Communications and Marketing
Press releases
Press releases (70)
Wed, 30. November 2022
H-BRS in brief: Professor Johannes Steinhaus on the environmental impact of microplastics
The pollution of our planet with plastic and microplastics is a global problem of enormous proportions. Invited by the United Nations, in Uruguay governments and organisations are currently negotiating an agreement against plastic waste. Professor Johannes Steinhaus of Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg is focusing his research on microplastic pollution. The scientist has an idea for solving the problem of microscopic particles that enter rivers and oceans via waste water from washing machines.
Mon, 14. November 2022
Big rush at the Company Day of Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
The Company Day at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (H-BRS) met with a great response. According to estimates by the university, a total of about 4000 visitors gathered information at the two-day fair (Wednesday, 9 November, and Thursday, 10 November). 148 companies presented themselves on the campus in Sankt Augustin, 74 companies were present on each day. The Company Day is the largest career fair in the Bonn/Rhine-Sieg region in terms of exhibitors.
Tue, 08. November 2022
Researchers from H-BRS honored for their work on greater security on the Internet
The Stifterverband has awarded Professor Luigi Lo Iacono and Stephan Wiefling from Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (H-BRS) with the Open Data Impact Award 2022. The two scientists have made a data set freely available that can be used to improve the security of Internet accounts. Software developers thus gain access to valuable data that previously only a few very large Internet corporations had at their disposal.
Fri, 14. October 2022
b-it-bots with a start-to-finish victory: RoboCup World Champions
The b-it-bots team from Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg won the @work league title at the RoboCup World Championships in Sydney. It was a smooth start-to-finish victory.
Tue, 21. December 2021
H-BRS and BSI open the Biometric Evaluation Centre
H-BRS' Institute for Safety and Security and the Federal Office for Information Security buildt up the Biometrie Evaluationszentrum (BEZ) together.
Tue, 21. December 2021
2021 at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg has had an eventful year with major tasks that had to be tackled.
Wed, 15. December 2021
Graduate Institute celebrates 10th anniversary
The Graduate Institute (GI) offers doctoral students an interdisciplinary platform and supports them in their projects. It is now celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Wed, 07. July 2021
b-it-bots win second place at RoboCup 2021
RoboCup Worldwide 2021: Very good results for robotics team of H-BRS.
Wed, 24. March 2021
Prof. Meilinger appointed to ACACIA advisory board
Stefanie Meilinger, Professor for sustainable technologies, was appointed to the advisory board of the EU Project ACACIA.
Tue, 09. March 2021
SESAME EU project: Research into multi-robot systems
The project involves research into five areas of application: healthcare, agile manufacturing, the agri-food industry, inspection and maintenance.
Mon, 21. December 2020
Highlights from Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in 2020
Despite the pandemic H-BRS is proudly looking back at successful projects in 2020. Third-party funding has been obtained, and the doctoral college NRW is of special recognition.
Thu, 19. November 2020
IVC at H-BRS continues research in microgravity
Together with DLR and the European Space Agency (ESA), the Institute for Visual Computing at H-BRS conducted another series of experiments on self-perception in weightlessness.
Tue, 10. November 2020
Domestic robots: their intelligence & ability to learn
Alex Mitrevski has scooped a Best Paper Award in the Cognitive Robotics category at IROS, the world-renowned International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems