Kategorie: ‘Announcements’
International Women’s Day 2026: Women in IT
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Every year on March 8, we celebrate International Women’s Day, a global event that draws attention to women’s achievements while also highlighting the fact that equality is still not a given today. Women’s Day commemorates over 100 years of fighting for women’s rights and serves as a call to continue actively working toward equality.
RWTHmoodle Training Courses
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The RWTHmoodle learning platform is an integral part of studying at RWTH. The platform is often used for lectures and seminars to provide presentations, scripts, and texts.
But RWTHmoodle offers many more features to enhance the learning experience for students. To help instructors leverage the full potential of RWTHmoodle, training sessions for the platform are offered regularly. In this blog post, we provide an overview of some of the training sessions offered and explain how you can register.
KI:connect.nrw – In Use Throughout the State
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A lot has happened since our last post on the KI:connect.nrw project. More and more universities in North Rhine-Westphalia are joining the project, which enables state-wide, data protection-compliant, and legally secure access to generative AI via the central web application KI:connect.
Guests in git.nrw – A New Way to Collaborate
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In today’s digital world, effective collaboration is essential. The git.nrw project has therefore introduced a new feature: the ability to invite external individuals and make them git.nrw guests, granting them access to projects.
Changed Opening Hours Over Christmas and New Year
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Another year is coming to an end, and the IT Center wishes all students, employees, and partners a relaxing holiday season and a successful start to the new year.
Our opening hours will be adjusted as follows during the Christmas period and at the beginning of the year.
Calendar Sync Launched: Webex Meets Exchange
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Since the introduction of Webex at RWTH Aachen University on November 2, 2023, we have repeatedly received requests for a link between the Webex and Exchange calendars. Now we can fulfill this request: With the new “Hybrid Calendar Connector,” seamless synchronization of both systems is possible.
RWTHonline With a New Look
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On December 10, 2025, the employee view in RWTHonline will get a new, modern interface! This marks the next stage in the ongoing development of the system, with a focus on usability, personalization, and a contemporary design.
IT-SAD: IT-Security Awareness Days 2025
Source: TU Braunschweig
From November 3 to November 14, 2025, the IT Security Awareness Days will take place for the tenth time. During these two weeks, a total of 18 online lectures on the topic of IT security will be held. These are organized by various universities.
The following institutions are involved (although not always with their own presentations): TU Braunschweig, TU Darmstadt, TU Dresden, University of Hildesheim, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, University of Göttingen/GWDG, University of Marburg, University of Osnabrück, Leuphana University Lüneburg, University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Cologne, and Albstadt-Sigmaringen University of Applied Sciences.
IT Center Satisfaction Survey 2025 – Your Opinion Counts!
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On October 20, 2025, our IT Center Satisfaction Survey 2025 started. This survey is aimed at all people who use the services of the IT Center. In order to continuously improve the quality of services and support through our various communication channels, we conduct a satisfaction survey every year. The survey is anonymous.
fIT Courses: IT Knowledge Made Easy
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Whether you’ve just started your first semester or are already in the middle of your studies, IT skills are a real advantage in any subject area. This is exactly where the fIT courses at RWTH come in: they offer you the opportunity to learn how to use important programs or refresh your existing knowledge. Whether Excel, MATLAB, or Python – the free training courses will get you ready for your studies, research, and beyond.
