As part of the CHE university ranking, Berlin students were surveyed on the subject of "Business Psychology", among others. HMKW is also to be found in the top group in 2023. As in 2020, the Department of Psychology scores particularly well with its good contact to professional practice and optimal support for students at the beginning of their studies.

For their last Open Day before the start of the coming winter semester, the Berlin and Cologne campuses opened their doors once again last Saturday and gave those interested an insight into the diverse opportunities for studying a Bachelor's or Master's degree with a media focus at HMKW.

In the future, HMKW will cooperate more closely with Wenzhou University in order to develope joint projects and promote the exchange of students and employees.

On the initiative of HMKW lecturer Ms. Aimin Feng, a delegation from Anyang visited our HMKW Cologne campus on August 24, 2023 for a conference with the theme of investment promotion and cultural tourism between Anyang and Cologne.

From winter semester 2023/24, the HMKW University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Management will be offering the interdisciplinary, two-year online master's program M.A. Artificial Intelligence and Societies, which is dedicated to the interplay between artificial intelligence technologies, societal issues, and the creative and cultural industries.

The EXPOSED summer exhibition at the Berlin Campus was a great success last weekend. The event attracted numerous visitors who were eager to discover the impressive student work of the Department of Design. The diversity of the exhibited projects from various degree program as well as graduates' final projects was outstanding.

In the exciting guest lecture series "Emerging Media Markets" led by Prof. Dr. Ingo Knuth, Master students discovered the success factors of advertising marketing. As part of the Master's program M.A. International Marketing and Media Management, the series offered students deep insights into the world of constantly changing media markets.

Design students and alumni Anan Mahmoud (Berlin), Fiona Bootz (Frankfurt), Justus Krüger (Berlin), Tamara Orlovsky (Berlin) and Olivia Steinhauer (Cologne) are among this year's winners of the highly prestigious ADC Talent Award. They received the prize for their semester and final projects. Congratulations!

How do I start my own business and what are the latest trends in entrepreneurship and business management? In the last weeks, students from the study programs B.A. Media and Event Management and B.A. Digital Marketing and E-Commerce had the perfect opportunity to talk to business founders and other experts from the field of entrepreneurship in a series of guest lectures initiated by Prof. Dr. Thomas Petzold.

We are pleased and proud to announce that "Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs" - written by HMKW Professor Henning Breuer (Department of Psychology at HMKW Berlin) and his colleagues John Bessant and Sune Gudiksen - has been selected by the European Academy of Management as a finalist for the EURAM Best Book Award 2023.