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Trustworthy AI for Seamless Problem Solving

With the steadily increasing integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life, it becomes increasingly important to ask how trustworthy these technologies are. The Research Training Group for Trustworthy AI Technology ‘DataNinja’ aims to contribute to this with various projects. Data Ninja connects leading universities in the area of AI from the region of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is hosted at Bielefeld University. One project is the Real-time Configuration of Algorithms with Multi-armed Bandits (EKAmBa) headed by Professors Dr Kevin Tierney (Bielefeld University) and Dr Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (Paderborn University) together with Associate Professor Dr Eyke Hüllermeier (LMU Munich).

News from UA Ruhr

Research Explorer Ruhr 2024

Call for applications: Research Explorer Ruhr (RER) is a program in June 2024 for international early postdoctoral researchers (to-be) interested in exploring the research landscape of the University Alliance Ruhr. Application deadline is 24 February.

News from the Hasso Plattner Institute

HPI Sets a Sign for More Diversity in IT: empowerHER+ Conference at HPI in January 2024

In January 2024, the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) invites you to Potsdam for the second empowerHER+ conference. The conference to promote women in IT was launched with the aim of bringing together young talent and experts in the industry to discuss how to shape a more diverse tech future.

News from the University of Cologne

University of Cologne Achieves Top Results in Two International Subject Rankings

The subject rankings of the Times Higher Education World University (THE) Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) give subjects at the University of Cologne top scores: In the THE Ranking, the University is among the 10 best universities in Germany in more than half of the ranked subjects. In the ARWU Ranking, sociology in particular stands out, achieving first place nationally. Both rankings take different subjects into account and use different indicators.

News from UA Ruhr

New Emmy Noether Group Researches Interstellar Ice Mixtures

A team from the Chair of Organic Chemistry II at Ruhr University Bochum plans to explore exactly how chemical processes in ice mixtures contributed to the emergence of life on Earth. The research group has set out to gain insights into how the building blocks of life were created by recreating conditions from space on Earth.

News from TU Berlin

International Alumni Workshop “Sustainable Food Cultures”

Apply now to attend TU Berlin’s international alumni workshop on “Sustainable Food Cultures” taking place from 2 to 8 June 2024 at TU Berlin in Germany.

News from Campus OWL

HSBI and the University of Tübingen Are Developing an Alternative to Glyphosate

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. A better alternative is in sight: in a cooperation project with the University of Tübingen funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), doctoral candidates at Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI) are working on an environmentally friendly herbicide based on a natural sugar from cyanobacteria.