A look back at the successful BPM Winter School 2025
This year's "ERCIS Winter School for Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) Topics" brought together international encounters and knowledge exchange. Together with Prof. Dr Daniel Beverungen and Dr Christian Bartelheimer, a total of 22 students from Paderborn University, Münster, Liechtenstein and Dortmund were given the opportunity to take part in a joint exchange at the Universidad de…
For the first time with partner universities of the COLOURS alliance
In the winter semester 2024/25, 19 Master's students from Paderborn University's International Business Studies (IBS) language programme took part in the Global Virtual Teams (GVTs) Project. In this international online project, they worked together with around 40 students from five other European universities on practical business issues. For the first time, this included two…
Paderborn University and Ecosphere e. V.: Making the sustainable use of nature economically viable
How can sustainable environmental projects be economically viable without jeopardising their original ecological goals? Students on the Capstone Course at Paderborn University addressed this question in the winter semester 2024/25. In cooperation with Ecosphere e. V., a non-profit organisation committed to the protection and restoration of natural…
Paderborn University is represented for the first time in the subject rankings of the World University Rankings of the higher education magazine "Times Higher Education" (THE) and has directly achieved very good results in several disciplines in the 2025 edition. The university achieved above-average international rankings in the categories of computer science, engineering, economics, education and natural sciences, as well as in the humanities…
Early federal elections will be held in Germany on 23 February. The key election issue: the economic crisis. In 2024, Germany's gross domestic product (GDP) shrank for the second year in a row - the last time this happened was in 2002/03. Experts from the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Paderborn University categorise the current situation and points of contention from an academic perspective. Their expertise is based on a…
Planned for a long time and nobody is satisfied
The right balance between presence and self-determined workplace choice is often difficult to find. If you ask employees, the majority prefer the freedom to choose their own working hours and place of work rather than having to be present. But even then, great satisfaction is not a given. A look at relevant studies and scientific work provides answers as to why this is the case. While the…
