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In agriculture, biological pest control is a highly sought-after alternative to chemical pesticides – including and especially in Brazil. At HSBI’s Bielefeld Institute for Applied Materials Research, visiting scholar Dr. Natasha Sant’Anna Iwanicki from the University of São Paulo has developed an innovative process with which the fungi Beauvaria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae can be used in commercial pest control products. Thanks to preconditioning, it withstands the necessary drying process better and can take full effect on the field. This success is the result of HSBI’s targeted efforts to make its research more international.

Together, the students examined the challenges and tasks that currently arise for social work in the various countries, or how social workers can raise more public awareness of the rights of people who depend on their support.

To participate in research projects at universities abroad, students in bachelor’s degree programmes can apply for the RISE scholarship to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). 19-year-old Kanav Gupta, a native of India, is studying computer science at Arizona State University. He was a research intern at Gütersloh Campus for two months. What will he remember in particular? The cultural differences between the United States and Germany.

The full-time bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering and a Research Master in Data Science have boosted the number of applications from international prospective students to HSBI’s Gütersloh Campus for the winter semester – a promising measure against the decline in the number of students and, in the medium term, also for the recruitment of professionals in the region, as many hope.

Antibacterial, conductive and tear-resistant: Nonsikelelo Sheron Mpofu is investigating how the properties of fabrics can be modified using 3D printing in the Textile Technologies lab at HSBI. At the same time, she wants to learn how more women in her African homeland can pursue careers in STEM fields and is examining corresponding support mechanisms here in Germany. Her research stay was made possible by HSBI’s equal opportunities fellowship for researchers from the Global South.

Researchers from eight countries and representatives from regional companies discussed various strategies against the skills shortage at the third BiCAB Conference organised by Bielefeld School of Business at HSBI.

Under the title “AI Research Meets Practice: Perspectives for Companies and Society,” the consortium project SAIL invited participants to the Applied AI Day at HSBI. In addition to contributions from research and industry on the subject of artificial intelligence and its use in practice, an exhibition showed possible applications of AI.

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.