INNOVADE: INNOVAtive DEmocracy Through Digitalisation

INNOVADE ist ein internationales, interdisziplinäres, dreijähriges Horizon Europe EU-Projekt, in dem die digitale Demokratie erforscht wird. Die elf beteiligten Teams kommen aus den Feldern der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, der Politikwissenschaft, der Soziologie, der Anthropologie, der Informatik, den Security Studies, der ...

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2027

Together online: Searching.Finding.Understanding - strengthening digital skills in families

The aim is to support digital skills through a family literacy program. The subject of the educational program is the intergenerational acquisition of digital information research. The team is inter- and transdisciplinary: psychologists, media education, together with an education institution (Neue Wege des Lernens e. V.), and an Adult and Family ...

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2028

Systematic Development of an Open Access Culture at the University - a Development-Oriented Empirical Case Study

The University of Paderborn already has good conditions for Open Access publishing, organized by the University Library. The research project 'OASE' aims to assess the current status of the university's Open Access Culture (OAC) and to increase its visibility. The aim of the project is to develop measures for the dissemination of OAC through a ...

Duration: 10/2023 - 03/2026

Contact: Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister

Digital Leadership & Communication and Cooperation Development

The project “LeadCom – Digital Leadership & Communication and Cooperation Development” is part of the BMBF/NextGenerationEU-funded competence center “School Development” in the competence network “lernen:digital”. In collaboration with eleven universities, numerous schools and transfer partners, the LeadCom project is developing and implementing ...

Duration: 08/2023 - 03/2026

Contact: Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister

VR@UPB: Etablierung eines zentralen VR-Teams an der Universität Paderborn

Duration: 11/2022 - 10/2026

Contact: Dr. Hoang Trang Tran-Thien

Political Economy of Digital Media and Digital Communication

The goal of this project is to ground the foundations and develop the approach of the Political Economy of Digital Media and Communication. It applies the international research and theory approach of the Political Economy of the Media and Communication to the realms of the Internet and digital media.The project theorises and analyses the politics ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 12/2030

Political Economy of the Media and Communication

The goal of this project is to theorise and analyse the politics and economy of the media and communication as well as the combination of politics and economy of the media and communication (political economy). It elaborates contributions to the international research field of the Political Economy of Communication and the Media.The main question ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 12/2030

Meaningful Human Control - Autonomous Weapon Systems between Regulation and Reflexion

The development and application of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) is one of the most pressing problems of international security and peace. Stakeholders from politics, civil society, military, science and academia are debating controversially whether and to what extent the expansion of AI-based mechanized autonomy threatens a loss of human ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 03/2026

Agentic Media: Formationen von Semi-Autonomie

Das Projekt untersucht die Formierung und Ausdifferenzierung neuartiger Medientechnologien aus Software- und Hardwarekomponenten, die als (semi )autonome Entitäten agieren. In komplementär angelegten Fallstudien zu Figurationen der Zusammenarbeit mit synthetischen Agenten, dem Sense-Making über generative Machine Learning-Modelle sowie der ...

Duration: 01/2020 - 12/2027

*POWER* | Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (Society for Media Studies)

Die Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft gastiert in jedem Jahr an einer anderen Universität im deutschsprachigen Raum. Im September 2025 wird sie nach fast 20 Jahren nun zum zweiten Mal an der Universität Paderborn stattfinden und sich dabei dem Thema *MACHT* widmen. Für den ersten Konferenztag ist eine Kooperation mit dem Heinz ...

Duration: 09/2025 - 09/2025

Home Computer: Digitalization and the Domestic

Since October 2020, the project has been dealing with the domestication of the computer from a media studies perspective. It examines the genesis of the computerization of the home at the interface of personal and home computers and thus for the period of the 1970-1990s. The question is under which historical conditions and with which effects the ...

Duration: 10/2020 - 03/2025

DaLiS@OWL: Data competences for research, business and society

DaLiS@OWL (short form of DataLiteracySkills@OWL) is the project of Bielefeld University (consortium leader), the University of Paderborn and Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences for the cross-disciplinary and cross-university teaching of Data Literacy Skills (DaLiS) for students of all subjects. The project aims to prepare students for a ...

Duration: 03/2020 - 02/2023

Contact: Prof. Dr. Gudrun Oevel, Marcel Gemander

DigHomE: Digital Home Learning Environment - Conditions for parental support in information-oriented internet use

Die BMBF-geförderte interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe DigHomE untersucht Einflüsse informeller und non-formaler digitaler Bildung von Schüler/innen im Elternhaus auf die informationsorientierte Nutzung des Internets für schulische Belange. Die Analyse der digitalen häuslichen Lernumwelt von Kindern und Jugendlichen soll es dabei ermöglichen, ...

Duration: 05/2019 - 04/2023

QuaSiD: Quality assurance in the digitisation strategy: success factors and constellations of actors in the dissemination and anchoring

Many digitisation projects in universities have already been successfully implemented and found broad acceptance, while other projects have brought little benefit to those involved. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the success and failure factors of digitisation projects, their diffusion and fundamental challenges, the QuaSiD project ...

Duration: 03/2017 - 03/2020

E-Tutoren II

Da E-Learning zu Beginn des Projektes (WiSe2011/2012) noch nicht so stark verbreitet war wie gewünscht, wurde das E-Tutoren-Projekt initiiert, um den Einsatz von qualitativ hochwertigem E-Learning in der Lehre voranzubringen. Die Maßnahme fördert darüber hinaus die Kompetenzentwicklung bei Studierenden (direkt) und Lehrenden (indirekt) zum Thema ...

Duration: 10/2016 - 09/2020

Blickfang II - learning and teaching editing as part of the studium generale. Coaching and moderation of a TV teaching editorial department for the learning channel nrwision

Type of project: joint projectConsortium leader: Paderborn UniversityOther project participants:Bernhard Koch (independent director)Funding source: Paderborn UniversityProgramme: Means for quality improvement

Duration: 10/2015 - 09/2017

TV clips in the school environment - TV editorial work as part of the teacher training programme - Coaching and moderation of a TV editorial office for the learning channel nrwision

Type of project: Joint projectConsortium leader: Paderborn UniversityOther project participants: Prof. Dr. Meister ( Faculty of Arts and Humanities), Bernhard Koch ( independent director)

Duration: 10/2015 - 09/2017

InnoVersity: Innovation management as an element of the University of Paderborn's digitisation strategy: from the innovative idea to sustainable dissemination

The Paderborn University follows the mission statement of the "University of the Information Society" and already offers extensive digital offers and services to support research, studies and teaching, which are continuously improved and expanded. A major goal of the University's digitization strategy is to be able to react promptly to new ...

Duration: 03/2015 - 07/2018

Contact: Prof. Dr. Gudrun Oevel

Competence Center for Music, Edition, Media (ZenMEM)

The Center for Music - Edition - Media takes musical and other primarily non-textual objects in the context of digital editions into consideration, focusing on these objects both in the totality of their media representations and from a variety of specialist perspectives. It includes existing and future projects and cooperations and bundles the ...

Duration: 09/2014 - 08/2019

Contact: Prof. Dr. Gudrun Oevel