHANCE course "Open Source Hardware", offered by TU Berlin in cooperation with TU Delft and Universitat Politècnica de València, follows the approach of project-based teaching and is run as an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme including a 5-day in-presence phase at TU Berlin in May 2026.

The project scope includes the participation and/or advancement of an open source hardware project or also the empirical acquisition of qualitative and quantitative data to answer defined research questions. The planning, analysis and reflections thereof will be presented and recorded in a technical report or scientific paper to be submitted.

Students will learn the basics of open source hardware and gain advanced knowledge of product development, prototyping and quality improvement of open source hardware in the course of the seminar. Existing skills and knowledge from other courses can be brought in and expanded as a result of transdisciplinary cooperations with practical partners. Meanwhile, Open Educational Resources (OER) will be used, which will be expanded during the course.

In group work with connected practice partners, students learn teamwork skills and improve their ability for interdisciplinary cooperation and project management. Furthermore, the students learn to navigate in a dynamic and innovative environment and gain new knowledge about possible new exploitation paths of hardware. In addition, the students learn to present their content-related work results in a team in a realistic form of management presentation.

Previous knowledge about product development, business management, computer science or production engineering would be useful but are not required.

The two-level mutual trust-based quality assurance scheme has been adopted:

• at the university level: Technische Universität Berlin has applied its internal quality assurance procedures and structures to the proposal of Open Hardware it submitted to ENHANCE and to its implementation - the related learning activities,
• at the Alliance level: the body composed of Education Officers has made decisions regarding the inclusion of Open Hardware proposed by Technische Universität Berlin to the Innovative Learning Campus part of the joint ENHANCE educational offer, based on the compliance with the formal requirements and ENHANCE goals.

The course runs along 10 weeks of remote learning (some self-paces some in virtual exchange) and remote teamwork from April-June, and a one-week-long in presence event in Berlin (Mai 4-8, 2026).

Final presentation and final report.

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Online and in-presence at TU Berlin