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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.

 

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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Symbolic image (Paderborn University, Besim Mazhiqi)

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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A portrait of the scientist Vijayalakshmi Shroff
Photo (Paderborn University): Vijayalakshmi Shroff is a member of the "MINTS" project group.

Pro­ject ex­ten­ded: Sci­ent­ists re­search meth­od­o­lo­gies for ul­trastable gen­er­a­tion of high fre­quency sig­nals

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has extended funding for the "MINTS" project (MLL-based Integrated THz Frequency Synthesizer) for a further three years with a funding sum of around 415,000 euros.

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Photo (Paderborn University, Besim Mazhiqi).

Pader­born Uni­ver­sity again suc­cess­ful in Shang­hai sub­ject rank­ings

In the latest edition of the renowned "Global Ranking of Academic Subjects" (GRAS), also known as the "Shanghai Subject Ranking", Paderborn University has once again achieved very good rankings.

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A group of people stand together next to a stand labelled ICILS 2023.
Photo (Paderborn University, Besim Mazhiqi): The school pedagogy group (from left to right): Regina Sonnenkemper, Inessa Fliegner, Johannes Niggemeier, PD Dr Kerstin Drossel, Prof Dr Birgit Eickelmann, Michael Funk, Gianna Casamassima, Finja Amelie Laskowski, Dr Jan Niemann and Melanie Bruno. Not present: Marius Domke, Anna Oldak, Nadine Fr?hlich.

ICILS 2023: In­ter­na­tion­al com­par­at­ive study on pu­pils' di­git­al skills

The international comparative study "International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2023" (ICILS 2023) shows the current state of pupils' digital skills.

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Photo (private): Prof. Dr. Jutta Weber, head of "MeHuCo" and Professor of Media Sociology at the Paderborn Institute of Media Studies, is organising the "Investigating the Kill Cloud" conference in cooperation with the "Disruption Network Lab" in Berlin.

"Mean­ing­ful Hu­man Con­trol" - Re­search on the con­sequences of AI-sup­por­ted war­fare

What impact will the development and use of weapons systems based on artificial intelligence (AI) have?

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Photo (Bü?ra Yalaman): Prof. Dr. Muna Tatari is serving another four years on the German Ethics Council.

Pader­born Is­lam Re­search­er Muna Tatari Re­appoin­ted to the Ger­man Eth­ics Coun­cil

Prof. Dr. Muna Tatari from the Institute of Islamic Theology at Paderborn University has been reappointed to the German Ethics Council for a further term of office by the President of the German Bundestag, B?rbel Bas.

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