Welcome to the International Office!

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We are your contact for all topics relating to HSBI's internationality and offer you a wide range of services and support options.

Here, you will find information

  • On the organisation and financing of stays abroad for students and employees
  • On the stay at HSBI for international guests
  • On language courses and translation services for all university members
  • On memberships, projects and cooperations worldwide
Contact & Information on consultation hours

You can also find our contact details here: https://www.hsbi.de/en/international-office/team

Outgoing Students

Felix Kraemer
Telephone +49.521.106-70877
felix.kraemer@hsbi.de

Consultation hours – Please note: No consultations on 20, 27 and 28 November, on 4 December and from 11 December to 1 January 2025!
Personal consultations:
  • Wednesday | 2 p.m.–3 p.m. | Room A 227

Video consultations:

 

International (Prospective) Students

Applications for bachelor’s and master’s programmes and consultation and support for international BA and MA students

Weronika Ludwig
Telephone +49.521.106-70797
weronika.ludwig@hsbi.de


Emily Singh Chatrath
Telephone +49.521.106-70459
emily.singh_chatrath@hsbi.de

Consultation hours
  • Monday | 9 a.m.–10 a.m.
  • Tuesday | 1 p.m.–2 p.m.
  • Room A 539 and online via Zoom
Other ways to contact us

Functional mailbox: admission@hsbi.de

 

Incoming Exchange Students

Hannah Möhring
Telephone +49.521.106-70093
hannah.moehring@hsbi.de

Consultation hours – Please note: No consultations from 22 November 2024 to 5 January 2025!

Personal consultations

  • Wednesday and Thursday | 2.15 p.m.–3.15 p.m. | Room A 233

 

Video consultations

 

Preparatory German courses

Sebastian Neuhaus-Ewering

Telephone +49.521.106-70219
refugee@hsbi.de

Consultation hours
  • Wednesday | 2 p.m.–3 p.m.
  • Room A 502 in HSBI’s main building on Bielefeld Campus (Interaktion 1, 33619 Bielefeld)

General Inquiries

international.office@hsbi.de

Welcome Center

Maximilian Köster
Telephone +49.521.106-70897
maximilian.koester@hsbi.de

Erasmus+ Institutional Coordinator | Staff Mobility Training and Teaching

Vanessa Schaut
Telephone +49.521.106-70799
vanessa.schaut@hsbi.de

Erasmus+ Administration | Staff Mobility Training and Teaching

Veronika Schwarz
Telephone +49.521.106-70883
veronika.schwarz@hsbi.de

Press releases

Kanav Gupta in the lab
08.10.2024

From the United States to HSBI: First RISE Scholarship Holder Conducts Two Months of Research at Gütersloh Campus

To participate in research projects at universities abroad, students in bachelor’s degree programmes can apply for the RISE scholarship to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). 19-year-old Kanav Gupta, a native of India, is studying computer science at Arizona State University. He was a research intern at Gütersloh Campus for two months. What will he remember in particular? The cultural differences between the United States and Germany.

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20.09.2024

Promising Response to New English-Taught Programmes at HSBI’s Gütersloh Campus

The full-time bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering and a Research Master in Data Science have boosted the number of applications from international prospective students to HSBI’s Gütersloh Campus for the winter semester – a promising measure against the decline in the number of students and, in the medium term, also for the recruitment of professionals in the region, as many hope.

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Nonsikelelo Sheron Mpofu sitzt im Labor an einem tisch
27.08.2024

Visiting Scholar from Kenya Conducts Research on 3D Printing onto Textiles at HSBI

Antibacterial, conductive and tear-resistant: Nonsikelelo Sheron Mpofu is investigating how the properties of fabrics can be modified using 3D printing in the Textile Technologies lab at HSBI. At the same time, she wants to learn how more women in her African homeland can pursue careers in STEM fields and is examining corresponding support mechanisms here in Germany. Her research stay was made possible by HSBI’s equal opportunities fellowship for researchers from the Global South.

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Group photo
06.06.2024

International BiCAB Conference at HSBI: How Can the Skills Shortage Be Addressed?

Researchers from eight countries and representatives from regional companies discussed various strategies against the skills shortage at the third BiCAB Conference organised by Bielefeld School of Business at HSBI.

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