Welcome to the University of Paderborn

Welcome
to the
University of Paderborn
The University for the Information Society
Brand – Profile – Mission Statement
The University for the Information Society
•  The University of Paderborn stands equally for state of the art
education and innovative research
•  This profile
–  creates the potential for networking information,
communication, culture and technology
–  generates an exemplary innovative force that will continue to
be advanced in the future
–  builds on computer science and its symbiotic potential
–  as well as and equally on the complementary potential of the
other fields of science and research working at Paderborn
University of Paderborn Campus
The University Site in Fürstenallee
The Fürstenallee: A Landmark of the Future
Building 1 - Research Centre
Intelligent Technical Systems
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Research Groups:
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Software Engineering (Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schäfer)
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Database and Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Gregor
Engels)
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Swarm Intelligence (Prof. Dr. Marco Dorigo)
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Software Quality Lab (s-lab)
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Paderborn Institute for Advanced Studies (PACE)
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Fraunhofer-Project Group Design for Mechatronic
Systems
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Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)
Completed in September 2011
Workspace for 150 Academics
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Networks InnoZent OWL e.V. and OWL
Maschinenbau e.V.
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MLAP GmbH, Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft
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It‘s owl GmbH – Cluster Management
Impressions
Studying and Sport
Student Services Refectory
Gownsmen’s Pub
AStA Summerfest
Studying and Culture
The University’s Studio Stage
Hochschule für Musik Detmold
19,566 students in the winter semester 2013/2014
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students
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Where our Students come from
Other Parts of
North-RhineWestphalia:
32%
EastWestphaliaLippe: 46%
Other federal
states: 13%
International:
7%
Studying Around the World
International Office
•  Partnerships with 140
universities worldwide
•  7% of our students come
from abroad
io.uni-paderborn.de
Paderborn Teacher Training Centre (PLAZ)
Faculties at the University of Paderborn
I Faculty of Arts and Humanities
II Faculty of Business Administration
and Economics
III Faculty of Science
IV Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
V Faculty of Computer Science,
Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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Department of English and American Studies
Department of Educational Science
Department of Protestant Theology
Department of German Studies and
Comparative Literary Studies
History Department
Department of Catholic Theology
Department of Art, Music, Textiles
Department of Media Studies
Department of Romance Languages
Department of Social and Human Sciences
Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
•  Department 1
•  Department 2
•  Department 3
•  Department 4
•  Department 5
•  Department 6
Management
Taxation, Accounting
and Finance
Business Information
Systems
Economics
Business and Human Resource Education
Law
Faculty of Science
•  Department Chemistry
•  Department of Physics
•  Department of Sports and Health
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
•  Sixteen professorships
•  Three interdisciplinary and crossfaculty research facilities:
–  Direct Manufacturing Research Center
(DMRC)
–  Institute for Lightweight Design with Hybrid
Systems (ILH)
–  Competence Centre for Sustainable Energy
Technology (KET)
Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
•  Department of Electrical Engineering and
Information Technology
•  Department of Computer Science
•  Department of Mathematics
The University in Numbers
•  Staff: 2,112
- 196 Professors
-  20 Junior/Associate Professors
- 104 Academics staff with civil servant status
-  81 Research assistants
- 991 Other academic staff
- 635 Externally-funded staff
- 662 Non-academic staff
-  58 Trainees/Apprentices
•  19,566 students in the winter semester 2013/2014
•  Externally-funded expenditures: 38.8 million euros in 2012
(including other external funds, such as NRW research funding or funding for largescale facilities by the DFG)
Expenditure of External Funds in ´000 Euros
Central Research Facilities
•  Centre for Optoelectronics and Photonics Paderborn (CeOPP)
•  Heinz Nixdorf Institute (HNI)
•  Competence Centre for Sustainable Energy Technology (KET)
•  Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn
•  Paderborn Centre for Parallel Computing (PC²)
•  Paderborn Institute for Advanced Studies in Computer Science
and Engineering (PACE)
•  Paderborn Institute for Scientific Computation (PaSCo)
•  Paderborn Teacher Training Centre (PLAZ)
•  Institute for Lightweight Design with Hybrid Systems (ILH)
DFG-funded Research Centres
•  Collaborative Research Centres
-  SFB/TR TRR 30 – Process-Integrated Manufacturing of Functionally-Graded
Structures Based on Coupled Thermomechanical phenomena
-  SFB 901 – On-the-Fly Computing
-  SFB/TRR 142 – Tailored Nonlinear Photonics: From Fundamental Concepts to
Functional Structures
•  DFG-Research Units
-  Dynamics of Electron Transfer Processes at Transition Metal Centres in
Biological and Bioinorganic Systems
•  DFG-Research Training Groups
-  Automatisms – Cultural Techniques of Complexity Reduction
-  International Graduate School of Dynamic Intelligent Systems
-  Micro- and Nanostructures in Optoelectronics and Photonics
Further structured PhD programmes
•  Individual Support: Competence Development in Vocational
Education
•  Islamic Theology
•  International Graduate School of Intelligent Systems in
Automation Technology (ISA)
Fraunhofer/ Interdisciplinary Research Groups
•  Fraunhofer
-  Paderborn Centre “Advanced System Engineering” (ASE)
-  Fraunhofer-Project Group Design of Mechatronic Systems (Cooperation
with IPT Aachen), founded March 2010
•  Interdisciplinary Research Institutes and Groups
-  Centre for Gender Studies (ZG)
-  Centre for Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies (ZeKK)
Technology and Knowledge Transfer
•  C-LAB – Cooperative Computing & Communication Laboratory – The
Innovations Workshop for Atos and the University of Paderborn
•  Direct Manufacturing Research Center (DMRC) – Consortium of
Blue Production, Boeing, EOS Electro Optical Systems, Evonik Industries,
LEGO A/S, Siemens, SLM Solutions, Stratasys, Stükerjürgen Aerospace
Composites, Wilhelm Eisenhuth Präzisionsformenbau and University of
Paderborn
•  It´s owl - BMBF- Leading-Edge Cluster „Intelligent Technical Systems
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OstWestfalenLippe“
L-LAB – Research Centre for Lighting Engineering and Mechatronics. Public
Private Partnership between Hella KG Hueck & Co. and Paderborn University
•  Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP) – Research
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Campus of 10 partner companies and the Fraunhofer-Project Group Design of
Mechatronic Systems
s-lab – Software Quality Lab – Centre of Excellence for Software Quality
•  The Zukunftsmeile Fürstenallee
Technology Transfer/ Technology Park
University Spin-offs in the Technology Park
3Pi Consulting & Management
GmbH
Athena Technologie Beratung
GmbH
aXon Gesellschaft für
Informationssysteme mbH
BEDEM
Campus Consult
Projektmanagement GmbH
Campus Consult e.V.
Energy4ever GmbH
FASTEC GmbH
FREAT UG
GAUSS-LVS GmbH
Heege GbR
IMPli Informations-Systeme
GmbH
Incony AG
InnovaKom GmbH
Intermoves GmbH
Kunststofftechnik
ITEK GmbH
Technologieberatung
iXtronics GmbH
maxcluster GmbH
mechOnics AG
Internet-Anwendungen
Personaldienstleister
Projektmanagement
Beratung
Solartechnik
Steuerungstechnik
e-Commerce
Software
Digitale Bildverarbeitung
Internetservice
Internetanwendungen
Produktdaten- und
Bildverwaltung
Softwareentwicklung
MeineLinse GmbH
MitMensch! Training,
Coaching, Management GmbH
MKV Consult
neam IT-Service GmbH
Orconomy GmbH
ÖZEL GmbH
PAVONE AG
Rynet GmbH
SciFace GmbH & Co KG
Service Forschung, Beratung,
Entwicklung & Schulung
Mechatronik
Hosting-Lösungen
Linearantriebe Mikro- bzw.
Nanopositionierung
e-Commerce, Versandhandel
Trainingsinstitut
Marketing
Kommunikationslösungen
Prozessberatung
Design und Marketing
Informationsmanagement
IT-Dienstleister
Math.-technische
Arbeitsumgebungen
SICUS GmbH
ITK-Services
SWS Software-Systeme GmbH Softwarelösungen
Teamnet GmbH
Software-Entwicklung
Trameo GmbH
e-Commerce
wabsolute GmbH
Web-Lösungen
The University’s Alumni Networks
16 Alumni Clubs with more than 2,700 members
Former students, professors and staff from the various faculties
What the alumni work aims to achieve
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Lifelong ties with the university
Lively network of mutual and reciprocal support
Contacts and information exchange all about the university
Services and offerings provided by the alumni clubs
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Network meetings and information
Financial and moral support for university projects
and events
Funding for students via grants, scholarships or fellowships
Offers all about student and career development opportunities
www.uni-paderborn.de/alumni/
Studienfonds OWL Foundation
•  Donations amounting to more than 3 million euros
•  Role model for the National Scholarship Programme (Deutschlandstipendium)
•  More than 230 companies, foundations,
institutions and private sponsors in the
Friends of the University (Förderkreis)
•  Scholarship holders in the Network of
Sponsors
•  Comprehensive support programme for scholarship holders thanks to the
close collaboration with sponsor companies and institutions
•  Foundation established in 2009
•  Applications for the winter semester 2014/15 can be submitted as from March
at: www.studienfonds-owl.de
University Town of Paderborn