Duration: 2016 - 2020

The field of mathematical optimization is particularly qualified to strengthen the coherence between school practice, mathematics didactics, and mathematical research because of its connecting character and its high practical relevance.

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Funded within the joint framework "Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung" of the Federal Government and the States of Germany.

Duration: 2017 - 2018
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Kathrin Klamroth
Team: Dr. Kerstin Dächert (Wuppertal), Tobias Dietz (Kaiserslautern), Prof. Dr. José Figueria (Lissabon), Prof. Dr. Carlos Fonseca (Coimbra), Pascal Halffmann (Kaiserslautern), Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Luís Paquete (Coimbra), Prof. Dr. Stefan Ruzika (Kaiserslautern), Luca Schäfer (Kaiserslautern), Dr. Teresa Schnepper (Wuppertal), Dr. Britta Schulze (Wuppertal), Dr. Michael Stiglmayr (Wuppertal), David Willems (Koblenz)
Partners: University of Coimbra, University of Wuppertal, University of Kaiserslautern, University of Lisbon

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Sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) within the Project-Related Personal Exchange (PPP).

Duration: 2016 - 2017
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Stefan Ruzika (University of Koblenz-Landau)
Team: Pascal Halffmann (Koblenz), Prof. Dr. Kathrin Klamroth (Wuppertal), Prof. Britta Schulze (Wuppertal), Dr. Michael Stiglmayr (Wuppertal), Prof. Dr. Margaret M. Wiecek (Clemson, USA)
Partners: University of Clemson, University of Wuppertal, Technical University Kaiserslautern, University of Koblenz-Landau

Sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in the Program for Project-Related Personal Exchange (PPP).

Duration: 2016 - 2017
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Kathrin Klamroth
Team: Dr. Hassene Aissi (Paris Dauphine), Prof. Dr. Cristina Bazgan (Paris Dauphine), Marek Cornu (Paris Dauphine), Dr. Lucie Galand (Paris Dauphine), Sami Kaddani (Paris Dauphine), Dr. Renaud Lacour (NewtonVaureal, Paris), Marco Milano (Wuppertal), Prof. Anthony Przybylski (Wuppertal), Britta Schulze (Wuppertal)
Dr. Michael Stiglmayr (Wuppertal), Satya Tamby (Paris Dauphine), Prof. Dr. Daniel Vanderpooten (Paris Dauphine)
Partners: University of Wuppertal, University Paris Dauphine

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Sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in the Program for Project-Related Personal Exchange (PPP).

Duration: 2006 - 2012 (in Wuppertal)
Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Margareta Heilmann (Wuppertal), Dr. Daniela Kacsó (Bochum), Dr. Elena Berdysheva (Giessen)
Partners in South Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

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Financed by the German Federal Foreign Office by the program "Academic Reconstruction of South Eastern Europe".

Duration: 2015 - 2016
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Stefan Ruzika (Koblenz)
Team: Prof. Dr. José Figueria (Lisbon), Prof. Dr. Carlos Fonseca (Coimbra), Pascal Halffmann (Koblenz), Prof. Dr. Kathrin Klamroth (Wuppertal), Prof. Dr. Luís Paquete (Coimbra), Britta Schulze (Wuppertal), Dr. Michael Stiglmayr (Wuppertal), David Willems (Koblenz)
Partners: University of Wuppertal, University of Coimbra, University of Lisbon, University of Koblenz-Landau

Sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in the Program for Project-Related Personal Exchange (PPP).

Duration: 2009 - 2013
Team: Maryam Abbasi (Coimbra), Kerstin Dächert (Wuppertal), José Figueira (Coimbra), Prof. Dr. Carlos Fonseca (Coimbra), Andreia Guerreiro (Coimbra), Prof. Dr. Horst W. Hamacher (Kaiserslautern), Prof. Dr. Kathrin Klamroth (Wuppertal), Tobias Kuhn (Kaiserslautern), Ass. Prof. Dr. Luís Paquete (Coimbra), Prof. Dr. Stefan Ruzika (Koblenz), Britta Schulze (Wuppertal), Florian Seipp (Kaiserslautern), Dr. Michael Stiglmayr (Wuppertal), Daniel Vaz (Coimbra)

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Sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in the Program for Project-Related Personal Exchange France (Procope).

Duration: 2017 - 2018
Team: Prof. Dr. Kathrin Klamroth, Dr. Michael Stiglmayr
Partner: Department of Mathematics and Informatics

Sponsored by the University of Wuppertal within the project 'Fachlichkeit in der Lehrerbildung'.

The project is based on the idea of an illuminated Pascal's triangle described in Hans Magnus Enzensberger's book "Der Zahlenteufel" (The Number Devil).

The object was realized as a project for the Year of Mathematics (2008) and is located in the rooms of the Junior Uni Wuppertal, where it is used for courses with children and young people.

Coordinates: Prof. Dr. Margareta Heilmann, Dipl.-Ing. Hans-Josef Kulmer, Jonas Kronenberg

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