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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.

 

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Pader­born Uni­ver­sity pre­pares SMEs for cy­ber se­cur­ity

Online tool and learning platform provide support for NIS2 Directive

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Sci­ent­ist from Pader­born Uni­ver­sity ap­poin­ted as com­mis­sion mem­ber at the Fed­er­al In­sti­tute for Risk As­sess­ment

Prof. Dr. Lars Libuda, nutrition scientist at Paderborn University, has been appointed as a member of the Commission on Evidence-Based Methods in Risk Assessment at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin.

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Intelligent Technical Systems
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Sup­port for the Ger­man auto­mot­ive in­dustry: re­search pro­ject pro­duces new plat­form for di­git­al ser­vices

Autonomous driving, connected mobility, increasing electrification: the automotive industry is undergoing change. This makes it all the more important to support companies in integrating digital services into their business models and exploiting the innovation potential of digital business processes. For three years, a consortium of scientists and industry experts has been working on developing solutions for the mobility sector.

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Photo (Paderborn University, Besim Mazhiqi): 35 million euros, 210 scientists, 12 years of research: After the maximum possible duration of three funding periods, the Collaborative Research Centre/TRR 142 "Tailor-made Nonlinear Photonics: From Basic Concepts to Functional Structures" officially ended in December 2025.

Light for fu­ture op­tic­al tech­no­lo­gies: Suc­cess­ful con­clu­sion of the Col­lab­or­at­ive Re­search Centre TRR 142

35 million euros, 210 scientists, 12 years of research: After the maximum possible duration of three funding periods, the Collaborative Research Centre/TRR 142 "Tailor-made Nonlinear Photonics: From Basic Concepts to Functional Structures" officially ended in December 2025.

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Call for pro­pos­als: Doc­tor­al schol­ar­ships 2026

The Presidential Board of Paderborn University is once again calling for proposals for doctoral scholarships, for which excellent academics in the early career phase can apply until 2 February.

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Foto (Universit?t Paderborn, Besim Mazhiqi): Gro?e Freude bei der Bescheidübergabe: (v.l.n.r.) Prof. Dr. René Fahr, Vizepr?sident für Transfer und Nachhaltigkeit, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ansgar Tr?chtler, Lehrstuhlinhaber ?Regelungstechnik und Mechatronik“, Dr.-Ing. Kevin Malena, Teamleiter im EEBEO-Projekt, der Parlamentarische Staatssekret?r Matthias Hauer und Universit?tspr?sident Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer.

Par­lia­ment­ary State Sec­ret­ary Mat­thi­as Hauer hands over fund­ing de­cision to Pader­born Uni­ver­sity

Launch of the "EEBEO" research project to record traffic situations

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Photo (NeMo e.V.): Board of Directors and Advisory Board of Neue Mobilit?t Paderborn e.V. (from right): Christoph Rüther (Paderborn District), Prof Dr Barbara Lenz (formerly DLR Institute of Transport Research), Prof Dr Nikolaus Risch (Heinz Nixdorf Foundation), Jonathan Behm (Managing Director NeMo), Michael Heinemann (Phoenix Contact E-Mobility), Ute Dülfer (City of Lichtenau), Jann-Eve Stavesand (dSPACE GmbH), Stefan-Oliver Strate (City of Paderborn) and Prof Dr Thomas Tr?ster (Paderborn University).

NeMo e.V. on the move: New board and in­ter­na­tion­al pres­ence

The members of "Neue Mobilit?t Paderborn e.V." (NeMo) have elected a new board. The initiative also presented its NeMo.bil project at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona.

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Symbol image (Paderborn University): The project partners are developing training courses that aim to anchor the topics of data literacy and satellite data use in school education in the long term.

Satel­lite data in the classroom: re­search pro­ject brings data ex­pert­ise and cli­mate pro­tec­tion to­geth­er

Paderborn Universities and Bochum cooperate with the German Informatics Society

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Photo (Paderborn University, Leonie Mayer): Prof. Dr Erdal Kayacan from the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at Paderborn University.

Pader­born sci­ent­ist be­comes com­mit­tee mem­ber of in­ter­na­tion­al as­so­ci­ation for Elec­tric­al En­gin­eer­ing and Elec­tron­ics

Prof. Dr. Erdal Kayacan, scientist at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Paderborn University, has been elected to the administrative committee (AdCom) of the Computational Intelligence Society at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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Di­versity in the classroom: New re­search pro­ject aims to de­vel­op strategies for teach­ers

How can lessons be organised effectively and at the same time take into account the diversity of different learning groups? An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Universities of Cologne, Bielefeld and Paderborn is addressing this question in a new joint project.

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