Driving the energy transition: The 2nd KET Spring Symposium at Paderborn University was a complete success!Under the motto "Regional. Resilient. Regenerative. - New energy concepts for industry", the latest findings from research and practice for sustainable energy concepts in industry were exchanged yesterday. The more than 100 visitors were able to gain the latest insights from research and industry during exciting presentations from science…
Together with the SICP - Software Innovation Campus Paderborn, the KET had the honour of representing Paderborn University at the Future Day in Bielefeld's Wissenswerkstatt last Wednesday.The students' interest in sustainability topics and renewable energy generation was impressive! All the more reason for us to hope that we have aroused the interest of some of them in studying in Paderborn.Many thanks to Energie Impuls OWL and the…
Successful CarbonFREEHeat network meeting at Paderborn University On 26 and 27 November, the KET hosted the 3rd CarbonFREEHeat network meeting and welcomed partners from various fields. In a lively exchange, several new project initiatives were generated with the common goal of making the #heat supply sustainable and low in CO2.Many thanks to Simon Köger and Kristina Leidenberger from EurA AG for the organisation and implementation of the meeting…
A really great event and a strong signal: Schüler:innen gestalten Zukunft!On 21 November 2025, Paderborn students at Paderborn University confidently organised and held the Schüler:innen Zukunftsgipfel.The event was a complete success and is fun for more. The students not only highlighted current climate protection problems, but also presented a wide range of possible solutions.In addition to exciting live broadcasts to Antarctica, Sylt and…
dynOpt-San project meeting in Karlsruhe: progress in system integration, storage technologies & demonstration systemsOn 17 and 18 November 2025, the second working and project meeting of 2025 for the dynOpt-San research project took place at project partner Fraunhofer IOSB in Karlsruhe - an important milestone on the way to intelligent, flexible and sustainable refurbishment processes for existing buildings.The aim of the project is to develop…
The introduction of the KET departments enters the next roundThe #TechnologyDidactics department is delighted to have been an official member of the KET since the beginning of the year.Our mission: to design #technology didactically in such a way that it is exciting, understandable and future-oriented. We are committed to designing learning processes in which students and learners of all ages not only acquire theoretical knowledge about energy…
The 32nd German Flame Day took place from 15 to 17 at Paderborn University. Over three days, more than 200 participants from industry and research shared their scientific findings with each other.
The conference is jointly organised every two years by the German Association for Combustion Research (DVV) and the German section of the Combustion Institute (CI). This year, the German Flame Day was organised at Paderborn University by the KET…
Congratulations to our KET employee Roland Unruh, who was recently honoured with a Best Paper Award for his contribution at the IEEE ECCE Europe 2024 conference.Paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10751954
We are delighted that KET was able to take part in the kick-off of the CarbonFREEHeat innovation network, organised by EurA AG!The first network meeting on 3 July 2025 in Hashtag#Ellwangen focused on getting to know each other and exchanging ideas on innovative technologies for a climate-friendly hashtag#heat supply - together with strong partners from science, business and industry. Networking, knowledge sharing and new impetus for the hashtag#h…
KET excursion on the #energytransition - visit to windCORESOn 16.07.25, the students of the lectures "Rational Energy Use" and "Power and Working Machines" had the exciting opportunity to experience an innovative #wind power plant with an integrated data centre live.The company windCORES clearly demonstrates how renewable electricity is used directly where it is needed - in this case to supply a data centre directly in the wind power plant. An…
KET successfully participated in the kick-off event for the CarbonFREEHeat innovation network, organized by EurA AG. The event took place on July 3, 2025, in Ellwangen and brought together numerous partners from science, business, and industry to develop joint approaches for climate-neutral heat supply. The focus was on innovative solutions for the use of industrial waste heat, the development and implementation of smart heating networks, the…
Automated tracking of greenhouse gases in #industry: identifying potential savings, deriving targeted measuresReducing #greenhouse gas emissions for the benefit of the environment and climate is a key challenge in industrial production. In practice, identifying sources of emissions and making savings potential transparent along the entire value chain requires considerable effort and high costs.The results of the three-year collaborative project "…
Our round-up of the departments and chairs involved in the KET continues today with the Department of Energy Systems Technology (EST), which has been a member of the KET since 2020 and is headed by Professor Henning Meschede.Based on local #energy needs and the possibilities of energy conversion and distribution, the scientists at EST research, develop and realise holistic concepts for sustainable energy use. The cross-sectoral research work…
