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The International Week will take place at HSBI from 13 May to 17 May for the sixth time – again with a record number of participants: more than 100 guests from more than 30 countries enrich HSBI’s faculties and campuses with international and intercultural courses, lectures, workshops and activities.

For eight months, Paderborn-based Technische Prüf- und Überwachungsgesellschaft (TPÜ) supervises an intern from Edmonton, Canada. The intern and the company were brought together by HSBI through the Alberta-OWL Consortium. However, not only intern Neil Fider benefits from the international exchange programme; so do students of HSBI who can go to Canada for a semester abroad in exchange – and not least, the company itself. There is demand for further internship opportunities in companies based in East Westphalia.

Since August, visiting scholar Dr. Hari Kumar Suberi from Bhutan has been conducting research on sustainable technologies as parts of networked systems on HSBI’s Minden Campus, focusing on women as disseminators of technologies. Suberi’s stay was made possible by the “New Horizons Fellowship,” which is being awarded to researchers from the Global South with reference to equal opportunities issues for the first time this year. 

Glyphosate reliably destroys unwanted plants, is used worldwide – and has been hotly disputed for years because of its negative effects on the environment and health. A ban on the herbicide in Germany and possibly even in the whole EU has hung in the air for a long time. Good thing that a better alternative is in sight: in a cooperation project with the University of Tübingen funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, doctoral candidates at HSBI are working on an environmentally friendly herbicide based on a natural sugar from cyanobacteria. The preliminary results are promising.

“Noticeably sustainable!”: The German Employer Award for Education 2023 goes to HSBI and three other educational institutions from North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.

The International Office’s Welcome Center supports international researchers who come to HSBI. Thanks to the assistance provided by Maximilian Köster, Daniela Milanez Silva from São Paulo made it through the organisational jungle of offices, banks and telephone companies – and was thus able to quickly devote herself to her actual topic: the technical investigation of fungi used as natural pesticides.

She is creative, good at networking and has expertise in her special subject that only few early researchers have. Co-supervised by HSBI, the doctoral project submitted by Linda Muskat shows enormous potential. Her topic: How are insect pest control agents designed that are completely biodegradable? Her companion throughout the project: a fungus called Pandora.

Hainan Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (BiUH) is the first university established from abroad that constitutes an independent legal entity in China. Teaching will start in the winter semester 2023/2024. The study programmes offered at BiUH are based on the concept of work-integrated studies at HSBI. In the long run, up to 12,000 students will complete their bachelor’s and master’s degree studies here. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kretschmann, former president of TH Georg Agricola and renowned China expert, was appointed President of BiUH.

Invited by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), US and Canadian universities became acquainted with HSBI’s teaching, research and transfer in Bielefeld. The guests were highly interested in the close connection of application-oriented studies and practice. Representing the close research cooperation between HSBI and Bielefeld University, the CITEC was one of the locations that the delegation visited.

The International Week takes place at Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI) for the fifth time – with a record number of participants: around 100 guests from 30 countries enrich the programme with lectures, workshops and information sessions. From 8 to 12 May, the university welcomes international guests.