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What other university can claim to have its own railway station and be listed in the Deutsche Bahn timetable? In Wernigerode, this is indeed the case, as the Harz Narrow-Gauge Railway stop on the campus is named ‘Hochschule Harz’. Passenger numbers are sure to rise even further at the end of May, as on 31 May and 1 June 2023, academic talent from all federal states will gather at Harz University of Applied Sciences on the Wernigerode campus for the 23rd Conference for Academic Talent (NWK). What began in 2000 as a local conference for universities in Saxony-Anhalt has developed into a nationwide annual conference held at different venues each year.
From a total of over 140 submitted papers, 11 academic talents from Mittweida University of Applied Sciences were also selected and included in the conference programme with their research projects.
The presentations will cover topics such as ‘Electrolytic Ni-W alloy deposition from aqueous systems as a potential substitute for hard chrome plating’ and ‘The influence of temperature and humidity on the electrical conductivity of thermoplastics’.
In her presentation entitled ‘Crowdsourcing in the sports industry – A qualitative study on the factors influencing the intention to use crowdsourcing’, Sarah Uhlig, for example, presents a study aimed at identifying the reasons for and against the intention to use crowdsourcing in the specific context of sport. To this end, 10 expert interviews were conducted with product and marketing managers at German football clubs in the men’s 1st and 2nd Bundesliga, focusing on the factors influencing behaviour regarding the use of crowdsourcing. The results of the study, obtained through a qualitative content analysis, led to the refinement of the cause-and-effect model to include both facilitating and inhibiting factors.
The posters cover topics such as ‘Genetic analysis of Apis mellifera with regard to their tolerance to Varroa mites’, ‘Development of an in silico SNP array for the genotyping of dogs’ and ‘Galvanic gold deposition from cyanide-free gold electrolytes’.
Over the next few days, some of the conference participants from Mittweida will be introducing themselves and their research topics in more detail here under ‘Research Spotlight’.
A packed programme awaits participants on both days of the conference. The conference begins on Wednesday afternoon with workshops on topics such as writing a doctoral thesis, researchers juggling career, family and self-care, and #IchBinHanna.
On the second day of the conference, following a panel discussion on doctoral regulations at Universities of Applied Sciences (UoAS), the participants’ academic research findings will be presented in a series of sessions. Professor Jörg Matthes, Dean of our Faculty of Engineering Sciences, will chair the ‘Engineering III’ session.
At the closing ceremony, prizes will be awarded for the best papers and posters. In addition, the NWK key – a symbolic token representing the host institution – will change hands and be handed over to Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, as from June 2024 the event will be known as ‘NWK in Mittweida’.
Further information on the conference is available at the following link:
https://www.hs-harz.de/nwk2023
We wish our team every success!
Text and photo collage: Annett Kober