Funding tool: Applied research projects
Project-ID: FTI21-A-002
Project start: 01. Jänner 2023
Project end: 31. Dezember 2025
Runtime: 36 months / finished
Funding amount: € 193.927,00

Brief summary:
In modular educational systems, students have the possibility of choosing a part of their own curricula by themselves. Usually, this takes the form of elective courses that students can choose under certain conditions. This concept is not new and has been applied successfully for many years in countries like Germany (the 'Oberstufe' at the Gymnasium), but additionally, other countries and regions are gaining interest in applying it to their own educational systems (e.g. in Austria with the 'modulare Oberstufe'). However, the practical realization of this concept constitutes an organizational challenge that can only be solved with the help of information technology and digitalization techniques. In this applied research project, we investigate scheduling algorithms for this course scheduling problem from a regional perspective. Several variants of this problem not yet investigated in the literature will be analyzed and algorithms designed to solve that problem. We expect to contribute to the successful application of modular course systems in more educational systems across Europe.

Keywords:
Course scheduling, optimization, metaheuristics, school timetabling

Results