Under the motto "Bold ideas for science", the university management of Paderborn University is once again organising a research award for scientists this year to promote exceptional research projects outside the mainstream.
After more than three years of work, the project partners of NALYSES ("Sustainability-optimised Life Cycle Assessment of technologically highly complex mechatronic products") have presented their results.
Paderborn University has retired Professor Dr Kirsten Schlegel-Matthies after more than two decades of work in Home Economics and the didactics of Home Economics.
Photo (Paderborn University, Besim Mazhiqi): (from left) Archbishop Dr. Udo Markus Bentz, Prof. Dr. Nicole Priesching, Reinhold Harnisch, Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer and Dr. Christine Hartig.
09.03.2026
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Research,
Transfer,
Press release,
Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
Institut für Katholische Theologie
To mark International Women's Day, Katharina Guth and Jil Schlüter, start-up coaches at Paderborn University's garage33, explain in an interview why women are starting fewer businesses and what role universities play in this context.
26.02.2026
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Research,
Optoelectronics and Photonics,
International,
Transfer,
Quantum Computation,
Press release,
Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS),
Faculty of Science,
Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
After three years of construction, the "Photonic Quantum Systems Laboratory" (PhoQS Lab) at Paderborn University, a highly specialised research centre in the field of quantum technologies, was officially opened on Thursday, 26 February.
Paderborn University and "Qualit?t in Kitas Onlineakademie GmbH" are starting to set up the Hessian "Kinder.Sprachen.Zukunft" competence centre for language education and support in early childhood.
Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University are realising the "CoSA" project under the leadership of the "Secure Software Engineering" group and are adding important functions to the framework "SootUp".
20.02.2026
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Education,
Research,
Transfer,
Press release,
Faculty of Science,
Department of Exercise & Health,
Institut für Ern?hrung, Konsum und Gesundheit
Prof Dr Anette Buyken, nutritionist at Paderborn University, has been reappointed as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Agricultural Policy, Nutrition and Consumer Health Protection (WBAE) at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Home Affairs (BMLEH).
10.02.2026
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Research,
International,
Transfer,
Press release,
Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
Institut für Medienwissenschaften,
Media Systems and Media Organisation
Photo (Paderborn University, Madita Schmalenstroer): (from left) Dr Jeannine Teichert, Dr Rafael Ball, Prof. Dr Gudrun Oevel, Anna Nickel, Prof. Dr Dorothee M. Meister and Prof. Dr Thomas Tr?ster at the Open Science Symposium at Paderborn University.
09.02.2026
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Symposium,
Press release,
Systematische Entwicklung einer Open Access Kultur an der Universit?t - eine entwicklungsorientierte empirische Case Study
How can Open Science be further developed and what challenges are there? Teachers, researchers and doctoral students discussed this at the Open Science Symposium at Paderborn University.
Photo (Paderborn University, Felix Thielemann): Dr Tillmann Heise and Prof Dr Claudia ?hlschl?ger are researching the connections between stereotyping and resentment.
06.02.2026
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Research,
Press release,
Humanities and Social Science,
Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
Institut für Germanistik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Prof Dr Claudia ?hlschl?ger and Dr Tillmann Heise conduct research at the Paderborn Institute of German and Comparative Literature on the connections between stereotyping and resentment, among other things. In this interview, they talk about how existing cultural and political stereotypes are not only reinforced and legitimised in literature, but also potentially challenged and possibly even revoked.
