As part of the "Extreme Environments" project funded by the CAU's Internationalisation Fund, CeOS researchers are visiting the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø in August 2024. The aim of the visit is to further develop the online course "Extreme Environments", which is being developed with various international cooperation partners inside and outside academia. "Extreme Environments" are habitats where life has found adaptation strategies to thrive under high temperatures, high pressure or nutrient deficiencies, deep oceans, marine seafloor characterized by methane releases or hydrothermal vents. The freely available online course is aimed at students from interdisciplinary degree programs, as well as experts from the fields of geosciences, biology, chemistry and marine sciences. "It is important to understand unexplored worlds to be able to protect them," says Prof Dr Giuliana Panieri from the UiT in Tromsø. The researchers at the Immersive Media Lab cabu:ff@CeOS are working with their partners to create virtual content for the course. "To convey the complex topic of extreme environments to a wide range of disciplines in an understandable way, it is important to use modern and appealing methods of knowledge transfer," adds Dr Felix Gross from the Center for Ocean and Society at Kiel University's marine focus area "Kiel Marine Science". The team from the Center for Ocean and Society is contributing its expertise in interactive 360° tours and scientific educational videos to this process, which will give the product an appealing overall look. Once completed, the developed products will be made freely available to a wide range of users. "The lessons learnt from the production of the "Extreme Environments" course will help us to integrate these formats for future immersive knowledge communication into other CAU courses, " says Dr Felix Gross. The "Extreme Environments" online course will be trialed in a test phase from September 2024 and made available to the general public in early 2025.