Cologne Master's students of business psychology visited the German capital Berlin for two days with their professor Dr. Eva Eick. At the Media University campus in Berlin and at FUTURIUM, they gained insight into applied projects and futurology.

We are very pleased to announce the publication of the new open access book "Gamification for Innovators & Entrepreneurs - Using Games to Drive Innovation and Facilitate Learning" by Prof. Dr. Henning Breuer (Department of Psychology at Media University Berlin) and his colleagues John Bessant and Sune Gudiksen.

At the two-day TÜV Fit to Drive Conference 2022, following her talk, Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Eick, site director of Media University Cologne, discussed the question of a sensible level of vehicle autonomy in our traffic.

In a series of five enrolment ceremonies for the winter semester 2022/23, the university management welcomed the prospective new students at the Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt/Main campuses and gave an outlook on the new semester.

Back in presence: At the graduation ceremony in the Phorms Theater in Berlin, Bachelor's and Master's graduates were honored and bid farewell by their professors in a festive atmosphere.

In July, Prof. Dr. Dominik Schwarzinger presented together with colleagues from the Hogrefe Publishing group at the 17th European Congress of Psychology (ECP) 2022 in Ljubljana the work-related dark triad measure TOP (Dark Triad of Personality at Work, Schwarzinger & Schuler, 2016), that has been published in Italy recently.

Companies are increasingly faced with the task of operating sustainably. But how can they create not just economic but also ecological and social value in a sustainability-oriented manner? In the new book "Sustainable Business Model Design," Media University professor Henning Breuer, together with Florian Lüdeke-Freund and Lorenzo Massa, presents 45 business models that focus on sustainable innovation and business design.

How is it, although we are otherwise so self-disciplined and sensible, that we increasingly eat snacks, go shopping, watch series or consume social media when we are feeling stressed? Anna Balleyer, research assistant in the Department of Psychology at Media University Berlin, has been studying the effects of consumption on the human psyche since her master's thesis. In a new study, she examined to what extent hedonistic consumption can also help reduce stress.

In the context of the event series "Science in Cologne Houses" of the Kölner Wissenschaftsrunde (KWR) Media University Prorector Prof. Dr. habil. Martin Beckenkamp gave a lecture on the so-called tragedy of the commons and the importance of institutions in times of crisis.