Welcome

to the

University of Paderborn

The University for the Information Society

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

Brand – Profile – Mission Statement

University of Paderborn Campus

The University Site in Fürstenallee

The Fürstenallee: A Landmark of the Future

Building 1 - Research Centre Intelligent Technical Systems

Completed in September 2011Workspace for 150 Academics

• Research Groups:

• Software Engineering (Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schäfer)

• Database and Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Gregor Engels)

• Swarm Intelligence (Prof. Dr. Marco Dorigo)

• Software Quality Lab (s-lab)

• Paderborn Institute for Advanced Studies (PACE)

• Fraunhofer-Project Group Design for Mechatronic Systems

also

• Network InnoZent OWL e.V.

• Network OWL Maschinenbau e.V.

• MLAP GmbH, Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft

• It‘s owl GmbH – Cluster Management 

Impressions

Studying and Sport

Student Services Refectory

Gownsmen’s Pub

AStA Summerfest

The University’s Studio Stage

Studying and Culture

Hochschule für Musik Detmold

18,749 students

18,749 students in the winter semester 2012/2013

Where our Students come from

Studying Around the World

International Office

• 10% of our students come from abroad

io.uni-paderborn.del

• Partnerships with 140 universities worldwide

Paderborn Teacher Training Centre (PLAZ)

I Faculty of Arts and Humanities

III Faculty of Science

V Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics

IV Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

II Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

Faculties at the University of Paderborn

• 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 Arts and Humanities

• Department 1 Management• Department 2 Taxation, Accounting

and Finance • Department 3 Business Information

Systems• Department 4 Economics • Department 5 Business and Human Resource Education• Department 6 Law

Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

• Department Chemistry

• Department of Physics

• Department of Sports and Health

Faculty of Science

• Sixteen professorships• Four interdisciplinary and cross-faculty

research facilities:– Direct Manufacturing Research Center

(DMRC)– Heinz Nixdorf Institute (HNI)– Institute for Lightweight Design with Hybrid

Systems (ILH)– Competence Centre for Sustainable Energy

Technology (KET)

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

• Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

• Department of Computer Science

• Department of Mathematics

Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics

• 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

• 18,749 students in the winter semester 2012/2013

• Externally-funded expenditures: 38.8 million euros in 2012(including other external funds, such as NRW research funding or funding for large-scale facilities by the DFG)

The University in Numbers

Expenditure of External Funds in ´000 Euros

• 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)

Central Research Facilities

• Collaborative Research Centres- SFB 614 – Self-Optimising Systems in Mechanical Engineering- SFB/TR TRR 30 – Process-Integrated Manufacturing of Functionally-Graded

Structures Based on Coupled Thermomechanical phenomena- SFB 901 – On-the-Fly Computing

• 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

DFG-funded Research Centres

• Individual Support: Competence Development in Vocational Education

• Islamic Theology• History of Monasteries, Convents and the World of the Middle

Ages (Paderborn College of Mediaeval Studies)

Further structured PhD programmes

• 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)

Fraunhofer/ Interdisciplinary Research Groups

• 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 OstWestfalenLippe“

• L-LAB – Research Centre for Lighting Engineering and Mechatronics. Public Private Partnership between Hella KG Hueck & Co. and Paderborn University

• s-lab – Software Quality Lab – Centre of Excellence for Software Quality

• The Zukunftsmeile Fürstenallee

Technology and Knowledge Transfer

Technology Transfer/ Technology Park

3Pi Consulting & Management KunststofftechnikGmbHaXon GmbH Internet-AnwendungenBEDEM PersonaldienstleisterBellgardt Elektronik ElektroniklösungenIngenieurdienstleistungenCampus Consult GmbH ProjektmanagementDelta Media GmbH Multimediales MarketingDiscVision GmbH MultimediaDixeno GmbH Webdesign, OnlinemarketingdSPACE GmbH Mechatronik, e-CommerceFastec Dezentrale Automation SteuerungstechnikGAUSS-LVS GmbH SoftwareGerman Trades Personal- Personaldienstleisterdienstleistung Gurock Software GmbH SoftwareHeege GbR Digitale BildverarbeitungIMPli Informations-Systeme InternetserviceGmbHIncony AG InternetanwendungenInnovakom GmbH Produktdaten- und

BildverwaltungIntermoves AG Softwareentwicklung

IT-Architects GmbH WebdesignITEK GmbH Service Forschung, Beratung,

Entwicklung & SchulungiXtronics GmbH MechatronikmechOnics AG Linearantriebe Mikro- bzw.

Nanopositionierung MeineLinse GmbH e-Commerce, VersandhandelMitMensch Training, Coaching, TrainingsinstitutManagement GmbH MKV Consult Marketing neam IT-Service GmbH Kommunikationslösungenoak media GmbH Medienpakete für

InternetauftritteOmumi Unternehmensberatung BeratungsdienstleistungenOrconomy GmbH ProzessberatungÖZEL GmbH Design und MarketingPAVONE AG InformationsmanagementSciFace GmbH & Co KG Math.-technische

ArbeitsumgebungenSTUDENTSERVICE GmbH IT-DienstleisterSWS Software-Systeme GmbH Softwarelösungenteamnet GmbH Software-EntwicklungWebEbene Ltd. Onlinemarketing

University Spin-offs in the Technology Park

The University’s Alumni Networks

16 Alumni Clubs with more than 2,700 membersFormer students, professors and staff from the various faculties

What the alumni work aims to achieve• 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• 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/

• Donations amounting to 2.6 million euros

• Role model for the NRW Scholarship Programme

• 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

Studienfonds OWL Foundation

University Town of Paderborn