The adoption of a dedicated "Open Educational Resources Policy" is intended to promote the implementation of ideal teaching-learning processes and ensure inclusive, equitable and high-quality education for all people
Photo (Paderborn University, Tanja Dittmann): Prof Dr Birgitt Riegraf (l.) and Prof Dr Johannes Blömer (r.) congratulate Dr Ying Pan on her scholarship.
26.01.2024
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Sustainability,
International,
Researchers,
Awards,
Press release,
Sustainable Materials Chemistry - AK Jun. Prof. Lopez Salas
Natural scientist Dr Ying Pan has been awarded the Paderborn University's Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023 and can therefore look forward to monthly funding of 2,400 euros for a period of 18 months.
On behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW), researchers at Paderborn University are investigating how intangible cultural heritage can be specifically taught in schools.
Photo (Paderborn University, Johanna Pietsch): The contracts for the new HPC system have been signed. (front from left to right) Judith Schröter (Lenovo) and Simone Probst (Paderborn University), (back from left to right) Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl (Paderborn University) and Oliver Kill (pro-com).
25.01.2024
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Research,
High Performance Computing,
Press release,
Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2)
Paderborn University has concluded a purchase agreement with the company pro-com DATENSYSTEME GmbH for the installation of a further HPC system based on the next generation of AMD processors.
Paderborn University prides itself on being a research and educational institution that is open to the world and is committed to teaching free, democratic, and social values. Academia relies on diverse perspectives and international networks. Democracy is the basis for academia. Any attack on fundamental democratic rights is also an attack on academic freedom and vice versa.
As a HRK member university, we stand firmly against hostility towards…
Dr Hagos Nigussie Kahssay from Mekelle University in Ethiopia has been awarded a Georg Forster Research Fellowship for experienced researchers by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and will now be conducting research at Paderborn University for two and a half years.
23.01.2024
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Research,
Press release,
Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics,
Department of Computer Science,
Theory of Distributed Systems
The CIRPROM research project ("Algorithmic foundations for circuit-based programmable matter"), led by Prof Dr Scheideler, is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with around 350,000 euros until 2027.
Photo (TRR 318): Professors Dr Kevin Tierney (l.) from Bielefeld University and Dr Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (r.) from Paderborn University are leading the dissertation project on the real-time configuration of algorithms.
With the steadily increasing integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life, it becomes increasingly important to ask how trustworthy these technologies are. The Research Training Group for Trustworthy AI Technology ‘DataNinja’ aims to contribute to this with various projects. One project is the Real-time Configuration of Algorithms with Multi-armed Bandits (EKAmBa).
Photo (Paderborn University, Besim Mashiqi): At the New Year's reception, Paderborn University honoured the special achievements of its early career researchers and students.
22.01.2024
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Award Winner,
Festivity,
Press release
Exceptional research topics, outstanding dissertations and particular social commitment – every year, Paderborn University recognises the particular achievements of its students and young research talent. Eleven academics received awards at this year’s New Year’s reception.
Photo (Paderborn University, Besim Mazhiqi): (from left:) Moderator Ulrich Lettermann, Simone Probst, Vice President for Business and Personnel Administration, President Prof Dr Birgitt Riegraf and keynote speaker Prof Dr Anita Engels from the University of Hamburg at Paderborn University's New Year's Reception 2024.
Paderborn University celebrated its traditional New Year’s reception on Sunday 21 January with the University Orchestra, an awards ceremony and around 400 guests from the worlds of science, business and politics. During her speech in the auditorium, Professor Birgitt Riegraf looked back over the past year and took advantage of the opportunity to review her term of office as university president.
Photo (Paderborn University, Tanja Dittmann): "Arrivederci" and "Goodbye": The exchange students from Paderborn's partner universities met up with their fellow students, the Eurobiz team and the contacts from the International Office to say goodbye.
18.01.2024
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Campus,
International,
News,
International Office
The exchange students spent the winter semester 2023/24 in Paderborn. Together with the International Office and the Eurobiz initiative, they looked back on the past few months.
Photo (Thorsten Hennig): The talent scouts from the four participating state universities in OWL offer regular counselling sessions to motivated high school students from socio-economically challenging backgrounds.
In the state-wide programme, schools can offer their performance-motivated sixth form students from socio-economically challenging backgrounds regular advice from the talent scouts of the four participating state universities in OWL.
Researchers at Paderborn University are investigating the connections between the cathedral city and the German colonies in Africa and the Far East from around 1870 to the Second World War.
