The International Fall School 2025 organised by Arbeitswelt.Plus and it's OWL shows how future technologies are changing production and the world of work. From 22 to 25 September 2025, international students and young professionals met leading experts, innovative companies and exciting research locations in East Westphalia-Lippe. New perspectives, practical insights and intercultural exchange were made possible through workshops, company visits and networking. For four days, the region became a hotspot for ideas, contacts and concrete future projects.
On 25.09.2025, Prof. Volker Lohweg and the "Discrete Systems" research group he heads, together with research group leader Dr. Christoph-Alexander Holst and research associate Julian Bültemeier, enriched the programme of the International Fall School. Together with Prof. Klaus Neumann's working group from Bielefeld University and Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, a joint workshop was held at the Centre for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University.
Focus on scarce data and robotics
inIT presented current research work, focussing on the handling of sparse and scarce data. CITEC provided insights into robotics and its industrial application. Exciting presentations were followed by a practical presentation of projects supported by various demonstrators at CITEC at Bielefeld University. The inIT presented several projects from the context of it's OWL and Arbeitswelt.Plus, including the AI4ScaDa project, the AutoDis transfer project and a current PhD approach to Semantic Adversarial Examples from the SAIL project. The presentations showed how modern AI methods sre applied in industrial practice and offered participants concrete insights into current research topics.
CITEC complemented the programme with an insight into the robotics laboratory. Various demonstrators were used to clearly present the possibilities and areas of application of robotics - from automation solutions to innovative applications in production. Participants were able to experience technologies first-hand, ask questions and actively discuss research results.
"The workshop showed how exciting and practical research and industry work together. Our projects from the context of it's OWL and Arbeitswelt.Plus gave the participants concrete insights into the application of AI in production, while the CITEC demonstrators made the possibilities of robotics tangible. It was great to see how engaged the students and young professionals were in discussing the technologies and contributing their own perspectives - that's exactly what makes events like this so valuable," says Julian Bültemeier.