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Foto (Universität Paderborn, garage33): Die Finalist*innen, die Jury sowie die Veranstalter*innen der VerbundVolksbank OWL eG und der garage33 feiern die Gewinner*innen des „Call for Ideas“ 2025.

Der Gründungsideen-Wettbewerb „Call for Ideas“ geht in die zwölfte Runde und ruft erneut innovative Köpfe aus Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) zur Teilnahme auf. Ausgerichtet wird der Wettbewerb von der garage33, dem Gründungszentrum der Universität Paderborn, und der VerbundVolksbank OWL eG mit Unterstützung vom Center for Entrepreneurship der Hochschule Bielefeld sowie der Campus Foundery der TH OWL als weitere Partner der regionalen…

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Photo (it's OWL): (from left) Günter Korda (it's owl), Rebecca Steinhage (Managing Director of Miele), Professor Kirsten Thommes and Professor Roman Dumitrescu exchanging ideas at the "Arbeitswelt.Plus" Summit.

In­teg­rat­ing AI prof­it­ably in­to the world of work

Research and industry develop solutions for SMEs Artificial intelligence (AI) has long since found its way into various areas of the working world. How can small and medium-sized companies in particular implement technological change sensibly and effectively? A competence centre from research and industry in Ostwestfalen-Lippe has been working on this question for the past five years. With numerous experience reports, solution approaches and…

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Photo: Leonie Riße was honoured with the Schmalenbach Scholarship at the 80th German Business Management Conference.

Leonie Riße, a student on the Master's programme in Taxation, Accounting and Finance at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Paderborn University, has been awarded this year's Schmalenbach Scholarship. The award was presented at the 80th German Business Administration Conference and honours outstanding academic achievements and social commitment. Leonie Riße decided to study for a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration…

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Symbolic image (Paderborn University, Besim Mazhiqi)

In times of increasing ecological and social challenges, sustainability is becoming more and more important for companies: not only as a responsibility towards the environment, but also as a driving force for innovation and long-term success. Paderborn University is launching a new project called "gr33nUP" to promote sustainable entrepreneurship. The aim is to support companies in systematically integrating sustainability into their business…

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Photo (Paderborn University, Sarah Herwald): from left Oliver Fritz, Jerome Genuit, Jill Gers, Louis Ledigen, Jan Michel Kirsch, David Bergmann, Noah Bergmann

Strategy for suc­cess

Paderborn University students impress in stock market simulation game For four months, students at Paderborn University traded securities - not on the real stock exchange, however, but as part of the savings banks' stock market simulation game. With a virtual starting capital of 50,000 euros, they developed their own investment strategies, observed developments on the financial markets and made buy and sell decisions in real time. In addition to…

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Pader­born Uni­ver­sity in­nov­a­tion pro­ject turns stu­dent work in­to re­search pa­pers

Teaching materials from #myfirstresearchpaper now freely available on ORCA.nrw and twillo For many students, publishing their own work as a research paper is a lofty goal - and the potential start to an academic career. To support this, the teaching innovation project #myfirstresearchpaper was launched at the Department of Business Informatics at Paderborn University and has now been successfully completed after two years. The teaching materials…

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