Welcome to HSBI!
With the Faculties of Design and Art, Minden Campus, Engineering and Mathematics, Social Sciences, Bielefeld School of Business and Health at our three campuses in Bielefeld, Minden and Gütersloh, Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI) works closely together with the industrial and business communities and social and cultural institutes in East Westphalia.
Small study groups allow us to provide guidance and support. Designated study centres, the university library and student workplaces create an excellent learning environment.
If you are interested in spending a semester abroad at HSBI: For all matters concerning your application and your stay in Bielefeld, such as accommodation, buddies, orientation weeks or official requirements, please get in touch with the International Office. We will be pleased to assist you.
Press releases
14.05.2024
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.
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22.04.2024
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.
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13.12.2023
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.
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30.11.2023
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. Good thing that a better alternative is in sight: in a cooperation project with the University of Tübingen funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, doctoral candidates at HSBI are working on an environmentally friendly herbicide based on a natural sugar from cyanobacteria. The preliminary results are promising.
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24.10.2023
“Noticeably sustainable!”: The German Employer Award for Education 2023 goes to HSBI and three other educational institutions from North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.
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