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.

Remodelling is currently in full swing. If you are curious about what to expect, you can read more about the previous architectural competition here.

Workplaces

In the winter semester 2023/24, the university will, as usual, provide a room in the Gräfin-Dönhoff building, 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.

The University Library is also making room K68 available in the main building. Please enquire at the University Library for the current opening times.

Our locations for you! We have put together a list of places to cowork at the university and in Frankfurt (Oder). Discover your favourite place to work on your projects or group work.

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

Digital coworking and digital tools

Coworking between home office and normal operation

And now? The balancing act 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? While our daily digital coworking session is coming to an end, we will still be there for you when it comes to digital working and accompany you on the way to your new work routines.

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.

Trello.

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 built-in 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, so you can also edit Google Docs documents in Miro, for example.

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 cafes 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!

„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.