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The P2P strategy consultation is a development instrument for universities that are actively shaping the digital transformation in tertiary education. The focus is particularly on innovative digital teaching and learning as well as the enhanced digitalisation of advising and support structures. To this end, HAW Hamburg's participation in the P2P process was aimed at supporting and strengthening the development of strategies for teaching and learning in the digital transformation.

The basis of the consultation was a report produced by HAW Hamburg. Based on this document, questions regarding possibilities, strategies, goals and processes were discussed in a two-day consultation workshop at the beginning of 2019. The dialogue focused particularly on HAW Hamburg's strategic and curriculum development in teaching, studies and academic continuing education as part of the digital transformation.

In this process, the various participating faculty members, staff, alumni, students, guests and members of university management were supported by external experts serving as 'critical friends'/peers:

• Prof. Dr. Antje Michel (Professor of Information Didactics and Knowledge Transfer, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Prof Dr. Eva Waller (Vice President for Studies, Teaching and International Affairs, Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Professor of Business Law)
• Prof. Dr. Ulf Ehlers (former Vice President for Quality and Teaching, Dual University of Applied Sciences Baden-Württemberg; Professor of Education Management and Lifelong Learning)

These peers compiled the results of the consultation in a report for HAW Hamburg. The consultation report aims to support the university in developing and implementing the next steps in its strategic development. It contains the external perspective on the starting point and the university's goals and lists concrete  recommendations for achieving these goals.

The recommendations from the consultation dealt with the areas of governance and strategic processes, communication, framework conditions and incentives, and organisational structures for curriculum development and professional development. Interested university members discussed the consultations, the report and the recommendations in the P2P steering group. In-depth examination of HAW Hamburg's goals, priorities and measures will take place as part of the ongoing strategic development of digitalisation at HAW Hamburg. For example, the anchoring of digitalisation as both content and activity in teaching and learning and of skills for the digital transformation in the curriculum has been laid out in the Digitalisation Strategy and the Structural and Development Plan, 2021–2025. In addition, a call for tenders for the Digitalisation Fund took place in winter semester 2019/20 with the aim of providing incentives and strengthening HAW Hamburg's continued development as part of the digital transformation.