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100 years of Heinz Nix­dorf: Dis­cov­er busi­ness ex­per­i­ment­ally - win cash or non-cash prizes

On 6 July, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute invites you to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum big summer festival - a day full of innovation, technology and interactive experiences! Along the lawns behind the buildings, the Future Mile presents exciting experiments, interactive workshops and fascinating insights into its research areas. Experience business in a different way - pay a visit to our BaER Lab and win attractive cash and non-cash prizes in…

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100 years of Heinz Nix­dorf: Bring a ro­bot to life - ex­per­i­ence product cre­ation live

On 6 July, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute invites you to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum big summer festival - a day full of innovation, technology and interactive experiences! Along the lawns behind the buildings, the Future Mile presents exciting experiments, interactive workshops and fascinating insights into its research areas. Bring a robot to life together with our workgroup and immerse yourself in the world of product creation.

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100 years of Heinz Nix­dorf: puzzle, listen, mar­vel - im­merse your­self in the world of com­mu­nic­a­tion

On 6 July, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute invites you to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum big summer festival - a day full of innovation, technology and interactive experiences! Along the lawns behind the buildings, the Future Mile presents exciting experiments, interactive workshops and fascinating insights into its research areas. A hot wire, flickering Nixie tubes and a game that challenges your skills - Immerse yourself in a world where…

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100 years of Heinz Nix­dorf: Mu­sic through light - ex­per­i­ence the ma­gic of the smal­lest chips

On 6 July, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute invites you to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum big summer festival - a day full of innovation, technology and interactive experiences! Along the lawns behind the buildings, the Future Mile presents exciting experiments, interactive workshops and fascinating insights into its research areas. Let our Circuit Technology workgroup play pieces of music that are only transmitted using light and discover the tiny…

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100 years of Heinz Nix­dorf: Deep­fakes and eth­ics - find out what ex­cit­ing ques­tions the fu­ture holds

On 6 July, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute invites you to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum big summer festival - a day full of innovation, technology and interactive experiences! Along the lawns behind the buildings, the Future Mile presents exciting experiments, interactive workshops and fascinating insights into its research areas. Experience at first hand how computers recognise faces, deceive deep fakes and make algorithmic decisions - find out…

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100 years of Heinz Nix­dorf: Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence up close - train your own AI!

On 6 July, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute invites you to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum big summer festival - a day full of innovation, technology and interactive experiences! Along the lawns behind the buildings, the Future Mile presents exciting experiments, interactive workshops and fascinating insights into its research areas. Our Data Science workgroup will playfully show you how artificial intelligence is trained and give you the opportunity…

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On 6 July, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute invites you to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum big summer festival - a day full of innovation, technology and interactive experiences! Along the lawns behind the buildings, the Future Mile presents exciting experiments, interactive workshops and fascinating insights into its research areas. With the help of a learning factory, you can discover how robots, machines and computers work together to make…

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100 years of Heinz Nix­dorf: Autonom­ous trav­el­ling - ex­per­i­ence the vehicles of the fu­ture

On 6 July, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute invites you to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum big summer festival - a day full of innovation, technology and interactive experiences! Along the lawns behind the buildings, the Future Mile presents exciting experiments, interactive workshops and fascinating insights into its research areas. Our Control Engineering and Mechatronics workgroup will use the Heinz Nixdorf Institute's driving simulator to show how…

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Joint activ­it­ies with the VDI OWL to strengthen the en­gin­eer­ing pro­fes­sions

Strengthening engineering professions – Paderborn University and the VDI district association in OWL have been cooperating with this goal since 2024. Dr.-Ing. Jens Pottebaum represents the university on the extended board of VDI OWL. At the members' meeting at Bio-Circle in Gütersloh – a pioneer in sustainability – at the end of the year, he reported on activities over the course of the year. One focus for 2025 will be to make the attractiveness…

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KLUG part­ners present di­git­iz­a­tion check­list in Hands-On ses­sion

How can the potential of introducing digital business models be assessed? The “KLUG” research project just presented a digitization checklist in the so-called DaWeNa-HUB. Companies can use the checklist to evaluate the fulfillment of requirements for digital business models. The DaWeNa-HUB brings together the research projects funded by the BMBF's “DigiLeistDAT” program to discuss current project results “hands-on”. The lively discussion with…

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In­side Nix­dorf

In April 2025, Heinz Nixdorf will celebrate his 100th birthday. We are taking this anniversary as an opportunity to look back on his impressive life's work together as the Heinz Nixdorf Institute & Fraunhofer IEM on April 9 and pay tribute to how he shaped the research landscape in Paderborn. The event gives us the opportunity to learn more about how Heinz Nixdorf has had a lasting impact on science as a visionary, trailblazer and pioneer - from…

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Photo (it's OWL): (from left) Paderborn scientists Lisa Petzke, Anja Rasor and Dr Christian Koldewey with Mona Neubaur and Prof Dr René Fahr at the presentation of the funding decision for the "GoProZero" project.

Solu­tions for ef­fi­cient and sus­tain­able product de­vel­op­ment

Millions in funding for new research project under Paderborn leadership With the help of digital technologies, universities and companies from East Westphalia-Lippe want to create a new approach to the development of sustainable products under the leadership of the Advanced Systems Engineering (ASE) group at Paderborn University's Heinz Nixdorf Institute. The findings will be applied directly at and with business partners in six lighthouse…

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Dr.-Ing Annika Junker

Alumni Por­trait: Dr.-Ing. An­nika Junker - From re­search to prac­tice

Annika, a former member of the “Control Engineering and Mechatronics” workgroup, successfully completed her doctorate on the topic of “Data-driven modeling for non-linear mechatronic systems in a form that can be used for control engineering” under Dr.-Ing. Julia Timmermann.Since January, she has been working as a postdoc in the form of a tandem position in the “Career@BI” project. This means that she works half time at Lenze SE in the…

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Lara Theresa Vitale

As­so­ci­ated work­group on tech­no­logy eth­ics re­ceives sup­port

Since October 2024, Lara Theresa Vitale has been supporting Prof. Alpsancar's Associated workgroup on technology ethics receives support. She is currently researching how small and medium-sized enterprises in the OWL region are reacting to the EU AI Act in a cooperation project with the VDI. Her research interests lie in the ethics of technology, political philosophy and theory as well as social philosophy and in particular in the interfaces…

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Julian Zerbin

In­GAIA-X fund­ing pro­ject pub­lishes fi­nal pub­lic­a­tion

How can companies use Gaia-X to confidently organise data spaces and drive digital transformation? The COSMIC-X, DIONE-X, Fed-X-Pro, GRIPPS-X and URANOS-X research projects have been working intensively on this question. The key findings have now been summarised in a publication: ‘Gaia-X in industrial value networks - findings from the InGAIA-X funding line’ The publication is aimed at industrial companies and researchers interested in…

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