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Award of teaching authorisation (Lehrbefugnis) to Dr Martina Maletzky de García

Dr. Maletzky de Garcia, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bartosch

On December 11, 2024, Dr Maletzky de García was awarded the authorisation to teach (Lehrbefugnis) in the subjects of sociology and intercultural communication by the President of the University of Passau, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bartosch. This is the result of a comprehensive habilitation on the topic of mobility in the organisational society, in which Dr Maletzky de García examined the penetration of organisational principles in migration discourse and showed that in the German context, migration is increasingly discussed in terms of the principles of rationality, economic benefit and efficiency, which contributes to a two-tier structure of migrants and a neglect of socio-ethical foundations.

We congratulate Dr Maletzky de García on her highest possible academic qualification!

Call for Papers: „Management and cultures: qualitative organizational research“ EURAM-Conference “Managing with Purpose” University of Florence

For the ninth time in a row, Professor Christoph Barmeyer is organizing a section at the 25th EURAM conference (European Academy of Management) together with Professors Sylvie Chevrier (Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris-Est) and Mette Zølner (University of Aarhus). This year's conference will take place from June 22 to 25, 2025 at the University of Florence, Italy.

This track is dedicated to the exploration of the complex role of cultures in organizations, including those that are emerging in the digital transformation of organizations, with qualitative methods. It welcomes papers dealing with cross-cultural encounters in work settings, the Global South, multicultural individuals, languages in organizations, international transfer and recontextualization of management tools, and the interplay of cultures and power relations in diverse organizations. It addresses also methodological questions: How to get access to international settings? How to compare equivalent situations across countries? How to deal with language and translation issues? What strategies allow academics to produce meaningful intercultural research?

We highly welcome the submission of intercultural research that takes interpretative paradigms into account (e.g. in the form of qualitative contextual case studies).

Further information on the conference: https://conferences.euram.academy/2025conference/

Deadline for Paper Submission: 14 January 2025

PATEC: Passau – The Entrepreneurial Campus Intercultural Start-up Hub

The University of Passau wants to realize the great founder potential of Passau's students and develop into a real entrepreneurial university. Therefore, on September 1, 2020 the project: Passau - The Entrepreneurial Campus (PATEC) launched, supported by the BMWi program EXIST-Potentiale for over five years with almost two million Euros. The project aims to raise awareness, connect, and consult students about starting their own business in order to establish an active and vivid start-up culture at the University of Passau, especially targeting students of the humanities, social and cultural sciences as well as female students.

In addition to a sustainable and digital start-up hub, an intercultural start-up hub will be established under the direction of the Chair of Intercultural Communication and the research assistant and PhD student Constanze Ruesga Rath. Through the Intercultural start-up hub, aspects of culture, internationality and interculturality will be integrated into traditional elements of entrepreneurship, which nowadays are also indispensable for start-ups.

Next to the Chair for Intercultural Communication, the Transfer Center and various chairs/institutes of all faculties of the University of Passau are involved in PATEC. Furthermore, a network consisting of alumni founders, the INN.KUBATOR Passau, the BayStartUP, the Hans Lindner Foundation, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Niederbayern, the HWK Niederbayern-Oberpfalz, experienced coaches and mentors as well as seed-investors will be established to support the students in their start-up projects.

Under the following link you will find further information: https://www.uni-passau.de/bereiche/presse/pressemeldungen/meldung/detail/bund-foerdert-gruendungskultur-projekt-der-universitaet-passau/