The rules for cybersecurity in the EU are becoming increasingly complex. The newly launched project "Cybersecurity Certification and Assessment Tools" (CCAT), in which the SICP - Software Innovation Campus Paderborn, which is part of Paderborn University, is involved, is responding to this.

Paderborn University is once again represented in the subject rankings of the World University Rankings of the British higher education magazine "Times Higher Education" (THE) and has once again achieved very good results in several disciplines in the 2026 edition.

On 20 January 2026, the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics hosted the inaugural lectures of Prof. Dr Marcel Campen and Prof. Dr Martin Ulirsch in lecture hall O2.

On Sunday, 18 January, Paderborn University celebrated its traditional New Year's reception with around 400 guests from academia, business and politics in the Auditorium maximum.

Online tool and learning platform provide support for NIS2 Directive

The latest film in our YouTube series ‘There's electrical engineering in that!’ is online: ‘The speed of light – it's part of our everyday lives!’.

Top results in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry

Paderborn Universities and Bochum cooperate with the German Informatics Society

The RAT group leader, Prof. Dr. Erdal Kayacan, was elected to the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for the period from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028.

On 17 November 2025, the Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at Paderborn University, Prof. Dr Jürgen Klüners, welcomed guests to the inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr Karin Binder (Didactics of Mathematics) and Junior Prof. Dr Jonas Jalowy (Probability Theory).

German Research Foundation extends Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 ‘Constructing Explainability’