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From July 5 to 11, the science festival “SchlauRaum” is taking place, transforming the city of Münster into a vibrant campus. Under the theme “Why? How? Healthy?”, the festival focuses on the theme of health – organized by the University of Münster, FH Münster, Münster University Hospital (UKM) and Münster Marketing.
As part of the graduation ceremony on June 27, 2025, not only were numerous graduates of the 2024/25 winter semester bid farewell, but outstanding achievements from students of the School of Business and Economics were also honored.
This year, the Teaching Award of the Student Council of Business and Economics was presented to Dr. Thomas Haskamp and Prof. Felipe Scavarda. The award recognizes outstanding commitment to teaching and is based on the results of student course evaluations.
As part of the graduation ceremony, two faculty members from the Department of Information Systems were honored:
Prof. Jörg Becker was invited as opponent for the doctoral defense of Tapio Versäläinen at the University of Turku, Finland. Versäläinen's dissertation is titled “Forecasting Future Events with Publicly Accessible Online Data – A Study on Finnish Parliamentary Elections from 2015 to 2023” and was supervised by Prof. Reima Suomi.
Last week, students from the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business & Technology (Georgia College & State University) visited the Department of Information Systems at the University of Münster to take part in the second part of the international Design Thinking seminar.
From May 16 to 18, 2025, the first Transdev Mobility Hackathon took place at the Leonardo campus of the University of Münster. The event was organized by the Innovation and New Markets team in collaboration with Operations Planning and HR at Transdev – part of the Rethmann Group and the second-largest rail and bus company in Germany. 19 students from over 13 countries worked together to develop practical solutions for optimizing school bus routes.
In the summer term, we are once again welcoming international guest professors at our department. One of them is Prof. Isabel Ramos from the University of Minho, Portugal. She arrived in April and will stay until May 31. During her stay, Isabel Ramos will teach the bachelor seminar “AI and Attention in the Organization”.
Exciting project seminars for bachelor's and master’s students are once again taking place at the Institute of Information Systems this summer semester.
The following project seminars have already started in the bachelor's program:
On May 2, 2025, the farewell lecture of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jörg Becker took place in lecture hall Leo 1 at the Leonardo Campus. Numerous colleagues from across the School of Business and Economics, long-time companions, former and current doctoral students from three decades, as well as his family, attended the event.
The first Bootcamp as part of the EU-funded CURATE project took place in Košice on 7 and 8 April. The event was hosted by the Technical University of Košice (TUKE), which is working with five other partner universities in the Ulysseus network to set up an innovative, student-centred incubator programme.