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Here you will find current, selected news from the area of research at the University of Paderborn. Further releases can be found in the press archive.

 

Three women and two men stand next to each other and hold a self-balancing cube together.
Photo (Paderborn University, Heinz Nixdorf Institute): The DART junior research group with the self-balancing cube: Dr.-Ing. Ricarda G?tte, Dr.-Ing. Annika Junker, Luis Schwarzer, Dr.-Ing. Julia Timmermann and Dr.-Ing. Michael Hesse (from left to right).

DART ju­ni­or re­search group in­vest­ig­ates the use of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in con­trol en­gin­eer­ing

The junior research group "Data-Driven Methods in Control Engineering" (DART) at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University has spent four years researching how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used profitably in the field of control engineering.

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Arm­ing SMEs against cy­ber­crime: fo­cus on NIS-2-com­pli­ant solu­tions

The new EU Directive on Network and Information Security (NIS-2 Directive) significantly tightens the IT security requirements for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In the "KMU.kompetent.sicher." project, companies are supported with directive-compliant training content developed by Paderborn University, the University of Hohenheim, the InnoZent OWL innovation network and the IT service provider coactum GmbH.

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Photo (Paderborn University): Experts have developed tools that can recognise and remove vulnerabilities in open source applications.

Re­search pro­ject to pro­tect against vul­ner­ab­il­it­ies in freely ac­cess­ible soft­ware pro­duces two tools

Among other things, the experts have developed tools that can recognise and remove vulnerabilities even with previously insufficient information. The three-year project was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with almost 500,000 euros.

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Two women and four men stand in two rows on a troop, four of them holding bouquets of flowers.
Photo (Paderborn University, Thorsten Hennig): University President Prof. Dr. Birgitt Riegraf (3rd from left) and Prof. Dr. Johannes Bl?mer, Vice President for Research and Early Career Researchers (2nd from right), with scholarship holders Patrick Makal, Dr. No?lle Rohde, Usman Ali, and Daniel Matthias Fr?hlich (front, left to right).

Pader­born Uni­ver­sity awards schol­ar­ships for out­stand­ing re­search pro­jects

The Executive Board of Paderborn University has awarded five doctoral scholarships and one postdoctoral scholarship.

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Photo (Paderborn University, Thorsten Hennig): PD Dr Adrian Keller presented his "DNA origami" to the university public at the Day of Research.

New ap­proaches against an­ti­bi­ot­ic-res­ist­ant germs

Research award winner presents results at Paderborn University's Research Day

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Photo (Paderborn University, Thorsten Hennig): The heat supply for the new buildings is provided by the waste heat from the "Noctua" supercomputer in Building X at Paderborn University.

Two-part build­ing en­semble: Pader­born Uni­ver­sity and BLB NRW plan mod­ern new build­ings

Paderborn University and the Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (BLB NRW) are preparing construction projects on an extension site on Mersinweg: Two modern new buildings are to replace the ageing buildings P1 and P4 to P7.

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Fund­ing At­las of the Ger­man Re­search Found­a­tion: Pader­born Uni­ver­sity among Ger­many's best

The most important funding institution and central self-governing organisation for science in Germany, the German Research Foundation (DFG), published its Funding Atlas 2024 this week.

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Photo (Paderborn University): (from left to right) Steffen Strasser, Ida, Alexander Ostermann, Dr Nicole Satzinger, Frederike Sch?ningh with Greta and Yvonne F?gen.

Work­ing to­geth­er for more move­ment in the classroom: New col­lab­or­a­tion pro­duces spe­cial seat­ing for schools

In a new joint project, the members of the "besslab" movement, play and sports laboratory at Paderborn University, together with interior designer and carpenter Alexander Ostermann (Heimweh-Paderborn), teacher Frederike Sch?ningh from the Rudolf Steiner School Schloss Hamborn and Steffen Strasser from the Playparc company, have developed special seating furniture that combines movement and learning.

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Symbolic image (Paderborn University): The project, which won the university's research prize, is developing fully recyclable batteries that generate energy from the CO2 they extract from the atmosphere.

Com­bat­ing cli­mate change: Re­cyc­lable bat­ter­ies re­move CO2 from the at­mo­sphere

Paderborn University scientists honoured with research award

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Photo (EPA-Christopher Neundorf): Award ceremony 2024: (from left to right) Jonathan Behm, Volker Wissing and Thomas Troester.

Ger­man Mo­bil­ity Award for NeMo.bil

The NeMo.bil project, which was initiated by the New Mobility Initiative Paderborn (NeMo), has been awarded the German Mobility Prize (DMP) in the "New Mobility Solutions" category. A high-calibre jury from industry and politics decided on the award, which was presented by Federal Minister of Transport Volker Wissing.

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