Excellence Strategy

The first Arabic description of the world using texts and maps was created in the 10th century. The maps are amazingly modern, partly because they left unknown areas empty rather than filling them with fictional beings and places, explains Dr. Nadja Danilenko, an Islamic studies researcher in the...

One reason Universität Hamburg, northern Germany’s largest research institution, was named a University of Excellence was in recognition of its role as a “flagship university.” True to this concept, the University would like to further develop and fortify cooperation among various universities and...

As part of the funding of transfer projects, Universität Hamburg has created the special program format “Mehr Weitblick nach der Coronavirus-Krise”; (a broader perspective after the corona crisis). Thirteen projects will each receive up to €10,000 for research focusing on the novel coronavirus and...

Prof. Dr. Ulf Schmidt will become the first nucleus professor at Universität Hamburg at the beginning of September. With its calls for applications for these professorships, the University aims to attract leading researchers and to advance the development of research areas, such as Infection...

What holds Europe together? This is the key question addressed by a new international conference hosted by Universität Hamburg in cooperation with the Villa Vigoni German-Italian Centre for the European Dialogue and other academic institutes. The project will be financed from Excellence Strategy...

Theory requires practice, and voluntary research groups are a good opportunity to put knowledge to the test. Students are developing apps for shuttle buses, revitalizing the medicinal garden at the Institute of Pharmacy, and reconstructing an ancient linothorax, which is a type of upper body armor...

Further internationalization is one of Universität Hamburg’s most important goals in the Excellence Strategy. Yet how can we best cooperate with our many partner institutions during the pandemic? Regina Siemß from the Department of International Affairs took part in several digital workshops on the...

The newly created program for postdoctoral fellowships within the context of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments supports researchers who did their doctorates at Universität Hamburg and are working in one of the University’s emerging fields. The first fellows have now been...