In recent years, we are committed to configure a more application-oriented, interactive and competency-based teaching for our materials science students. The main focus of our new teaching strategy is to decrease the amount of frontally-taught lectures and increase the time the students spend on applying the content to their own group projects using the agile project management method SCRUM. [1,2] The SCRUM framework actually originated in the field of software development and is still primarily used there today to continuously adapt software to the constantly changing needs. It nevertheless has great potential to perform an educational programme which is well suited to address learning experience by personal responsibility. Several lectures at the institute of materials science at Technische Universität Dresden have already been successfully converted to this new teaching strategy, including "Statistics and Quality Assurance", "Sustainable Materials" and "Biomechanics". [3] For example, the course "Sustainable Materials" is structured in such a way that lectures take place only during the first 5 weeks of the semester (two lectures per week). Afterwards, the task for the group project is presented to the students. Within 3 SCRUM sprints and by means of the 5-point plan according to Ashby [4], the students have to evaluate a given or self-selected measure for sustainable development with regard to its ecological, social and economic sustainability. The final result of the group project can either be a prototype or a written report. The students should incorporate the opinions and knowledge of external experts as well as citizen into their project and decision processes. They are advised to publish the resulting reports as open access publications on the university's document server.

References
[1] K. Schwaber and J. Sutherland, The Definitive Guide to Scrum: The Rules of the Game, 2020, scrumguides.org.
[2] S. Fernandes et al., education science, 2021, 444, https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11080444.
[3] B. Kruppke et al., Lessons Learned, 2022, Bd. 2 Nr. 2, https://doi.org/10.25369/ll.v2i2.56.
[4] M. F. Ashby, Materials and Sustainable Development, 2022, Second Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann.