The Hochschule Niederrhein has been distinguished as the "most recycling-friendly university" in Germany. Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke presented the award for outstanding commitment to the use of recycled paper with the Blue Angel to Verena Villain, Head of Internal Services, at the Federal Environment Ministry on Tuesday. The HSNR came top in the Paper Atlas University Competition 2024 organized by the Initiative Pro Recycling Paper (IPR). An outstanding result in view of 54 participating universities with an average recycled paper quota of 69 percent.

Dear students,

Since 2003, the HSNR has been recognizing outstanding commitment to and in teaching education with an award. As students, you have the opportunity to nominate university lecturers (professors, academic staff and teaching teams) for courses from winter semester 2023/24 and summer semester 2024.

In your opinion, which lecturers are characterized by particularly good teaching education, a convincing supervision offer or a coherent examination concept?

Take the opportunity and nominate the people who have impressed you by 10.11.2024. Show us who deserves the Teaching Award 2024!

You can find the nomination form at: https: //www.hs-niederrhein.de/hochschul-und-mediendidaktik/lehrpreis-formular/

You can find information on the procedure at: https: //www.hs-niederrhein.de/hochschul-und-mediendidaktik/#c178496

Our Coffee Hour for students and employees interested in starting a business in Mönchengladbach takes place every Thursday.

From 12.00 - 14.00 you have the opportunity to network and actively exchange ideas over free coffee/tea/snacks in a convivial atmosphere.

Venue StartUp Lab (Building K), Campus Mönchengladbach, Rheydter Str. 291, 41065 Mönchengladbach

As a special highlight, we offer you a new impulse every week.

Here you can find the impulses of the next Coffee Hours:

• Thu. 17.10.2024 "The art of manifestation: realizing goals and dreams"
• Thu. 24.10.2024 "Practice your English with today's topic: The right mindset for success"
• Thu. 31.10.2024 "How-To: Teamwork-achieving more together!"
• Thu. 07.11.2024 "Embracing Responsibility! Responsibility for a balanced life and successful work"

Participation is free of charge.
Just come along! We look forward to seeing you.

Do you already have Campus Week (21-25.10.) in your calendar? You can expect a varied program of workshops, projects, initiatives and compulsory optional courses. As a rule, there are no timetabled or compulsory courses during this week. Take the opportunity to get to know other faculties, continue your education, network or get involved.
Put together your individual program now: www.hsnr.de/campuswoche

Why should I take part in HSNR Campus Week events?
The Campus Week offers space for...

• a break from the normal study routine.
• varied and sometimes unusual topics.
• active participation in interdegree program and interdepartmental events and thus a look beyond the boundaries of your own studies.
• getting to know other ways of thinking through exchanges with students and lecturers from other subjects and faculties (interdisciplinarity).
• attending innovative events that may provide the impetus for creative semester and theses.
• Networking within the HSNR.
• the acquisition of future skills such as communication skills, reflection skills and cooperation skills.

On November 8, 2024, the 33rd Family Business Career Day will take place at SMS group in Mönchengladbach. Under the motto of sustainability through innovation, students will have the opportunity to talk directly to the owners and top decision-makers of over 40 leading family-owned companies such as ABUS, HARIBO and the Vaillant Group about individual career prospects.

Invitation

If you would like to participate, please apply by October 14, 2024. Further information can be found in the link.

The renowned Mönchengladbach Benedict Prize is awarded every two years for particularly value-oriented actions in the context of Christian Western culture. Previous winners include the artist and initiator of the Stolpersteine (stumbling blocks), Gunter Demnig, and former German President Joachim Gauck. Alternating with the Benedict Prize, the so-called Junior Benedict Prize is also awarded every two years. This award is intended for committed 17 to 30-year-olds who have drawn attention to themselves through particularly value-oriented action. Most recently, a group of students from the Faculty of Textile and Clothing Technology received the Junior Award for the development of a winter sleeping bag for the homeless.

Proposals are now being sought for the next award ceremony in spring 2025. The achievement to be honored can be, for example, a doctorate/master's or other thesis, an artistic work, a lecture, a campaign or another valuable act for society. It should be exemplary and as sustainable as possible. The prize is endowed with € 1,500, further prize gradations are planned.

Proposals, which should preferably be summarized on one DIN A4 page, are requested by 31 December 2024 to the address of the association for the attention of Professor Dr. Harald Vergossen, also by e-mail to Harald.Vergossen(at)hs-niederrhein.de.

The Executive Board of the association will decide on the awarding of the prize.

Call for entries

The Language Centre Krefeld offers a variety of language courses in the winter semester. Would you like to learn a new language? Then take a look at our courses for beginners with no previous knowledge:

Chinese A1.1Tuesdays from 18:00 to 20:00
Italian A1.1Mondays from 18:15 to 20:15
Japanese A1.1Mondays from 16:00 to 18:00
Spanish A1.1Wednesdays from 18:00 to 20:00

Students with the appropriate previous knowledge can register for the following courses:

Chinese A1.2: Tuesdays from 16:00 to 18:00
Italian A1.2: Tuesdays from 18:30 to 20:15
Japanese A1.2: Mondays from 18:00 to 20:00
Spanish A1.2: Tuesdays from 18:00 to 20:00

In addition to general language courses, we also offer Business English B2, English C1.1 and German as a foreign languageor German for studies for university!

All courses take place on site at Krefeld South Campus. The exact course dates can be found in the respective course entry in the HISinOne online portal.

Registration is possible via the HISinOne online portal (Show programs/lecture directory/Language Centre Krefeld):
https://hio.hsnr.de.

For courses that require previous knowledge, please send us proof of your previous language skills by e-mail to
sprachenzentrum-kr(at)hs-niederrhein.de

Are you a volunteer and a student at The Hochschule Niederrhein? Then apply for the "mitBedacht" volunteer award
endowed with € 2,000 for up to three prize winners, awarded by the Catholic university centers LAKUM in Krefeld & Mönchengladbach.

mitBedacht - the award for volunteer work - aims to honor and support students who

• see social issues and turn compassion into action
• have committed themselves to an honorary position
• thus help to support and shape our society
• at the same time keep an eye on their student career.

The award winners are selected by an honorary jury. Award ceremony on the Day of Volunteering: Thursday, 05.12.2024. You will only find out on this evening whether you will be distinguished; you are therefore automatically invited to the award ceremony when you submit your application.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 31.10.2024. You can find all information about the application on the homepage.

Send your application by email to: for Mönchengladbach to Katja Landwehrs kl(at)lakum.de (Mönchengladbach) or to Matthias Hakes mh(at)lakum.de (Krefeld).

Who would like to plant a raised bed?

Raised beds have been built on the meadow behind the LAKUM Mönchengladbach (Richard-Wagner-Str. 35); herbs, berries and flowers are already growing abundantly in some of them. We are still looking for sponsors for some of the raised beds. If you are interested, please contact Monika Heidenfels from the neighborhood garden: quartiersgarten-hermges@gmx.de

The Neighborhood Garden is a garden for everyone! A green oasis, especially for those who don't have their own garden but enjoy gardening and nature. The garden is not only open during the opening hours of LAKUM MG, but whenever the gate is open, you can simply come in and take a garden bath. HSNR students are welcome to harvest peppermint, lemon balm, sage, parsley and rosemary! It is best to bring a small pair of scissors, as the herbs grow better after a smooth cut.

If you don't just want to enjoy the peace and quiet of the large meadow on your own, but would like to help shape the garden together with others, come to an open meeting in the garden: always on the second Wednesday of the month at 5 pm ... i.e. on October 9, November 13, December 11.

Textile creative: Open offer from now on every Tuesday from 2 to 6 pm!

In a cozy atmosphere, Jana offers an open meeting at LAKUM Mönchengladbach for knitting, drinking tea and listening to music. Come along, bring your woolly project or be inspired by the experiences and ideas of others.
Tuesday afternoon at LAKUM MG: put your feet up with a coffee or tea, with people who have woolly fluff on the brain just like you.

LAKUM MG: Richard-Wagner-Straße 35 ... open to everyone at The Hochschule Niederrhein

Current information also on the Instagram channel of the LAKUM Mönchengladbach.

The Hochschule Niederrhein's (HSNR) next Design Discussion will focus on the topic of movement. On Thursday, October 17, Professor Dr. Erik Schmid, Dean of the Faculty of Design, will be discussing the topic with Didem Günel from 8 p.m. at Fabrik Heeder (Virchowstraße 130).

Günel was born in Krefeld in 1994. She left her job as a social worker to work as a freelance dance teacher and cultural scientist. Among other things, she was in Turkey this summer researching the Alevi ritual dance Semah.

Schmid and Günel talk about movement as an expression of the past, present and future. Movement is a path of physical, psychological, cultural and aesthetic change and can be found in images, things, relationships, dances and rituals.

Admission to the event is free. Registration is not required.

The Faculty of Design initiates thinking spaces for interdisciplinary and future-oriented programmes. Lecturers and students from all faculties are invited to explore together how interdisciplinary teaching education can be tested and consolidated at the HSNR.

We are convinced that the university can solve complex everyday issues even more effectively by combining a wide range of teaching and research skills.

In universities of applied sciences in particular, all degree programmes aim to develop optimizations for a better life. For example, research and teaching education is conducted on megatrends such as nutrition, security, sustainability, health, connectivity and urbanization. These complex topics can hardly be addressed by individual disciplines alone. The future therefore needs more interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration and the university needs new teaching models that make this possible.

During Campus Week on October 24 and 25, two events will take place in the Shedhalle on Campus West.

On Thursday, October 24 , a WorldCafé, a flexible and open working atmosphere, will discuss the topics of connectivity, technology, urban culture, culture and creativity as well as sustainability. Opportunities for cooperation will be explored and initial measures for the concretization of various inter- and transdisciplinary teaching models will be developed. This is about a lively and diverse exchange. Every impulse is welcome. Lecturers and students meet at eye level.

On Friday, October 25, the findings of the first day will be reflected upon in salon discussions. In panel discussions, the findings from the previous day will be reflected upon, best practice experiences from the university will be presented and the necessary structures for inter- and transdisciplinarity will be discussed.

Spontaneous keynote speeches from the Faculty of Design will illustrate the role that the discipline of design can play in an interdisciplinary university strategy.

The salon talks will culminate in a culinary degree with a Radiant Serving by Hyperlokal

New food and serving concepts developed by design students together with star chef Christian Krüger will be served. The Hyperlokal was initiated by Prof. Lisa Freyschmidt and is a format for design-driven culinary research and experience projects in the Faculty of Design.

Program

Since the winter semester 2021/2022, young people have been able to study the Bachelor's degree programme "Applied Midwifery Science" at the Faculty of Health Care at Hochschule Niederrhein (HSNR). The faculty has set up four "skills labs" so that students are optimally prepared for their future careers.

These rooms have now been presented to the public. Many of the degree program's cooperation partners also came to the Krefeld South Campus for the event. After words of welcome from the President of the University, Dr. Thomas Grünewald, the Dean of the Faculty, Professor Dr. Bernhard Breil, and Annika Walker, Professor of Midwifery Science and Head of the Degree Program, looked back on the still young history of the Degree Programme. This was followed by a tour of the rooms.

The fashion show of the Clothing Technology Assistants from the Vera Beckers vocational college in Krefeld is returning to the historic sewage treatment plant in Krefeld Uerdingen (Rundweg 20-22, 47829 Krefeld) for the second time. On October 10, 2024 from 7 pm (admission from 6 pm) they will present their own creations under the motto "Sustainability". Members of the cpace collective and other graduates of the Faculty of Textile and Clothing Technology at Hochschule Niederrhein (HSNR) will also be exhibiting their fashion creations.

Following last year's successful fashion show, another collection has been created that picks up on the Krefeld themes of "silk" and "steel". Originally, the reference to silk came about through the cooperation with the Krefeld "House of Silk Culture". However, the history of the steel location is also closely linked to Krefeld. Hard and soft - the students tried to capture this contrast in their self-created outfits and organize them in a fashion show.

This winter semester, Equal Opportunities is offering two events as part of Campus Week: With speaker Claudia Müller, students and staff will have the opportunity to tackle their financial planning and clarify important questions such as: How can I master my finances even with little money and even finally invest in an ETF? How can I turn my pension provision into retirement PREFERENCE?

This semester, there is an offer on personnel branding and digital networking on LinkedIn especially for female university members. The speaker Ms. Nicole Freitag, founder of Little Birds Media, will give impulses and concrete instructions for LinkedIn in her lecture and explain, among other things, why digital networking is so important for women.

Further information and registration can be found under Dates.

The best submissions to the Equal Opportunities Commission's ideas competition will be awarded prizes on 29.10.2024 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Shedhalle on the Krefeld-West campus. You are cordially invited to the award ceremony!

The VHS Mönchengladbach is looking for student assistants for the Faculties in Mönchengladbach and Music for a period of up to 12 months as soon as possible.

All further information can be found in the job advertisement.

Would you like to share your knowledge and enjoy working with people? Are you looking for an exciting challenge or extra income?

We are looking for you! Become a university teacher / lecturer for learning support on behalf of the Volkshochschule Mönchengladbach!

What you can expect:

• Fee of €35 per teaching unit (45 minutes)
• You give tutoring in small groups with a maximum of 5 people
• You will receive discounts when booking VHS courses