Today, we celebrated 112 graduates at the largest winter graduation ever at AU Herning. In addition to the graduation speech, which was given by Juliane Rask Maack from BDE, the graduation ceremony also included musical performances as well as the awarding of diplomas and graduation prizes.

On 11 January 2023, the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, presented the “Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award” to Professor Ramjee Prasad from our departement. The award is described as “the highest Indian award for non-resident Indian and overseas citizen of India”, and it is a recognition of outstanding achievements both in India and abroad. It is the first time that the prize has been awarded to an Indian resident in Denmark, and Ramjee Prasad was awarded the prize for his work in information technology. Congratulations!

We have been awarded an Otto Mønsted Visiting Professorship and look forward to welcoming Wim Vanhaverbeke Vanhaverbeke from the University of Antwerp in Belgium during 2023. Wim Vanhaverbeke is one of the leading researchers in areas such as digitalisation, business models and ecosystems.

Palsgaard Spær from the village of Hampen, Denmark is one of the country’s largest and oldest rafter and element manufacturer. Simon Have Kjær, a former BDE student, is the company’s process development manager for production and logistics. During his studies in Herning, he did the initial analysis work that preceded Palsgaard Spær’s investment in a new plant, which has further led to the company’s transition from a craftsman’s business to an industrialised enterprise.

Each year, the Web of Science Group identifies the world's most influential researchers. We are proud that Benjamin Sovacool from our department is once again in the elite group of "Highly Cited Researchers".

The company Siana has developed an IoT- and AI-based technology that can help its customers within the production and utility sector to avoid breakdowns caused by malfunctions or wear and tear in their machinery – particularly in rotary machines such as engines, gears, pumps and bearings used to drive conveyor belts, among other things. The idea for the company came when the founders Mads H. Gliemann and Claes Zacho were students at Aarhus University in Herning.

The international academic conference "25th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC)" took place 30 October-2 November in Herning. The four days were well-spent with dissemination of research findings, workshops and much more. In addition, Professor Ramjee Prasad from our department was commemorated for his supervision of 150 PhD students and his new emeritus professor title as per 1 December 2022. Congratulations!

Over the next 16 months until the end of 2023, a grant from the Danish Industry Foundation will be used to test and develop new forms of collaboration between industry, Aarhus University in Herning and the knowledge institutions in the area. The vision is to establish a growth technology centre that will build a bridge between knowledge and production and thus strengthen the competitiveness and innovation in the local manufacturing companies.