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Are you at least 19 years old, enjoy creative work with children and teenagers and want to get involved as a volunteer? Then join this year’s Digitale Welten Festival in Frankfurt!

You will guide young people in thinking critically and creatively about digital reality. Under this year’s motto “SWIPE RIGHTS: Adults broke the internet. Now they want to ban it.” you’re invited to help young people push back against digital restrictions and invent a better online world using creative, technical and artistic tools. The participants aged 11 to 18 will develop their own projects during a creative hackathon and afterward, their creations will be showcased in a public exhibition.

Festival Setup: October 12, 2026
Creative Hackathon: October 13–15, 2026
Exhibition Opening: October 16, 2026

As a mentor, you can expect to:

  • Engage: Work with young participants, inspiring and guiding them through their projects.
  • Facilitate: Help them brainstorm and turn their ideas into projects.
  • Collaborate: Partner with talented artists and other mentors who will support the projects with their skills and creative ideas.
  • Support: Provide hands-on assistance and mentorship to help the participants succeed.
 

→ Basic Requirements

To become a mentor, you should be 19 years or older and enjoy working with teens aged 11 to 18. If you have experience in this area, it’s a plus! Good German skills are advantageous, as many participants do not speak English fluently (yet). Additionally, you need a current extended police clearance certificate. Once you’ve signed up, we’ll guide you through the process and let you know everything you need to know and do.

→ Skills

The goal is to provide participants with a wide range of support. That’s why we’re looking for a group of mentors with diverse skill sets, creating a friendly and supportive environment for everyone involved. You have expertise in coding, design, crafting, tinkering, electronics, music, education, social work or some other comparable field? Awesome, come join us!

It’s very important to us to enable everyone to participate. Therefore, feel free to contact us if there are any restrictions or obstacles for you regarding the event. We are more than happy to work together to find a solution.

→ What should you bring?

  • Commitment to teamwork and engagement
  • The ability to work independently and conscientiously
  • Enjoyment of and ideally initial experience in working with young people
  • The motivation to contribute your own skills, ideas, and questions
  • We need a current extended police clearance certificate (“erweitertes Führungszeugnis”) from you. You will receive a document from us for the application so that you don’t have to pay anything. More info here.

→ What’s in it for you?

  • A pedagogical introduction and briefing to your tasks
  • An amazing atmosphere and excited young experts around you
  • Tasty food, snacks and drinks
  • Paid special leave or a volunteer compensation paid by us *
  • Our infinite gratefulness <3

* As a volunteer for our kids & teens program, you can work with us while still being paid by your employer. We will provide an official letter, along with the local Youth Care Center of Frankfurt, explaining the special leave conditions to your employer, who will be compensated for your salary. More info (in German only) here and here.
If you don’t qualify for special leave (e.g. you’re not employed currently), you’ll receive a financial compensation from us: 100 euro/day.

 

 

→ Register now!

Sounds good? Great! Fill out our form in German or English.

Register here

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us!
Contact person: Carlotta (she/her) • carlotta.scheitterer@nodeforum.org

 
 

 

→ What is Digitale Welten?

Digitale Welten is a network for political, cultural and artistic, informatic and digital media education in Frankfurt am Main and Hessen and the youth program of NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V. Together with exciting international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies.

We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as various other events for young people. We also develop offers for professionals in out-of-school youth work in Hesse.
NODE is a non-profit association and a recognized voluntary youth welfare organization in Hesse.

 

 

 
 

The Team

 

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Sarah Wenzinger

Artist, Educator

Elena Schweikert

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Anastasia Wilbrandt

display Team, Event Manager, Space Manager

Sandra Binder

Team Digitale Welten

Carlotta Scheitterer

Team Digitale Welten

Andrea Eberlein

Pedagogy, Team Digitale Welten

Elizaveta Kazantseva

Social Media, Team Digitale Welten

Rainer Killinger

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten, Technical Director, Workshop Host

Kathrin Stößer

Team Digitale Welten

Carolin Liebl

Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler

Kati Hyyppä

 

Funding & Partners

 

(English below!) 

In Frankfurt entsteht display – der neue Raum für digitale Praxis. Als begehbarer Screen und Interface, Experimentierlabor und Community-Space fördert display die kreative, kritische und praktische Auseinandersetzung mit Technologie. display vernetzt und vermittelt Digital Literacies, Fachwissen und digitale Werkzeuge, Menschen und Ideen für und mit der Stadtgesellschaft und engagiert sich für eine gemeinwohlorientierte digitale Zukunft.

display ist ein Kooperationsprojekt des gemeinnützigen NODE Verein zur Förderung digitaler Kultur e.V. und der Stabsstelle Digitalisierung der Stadt Frankfurt am Main.

Für display suchen wir eine*n Werkstudierende*n für Space- und Eventmanagement.

 

Die Stelle

 

Du unterstützt das display-Team bei der Planung und Umsetzung des Veranstaltungsprogramms. Zu deinen Aufgaben gehört u.a. das Management des Materials, der Einrichtungen und der Ausstattung, Event-Management (Pflege des Veranstaltungskalenders, Buchung von Catering und anderen externen Dienstleistungen etc.) die Betreuung von Öffnungszeiten und die Betreuung der Nutzung des Raums durch externe Nutzer*innen.

Außerdem hast du die Möglichkeit, eigene Ideen zu entwickeln und eigene Formate im Raum auszuprobieren. Dabei arbeitest du eng mit dem gesamten Team des NODE e.V. zusammen. 

 

Idealerweise bringst du Organisationstalent und Kommunikationsfreude mit. Um gut im NODE-Team anzukommen, bringst du einen ausgeprägten Teamgeist mit. 

→ Deine Aufgaben

  • Space-Management (Management des Materials, der Einrichtungen und der Ausstattung)
  • Event-Management (Dienstleister, Catering, Pflege von Veranstaltungskalender und Planungsdokumenten etc.)
  • Betreuung der Nutzung des Raums durch externe Nutzer*innen,
  • Betreuung von Öffnungszeiten,
  • Support der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit: Inhalte einholen und sammeln, für display Medien aufbereiten.

→ Dein Profil

  • Du hast vielleicht schon erste Erfahrungen in der Organisation von Veranstaltungen oder anderen Projekten gesammelt.
  • Du bringst viel Begeisterung für digitale Kultur mit.
  • Du hast gute kommunikative Skills – und überwindest eine eventuelle Angst vorm Telefonieren 😉 .
  • Du bist neugierig und hast Interesse an Zusammenarbeit mit Künstler*innen, Coder*innen und der kommunalen Verwaltung.
  • Du arbeitest gerne im Team.
  • Du hast Lust, ein Projekt von Grund auf neu aufzubauen und mitzugestalten, Prozesse mitzuentwickeln und auch mal Aufgaben zu übernehmen, die nicht vorhergesehen wurden.
  • Digitale Arbeitsumgebungen sind selbstverständlich für dich.
  • Du bringst gute Kenntnisse in Englisch und Deutsch mit.
  • Dein Lebensmittelpunkt befindet sich in Frankfurt am Main.
  • Du absolvierst derzeit noch ein Hochschulstudium und bist noch mindestens ein Jahr als Studierende*r eingeschrieben.

Und ganz grundsätzlich: Wir freuen uns sehr darauf, Menschen mit verschiedensten Hintergründen und Perspektiven kennenzulernen!

→ Was wir dir bieten:

  • NODE ist ein Team aus engagierten, achtsamen und zugewandten Menschen – und wir freuen uns auf dich! 
  • Das Team verbindet gemeinsame Werte und ein hohe Offenheit, über Bedürfnisse oder Konflikte zu sprechen.
  • Einblick in alle unsere Projekte und – je nach Interesse – die Möglichkeit das eigene Arbeitsfeld weiterzuentwickeln.
  • Die Stundenzahl ist derzeit auf 15 Std. pro Woche begrenzt, ggf. gibt es die Möglichkeit je nach Projektlage und Drittmittel-Akquise die Stundenzahl aufzustocken.
  • Als Werkstudierende verdienst du monatlich 975 € brutto.
  • Die Stelle verortet sich maßgeblich vor Ort (einzelne Home-Office Momente nach Absprache im Team möglich). 
  • Viele soziale Events, Abendessen im Lieblingslokal und Treffen im Team und beyond. 

 

Bewerbungsunterlagen

Bitte sende uns ein kurzes Anschreiben und einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf zu (alles als PDF) an das NODE-Team per Mail an bewerbung@nodeforum.org!

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 31. Juli 2026.

Der Hintergrund

Was ist display?

display ist der neue Raum für digitale Praxis im Zentrum Frankfurts. Als Schaufenster, interdisziplinärer und intergenerationeller Treffpunkt und offener Experimentierraum fördert er die kreative, kritische und praktische Auseinandersetzung mit Technologie.

Er ist Anlaufstelle für informelles und Community-basiertes Lernen und praktische wie politische Fragen rund um die digitale Transformation. Der Raum verbindet Wissen, Ressourcen und Menschen – und vernetzt Akteur*innen der digitalen Zivilgesellschaft und Menschen aus Frankfurt, um voneinander zu lernen für eine gemeinwohlorientierte Digitalisierung in Gesellschaft und Stadt.

Der Raum kartiert, teilt und vermittelt Werkzeuge, Projekte und Methoden zur digitalen Selbstermächtigung, öffnet digitale Black-Boxen und macht Wissen zugänglich. 

display soll durch Akteur*innen der Frankfurter Digital-Community mitgestaltet und bespielt werden und so zu einem Verstärker für Frankfurter Projekte und Expert*innen und einem Interface zur Stadtgesellschaft werden.

Das zukünftige Programm von display umfasst Workshop-Angebote, Vorträge und Ausstellungen rund um digitale Technologien, wie bspw. Creative Coding, DIY-Methoden, digital-künstlerische Praxis oder Open Source Strategien. Dabei versuchen die Angebote fachliche Themen möglichst niedrigschwellig zu vermitteln.

Die Eröffnung ist im Februar 2026 geplant.

Weiterführende Links:

  • display Programm auf nodeforum.org
  • Zukünftige Domain: http://d-i-s-p-l-a-y.de/

Wer sind wir?

Der Frankfurter NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V. versteht sich als Plattform für den praktischen, kreativen und kritischen Austausch zu Technologie und Digitalisierung in Gesellschaft, Kreativwirtschaft und Kunst.

Seit 2008 entwirft NODE Weiterbildungsformate, Festivals, Konferenzen und internationale Austauschformate und unterstützt Künstler*innen und Creative Coder*innen bei der Entwicklung digitaler Projekte. 

Das Jugendbildungsprogramm von NODE mit dem Titel “Digitale Welten” macht Angebote, die Jugendlichen mit Kunst und Kreativität wichtige Gestaltungskompetenzen für unsere digitale Gesellschaft vermitteln.

display ist ein Kooperationsprojekt von NODE e.V. und der Stabsstelle Digitalisierung der Stadt Frankfurt am Main.

 

 

[EN] Working student in space and event management

As a working student in space and event management, you will support the display team in planning and implementing the event program. You will be responsible for coordinating schedules and other planning with partners and event organizers.
You will also have the opportunity to develop your own formats and try them out in the space. You will work closely with the entire NODE e.V. team.

In addition to you, there will be at least two other people who will take care of the project, design the program, and take care of the space and technical equipment.

Ideally, you will have organizational skills and enjoy communicating with others. To fit in well with the NODE team, you will need to have a strong team spirit.

The Job

 

→ What are your tasks?

  • Space Management (management of materials, facilities, and equipment)
  • Event Management (service providers, catering, maintaining the event calendar and planning documents, etc.)
  • Coordinating the use of the space by external users,
  • Managing opening hours,
  • Supporting public relations: gathering and compiling content, preparing it for display media.

 

→ Your Profile

  • You may already have some experience in organizing events or other projects.
  • You are enthusiastic about digital culture.
  • You have good communication skills—and can overcome any fear of talking on the phone 😉 .
  • You enjoy working in a team.
  • You are keen to build a project from the ground up and help shape it, develop processes, and sometimes take on tasks that were not foreseen.
  • Digital working environments are second nature to you.
  • You have a good knowledge of English and German.
  • You are living in Frankfurt am Main.
  • You are currently completing a university degree and are enrolled as a student for at least another year.

And very generally: We look very much forward to meeting people from different backgrounds and perspectives!!

→ What we offer:

  • NODE is a team of dedicated, attentive, and caring people—and we look forward to meeting you!
  • The team shares common values and a high degree of openness when it comes to discussing needs or conflicts.
  • Insight into all our projects.
  • Contact with many exciting partners and players in the field
  • The number of hours is currently limited to 15 hours per week, but there is the possibility of increasing the number of hours depending on the project situation and third-party funding acquisition.
  • Your salary is 975€ gross / before taxes and insurance per month.
  • On-site presence is essential for this position. However, occasional home office work is possible.
  • Many social events, dinners at your favorite restaurant, and team meetings and beyond.

 

How can you apply?

Please send us a short letter and a tabular resume (all as PDF files).

Please send everything to the NODE team by email to bewerbung@nodeforum.org! If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch as well!

The application deadline is March 20, 2026.

Background Info

What is display?

display is the new space for digital practice in the center of Frankfurt. As a screen, interdisciplinary and intergenerational meeting place, and open experimental space, it promotes creative, critical, and practical engagement with technology.

It is a hub for informal and community-based learning and practical and political questions surrounding digital transformation. The space connects knowledge, resources, and people—and networks actors from digital civil society and people from Frankfurt to learn from each other for the common good of digitalization in society and the city.

The space maps, shares, and communicates tools, projects, and methods for digital self-empowerment, opens digital black boxes, and makes knowledge accessible.

display is to be co-designed and used by actors from Frankfurt’s digital community, thus becoming an amplifier for Frankfurt projects and experts and an interface to urban society.

The future program of display includes workshops, lectures, and exhibitions on digital technologies, such as creative coding, DIY methods, digital artistic practice, and open source strategies. The aim is to make technical topics as accessible as possible.

The opening is planned for February 2026.

Further links:

  • display program on nodeforum.org
  • Future Domain: http://d-i-s-p-l-a-y.de/

What is NODE?

NODE is a non-profit organization working in the field of creative coding, digital arts and design, an international platform for the critical reflection of technology and society and network in Frankfurt am Main and in Hesse.

Since 2008, NODE has been developing educational formats, organizing international artist exchange programs, conferences and commissioning cross-disciplinary artistic projects. NODE started as an analog gathering of an internationally distributed community of creative coders and developers of the visual programming language vvvv, turning into an organization for more holistic political, cultural, artistic, informatic and digital media discourses and education. NODE runs a festival for digital arts and creative technologies called NODE Forum for Digital Arts.

NODE is also a recognized voluntary youth welfare organization in Hesse. Together with international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies. We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as various other projects for young people.

 

 

 

 

The display Team

Sascha Korolkov

Community & Program Curator, display Team, Mentor

Anastasia Wilbrandt

display Team, Event Manager, Space Manager

You!

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Alexander Roidl

Artistic Director, Board

In collaboration with

(English below!) 

In Frankfurt entsteht display – der neue Raum für digitale Praxis. Als begehbarer Screen und Interface, Experimentierlabor und Community-Space fördert display die kreative, kritische und praktische Auseinandersetzung mit Technologie. display vernetzt und vermittelt Digital Literacies, Fachwissen und digitale Werkzeuge, Menschen und Ideen für und mit der Stadtgesellschaft und engagiert sich für eine gemeinwohlorientierte digitale Zukunft.

display ist ein Kooperationsprojekt des gemeinnützigen NODE Verein zur Förderung digitaler Kultur e.V. und der Stabsstelle Digitalisierung der Stadt Frankfurt am Main.

Für display suchen wir eine*n Kolleg*in für Programmentwicklung & Community-Management im Bereich Medienpädagogik und digitale Zivilgesellschaft.

 

Die Stelle

 

Die Programmentwicklung & Community-Management im Bereich Medienpädagogik & Digitale Zivilgesellschaft ist eine der zentralen Stellen und eine der Haupt-Gastgeber*innen des Raums. Als Community- & Programmkurator*in bist du verantwortlich dafür, das Programm mitzugestalten, eine lebendige, technologie-affine Community aufzubauen und den Raum als intergenerationellen Treffpunkt zum Thema DIY-Kultur, Digitalität und Medienpädagogik in Frankfurt sichtbar zu machen. Du baust persönliche Verbindung zu Nutzer*innen, Menschen und Organisationen der digitalen Zivilgesellschaft, zur Bildungs- und Hacker*innen-Community oder zu (Medien-)Pädagog*innen – Freelance oder Studierende – auf und bleibst laufend mit ihnen in Kontakt. Du bindest externe Partner*innen in das Programm ein und du entwickelst eigene pädagogische Formate oder Veranstaltungsformate. Dabei arbeitest du eng mit dem Team des NODE e.V. und den anderen Teammitgliedern im Raum zusammen. 

Neben dir gibt es mindestens 2 weitere Personen, die sich um das Projekt kümmern, ebenso Programm gestalten, sich konkret um den Raum oder die technische Einrichtung kümmern.

 

Idealerweise bringst du Kenntnisse und ein eigenes Netzwerk im Bereich der digitalen Zivilgesellschaft, Bildung und Wissenschaft mit und verfolgst die zentralen Diskurse – mit Fokus auf digitale Bildung und Digitalpolitik. Um gut im NODE-Team anzukommen, bringst du einen ausgeprägten Teamgeist mit, Offenheit, Interesse, Leidenschaft für das Themenfeld und hast bereits eine differenzierte Position zu den o.g. Themen. Du bringst bereits gewisse Moderationskompetenzen mit bzw. scheust nicht, öffentlich als Gastgeber*in zu sprechen und mit neuen Menschen, Besucher*in des Raums ins Gespräch zu kommen.  

→ Deine Aufgaben

  • Entwicklung und Umsetzung von medienpädagogischen Angeboten (intergenerationelle Formate und Jugendprogramm) und inhaltliche Entwicklung des Programms rund um digitale Kultur.
  • Gewinnung von Partner*innen und externen Programm (bspw. Zusammenarbeit mit Schulen, VHS, Bibliotheken, Medienzentren und Akteur*innen der Bildung, Kommune)
  • Aufbau und Pflege von Netzwerken zwischen Kultur, Forschung, Zivilgesellschaft und Kreativwirtschaft.
  • Community-Arbeit: Menschen zusammenbringen, Formate für Austausch und Diskurs entwickeln und moderieren.
  • Öffentlichkeitsarbeit & Repräsentation: Inhalte kommunizieren, den Raum bei Veranstaltungen vorstellen, Sichtbarkeit in Frankfurt schaffen.
  • Pädagogische Begleitung des Teams, Gestaltung und Planung von internen Fortbildungen, Überprüfung und Weiterführung des Kinderschutzkonzepts.
  • Ansprechperson im Rahmen von Öffnungszeiten sein.

→ Dein Profil

  • Du hast berufliche Erfahrung in der Kulturvermittlung, Bildungsarbeit oder pädagogischen Programmentwicklung (Haupt- oder nebenberuflich oder in einzelnen Projekten).
  • Du hast ein abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium im (medien-)pädagogischen oder einem thematisch verwandten Bereich.
  • Du bringst viel Begeisterung für digitale Kultur, kreative medienpädagogische oder partizipative Formate mit.
  • Du hast gute kommunikative Skills, bringst viel Offenheit mit, Netzwerke zu knüpfen und Menschen zusammenzubringen – und überwindest eine eventuelle Angst vorm Telefonieren 😉 .
  • Du bist neugierig und hast Interesse an interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit mit Künstler*innen, Coder*innen und der kommunalen Verwaltung.
  • Du arbeitest gerne im Team.
  • Du hast Lust, ein Projekt von Grund auf neu aufzubauen und mitzugestalten, Prozesse mitzuentwickeln und auch mal Aufgaben zu übernehmen, die nicht vorhergesehen wurden.
  • Nice-to-have: Du bringst vielleicht sogar praktische Erfahrung im Hacking, spielerischem Auseinandernehmen oder Programmierung digitaler Tools mit.
  • Digitale Arbeitsumgebungen sind selbstverständlich für dich.
  • Du bringst gute Kenntnisse in Englisch und Deutsch mit.
  • Dein Lebensmittelpunkt befindet sich im Rhein-Main-Gebiet.

Und ganz grundsätzlich: Wir freuen uns sehr darauf, Menschen mit verschiedensten Hintergründen und Perspektiven kennenzulernen!

→ Was wir dir bieten:

  • NODE ist ein Team aus engagierten, achtsamen und zugewandten Menschen – und wir freuen uns auf dich! 
  • Das Team verbindet gemeinsame Werte und ein hohe Offenheit, über Bedürfnisse oder Konflikte zu sprechen.
  • Einblick in alle unsere Projekte und – je nach Interesse – die Möglichkeit das eigene Arbeitsfeld weiterzuentwickeln.
  • Kontakt zu vielen spannenden Partner*innen und Akteur*innen im Bereich.
  • Zeit für Fortbildungen und persönliche Weiterentwicklung.
  • Dein Gehalt orientiert sich am TVöD-VKA (Vereinigung der kommunalen Arbeitgeberverbände) E10. 
  • Die Stundenzahl ist derzeit auf 75% / 30 Std. pro Woche begrenzt, ggf. gibt es die Möglichkeit je nach Projektlage und Drittmittel-Akquise die Stundenzahl aufzustocken.
  • Die Stelle verortet sich maßgeblich vor Ort. Präsenz vor Ort während der Veranstaltungen und Öffnungszeiten ist unverzichtbar, dennoch sind einzelne Home-Office Momente nach Absprache im Team möglich. 
  • 30 Urlaubstage bei einer 5-Tage-Woche.
  • Viele soziale Events, Abendessen im Lieblingslokal und Treffen im Team und beyond. 

 

Bewerbungsunterlagen

Bitte sende uns ein kurzes Motivationsschreiben und eine sehr kurze Skizze für eine Formatidee (Workshop, Abendveranstaltung, Fachveranstaltung…), die du gern im display umsetzen würdest. Das Ganze sollte maximal 1,5 Seiten lang sein (darf gerne kürzer sein!). Außerdem schicke uns bitte einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf zu (alles als PDF).

Das Ganze adressiere gern an das NODE-Team per Mail an bewerbung@nodeforum.org!

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 31. Januar 2026.

Der Hintergrund

Was ist display?

display ist der neue Raum für digitale Praxis im Zentrum Frankfurts. Als Schaufenster, interdisziplinärer und intergenerationeller Treffpunkt und offener Experimentierraum fördert er die kreative, kritische und praktische Auseinandersetzung mit Technologie.

Er ist Anlaufstelle für informelles und Community-basiertes Lernen und praktische wie politische Fragen rund um die digitale Transformation. Der Raum verbindet Wissen, Ressourcen und Menschen – und vernetzt Akteur*innen der digitalen Zivilgesellschaft und Menschen aus Frankfurt, um voneinander zu lernen für eine gemeinwohlorientierte Digitalisierung in Gesellschaft und Stadt.

Der Raum kartiert, teilt und vermittelt Werkzeuge, Projekte und Methoden zur digitalen Selbstermächtigung, öffnet digitale Black-Boxen und macht Wissen zugänglich. 

display soll durch Akteur*innen der Frankfurter Digital-Community mitgestaltet und bespielt werden und so zu einem Verstärker für Frankfurter Projekte und Expert*innen und einem Interface zur Stadtgesellschaft werden.

Das zukünftige Programm von display umfasst Workshop-Angebote, Vorträge und Ausstellungen rund um digitale Technologien, wie bspw. Creative Coding, DIY-Methoden, digital-künstlerische Praxis oder Open Source Strategien. Dabei versuchen die Angebote fachliche Themen möglichst niedrigschwellig zu vermitteln.

Die Eröffnung ist im Februar 2026 geplant.

Weiterführende Links:

  • display Programm auf nodeforum.org
  • Zukünftige Domain: http://d-i-s-p-l-a-y.de/

Wer sind wir?

Der Frankfurter NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V. versteht sich als Plattform für den praktischen, kreativen und kritischen Austausch zu Technologie und Digitalisierung in Gesellschaft, Kreativwirtschaft und Kunst.

Seit 2008 entwirft NODE Weiterbildungsformate, Festivals, Konferenzen und internationale Austauschformate und unterstützt Künstler*innen und Creative Coder*innen bei der Entwicklung digitaler Projekte. 

Das Jugendbildungsprogramm von NODE mit dem Titel “Digitale Welten” macht Angebote, die Jugendlichen mit Kunst und Kreativität wichtige Gestaltungskompetenzen für unsere digitale Gesellschaft vermitteln.

display ist ein Kooperationsprojekt von NODE e.V. und der Stabsstelle Digitalisierung der Stadt Frankfurt am Main.

 

 

[EN] Program Development & Community Management

Program Development & Community Management: Digital Civil Society, Media Pedagogy is one of the central positions and one of the main hosts of the space. As Community & Program Curator, you will be responsible for helping to shape the program, building a vibrant community, and raising the profile of the space as an intergenerational meeting place for DIY culture, digitality, and media education in Frankfurt. You will establish personal connections with users, people, and organizations in digital civil society, the education sector and hacker communities, and (media) educators—freelancers or students—and stay in regular contact with them. You will involve external partners in the program and develop your own educational or event formats. In doing so, you will work closely with the NODE e.V. team and the other team members in the space.

In addition to you, there will be at least two other people who will take care of the project, design the program, and take care of the space and technical equipment.

Ideally, you have knowledge and your own network in the field of digital civil society, education, and science, and you follow the central discourses—with a focus on digital education and digital policy. To fit in well with the NODE team, you have a strong team spirit, openness, interest, passion for the subject area, and already have a differentiated position on the above-mentioned topics. You already have certain moderation skills and are not afraid to speak publicly as a host and engage in conversation with new people visiting the space.

The Job

 

→ What are your tasks?

  • Development and implementation of media education formats (intergenerational formats and youth programs) and content development for the program focusing on digital culture.
  • Acquiring partners and external programs (e.g., cooperation with schools, adult education centers, libraries, media centers, and stakeholders in education and local government).
  • Establishing and maintaining networks between culture, research, civil society, and the creative industries.
  • Community work: bringing people together, developing and moderating formats for exchange and discourse.
  • Educational support for the team, design and planning of internal training courses, review and continuation of the child protection concept.
  • Public relations and representation: communicating content, presenting the space at events, creating visibility in Frankfurt.
  • Being an approachable contact person during opening hours.

 

→ Your Profile

  • You have professional experience in cultural mediation, educational work, or educational program development (full-time, part-time, or in individual projects).
  • You have a university degree in a related field.
  • You are enthusiastic about digital culture, creative media education, and participatory formats.
  • You have very good communication skills and are very open to networking and bringing people together.
  • You are curious and interested in interdisciplinary collaboration with artists, coders, and the local administration.
  • You enjoy working in a team.
  • You are willing to build and help shape a project from the ground up, co-develop processes, and sometimes take on tasks that were not foreseen.
  • Digital work environments are no challenge to you.
  • You may even have practical experience in coding or teaching digital tools.
  • You have a good knowledge of English and German.
  • You live in the Rhine-Main area.

And very generally: We look very much forward to meeting people from different backgrounds and perspectives!!

→ What we offer:

  • NODE is a team of dedicated, attentive, and caring people—and we look forward to meeting you!
  • The team shares common values and a high degree of openness when it comes to discussing needs or conflicts.
  • Insight into all our projects and—depending on your interests—the opportunity to further develop your own field of work.
  • Contact with many exciting partners and players in the field.
  • Time for training and personal development.
  • Your salary is based on the TVöD-VKA (Association of Municipal Employers’ Associations) E10.
  • The number of hours is currently limited to 75% / 30 hours per week, but there is the possibility of increasing the number of hours depending on the project situation and third-party funding acquisition.
  • On-site presence is essential for this position. However, occasional home office work is possible and will be agreed on within the team.
  • 30 days of vacation with a 5-day week – flexible vacation days by arrangement.
  • Many social events, dinners at your favorite restaurant, and team meetings and beyond.

 

How can you apply?

Please send us a short letter of motivation and a brief outline for a format idea (workshop, evening event, specialist event, etc.) that you would like to implement at display. The whole thing should not be longer than 1.5 pages (less is very welcome!). Please also send us a tabular resume (all as PDF files).

Please send everything to the NODE team and Alex (he/him) and Jeanne (she/her) by email to bewerbung@nodeforum.org! If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch as well!

The application deadline is January 30, 2026.

Background Info

What is display?

display is the new space for digital practice in the center of Frankfurt. As a screen, interdisciplinary and intergenerational meeting place, and open experimental space, it promotes creative, critical, and practical engagement with technology.

It is a hub for informal and community-based learning and practical and political questions surrounding digital transformation. The space connects knowledge, resources, and people—and networks actors from digital civil society and people from Frankfurt to learn from each other for the common good of digitalization in society and the city.

The space maps, shares, and communicates tools, projects, and methods for digital self-empowerment, opens digital black boxes, and makes knowledge accessible.

display is to be co-designed and used by actors from Frankfurt’s digital community, thus becoming an amplifier for Frankfurt projects and experts and an interface to urban society.

The future program of display includes workshops, lectures, and exhibitions on digital technologies, such as creative coding, DIY methods, digital artistic practice, and open source strategies. The aim is to make technical topics as accessible as possible.

The opening is planned for February 2026.

Further links:

  • display program on nodeforum.org
  • Future Domain: http://d-i-s-p-l-a-y.de/

What is NODE?

NODE is a non-profit organization working in the field of creative coding, digital arts and design, an international platform for the critical reflection of technology and society and network in Frankfurt am Main and in Hesse.

Since 2008, NODE has been developing educational formats, organizing international artist exchange programs, conferences and commissioning cross-disciplinary artistic projects. NODE started as an analog gathering of an internationally distributed community of creative coders and developers of the visual programming language vvvv, turning into an organization for more holistic political, cultural, artistic, informatic and digital media discourses and education. NODE runs a festival for digital arts and creative technologies called NODE Forum for Digital Arts.

NODE is also a recognized voluntary youth welfare organization in Hesse. Together with international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies. We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as various other projects for young people.

 

 

 

 

The display Team

Sascha Korolkov

Community & Program Curator, display Team, Mentor

Anastasia Wilbrandt

display Team, Event Manager, Space Manager

You!

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Alexander Roidl

Artistic Director, Board

In collaboration with

 

Join us for this year’s Digitale Welten Festival: Reprogramming Reality in Frankfurt! Spend 3 days working with enthusiastic youth to develop projects that engage creatively and critically with both online and offline worlds and their binary structures. Collaborate with skilled artists and help guide the young participants as they brainstorm and bring their visions for a better reality to life.

As a mentor, you can expect to:

  • Engage: Work with young participants over 3-4 days, inspiring and guiding them through their projects.
  • Facilitate: Help them brainstorm and turn their ideas into actionable projects.
  • Collaborate: Partner with talented artists and other mentors who will support the projects with their skills and creative ideas.
  • Support: Provide hands-on assistance and mentorship to help the participants succeed.
 

→ Basic Requirements

To become a mentor, you should be 19 years or older and enjoy working with teens aged 11 to 18. If you have experience in this area, it’s a plus! Good German skills are advantageous, as many participants do not speak English fluently (yet). Additionally, you need a current extended police clearance certificate. Once you’ve signed up, we’ll guide you through the process and let you know everything you need to know and do.

→ Skills

The goal is to provide participants with a wide range of support. That’s why we’re looking for a group of mentors with diverse skill sets, creating a friendly and supportive environment for everyone involved. You have expertise in coding, design, crafting, tinkering, electronics, music, education, social work or some other comparable field? Awesome – come join us!

It’s very important to us to enable everyone to participate. Therefore, feel free to contact us if there are any restrictions or obstacles for you regarding the event. We are more than happy to work together to find a solution.

→ What should you bring?

  • Commitment to teamwork and engagement
  • The ability to work independently and conscientiously
  • Enjoyment of and ideally initial experience in working with young people
  • The motivation to contribute your own skills, ideas, and questions
  • We need a current extended police clearance certificate (“erweitertes Führungszeugnis”) from you. You will receive a document from us for the application so that you don’t have to pay anything. More info here.

→ What’s in it for you?

  • A pedagogical introduction and briefing to your tasks
  • An amazing atmosphere and excited young experts around you
  • Tasty food, snacks and drinks
  • Paid special leave or a volunteer compensation paid by us *
  • Our infinite gratefulness <3

* As a volunteer for our kids & teens program, you can work with us while still being paid by your employer. We will provide an official letter, along with the local Youth Care Center of Frankfurt, explaining the special leave conditions to your employer, who will be compensated for your salary. More info (in German only) here and here.
If you don’t qualify for special leave (e.g. you’re not employed currently), you’ll receive a financial compensation from us: 100 euro/day.

 

 

→ Register now!

Sounds good? Great! Fill out our form in German or English.

Register here

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us!
Contact person: Elena (she/her) • elena.schweikert@nodeforum.org

 
 

 

→ What is Digitale Welten?

Digitale Welten is a network for political, cultural and artistic, informatic and digital media education in Frankfurt am Main and Hessen and the youth program of NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V. Together with exciting international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies.

We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as various other events for young people. We also develop offers for professionals in out-of-school youth work in Hesse.
NODE is a non-profit association and a recognized voluntary youth welfare organization in Hesse.

 

 

 
 

The Team

 

Elena Schweikert

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Elizaveta Kazantseva

Social Media, Team Digitale Welten

Andrea Eberlein

Pedagogy, Team Digitale Welten

Felix Bitz

Awareness, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Liv Märtens

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten

Rainer Killinger

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten, Technical Director, Workshop Host

 

Funding & Partners

 
 

Join us for this year’s Digitale Welten Festival: Urban Creators Hackathon in Frankfurt! Spend 3 days working with enthusiastic youth to develop projects that reimagine urban life in our city. Collaborate with skilled artists and help guide the young participants as they brainstorm and bring their visions for a better Frankfurt to life. Be a part of this exciting event and support the next generation in shaping the future of their city!

As a mentor, you can expect to:

  • Engage: Work with young participants over 3-4 days, inspiring and guiding them through their projects.
  • Facilitate: Help them brainstorm and turn their ideas into actionable projects.
  • Collaborate: Partner with talented artists and other mentors who will support the projects with their skills and creative ideas.
  • Support: Provide hands-on assistance and mentorship to help the participants succeed.
 

→ Basic Requirements

To become a mentor, you should be 19 years or older and enjoy working with teens aged 11 to 18. If you have experience in this area, it’s a plus! Good German skills are advantageous, as many participants do not speak English fluently (yet). Additionally, you need a current extended police clearance certificate. Once you’ve signed up, we’ll guide you through the process and let you know everything you need to know and do.

→ Skills

The goal is to provide participants with a wide range of support. That’s why we’re looking for a group of mentors with diverse skill sets, creating a friendly and supportive environment for everyone involved. You have expertise in coding, design, crafting, tinkering, electronics, music, education, social work or some other comparable field? Awesome – come join us!

It’s very important to us to enable everyone to participate. Therefore, feel free to contact us if there are any restrictions or obstacles for you regarding the event. We are more than happy to work together to find a solution.

→ What should you bring?

  • Commitment to teamwork and engagement
  • The ability to work independently and conscientiously
  • Enjoyment of and ideally initial experience in working with young people
  • The motivation to contribute your own skills, ideas, and questions
  • We need a current extended police clearance certificate (“erweitertes Führungszeugnis”) from you. You will receive a document from us for the application so that you don’t have to pay anything. More info here.

→ What’s in it for you?

  • A pedagogical introduction and briefing to your tasks
  • An amazing atmosphere and excited young experts around you
  • Tasty food, snacks and drinks
  • Paid special leave or a volunteer compensation paid by us *
  • Our infinite gratefulness <3

* As a volunteer for our kids & teens program, you can work with us while still being paid by your employer. We will provide an official letter, along with the local Youth Care Center of Frankfurt, explaining the special leave conditions to your employer, who will be compensated for your salary. More info (in German only) here and here.
If you don’t qualify for special leave (e.g. you’re not employed currently), you’ll receive a financial compensation from us.

 

 

→ Register now!

Sounds good? Great! Fill out our form in German or English.

Register here

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us!
Contact person: Elena (she/her) • elena.schweikert@nodeforum.org

 
 

 

→ What is Digitale Welten?

Digitale Welten is a network for political, cultural and artistic, informatic and digital media education in Frankfurt am Main and Hessen and the youth program of NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V. Together with exciting international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies.

We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as various other events for young people. We also develop offers for professionals in out-of-school youth work in Hesse.
NODE is a non-profit association and a recognized voluntary youth welfare organization in Hesse.

 

 

 
 

The Team

 

Elena Schweikert

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Nathalie Emmer Menzel

Art Education, Pedagogy, Team Digitale Welten

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Elizaveta Kazantseva

Social Media, Team Digitale Welten

Andrea Eberlein

Pedagogy, Team Digitale Welten

Felix Bitz

Awareness, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Sascha Korolkov

Community & Program Curator, display Team, Mentor

Liv Märtens

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten

Rainer Killinger

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten, Technical Director, Workshop Host

Verena Kuni

Curatorial Advisor

 

Funding & Partners

 

NODE is run by a team of mostly voluntary and freelance creative coders, researchers, cultural producers, educators and social workers. We are looking for a person that is interested in joining our non-profit organization and team on a regular basis as a creative producer on a freelance but committed basis. As part of a new event format we are looking for a creative producer.

→ What is your role?

As a creative producer you will be part of our projects as a lead project manager and creative mind. You are invited to join the conceptual process in the fundraising phase or initiate projects and fundraising processes for your own project ideas.

Your tasks may include (but can be negotiated depending on the project and team) for example:

  • Fundraising & concept creation
  • Process planning & time schedules
  • Coordination / Communication Speakers & Artists
  • Team coordination
  • Preparation of contracts
  • Material purchases
  • Location Management
  • Contribution to technical planning
  • Contribution to budget controlling
  • Contribution to public relations management

 

→ What do we expect from you?

  • you are registered as a freelance worker and able to write invoices
  • you are a dedicated and caring team player
  • you bring a certain willingness to engage in the overall conceptual process and development of NODE as a team and organization
  • enjoyment of and initial experience working in the fields of art, design or creative coding
  • enthusiasm for collaborative creative and critical thinking
  • a strong interest in media and net cultural issues as well as in the complex of technology, society, culture and cultural education
  • the motivation to contribute own skills, ideas and questions
  • openness for remote teamwork as well as joining projects, meetings, events locally in Frankfurt am Main
  • commitment to teamwork and engagement

It is important to us that you are a caring and open-minded person willing to negotiate the interests of different involved stakeholders, that you are sensitive and critical of yourself, your fellow human beings and the world.

→ What you can expect from us:

  • close cooperation in a non-hierarchical team
  • a claim of discrimination-sensitivity with simultaneous openness to mistakes
  • insight into cultural and youth work
  • practical experience in the field of critical technology and art education
  • collaboration with exciting media artists, creative coders, educators and critical makers
  • plenty of room and appreciation for personal initiative, creativity and suggestions
  • a great network of people, initiatives and institutions

 

 

 

→ What is NODE?

NODE is a non-profit organization working in the field of creative coding, digital arts and design, an international platform for the critical reflection of technology and society and network in Frankfurt am Main and in Hesse.

Since 2008, NODE has been developing educational formats, organizing international artist exchange programs, conferences and commissioning cross-disciplinary artistic projects. NODE started as an analog gathering of an internationally distributed community of creative coders and developers of the visual programming language vvvv, turning into an organization for more holistic political, cultural, artistic, informatic and digital media discourses and education. NODE runs a festival for digital arts and creative technologies called NODE Forum for Digital Arts. The 6th edition of the Frankfurt festival was dedicated to the ecological dimension of new technologies and their use in art, the creative industries and design. The festival invites an international audience of professionals, artists and coders as well as an intergenerational general audience to critically examine their use of technologies, their professional practice and question the status quo of their industries.

NODE is also a recognized voluntary youth welfare organization in Hesse. Together with international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies. We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as various other projects for young people. We also develop educational programs for professionals in out-of-school youth work in Hesse.

 

 

→ How can you apply?

Send us an email with a letter of motivation, CV and a list of previous experiences in creative production. Apply until latest: October 6th, 2023

Contact person: Jeanne Charlotte Vogt (she/her) jeanne.vogt@nodeforum.org or Alexander Roidl (he/him) alexander.roidl@nodeforum.org . If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch as well! Apply here:

bewerbung@nodeforum.org

 

 
 

 

The Team

 

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Alexander Roidl

Artistic Director, Board

Felix Bitz

Awareness, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Anna Meik

Curator, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

When you pay your groceries at the supermarket checkout, the thermal printer that prints the receipt is just something usual that would not particularly get your attention. But when you take this device out of the supermarket and use it to design a poster, it suddenly becomes un-usual. The gesture of re-contextualizing and the intervention into the software create a moment of defamiliarization that makes the technology visible, opens a critical gaze and makes the technology usable as a tool for designing something new. The usual becomes unusual. This also leads to the possibility to question everyday circumstances critically. What invisible power structures are embedded in technology, how can they be made visible? Can we understand re-contextualisation as a way to make technology more accessible?

With the online-publication »re-coding everyday technologies« we want to look at how the unusual and methods that subvert can be used for a more critical understanding of everyday digital technology and what the role of design could be to enable engagement with technology. As »re-coding« we understand acts of altering or reinterpreting digital technology e.g. through intervention in their codes, but also as a change in meaning or context – changing encodings, cultural codes or hidden structures.

We are looking for contributions that re-code everyday technology or reflect the re-coding of digital technology. Areas of interest are for instance:

  • Explorations into aesthetics and interrelations of everyday / unusual media
  • Design experiments with everyday technology
    Examples / Instructions / Tutorials of unusual use of everyday digital technology
  • How subverting digital media can be revealing about the technology, the design of technology or the role of everyday digital technology in society
  • How methods of re-coding / subverting / de-familiarizing can be used in (visual) design
  • How can design as a form of counter-action make technologies visible and critically examine them?
  • Which bodies are considered when everyday tools are designed and which aren’t? How can tools be re-coded to make them more accessible for diverse audiences?
  • How can an unusual design activate audiences and elicit critical reflection?
  • How design, standards and habits are connected

 

 

 

The Online Publication

The online publication will take the shape of a browser-based application and can present browser-based work, concept descriptions, theoretical reflections, tutorials for recoding, documentation of installations or other experimental hybrid formats. We are specifically interested in projects that use digital media / (creative) coding and that could also be displayed on a screen (e.g. low res LED panel). Projects can be, but are not limited to, interventions, designs, theoretical or artistic perspectives or combinations.

Your contribution must be able to be shown in the browser-based publication and participants must be willing to document and open source their code for publication.

The project will be launched and shown as part of an exhibition from 11th to 20th October at the LUX Pavillon in Mainz, in collaboration with the symposium Interpose.

 

How to Apply

The call is open for artists, coders, designers, practitioners, students and amateurs. We are explicitly interested in contributions by artists underrepresented in tech communities.

Artist honorarium: 500€ (incl. VAT)
Deadline Open Call: 23. July, 2023

Your contribution will be compensated with a honorarium of 500 €.

To apply please send an e-mail including a short proposal (description incl. applied media of max. 1 page, PDF + sketch, video or photo, if available) for your contribution and a short bio (for potential publication, incl. work focus, interests, pronoun) to unusualmedia@nodeforum.org

The jury consists of the curatorial team of the project. You will hear back from us max. 2 weeks after the call closes.

 

 
 

Apply now!

Please submit a 1 page PDF with a short description, applied media + your short bio.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

Apply here!

 
 

Partners

 

Part of the collaboration:

Working Group for Unusual Input and Output Media

VIEW
 

NODE is looking for a colleague for project-related social media management & public relations – with a focus on our media arts, teens and educational program Digitale Welten.

  •  for 10-15 hrs. per week (can be adjusted according to individual possibilities).
  • starting 01.07.23 or as soon as possible, currently limited until 31.12.2023.

 

 
 

Digitale Welten

 
 

Digitale Welten is the youth program of NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V. and a network for political, cultural, informatics and digital media education in Frankfurt am Main and in Hessen. Together with international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies. NODE is a non-profit association and a recognized youth welfare organization in Hesse.

We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as other various offerings for youth between the ages of 10 and 18. In the fall of 2023, we are also planning a new LARP-like project with two youth houses in Frankfurt and Rhein-Main.

 

Your tasks

  • Support of our social media channels (Instagram, Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, others if necessary)
  • Real-time social media updates during events
  • Event announcements and reviews
  • Developing posts on thematic focuses, based on the project CI – but with creative freedom
  • Supporting editorial work for our website and newsletters

 

 

What we offer

  • Flexible working hours and fair remuneration (cf. 10 hrs./week = 650€ employee* gross).
  • Flexible working location in/around Frankfurt (80-90% home-office possible, assignment at event locations required)
  • Close cooperation with team & our graphic designers
  • Induction and concept briefing
  • Plenty of room for initiative, creativity and suggestions
  • Insight into the art scene, cultural and youth work
  • Collaboration with exciting media artists, educators and coders
  • A young, non-hierarchical working team
  • If you are interested, participation in advanced training, plenty of room for personal development.

 

 

What you should bring

  • A desire to write copy and an eye for beautiful images and design
    Experience with different social media platforms (professional or private)
  • Basic skills in Photoshop and Indesign
  • Ability to work in a team and communication skills
  • Flexibility in terms of the design of the work phases
  • Independent way of working
  • Basic German language skills (we are happy to support each other in the team with proofreading)
  • Enrollment at a German university

 

It’s a match?

Great, send us a short application with cover letter and resume by 10/07/2013.

Contact: Elena Schweikert (she/her) → elena.schweikert@nodeforum.org

 

 

 

Under the motto C0DES & FRI3NDS, young people between the ages of 10 and 18 are invited to take part in four art and programming workshops dealing with friendship, technology and artificial intelligence.

Instructed by international artists Janne Nora Kummer, Sarah Fartuun Heinze, Naoto Hieda, Stine Marie Jacobsen and Joni Barnard, the participants will develop exciting projects to explore our digital-analog world in a creative and critical way.

Digitale Welten is all about trying things out and thinking critically about our digital society! Whether with code or with scissors and paper, screwdriver or clipboard. The focus is on exploring social issues through art and technology.

 

→ What are your tasks?

As a workshop assistant, you will support an artist in the preparation and implementation of their workshop: You will get to know the artists and the Digitale Welten team in an online kick-off meeting. Then, you will assist in workshop planning, organizing workshop materials, and setting up the space. During the workshop, you will be a point of contact for the participants and assist them in realizing their projects or providing support when needed. You will contribute your own ideas and skills (in art, social or media education) as well as your organizational talent. You will step in when last-minute items need to be procured or organized. After the workshop, you will be available for joint reflection on the workshop and assist in preparing the workshop’s “results” for the Digitale Welten exhibition.

The workshops will take place from October 23 to 25, from 11 am to 4 pm, in Frankfurt am Main. The setup will take place approximately 1-2 hours before the start of each workshop. The exact location will be announced soon. Immediately following the workshops, together with the artists, we will develop the exhibition, which will open on October 27 at the TOR Art Space. At the opening, you will be welcoming the participants from your workshop.

→ What should you bring?

  • A strong interest in collaborative, creative, and critical thinking, researching, and
    communicating
  • A strong interest in media and internet culture as well as the complex interplay of technology, society, culture, and cultural education
  • The motivation to contribute your own skills, ideas, and questions
  • Commitment to teamwork and engagement
  • Enjoyment and ideally some experience in working with young people
  • An extended police clearance certificate: If you don’t already have one, we will provide you
    with a document for fee exemption, which you can use to apply for one

 

→ What can you expect?

  • Practical insights into the field of critical technology and art education
  • Close collaboration with media artists and other experts from practice and theory, culture
    and technology, youth work, and education
  • An opportunity to volunteer and gain positive experiences in working with young people
  • An excellent atmosphere and the participants’ smiling faces
  • A compensation of 500 euros as tax-free “Übungsleitungshonorar” and possibly additional honorarium for exhibition assistance
  • Reimbursement of travel expenses and meals
 

 

 

 
 

→ What is Digitale Welten?

Digitale Welten is a network for political, cultural and artistic, informatic and digital media education in Frankfurt am Main and Hessen and the youth program of NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V. Together with exciting international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies.

We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as various other offerings for young people. We also develop offers for professionals in out-of-school youth work in Hesse.
NODE is a non-profit association and a recognized voluntary youth welfare organization in Hesse.

 
 

→ Apply now!

Interested in this opportunity? Great! Send us an email by June 30, 2023, with a few sentences about your motivation and information about yourself. Contact person: Elena Schweikert (she/her). You can write in German or English. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

Apply here!

 

 

 
 

The Team

 

Elena Schweikert

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Anna Meik

Curator, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Felix Bitz

Awareness, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Liv Märtens

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten

Jannik Buddeberg

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten, Technical Director

Sascha Korolkov

Community & Program Curator, display Team, Mentor

Verena Kuni

Curatorial Advisor

Ludwig Schaible

Team Digitale Welten

 

Our Partners and Supporters

 

→ What are your tasks?

As helping hands, you pick up various tasks on the run: Shopping for groceries, buying some more batteries, cooking or handing out food. If somewhere somehow there is one more person needed, you’re there to help. You will be briefed by the team one week beforehand and help with the preparations for the event.
Your work period will be during the event and the week before. → June 12 to 18

As a night watch, you are present (and awake) at the hostel, where the participants will be staying. If someone wakes up in the middle of the night and needs help with something or has a question, you are there to assist. You can study, watch movies, read or do whatever you like during the nights—just be available.
Your work period will be during the two nights of the event. → June 16 & 17

→ What should you bring with you?

  • Commitment to teamwork and engagement
  • The ability to work independently and conscientiously
  • Enjoyment of and ideally initial experience in working with young people
  • For helping hands a driving license and car are an advantage, but not a must.
  • We need an extended criminal record certificate (‘erweitertes Führungszeugnis’) from you. You do not have to pay anything for it, since it is for an voluntary position. More info here.

→ What can you expect?

  • An amazing atmosphere and 3 days of excited young experts around you
  • Many bottles of Mate
  • Monetary compensation
  • Infinite gratefulness of NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland and mediale pfade.org – Verein für Medienbildung
 

 

 

 
 

→ What is Digitale Welten?

Digitale Welten is a network for political, cultural and artistic, informatic and digital media education in Frankfurt am Main and Hessen and the youth program of NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur e.V. Together with exciting international media artists, we develop workshop and other project formats for young people that invite them to critically and creatively take apart or reinvent technologies.

We organize the youth media art festival Digitale Welten and Jugend hackt Frankfurt, as well as various other offerings for young people. We also develop offers for professionals in out-of-school youth work in Hesse.
NODE is a non-profit association and a recognized voluntary youth welfare organization in Hesse.

 
 

→ Apply now!

Sounds good? Great! Send us an email with the position you want to apply for, a few sentences about your motivation and info about yourself until May 15, 2023.

Contact person: Jannik (he/him).

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us as well!

 

ffm@jugendhackt.org

 

All positions are filled! Please don’t apply anymore.

lila Jugend-hackt-Alpaka Logo

 

 

 
 

The Team

 

Jannik Buddeberg

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten, Technical Director

Liv Märtens

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten

Felix Bitz

Awareness, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Elena Schweikert

Jugend hackt, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Rainer Killinger

Jugend hackt, Team Digitale Welten, Technical Director, Workshop Host

Nils Weger

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Anna Meik

Curator, Project Management, Team Digitale Welten

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Artistic Director, Board, Managing Director

Sascha Korolkov

Community & Program Curator, display Team, Mentor

 

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We at NODE and the Hochschule Mainz – University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Design, Department of Communication Design, are jointly offering the following professorship qualification position starting next summer semester 2022 (01.03.2022):

 

 
 

Tandem Professorship in the field of Media Informatics at the Faculty of Design and with NODE (m, w, d)

(employment under private law / limited to 2.5 years)

With our tandem professorship, we enable you to acquire non-university professional experience to qualify for a professorship at a university of applied sciences and agree on an accompanying personnel development concept with you. You will be employed 50% at Mainz University of Applied Sciences (remuneration based on grade W 1) and 50% at NODE in Frankfurt according to pay group E 14 based on the TV-L. The tandem professorship will be financed for a limited period of 2.5 years from the federal-state programme “FH-Personal”, a funding programme for the recruitment and development of professorial staff at universities of applied sciences.

 

The Hochschule Mainz – University of Applied Sciences at the Rhine-Main media location is characterised by excellent quality in teaching and research. Students receive practical training in small groups. There is personal, open and friendly interaction between professors and students. more than 5,500 young people study and research here.

The Department of Design has a wide variety of subjects in the design disciplines and professionally equipped workshops that offer ideal conditions for innovative teaching and research. With international symposia and several research institutes, it participates in current scientific discourses.

 

At Mainz University of Applied Sciences, the Tandem Professorship will be responsible for the following fields in teaching and applied research:

  • Design using code at various levels (HTML/CSS in BA basic studies, JavaScript in BA advanced studies, Python in Master, …) and contexts (web publishing, interaction, machine learning).
  • Examination of the methods and tools of the so-called Digital Humanities from a design perspective (data visualisation, explorative and literate programming, …)
  • Relationships between research, transfer and design

NODE is a platform for practical, creative and theoretical exchange on technology and digisation in society, the creative industries, science and the arts. Since 2008, NODE has been developing education formats, festivals, programmes for political and cultural youth media education, international exchange programmes and cross-disciplinary cultural projects. The artistic, creative and critical use of new technologies is the central method and means of reflecting on our analogue-digital world of life and work. NODE works closely with educational and cultural institutions, partners from research and theory, as well as various parts of the creative industries in the development of all its programmes.

 

At NODE, the Tandem Professorship will be responsible for the following tasks and will engage in particular in programme and project development with the below mentioned focus:

  • Addressing the ethical and political dimensions of digital tools, code and design.
  • Developing and implementing formats for critical reflection and artistic engagement with technology and, in particular, design with programming code
  • Developing and planning educational formats (workshops, etc.) in the field of creative coding outside the university context.
  • Support fundraising for the implementation of the above-mentioned programmes
 
 
 

What you need to bring

The hiring requirements for a tandem professorship are:

  • a successfully completed university degree in a design discipline with a
    computer science or applied computer science with a design component
  • pedagogical aptitude, which must be proven separately
  • aptitude for design, which must be proven separately
  • special aptitude for scientific work
  • ability to work in a team
  • fluency in German is a minimum criteria
  • fluency in English is an advantage

We expect the willingness to take on related or interdisciplinary teaching areas and to participate in interdisciplinary projects. The ability and willingness to teach courses in English must be demonstrated in the application and in a sample course. The use of digital media in teaching should be familiar.

The hiring requirements for a tandem professorship are derived from § 54 and § 56 of the and can be viewed there.

 

 

 

 

Please Note:

Mainz University of Applied Sciences is certified as a family-friendly university and thus, just like NODE, supports the compatibility of family and career, for example through flexible working hours during the lecture-free period. The equal opportunities concept of Mainz University of Applied Sciences and NODE envisages an increase in the proportion of women, which is why we are particularly pleased to receive applications from qualified women. If you have any questions, please contact the Equal Opportunities Officer of the Faculty of Design at Mainz University of Applied Sciences.

Severely disabled persons will be given preference if they are suitable.

The state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Mainz University of Applied Sciences advocate a supervision concept in which a high degree of presence of the lecturers at the university location is expected.

 

Your application documents will not be returned, but will instead be destroyed or deleted promptly after the end of the appointment procedure in accordance with data protection requirements. Please note our information on data protection before sending your documents.

How to apply?

Please send your application with a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae in table form, copies of certificates, list of previous teaching activities, list of academic achievements, samples of creative work, in a summarised PDF file in compliance with the above-mentioned order of documents with a maximum of 30 pages (surname_firstname_application.pdf) by 28 November 2021.

To the President of the Mainz University of Applied Sciences Prof. Dr. Susanne Weissman
Higher Education Act of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
Lucy-Hillebrand-Straße 2
55128 Mainz

Please submit all required documents electronically using the following upload link: https://seafile.rlp.net/u/d/f99132841eef4687a04a/

 

 

 

Contact

If you have any questions regarding the call for applications, please contact the following persons:

 

  • Subject-related questions (University): Department of Design; Prof. Florian Jenett; florian.jenett@hs-mainz.de
  • Subject-related questions (NODE): Jeanne Charlotte Vogt; jeanne.vogt@nodeforum.org
  • Organisational questions: Department of Human Resources and Law; Phone: 06131 628-7305; stellenausschreibungen@hs-mainz.de

 

 

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