We want to help young people find their way into the world of business. At international level, we support young academics and scientists through a variety of initiatives and projects. We conduct a range of studies together with universities and polytechnics and ensure that we have access to the latest research in our field by awarding dissertation places, student grants and teaching contracts, and by engaging in direct interaction with the academic and scientific community. In turn, our own expert speakers give lectures and seminars at various university faculties.
We plan to expand and systematize these activities internationally and to coordinate them across the Group. To this end, we endeavor to form relationships at local level with suitable higher education establishments.
Some of the most outstanding examples of our work with academic institutions involve our long-standing link to the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University, and other Universities of Applied Sciences throughout the region, in the field of mechatronics, and to the Fraunhofer Institute in the development of technologies aimed at increasing ATM security. We also provide selected institutions with support in the form of hardware and software.
Wincor Nixdorf maintains close links with schools. Our aim here is to interest young people at an early stage in the discipline of information technology and to offer pupils an opportunity to see how science and technology can be applied in practice. In Germany, for example, we arrange work experience placements, hold project days and support national competitions and campaigns.
Regional Involvement/Public Sector Exchanges.
As a way of intensifying the level of contact and exchange we have with institutions and establishments outside the private sector, for the last three years, we have run an exchange program with certain parts of the public sector. This involves our own staff swapping their desks for a specific period with employees from public-sector organizations. The program allows managerial staff from Wincor Nixdorf and their counterparts in the public sector to familiarize themselves with each other’s particular activities, methods of organization and work, and to contribute directly to the overall process by applying their individual skill sets.
