Cooperation between the Universities of Braunschweig, Münster, Nuremberg and Würzburg under the direction of Prof. Dr. M. Stein:

• Homepage: Mathematics Didactics on the Net(http://www.madin.net)
• Funding period: 01/1999 - 12/2003
• Area of responsibility (Niehaus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster): Context-dependent navigation environments, interface between mathematics and computer science. web-based knowledge management.
• Multimedia use in mathematics didactics
  e-Learning and media-supported teacher training in the field of
  mathematics didactics
• Funding: BMBF project & HSPIII

Objective:

Maxima4School is a portal designed to support teachers in using the Maxima computer algebra system in the classroom. Maxima is an open source computer algebra system (CAS) published under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Free access to software products can be guaranteed through the use of open source, particularly in the education of pupils, but also in university teaching.

In addition to free access to software, content must also be made available that provides freely usable and modifiable content in analogy to open source products(open content: e.g. Creative Commons).

It is important that OpenSource and OpenContent work together so that dependencies are not created again through paid support services.

OpenContent and OpenSource use can support free access to software and content, especially in developing countries.

Funding:

Funded by the university program of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate: WissenScha(f)ft Zukunft

Former employees:

• Portal: Server and content management system - Ralf Wagner, Marco Meyer
• Portal: Content creation - Thorsten Braun
• Wiki: Content management - Marco Meyer, Thorsten Braun
• Wiki: Content creation - Marco Meyer, Thorsten Braun, Ralf Wagner, among others

Project Initiator: Gerhard Ackermann

The ReGLaN-Health & Logistics project is based on an idea by South African Gerhard Ackermann, which aims to optimize healthcare provision in rural areas of South Africa. The group brings together doctors, logisticians, software developers and researchers from the fields of communication and information technology to develop holistic solutions for healthcare in rural areas. Within the working group, there is close cooperation between the ReGLaN-Health & Logistics project and the Department of Information and Communication Technology with Prof. Dr. Dr. Herselman as the central contact person. In the field of telemedicine, ReGLaN-Health & Logistics is cooperating with the Center for Digital Health in Cochin, India (member of the United Nations Commission of Experts, UNISPACE III Recommendations - AT6 for India) under the former leadership of Prof. Dr. Ajit Babu.

The overall aim is to develop a spatial decision support system with tutorial components (Epidemiological Early Warning System - UNISPACE III Recommendations - AT6).

Cooperation partner

• Prof. Dr. Marlien Herselman(ICT-Use in Health Service Optimization)
  CSIR, Pretoria, Meraka Institute, South Africa)

• Prof. Dr. Ajit Babu(former Head: Telemedicine and Digital Health - Director Centre of Digital Health,
  Centre for Digital Health - Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin,

• AT6FUI (Risk Mitigation for people exposed to public health risks that show a spatial pattern/processes or for which spatial operations for an optimized allocation of andaccess to public health resources are needed, AT6FUI)
  

Former areas of responsibility in the project

• Gerhard Ackermann(Integrated Logistic Support)

• Dipl. Ing. David Niehaus(data modeling, software conception)

• Dr. med. Ruth Niehaus (Medical System Analysis)

• Prof. Dr. Engelbert Niehaus(Mathematical Modeling)

• Dr. Ralf Wagner (mathematical modeling of an adaptive toolbox for decision support systems, artificial neural networks, geographic information systems)