In Jul 2025, 19 students from German speaking schools from Odessa, Ukraine and Sofia, Bulgaria, meet in Ulm, Germany. During a three-day workshop they learnt how to make good interviews with experts about five selected sustainability goals and how to use new digital tolls, esp. AI, to make them lively and to translate the contend in other languages. The aim was to ensure that the content of the interviews can be discussed without language barriers.
Before the workshop, the students completeted an online course on interview techniques. In Ulm, after an introduction by an expert, they were divided into five mixed-nationality groups.
- Workshop day: Intorduction in ViMA danube and other useful digital tools.
- Workshop day: The students worked in their groups to conduct five-minute video-based interviews with experts in Ulm and share their findings. Experts came from politics, municipalities, business, and the social and cultural sectors.
- Workshop Day: Students learnt through an external expert video editing and applying AI tools like subtitles and avatars to make content accessible in English, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian. They used HeyGen, an AI tool for processing video sequences and generating multilingual subtitles.
They presented their AI-enhanced interviews and discussed the results with teachers and other students at Schubart Gymnasium and show them how AI translation can help share valuable insights on SDGs across the Danube region.
After summer break, students from Odessa and Sofia will present the project in their home schools. The interviews will be inserted in the ViMA danube platform and discussed in the discussion forum: “Implementing sustainability goals in daily life to promote democracy?”. This will ensure to continue the exchange beyond the project and the application of new digital tools.
Find the results here.
Key goals: raising awareness of sustainability goals and equipping students with AI skills to break language barriers and foster international dialogue.
Sponsor
“The project is sponsored by the DANUBE SMALL PROJECT FUND funded by: The Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg, the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of Austria, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft (ARGE) Donauländer / State of Lower Austria, the Provincial Government of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina within the Republic of Serbia, the City of Regensburg, the Danube Office Ulm / Neu-Ulm and the Volksbank Ulm Biberach“