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Bei der Ohm International Summer School von 20. bis 31. Juli 2026 werden 4 Kurse angeboten:

  • Electronic Music Production
  • Confident and Effective Communication
  • Understanding Cyber Criminals: Phases and Methods of Intrusion
  • Twin Transformation in Business: Digitalization and Sustainable Management in the Circular Economy

Nachfolgend findest du nähere Informationen zu den Inhalten und Zielgruppen der einzelnen Kurse in englischer Sprache.

Die Summer School Kurse

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Confident and Effective Communication - Practical and theoretical tools to expand and sharpen your communication skills

In today's globally networked world, appearance, presentation, perceptive ability, the objective assessment of approaching conflict situations,
and de-escalative rhetorical skills are helpful when it comes to leading teams, efficiently achieving verbal goals in conferences and generally to messsage effectively.


This summer school course will train the following skills:

  • Rhetorical and vocal techniques
  • Confidence in presentations using practical exercises
  • Recognising and defusing conflict situations using the archetypes of communication and by applying the principle of emotional intelligence
  • Self-awareness and external impact by developing abilities to give and receive feedback effectively

The course includes one excursion.

Course is designed for: bachelor’s students in their third year, master’s students and graduates from different fields of study

Requirements: Curiosity and willingness to engage in practical exercises

Overview of course content

Academic Coordinator

Barbara Seifert completed her acting training at the renowned Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and has now been working as an actress on stage, in front of the camera, and as a speaker for more than 30 years. Since 2005 she has been supporting individuals and teams as a communications trainer in the areas of presentation, performance, rhetoric, camera work, working with a microphone, and conflict management. She has been working at the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm since 2011 in the Faculty of Architecture and in the Journalism of Technology and Media Engineering degree programmes.

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Electronic Music Production

In this summer school course you will learn about

  • History of electronic music genres
  • Electronic sound synthesis (subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, FM-synthesis) 
  • Structure and functionality of digital audio 
  • Workstations (DAWs)
  • Digital effects (chorus, phaser, flanger, distortion, tremolo)
  • Dynamic processor (compressor, limiter) 
  • Equalizer
  • Beatmaking
  • Song arrangement

In week 1 of this summer school course we will lay the fundamentals in sound synthesis and sound design which will be applied by all participants in week 2 to work on a production of their own electronic music song project. The quality of this song will be basis for assessment in the course. During the summer school course participants will visit Thomann, Europe’s largest music shop, in Treppendorf (near Bamberg) where they will gain insights behind the scenes.

The summer school course is taught by Alexander von Hoffmann and Garri Steba.

Applied Software: Reaktor and Maschine from Native Instruments (Berlin). Every participant will get access to a computer with the required software installations. Please bring your own headphones with a jack cable connection.

Course is designed for: students and graduates from different fields of study. No prior knowledge necessary!

In the video below partcipants of Ohm-ISS 2023 share their experience about this course. Don't forget to check it out!

Academic Coordinators

Name Kontakt
Alexander von Hoffmann Alexander von Hoffmann
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Garri Steba Garri Steba
M.Eng.

Alexander von Hoffmann, born in Hamburg and raised in Trier, learned piano from Czech pianist Vitezslav Vobornik. His electronic music reflects these roots, blending jazzy piano elements with modular synthesis - in particular West Coast synthesis techniques. He is a professor at the Technische Hochshule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, focusing on human-machine interaction, sound design, and auditory interface research. His background in electrical engineering and over 15 years of interdisciplinary work formed his approach to electronic music composition. Von Hoffmann teaches courses such as Computer-Aided Production in Electronic Music and co-developed an online lecture series on modular synthesis. His research focuses on acoustic warning signals to improve user experience in technical systems. He previously worked as a development engineer in the automotive industry and brings a strong belief in liberal values, creative experimentation, and forward-thinking innovation to both his music and teaching.

 

Garri Steba is a media engineer and a passionate sound designer. Since 2016, he has been sharing his knowledge as a lecturer of Sound Design at the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm. His expertise is broad, ranging from video and audio technology to sound design and audio production – a foundation he built with his master's degree from the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden. However, he is not just active in Nuremberg: Garri Steba is also involved as a faculty lecturer at the IU International University of Applied Sciences and as a lecturer for Sound Design at the SAE Institute Germany. Before his teaching career, he delved deep into the world of psychoacoustics and signal processing strategies as a research assistant at Fraunhofer IIS Audiolabs in Erlangen. Exciting research emerged from this period, for instance, on AI-generated music using speech emotion recognition and studies on the perception of applause density. Alongside his academic career, the heart of an active musician also beats within him.
As a freelance music producer and DJ, he enriches the electronic music scene. His particular passion lies in spatial audio design and comprehensive audio production techniques, utilising industry-standard software such as Logic, Pro Tools, Cubase, and Ableton Live. In his teaching, Garri Steba combines technical precision with the freedom for creative experimentation. This is how he optimally prepares his students for the artistic and technical challenges that modern sound design and electronic music production present today.

 

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Understanding Cyber Criminals: Phases and Methods of Intrusion

The course teaches a modern approach to incidence response based on information provided by intelligence. The content covers both the response to IT security incidents and their prevention through early intervention. The investigation of IT security incidents is determined by the steps that an attacker is likely to have taken or will take. The focus is on the active defense against IT security incidents. Common models of intelligence-based incident response, such as the Diamond Model, the Kill Chain, and TTPs used by adversaries are introduced and used to structure responses. After completing the course, students should be able to understand and mitigate procedures of attackers. The course includes one or two excursions.

Course is designed for: bachelor's students, master's students, PhD students and graduates 

Fields of study: any field covering fundamental knowledge of computer science, such as network technology and operating systems

Academic Coordinator

Tobias Schmidbauer is a professor at the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm and received his doctorate (2023) and M.Sc. (2019) from the Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science at Fern Universität in Hagen, Germany, and his diploma degree in computer science for public management from the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Bavaria in cooperation with the University of Applied Science Hof, Germany, in 2016. Alongside his studies, he worked from 2007 until 2017 for the data center of the tax administration of the German federal state of Bavaria. Since 2017, he worked full-time for the Bavarian State Office for Information Security until April 2024 in various positions, including penetration testing, incident response, and threat intelligence. He also worked in the role of Information Security Officer and contributed to the drafting of government IT security guidelines. He teaches courses such as Intelligence-driven Incident Response, Defensive IT-Security, and Network Information Hiding. He also supervises the practical course "hacker internship", in which students can apply their acquired knowledge in a practice scenario to exploit vulnerabilities. In the academic community, he is Vice-Chair of the Technical Area Committee Biometrics, Forensics and Security of the European Association for Signal Processing. He is also a member of the program committee of the Criminal Use of Information Hiding workshop at the ARES conference and is active in the German Society for Informatics' cryptography and network security groups.

 

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Twin Transformation in Business: Digitalization and Sustainable Management in the Circular Economy

With the growing economic integration of companies globally, their area of responsibility for the ecological, social and human rights impacts associated with their activities are part of discussions in societies and politics. Transparency, traceability and compliance with sustainability standards are requirements that future oriented companies have to address.

The course provides a specific focus on the aspects of Twin Transformation: The needs of integrated digital processes in companies and the challenge to address sustainable solutions in production and product innovation to achieve the goals of a circular economy.

This summer school course will address the following topics:

  • Sustainable management in the new era of transparency
  • Innovation management and the challenges of circular economy
  • Data readiness, data management in the field of sustainability – from company perspectives to value chain solutions
  • Digital solutions and approaches in the circular economy

The course includes one to two excursions.

Course is designed for: bachelor’s students in their third year, master’s students and graduates.

Fields of study: business, computer science, sustainable science

In the video below partcipants of Ohm-ISS 2023 share their experience about this course. Don't forget to check it out!

Academic Coordinator

Name Kontakt
Frank Ebinger Frank Ebinger
Prof. Dr.

Frank Ebinger holds the Professorship of Sustainability-oriented Innovation and Transformation Management at the Nuremberg Campus of Technology (NCT) of the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm (the Ohm) and is an associate professor at the Addis Abeba Institute of Technology. His research interest lies in different fields of sustainability-oriented transformation, sustainable supply chain management, and transparency for sustainability. Prof. Ebinger is an executive board member of the German EMAS Advisory Board (UGA) at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection and a member of the working group of the National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy. Between the years 2012 and 2014, Prof. Ebinger was a Programme Director of the bilateral international development programme “Promotion of Sustainable Economic Development, Kyrgyzstan”, commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation. In the years between 2008 and 2012 he was the advisor to the Ethiopian Minister of Science and Technology in the field of the bilateral international development programme “National Quality Infrastructure Component”, in the GIZ Engineering Capacity Building Programme, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation. Prof. Ebinger has more than 25 years of experience as a lecturer, consultant, and advisor in the field of sustainable management and innovation. In addition, he worked more than 15 years in the context of international research and international development cooperation within the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and as an external consultant.