Excellence Strategy

From April 2021, 17 researchers at Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence will receive funding from the Ideas and Venture Fund. The researchers will use this to prepare larger third-party-funded projects suited to one of the University’s profile initiatives or emerging fields. In total, the...

Universität Hamburg is using the Transfer@UHH fund to support 6 new research projects, including a project at the Center of Natural History (CeNak) on wildlife and the transmission of infection from animals to humans. The project is being coordinated by the evolutionary biologist Prof. Dr. Matthias...

Effective immediately, Universität Hamburg is funding 5 research projects as part of the Next Generation Partnerships—Thematic Networks program. The funding is earmarked for the preparation of long-term external funding projects. One of the projects focuses on changes in written language as a result...

This semester, visiting scholar Prof. Dr. Stephan Porombka and Julian Farny from the Berlin University of the Arts are enriching the subject range at Universität Hamburg with a very unusual seminar: together with their students, they are examining their desks.

An international team of astronomers headed by Junior Professor Dr. Francesco de Gasperin, a researcher at the Hamburg Observatory and member of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at Universität Hamburg, has created the largest and clearest sky map in ultralow radio frequency. The map was...

With financing through the second funding line of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments, Universität Hamburg appointed its first chief digital officer (CDO) at the beginning of 2021. In his interview, Dr. Sebastian Gerling talks about his tasks, objectives, and specific areas...

Universität Hamburg applied to the second funding line of the Excellence Competition of the Federal and State Governments for 24 projects. It now has more than €60 million available to implement these projects. Dr. Ariane Neumann, head of Department 1: University Strategy, explains how the ExStra...

The Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), which opened at the end of 2020, funds researchers and artists living and working over multiple months in Hamburg. Sociologist Sophia Prinz and philosopher Dietmar von der Pfordten are among the first recipients. Their fellowships are financed by...

Within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments, Universität Hamburg is announcing a new funding round for student research projects. In this program, the University is currently funding 17 projects, including one conducting research on digital fashion.

Using funds from the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments, Universität Hamburg finances the Transfer@UHH fund. In 2021, the University funded a total of 6 transfer projects, including a research project led by Prof. Dr. Jana-Michaela Timm on cooperation between practice and...