The Faculty of Business Administration at AIU has started a weekly training sessions with the aim to raise the Statistical Analysis skills of academic staff especially in using SPSS software. Mr. Louay Koulo gave the lecture, which is part of the sustainability of MATRE project, on Wed 19 July 2017 at MATRE lab of the Research Support and Training Center in the Faculty of Business Administration of AIU. The lecture was attended by Full-time academic staff at the Faculty of Business Administration of AIU.

On Wednesday 21st June Dumi and Martin presented their PhD topics at VLBA department (University of Oldenburg).

Dumisani Nyumbeka is a 2nd year PhD student at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. His PhD research focuses on creating a scheduling model for the charging of electric vehicles using photovoltaic (PV) powered smart microgrids. This research is part of larger project that seeks to build a network of charging stations that are publicly accessible to the EV drivers nation-wide, thereby reducing range anxiety.

Martin Smuts is conducting his PhD in the fields of energy efficiency and sustainable mobility. He aims to investigate different techniques to improve the accuracy of range estimation technologies in electric vehicles. This research aims to assist drivers in optimising their driving behaviours to manage the limited battery capacity and charging infrastructure of electric vehicles.

On the 08th of June 2017 the project partner of the project Connecting Europe Facility - TREATS (Trans European Authentication Services) Projekts in representative office of the state Saxony-Anhalt in Berlin came together. The project partner meet to discuss new application areas for the eID infrastructure in Germany and Europe. Partners in the TREATS consortium are the college of education HS Harz, HSH Kommunalsoftware, SIXFORM, AKDB, the German Federal Printing Office, OpenLimit, MTG und Governikus as project coordinator.

For further information visit: www.hs-harz.de/studium/fb-automatisierung-und-informatik/informatik-e-administration/treats-ws/

On the 19th of May 2017, the third workshop of the innovation network for sustainable smartphones (INAS) at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg took place. Members of the eCoInnovateIT project from the University of Oldenburg got in touch with practioners and other researchers to discuss new concepts and share ideas on how to prolong the lifetime of our smartphones.

For more information visit: ecoinnovateit.de/

From 27th to 29th June 2017, the Very Large Business Applications department (VLBA), will be hosting the first module development workshop of the HEdIS project at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Colleagues from the partner universities Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University  and the University of Cape Town, and several other academic and industrial partners from different institutions as well as entrepreneurs from Germany’s northern region will be joining the workshop. Energy, Water and Mobility will be the major workshop topics. The workshop programme includes different keynotes and presentations as well as roundtable discussions and module development sessions.

Further information is provided here: hedis-project.org/

Über Internetplattformen oder Aushänge vermittelte Fahrgemeinschaften sind vielen Menschen bisher noch unbekannt und bislang noch keine wirkliche Option für ihren Mobilitätsalltag. Dabei könnte diese Mobilitätsform gerade in ländlichen Gebieten den oftmals unzureichenden öffentlichen Nahverkehr ergänzen, indem Personen mit einem Privatfahrzeug z.B. an selten angefahrenen Bushaltestellen weitere Personen mitnehmen. Wird diese Mobilitätsform akzeptiert? Unter welchen Bedingungen sind Menschen bereit, eine Fahrgemeinschaft mit einer anderen Person zu bilden? Diese Fragestellungen werden im Rahmen einer Online-Umfrage des Forschungsprojektes „NEMo – Nachhaltige Erfüllung von Mobilitätsbedürfnissen im ländlichen Raum“ untersucht

Die Teilnahme an der Umfrage ist unter diesem Link möglich: Zur Umfrage und dauert ca. 15-20 Minuten.

On the 11th & 12th of May 2017, the 9th BUIS days took place in Madgeburg. The main topic of this years conference was 'smart sustainability'. The conference was held to discuss solutions and concepts, that support sustainable behavior and utilize the possibilities of IT-based solutions. In expert panels and presentations of scientific findings, the participants discussed new concepts and shared ideas on environmental management systems, automatisation, economical and political impacts, knowledge exchange and education.

Some impressions: 9th BUIS Conference 2017

Francisco Herrera is working at Universidad Catolica UNICA en Nicaragua as Director of the International Relation Office, this office is in charge of all the process about internationalization. At this moment UNICA has different initiatives in order to promote the international programs and take advantage all the opportunities to study abroad.

Francisco Herrera will stay in Oldenburg for one month working as academic staff mobility in the Department of Computing Science Business Informatics (Very Large Business Applications) to learn about the international projects and make academic relations among Oldenburg University and Universidad Catolica.

This opportunity aims to enhance the quality of higher education and promote dialogue and understanding between people and cultures through mobility and academic cooperation based on Erasmus Mundus programe

Saskia Greiner successfully defended her dissertation - topic: "Risikointegriertes Prozessmanagement am Beispiel Offshore Windpark".

From 24th to 25th April, Jorge Marx Gómez and Stefan Wunderlich attended the official DAAD launch event for newly funded projects in Bonn, Germany. The attendees from different institutions engaged in several very interesting activities, such as presentations, discussions, and networking. This very fruitful event helped generating synergies between newly funded projects and heterogenous partners. Many possibilities for collaboration have been discussed and identified. A comprehensive collaboration between different projects has been envisaged. The HEDIS team is looking forward to this opportunities.

Jorge Marx Gómez presents HEDIS project idea and structure

On the 21st of April 2017, the eight workshop of the innovation-network eCoInnovateIT - ‘Sustainable Consumption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Digital Society’ took place in Osnabrück.
Members of the eCoInnovateIT project from the University of Oldenburg, the University of Osnabrück and the University of Lüneburg got in touch to discuss new concepts and share ideas.
During the meeting, the current progress of the project was presented and the partial results from the different work packages were discussed.

For more informations visit: ecoinnovateit.de/

On 4th of Mai 2017 the Kick-off Workshop for „Renewable Energy in South Africa made in Germany“ is taking place at NEXT ENERGY in Oldenburg.

"Die Kombination verschiedener Formen der Energiegewinnung sowie deren zunehmende Dezentralität werden die Verfügbarkeit von Strom sowie die allgemeine Netzstabilität weiter verbessern. Insbesondere in Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländern wie Südafrika können damit aktuell vernachlässigte Ressourcen wie z. B. die Energiegewinnung aus Biomasse, die vorhandene Solarenergie optimal ergänzen. Mittels Kooperationen sollen Bildung, Forschung und Innovationaktivitäten in Deutschland gestärkt zudem aber auch die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit deutscher Unternehmen durch Erschließung neuer Marktpotenziale unterstützt werden."

Eine ereignisreiche Woche liegt hinter der PG „DoHA“ und der Auftritt auf der CeBIT ist geschafft. Ausgestellt wurden die verschiedenen Prototypen, die im Verlauf des letzten Jahres entwickelt wurden. Dazu zählen die Abbildung einer logistischen Prozesskette im S/4HANA und die Implementierung zweier verschiedenener Apps auf der SAP HANA-Datenbank. In einer App werden innerbetriebliche Zeiten erfasst und in der zweiten werden verschiedene Sensordaten in Echtzeit analysiert. Neben den Betreuern von abat und der Uni besuchten den Stand unter anderem die Ministerin für Wissenschaft und Kultur Gabriele Heinen-Kljajić, sowie  Dr. Holzkämper und Dr. Marz der Firma CEWE color. Außerdem war der Stand Bestandteil einer „Guided Tour“ über den Gemeinschaftsstand Niedersachsen. Die entwickelten Prototypen kamen sehr gut an und führten zu interessanten Gesprächen. Die Projektgruppe konnte dabei einige Kontakte knüpfen.

On 21st March 2017 Dr. Brenda Scholtz (Head of Deparment Computing Sciences at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa) held a guest lecture on academic writing. Dr. Scholtz gave interesting insights into the differents aspects of academic writing.

The YEEES (Yields of Evocative Entrepreneurial approaches on Environment and Society) project will foster the development of innovative entrepreneurial approaches, as e.g. the founding of sustainability start-ups and organisations in the respective fields. Our work supports the development of skills and mindsets that lead to entrepreneurial behavior in a way that future change agents identify and exploit opportunities for creative and innovative or “imovative” solutions. We also contribute to a broad and strong German-African cooperation in various ways. That allows mind-changing experiences, which on short and long-term perspective enable people to contribute to sustainable change. The kick off tokes place at the University of Namibia in Windhoek. Participating countries for the four-year project are Germany, Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia.

(Left to right): Dr. Kauna Mufeti, Prof. Uranio Mahanjane, Prof. Jantje Halberstadt, Prof. Jean Greyling, Prof. Andre Calitz, Prof. Magaret Cullen, Prof. Heike Hölzner, Dr. Tim Pattaway, Alexander Sandau, Prof. Helmut Faasch, Rosa Chilundo, Prof. Jorge Marx Gómez

See more: Project details

The new dates for the next SAP TERP10 course are now available.

The next course is taking place from the 31st of July 2017 until the 11th of August 2017. Please consider the terms of application, which ends on the 15th of July 2017.

The instruction language is german.

The collaborative and research education hub that seeks to bring together the practical and research orientated aspects of ICT for supporting the country’s sustainability efforts, kicked off at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU). The Hub for Education on ICT for Sustainability (HEdIS) is a collaborative project of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, in Port Elizabeth, the University of Cape Town and Carl von Ossietzky University, in Oldenburg, that will be run through the South African universities’ computing science departments over four years.

Prof Andrew Leitch (DVC, NMMU), Prof Azwinndini Muronga (Dean, NMMU), Dr Brenda Scholtz (Head of Dept. CS, NMMU), Prof Ulrike Rivett (UCT), Prof Jorge Marx Gómez (Project coordinator, UOL)