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About 90 guests from 36 countries are staying at HSBI until 22 May as part of the International Week, enriching the faculties and campus locations with international and intercultural courses, presentations, workshops and activities. With just under 100 activities, this year’s programme has set a new record.

It is the first cooperation between Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (HSBI) and a Japanese university: with Niigata University, HSBI’s Bielefeld School of Business has gained a new cooperation partner for scientific and student exchange. The student exchange has already started: Takaaki Hagiwara will be the first Japanese exchange student to study at HSBI for one year. His focus: sports economics. His passion: football.

Since April, Phd student Vrinda Dave has been researching at HSBI’s Bielefeld School of Business on self-help groups for women in socio-economic crises. She makes comparison between self-help groups in India and Germany. One of her first results: Empowering women is a priority in both countries to strengthen society and the economy. Dave’s stay was made possible by the New Horizon Fellowship for researchers from the Global South who conduct research on gender and equality issues. She is the fourth scholarship holder in this programme and thus a guest at HSBI.

The new executive director plans to focus on strengthening the connections between North American and OWL universities and intensifying contacts with companies on both sides of the Atlantic.

HSBI’s Bielefeld School of Business invited national and international policymakers, business experts and academics to the fourth BiCAB Conference to discuss how Artificial Intelligence will shape the future of business and politics.

Treasure Njimbong Jing from Cameroon is one of the first students to study the English-taught Industrial Engineering programme on HSBI’s Gütersloh Campus. She uses her own YouTube channel to inform about her life as a student in East Westphalia-Lippe – for example, to encourage prospective students worldwide to consider studying at HSBI. The application period for the English-taught programmes at HSBI will start soon. Please find more information here!

For the seventh time, HSBI’s International Week offers a platform for international and intercultural exchange: Until 16 May, more than 100 guests from 35 different countries enrich teaching and research activities of all faculties at HSBI with courses, presentations, workshops and projects.

Images of segmented cells are of enormous importance for biomedical research and diagnostics. And extremely expensive. Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now capable of cell segmentation, it needs to be trained with large quantities of data, which experts must label manually. Within the context of the SAIL research project, doctoral candidate Eiram Mahera Sheikh conducts research at HSBI to find out how this process can be sped up efficiently. She thus uses AI – more precisely, Deep Active Learning – as early as in the preparation of training data.

Jhon Pereira from Nicaragua is one of the first students in the new English-taught bachelor’s degree programme Industrial Engineering on HSBI’s Gütersloh Campus. The 20-year-old has already completed an internship with the agricultural machinery manufacturer CLAAS in Harsewinkel.

An innovative research project is examining the effectiveness and reliability of an Australian app for pain assessment in patients with moderate to severe dementia in long-term inpatient care.