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Talk to students and take part in real lectures: This is possible at the Campus Day at Paderborn University. On Thursday, 16 January, pupils and prospective students can look forward to a varied programme from 8 am to 2 pm. Whether International Business Studies, Physics, Linguistics, Electrical Engineering or a teaching degree programme - with over 120 offers, visitors can get a taste of various degree programmes and obtain valuable information…

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This year, the Paderborn University Society, in cooperation with the OWL Study Fund Foundation, has awarded a Deutschlandstipendium scholarship to Felix Sebastian Mörchel, a Master's student at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics. The generous funding of 300 euros per month for two semesters from the winter semester 2024/2025 will enable him to focus more on his management studies. Born in Detmold, he made a conscious decision…

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The Ger­man start-up scene meets in Pader­born

Summit "moonshots & moneten" once again invites the start-up scene to Paderborn An event with charisma: Paderborn is once again hosting an important meeting for the German start-up scene. Under the title "moonshots & moneten - The Start-up Summit for the Technologies of the Future", garage33, the Paderborn University's start-up centre, is hosting a start-up summit for the second time on 12 February 2025. The entire start-up community -…

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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. Training programmes tailored…

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The Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Paderborn University has officially sealed a pioneering cooperation with three vocational colleges. Together with the Ludwig-Erhard-Berufskolleg Paderborn, the Ems-Berufskolleg Rheda-Wiedenbrück and the Johann-Conrad-Schlaun-Berufskolleg Warburg, an agreement was signed for the successful young student programme "Studying before the Abi". This will further strengthen the support of pupils at…

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Sponsorship award honours outstanding thesis with a focus on gender and diversity On average, women in Germany earn six per cent less than men with comparable qualifications and jobs - this corresponds to an hourly wage difference of 4.32 euros. To counteract this gender pay gap, the German government has introduced the Pay Transparency Act. The aim of the law is to uncover and, in the long term, eliminate unfair pay structures through greater…

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