First Welcome Reception for International Employees

 HSU

11. December 2025

On December 4, 2025, the newly established Welcome Office at HSU/UniBw Hamburg hosted its inaugural welcome reception.

All international scientists who were hired directly from abroad in 2025 accepted the president’s invitation to the festively decorated Officers’ Club last Thursday; many attended with companions.

In his welcoming speech, President Prof. Beckmann emphasized the importance of international staff members for the further development of internationalization and praised their contribution to increasing the university’s international visibility.

At the subsequent “cheese and wine” reception, guests and hosts quickly struck up conversations.

The first Welcome Reception culminated with a joint visit to the traditional Christmas market of the Student Department Alpha.

This Reception is intended to be the start of a series of events that the Welcome Office plans to offer to all international employees of HSU/UniBw Hamburg in the coming months. As part of HSU/UniBW Hamburg’s welcome culture, connecting international staff members is one of the central goals of the Welcome Office, alongside supporting international visiting researchers.

International research collaboration in the field of “AI in higher education, training and adult education”

 HSU

3. May 2024

International research collaboration of the Professorship for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning at Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg in the field of “AI in higher education, training and adult education”.

The International survey on artificial intelligence in higher education, training and adult learning led by the IAL (Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore) examines how technological innovations are changing our educational world globally. The aim is to analyze the integration of (generative) artificial intelligence (AI) as a pioneer for learning landscapes and future trends in higher education, training and adult education worldwide.

The global research project with currently over 23 countries, was initiated by the Research Network 3 of the ASEM Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning. Prof. Schmidt-Lauff (member of the ASEM network since 2022), together with the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE, Bonn), is responsible for Germany-wide data collection, data evaluation and dissemination of the results.

Cooperation with MIT Center of Bits and Atoms launched

 HSU

3. May 2024

As part of a forward-looking sustainability-project the Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/University of the Armed Forces Hamburg (HSU/UniBw H) is now cooperating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center of Bits and Atoms. Prof. Klaus Beckmann, President of the HSU/UniBw H, and Prof. Neil Gershenfeld, Head of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, just signed the treaty in Hamburg.

Fünf Wissenschaftler stehen nebeneinander vor dem OpenLab Mobile der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg.
Prof. Neil Gershenfeld, MIT (center) with Prof. Klaus Beckmann, President of the Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/University of the Armed Forces Hamburg (HSU/UniBw H, 2nd from the right), Dr. Jürgen Glaser (Süderelbe AG), Dr.–Ing. Tobias Redlich and Dr.–Ing. Manuel Moritz (HSU/UniBw H) in front of the OpenLab Mobile.

Locally produced. Globally connected. The Fab City project aims to establish resilient and sustainable cities by pursuing an integrative approach. This approach includes the sharing of knowledge within a global network and the systematic characterization of infrastructure technologies for local production.  

Focussing local production

One focus is on developing and scaling a broad range of capabilities relevant to local production in key areas such as food, energy and shelter. This is where the new cooperation between the New Production Institute headed by Dr.–Ing. Tobias Redlich at the Laboratory for Production Technology (LaFT) at HSU/Uni Bw H and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Bits and Atoms headed by Prof. Neil Gershenfeld comes in. A multidisciplinary team from HSU and MIT is researching new technologies within various domains.

Quantifying the flow of energy and material

This also includes cataloguing the best methods for Fab City technologies, including the areas of manufacturing machines, measuring instruments, materials, furniture, clothing, consumer electronics, toys, data networks, robots and transport. The development of innovative ideas to quantify material and energy-flows coming in and going out of a city, costs and benefits, productivity and scalability, as well as metrics to identify priorities relevant to the future of Fab Cities is crucial.