Empowered Life & Work innovation area
Self-determination and empowerment are central motives for action. Since the 1960s, the development of digital technologies has been linked to the goal of enabling people to live and work in a self-determined way. The corresponding offerings made possible by digitalisation are part of our world today: social networks and discussion forums, music and video streaming, crowdworking, hybrid work, virtual-agile work teams, career platforms and so on. However, fulfilling the promise of empowerment that goes hand in hand with these offerings constantly presents us with technological, legal, ethical and organisational challenges.
Subject areas
This is an excerpt of current topics that are continuously expanded and updated.
- Flexible working hours and locations
- Recruitment
- Digital twins of the human being
- Platform work and business models
- Data ownership and security
- Identity politics and social networks
- Cultural offerings and digitalisation
- Social participation and digitalisation
Fields of application
Work and organisation
Examples such as crowdworking, hybrid working and virtual-agile teams offer flexible and location-independent working opportunities and promote creativity and collaboration.
Education and training
Online learning platforms, virtual seminars and e-learning tools enable free access to knowledge and education for everyone, regardless of time and place.
Employer branding and personnel development
Platforms, websites and (digital) recruitment processes are playing an increasingly important role in creating an employer brand and promoting individual career paths at the same time.
Culture and networking
Social networks and apps enable employees and consumers to make more autonomous use of cultural offerings
Manager

Professor
Office: Q3.334
Phone: +49 5251 60-2929
Phone: 05251602930
E-mail: martin.schneider@uni-paderborn.de
University lecturers involved
> Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)
Professor - Direktor of competence area digital security
> Wirtschaftspädagogik und Evaluationsforschung
Professor - Lehrstuhlinhaber
Office: Q1.441
Phone: +49 5251 60-2367
E-mail: marc.beutner@uni-paderborn.de
> Paderborn University
Chairwoman - Professor - Ethics committee Paderborn University
> Eventmanagement mit den Schwerpunkten Popmusikkulturen und digitale Medienkulturen
Professor - Eventmanagement mit den Schwerpunkten Popmusikkulturen und digitale Medienkulturen
Office: H7.204
Phone: +49 5251 60-4324
E-mail: beate.flath@uni-paderborn.de
Office: Q1.316
Phone: +49 5251 60-5437
E-mail: karina.kiepe@uni-paderborn.de
> Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)
Professor
Office: Q3.149
Phone: +49 5251 60-5533
Phone: (+49) 5251 60-5531
E-mail: dennis.kundisch@wiwi.uni-paderborn.de
Professor
Office: E2.321
Phone: +49 5251 60-3275
E-mail: tobias.matzner@uni-paderborn.de
> Key research area Transformation and Education
Professor
Office: H4.320
Phone: +49 5251 60-2901
E-mail: niclas.schaper@uni-paderborn.de
> Signal & System Theory (SST)
Head - Professor
Office: P1.7.01.2
Phone: +49 5251 60-2213
E-mail: peter.schreier@sst.uni-paderborn.de
> Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)
Manager - Professor - Managing Director, Senior Researcher
Office: ZM2.A.03.74
Phone: +49 5251 60-6820
E-mail: sauer@uni-paderborn.de
E-mail: sauer@sicp.de
> Graduate Centre of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
Head - Professor
Office: F2.224
Phone: +49 5251 60-6681
E-mail: es@uni-paderborn.de
> Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Social Computing
Head - Professor
Office: Q2.448
Phone: +49 5251 60-4180
E-mail: matthias.trier@uni-paderborn.de