German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has launched a new program for Combined Study and Practics Stays for Engineers from Developing Countries (KOSPIE) for PFE students from Tunisia. Together with other institutes at or around ivESK, 8 fully funded seats are available per year for 2023 till 2025.

Please find detailed information here: project description.

For information concerning application requirements and application procedure please follow the link: DAAD Sholarship Database

Faculties participating in the exchange programme and degree courses offered:

In this first round, the Department of Electrical Engineering, Medical Engineering and Computer Science (EMI) is the main driver of the application. It includes the support of the largest three research institutes of Offenburg University and of Hahn-Schickard Institute.

Institute of Machine Learning and Analytics

• https://imla.hs-offenburg.de   
• scientific advisor for KOSPIE: Prof. Dr. Stefan Hensel
• available topics for the intake starting 2025
  • topic 1: Development and application of machine vision algorithms, especially with a focus on deep neural networks.
  • topic 2: Development and application of algorithms for highly automated driving, in particular machine learning in the area of environment perception, multimodal data fusion and navigation.

Institute of Reliable Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics

• https://ivesk.hs-offenburg.de 
• scientific advisor for KOSPIE: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Sikora
• available topics for the intake starting 2025
  • topic 1: 5.xG/6G developments (campus networks / real-time wireless TSN communications)
  • topic 2: Security protocols for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

Institute of Sustainable Energy

• https://ines.hs-offenburg.de 
• scientific advisor for KOSPIE: Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidt
• available topics for the intake starting 2025
  • topic 1: Optimization Techniques for Leveraging Energy Flexibility in Residential Microgrids
  • topic 2: Development of Optimization Techniques for Leveraging Energy Flexibility in Small and Medium Sized Industrial Enterprises

Hahn-Schickard Institute of Micro and Information Technology

• https://www.hahn-schickard.de 
• scientific advisors for KOSPIE:
  • Dr. Achim Bittner
  • Dr. Stephan Knappmann
  • Dr. Heiko Trautner
• available topics for the intake starting 2025
  • topic 1: Development of piezoelectrical Sensor for structure borne noise in tooling machines.
  • topic 2: Design of a MEMS-sensors for the measurement of surface tension in washing liquor.