News: Vice President Regener welcomes MIT students

Since 2013, the University of Regensburg (UR) has been cooperating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of the Global Teaching Labs (GTL) programme. On 26 January 2026, the UR, represented by the vice-president for internationalization and diversity, Prof. Dr Ursula Regener, welcomed students from MIT to the Senate Hall at the UR.

Participants teach at St. Marien-Gymnasium

The participants will be guests at the University of Regensburg from 8 to 30 January. During their stay at the UR, the participants will teach at St. Marien-Gymnasium Regensburg in order to be able to use their experience for a career, usually in academia. In the half-hour conversation, Prof. Regener asked about the individual reasons for choosing to complete the programme in Regensburg and the experiences that the individual participants have gained both in the programme and privately in Germany and Regensburg.

As usual, the participants' lessons will be prepared, held and reflected on as part of the "Bilingual Chemistry Teaching" seminar together with student teachers from the University of Regensburg under the guidance of Prof Dr Oliver Tepner (didactics of chemistry). This year, Aiden Hurst (Chemical-Biological Engineering), Ryan Jang (Chemistry and Biology), Julianna Lian (Chemistry and Applied Mathematics), Eliska Liang (Chemistry and Biology), Anselma Petrie (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) and Jasmine Xing (Bioengineering) will be able to teach a total of 28 lessons, mainly in the subject of chemistry. This is made possible by the close cooperation with Dr Nadine Boele, teacher of chemistry and mathematics at St. Marien-Gymnasium in Regensburg.

About the Global Teaching Labs

MIT's Global Teaching Labs (GTL) programme recruits top MIT students who want to actively participate in the Institute's experiential learning approach. GTL challenges them to learn by teaching - synthesising and presenting their knowledge, working in teams and communicating with peers from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Each January, GTL participants travel abroad for three to four weeks to teach pupils and university students about science, technology, engineering and mathematics - and sometimes other topics such as entrepreneurship and debating. This high-impact programme attracts several hundred highly qualified candidates from across MIT each year. The selected participants are trained in teaching materials, platforms, and communication techniques, and are introduced to the education system and culture of their host country.

To the homepage of the Global Teaching Labs programme (external link, opens in a new window)