Interdisciplinary projects — Cooperation of students of different study programs

Projects and internships in which students are involved are usually a part of their study programs and obligatory and are on that base mostly one field oriented. Even if interdisciplinary knowledge is expected, more or less, those projects cover only one course. We are aware, that real life project teams are mostly interdisciplinary, so we are trying to organise the work in similar spirit. In such a case a lot of organisational work and agreements between teachers from different disciplines and courses on preparation of projects (distribution and evaluation of workload that is demand by each discipline or course) is required. More interdisciplinary are projects that are not part of study programs and students are cooperating in them for other reasons and motivations. In our contribution we will present two case studies from the University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Institute of Media Communication, Institute of Informatics and Institute of Computer Science that cover nonobligatory projects, as well as some experiences from obligatory projects will be introduced. Stress will be on non-obligatory projects.