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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The press release on the DFG project "Automatic Transcription of Conversational Situations" has aroused the interest of Deutschlandfunk radio. The broadcaster conducted an interview with Prof. Häb-Umbach, which was aired on Saturday 8 March at 4.30 pm in the programme "Computer und Kommunikation". The programme presented the research project and discussed its significance for the automatic processing of spoken language. You can find the full…

We are pleased to welcome Thomas Hesse as a new research associate in our Product Development Group. Thomas' research focuses on the project "Design for Capabilities" (DeCap) as part of the DFG Priority Programme, which deals with the development of recyclable and thus sustainable products taking into account human capabilities. In his free time, he enjoys spending time in nature, which includes hiking with friends as well as hobby DIY…

Rushing waves and fresh sea air - perfect conditions for creative ideas and this year's closed meeting of the Chair of Product Creation. On the beautiful North Sea island of Sylt, the chair team led by Prof Dr Iris Gräßler laid the foundations for future success. In addition to intensive workshops, experiences and leisure activities brought the five new members of the team closer together.

In collaboration with Fraunhofer IEM and the five user companies Diebold Nixdorf, Isringhausen, WAGO, DMG MORI and Schmitz Cargobull, the product.intelligence research project is dedicated to the question: How can product management be improved on the basis of data? The white paper sheds light on the transformative role of data-driven approaches in product management. It provides an overview of key product management topics and insights into how…

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the flagship conference ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering) held in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to the anniversary of the conference, there is also other exciting news. The paper IccTA: Detecting Inter-Component Privacy Leaks in Android Apps, which was already presented at ICSE in 2015, will receive the Most Influential Paper Award this year. This award is always given to the paper that…