On the initiative of Media University lecturer Ms. Aimin Feng, a delegation from Anyang visited our Media University 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 Media University of Applied Sciences 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 Media University Professor Henning Breuer (Department of Psychology at Media University 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.

Artificial intelligence as a tool for artists: Christopher Michael Hansen has been fascinated by this topic for a long time. During his master's studies in M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology, he was able to put this great enthusiasm for the subject into practice in numerous AI projects. After graduation, a PhD position at the University of Buffalo is now waiting for him.

Not only students, but also lecturers can gain exciting experience at host universities as part of an Erasmus+ teaching mobility. Prof. Jenny Bergström from the Department of Design was recently a guest at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi and gave a Design Thinking workshop there.

The essay "Belarus and the Ukraine war: The experience of powerlessness changes everything" by Media University professor Dr. Katja Artsiomenka, which appeared on the popular German news website ZEIT Online, has been nominated for the European Press Prize 2023.