Viadrina Coworking

Coworking

Person tippt auf einer Tastatur in einem Viadrina Büro

The Viadrina's new coworking space is being created in the Old Canteen. This will be a place that can be used by students and employees to work together.

Workplaces

The university provides a room in the Gräfin-Dönhoff building (GD), which you can use as a workspace. In GD 03 you can work with your own materials and laptops on Tuesdays to Thursdays from 11 am to 3 pm.

You also have the opportunity to use the mensa from Monday to Thursday until 4pm.

Also room K68 in the library is available in the main building. Please enquire at the University Library for the current opening times.

Updates from the coworking space

Video diary

We would like to make our work and the progress of the project visible and give you the opportunity to participate. You can find detailed information and our documentation of the conversion process and all other activities relating to the coworking space, as well as our work as a team, here on our Miro Board. We look forward to your ideas and feedback. Please use the feedback post-its on the board or write to us.

Coworking an der Viadrina - Grafik

Miro Board

Workstations in the library and in the ENS coworking space

Coworking space of the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS)

Write term papers in a focussed manner or brainstorm in a team - in the library in Viadrina's Main Building you will find a variety of workspaces for your projects. You can use the conference room on the bottom floor and various group work rooms for your teamwork. If you need peace and quiet to write and study, ask at the entrance for access to Carells on the third floor of the library. A workstation and computer are available for a deposit.

Concentrate on writing term papers or brainstorming in a team - in the library in Viadrina's Main Building you will find a variety of workspaces for your projects. You can use the conference room on the bottom floor and various group work rooms for your teamwork. If you need peace and quiet to write and study, ask at the entrance for access to Carells on the third floor of the library. A workstation and computer are available for a deposit.

Concentrate on writing term papers or brainstorm in a team - in the library in the Main Building of the Viadrina you will find a variety of workspaces for your projects. You can use the conference room on the bottom floor and various group work rooms for your teamwork. If you need peace and quiet to write and study, ask at the entrance for access to Carells on the third floor of the library. A workstation and computer are available for a deposit.

Concentrate on writing term papers or brainstorm in a team - in the library in Viadrina's Main Building you will find a variety of workspaces for your projects. You can use the conference room on the bottom floor and various group work rooms for your teamwork. If you need peace and quiet to write and study, ask at the entrance for access to Carells on the third floor of the library. A workstation and computer are available for a deposit.

Chill-out area, kitchen and modern working environment: on the first floor of the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice you will find the coworking space of the Viadrina's European New School of Digital Studies. Thanks to numerous workstations, you can work on your projects alone or in groups and give free rein to your creativity. You can exchange ideas with fellow students and get feedback from academic staff and mentors. And best of all: there's a table football table.

Digital coworking and digital tools

Coworking between remote work and normal operation

And now? Balancing between normality and caution is a major challenge. The new „normal“ still feels strange. Routines, procedures and processes first have to be established. It helps to look left and right. How do the others do it? Can we help ourselves?

Every Monday we also introduce you to helpful tools, nice podcasts, clever articles or funny videos and much more. Our finds are designed to accompany you through the week and can be accessed here.

You can access all talk shows and podcast episodes here

Soon also on all common audio streaming platforms!

Here's the first talk round on Spotify.

Do you have topics that interest you? Then write to us at coworking@europa-uni.de!

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Trello is easy to use and helps ToDos to manage the daily small, as well as the larger complex ToDos, alone or in a team, and to keep an eye on everything thanks to various project boards.

Asana: is a popular tool that combines project management, task management and communication.

Slack is a device-üoverlapping platform that helps teams not to lose the overview. Group channels, file sharing, tagging and mentions, as well as many integrations, make it easy to manage projects remotely and communicate in a topic-centred way.

Doodle or Dudle are uncomplicated tools for coordinating appointments without having to go through the strenuous feedback loops.

Zoom, Go to Meeting, Jitsi and co. - Online meeting platforms are booming, of course. And not without good reason, as they make it possible to hold meetings, appointments, jour fixes, etc. digitally.

Eetherpad instance and hackmd make collapsed real-time editing of texts possible.

cryptopad is an office and cloud service with inbuilt data protection

Mural is an online whiteboard for visual collaboration. You can work with virtual post-its on the blank boards and arrange them freely

Miro is an „infinite“ online whiteboard. You can access documents directly from the whiteboard, for example you can also edit Google Docs documents in Miro.

Prezi is an online presentation programme whose structure resembles an interactive mind map. The programme is available for various operating systems and works with various apps and platforms.

Mindmeister is a classic mind mapping tool digitised. This allows you to work on ideas together as a team at the same time.

Forrest: The focus app helps you to concentrate on your work for a certain period of time. You plant a digital tree, let it grow while you work and over time you have created a whole forest with your focus. But beware, if you stop before then the tree will break.

Rescue Time: How do you spend your time on your computer, phone or tablet? Rescue Time analyses your usage and divides it into productive and not-so-productive blocks.

Bring: Milk, eggs, bags of muesli. These are the things that usually come to mind when you're doing the housework. Quickly type them into the Bring app and share them with a friend or flatmate. Whoever gets the items can delete them with one click.

Just say no: Do you want to break bad habits? Then say no to swearing, boogying and smoking. The app helps you to document everything and remind you how good it is to „say no“.

Coffitivity – With Coffitivity, you can record background sounds from cafés that help to increase productivity.

*These recommendations are primarily intended for the private use of students and employees. You can find all of the university's official tools here.

Growth mindset

A dynamic mindset for successful work - that's what the growth mindset stands for.
This mindset is characterised by the belief that talents and skills can develop. Through exercise, everyone can expand their boundaries and develop new skills. So you can do something for your own development.

Sounds exciting? Then why not take a look at this video or this book.

16 Personalities Test

What type of worker are you? Find out at the following link find out!

Vision Board

Visualisation unleashes enormous power. Learn how to create a vision board and always keep an eye on your goals.
Vision board guide

Just celebrate your successes

Get strength for new tasks from the retrospective. A little reflection can help you to move forward in an energised way. Here is a small article

FuckUp Night

Failure is a necessary experience for success. This is what FuckUp Nights stand for. Here, professional failures and failures are dealt with openly so that you no longer have to make these mistakes. FuckUp Nights take place all over the world. Perhaps you would like to organise one yourself. You can find more information about this here.

XING Talk – Work. Future. Digital.
Link to the website: www.xing.com/talk
Open the podcast in Spotify

„t3n Podcast – The weekly update for digital pioneers“
Link to the website: https://t3n.de/podcast/
Open podcast in Spotify öffnen

„Frisch an die Arbeit“
Link to the website: zeit.de/serie/frisch-an-die-arbeit
Open the podcast in Spotify

Have fun coworking and stay healthy!

Take a break and work in the cafeteria, cowriting space and Auditorium Maximum

Snacks, coffee and the library right next door: the cafeteria in Viadrina's Main Building is a good place for (collaborative) work in a café atmosphere. The homemade cakes are particularly recommended. But be careful: The risk of chatting here is particularly high.

In the Cowriting Space on the ground floor of the Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building (GD 03) you will find workstations as well as books and handouts for academic writing and collections of term papers and essays. You will find a book exchange on the open shelf.

In the Cowriting Space on the ground floor of the Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building (GD 03), you can use workstations as well as books and handouts for academic writing and collections of term papers and essays. You will find a book exchange on the open shelf.

Whether group projects, discussions or brainstorming sessions: between the future coworking space and the large lecture theatre in the Auditorium Maximum, you will find modular seating groups for working together or taking a breather. The proximity to the service point is not the only plus point: public printers and photocopiers can also help with your projects and meetings.

„Work & Sweatpants“ (now also as a podcast)

Every month we will have a digital „Work & Sweatpants“ session. Here we talk about topics related to work and invite guests and experts. It's all digital and always guaranteed to be fun and a life hack.