An innovative research project is examining the effectiveness and reliability of an Australian app for pain assessment in patients with moderate to severe dementia in long-term inpatient care.

More than 750 visitors from the OWL region were able to inform themselves on immigration and residence legislation, the recognition of degrees, educational opportunities, qualifications and more at over 50 booths. The information fair’s aim is to reduce barriers and to sustainably integrate people with a migration history into the German labour market.

In agriculture, biological pest control is a highly sought-after alternative to chemical pesticides – including and especially in Brazil. At HSBI’s Bielefeld Institute for Applied Materials Research, visiting scholar Dr. Natasha Sant’Anna Iwanicki from the University of São Paulo has developed an innovative process with which the fungi Beauvaria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae can be used in commercial pest control products. Thanks to preconditioning, it withstands the necessary drying process better and can take full effect on the field. This success is the result of HSBI’s targeted efforts to make its research more international.

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.