Excellence Strategy

3 December 2024|Excellence Strategy

Student Expedition to Stromboli

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The Stromboli is among Europe’s most active volcanoes. Northeast of Sicily, on the island of the same name, it spews ash and rocks almost constantly. A group of budding geophysicists from the University of Hamburg plans to explore it next year. Their trip is funded through the Excellence Strategy of...

2 December 2024|Excellence Strategy

Not Just in Gym Class: Knowledge Exchange Project for More Physical Activity in School Knowledge exchange project for more physical activity in school

Symbolic illustration of movement on the school playground

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According to the 2024 children’s health report, 15 percent of children and adolescents are overweight or obese. To better integrate movement in the school day in the future, a project at the University of Hamburg is now targeting teacher training students in all subjects. It is being financed...

22 November 2024|Excellence Strategy

“We still don’t see climate protection efforts in our numbers”

Just in time for the World Climate Conference, the Global Carbon Budget has once again been calculated this year. It reveals how much carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere and where human beings stand with regard to climate protection. For the first time, the calculation also includes extensive...

7 November 2024|Research

Understanding “Seebären” and other phenomena: Researchers calculate global tsunami risk

Photo: University of Hamburg/Behrens

Tsunamis do not only occur in distant oceans but also in the North and Baltic Seas. Prof. Dr. Jörn Behrens, professor of numerical methods in geosciences in the Department of Mathematics and the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), investigates how to calculate these...

15 October 2024|Excellence Strategy

How Experience Economies Develop

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Experiences have become a billion-dollar business around the world. In Germany consumers and consulates have also been investing more money into travel and other leisure activities than for goods. A study at the University of Hamburg is focusing on how the sector is developing, especially with...

27 September 2024|Campus

Student research: Using science to modernize study of medicine

Medical student Ben Lücking intubating a medical simulation manikin

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Studying medicine requires students to study efficiently, to store a broad range of content long-term for their later work as a doctor. The student research group ME-Learn at Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence would like to help shape this learning process more sustainably with the aid of...

5 August 2024|Excellence Strategy

Lessons from History for the Future

Felix Hansen, Alexander Bernard Arthur, and Isabel Vonessen Wilson.

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The project Culture of Remembrance—Our History, Our Culture brings together the University of Hamburg and the University of Education in Winneba, Ghana. Six students take a close look at the history of the Schimmelmann family and their involvement in the slave trade. The research project receives...

16 July 2024|Excellence Strategy

First-time funding for early career researchers

A student walking past the University of Hamburg Main Building

Photo: Frank von Wieding

Every year, researchers at Universität Hamburg can apply for funding from the Ideas and Venture Fund to prepare a major externally funded project. This year, for the first time, the funding was exclusively for early career researchers. Now, the 9 selected projects are getting underway.

2 May 2024|Excellence Strategy

X-Ray Insights in Old Clay Envelopes

Photo: UHH/Karsten Helmholz

On 29 April 2024, in the presence of Hamburg’s science senator Katharina Fegebank and Professor Dr. Hauke Heekeren, researchers at Universität Hamburg and DESY presented the ENCI computer tomograph, the only one of its kind in the world, that allows ancient clay tablets to be read.

23 April 2024|Excellence Strategy

PIER PLUS: Interdisciplinary Research Networking in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Feuerböther

On 22 April, Universität Hamburg invited around 100 members of the institutions in the PIER PLUS research alliance to Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. A matchmaking event allowed them to network throughout the newly expanded alliance, and forge new networks across the whole of their PIER PLUS...

15 April 2024|Excellence Strategy

The University of Excellence in Brief

Have you ever asked yourself what “University of Excellence” means, what it requires of Universität Hamburg, and what the University spend its Excellence funding on? A short film provides the most important answers.

26 March 2024|Excellence Strategy

Children’s concert in St. Nikolai: How Much Physics Can You Find in Music?

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On 6 April 2024, physics professor Wolfgang Hillert from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at Universität Hamburg and cantor Anne Michael invite children 8–12 to Hamburg’s St. Nikolai Church. Small experiments and organ music will familiarize the children with the physical principles of...

5 March 2024|Excellence Strategy

How European perceptions still influence the tropics today

Photo: Hias/C. Höhne

Once a year, Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence, along with other Hamburg higher education institutions, invites researchers and artists from all over the world to study in Hamburg for several months.

30 January 2024|Excellence Strategy

Statistically or Socially—How Do Infants Learn?

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The Fast-Track Program at Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence has made it possible for the psychology student Paul Gallenkemper to start with his doctoral research immediately following his bachelor’s. The program is open to outstanding students in many faculties. Currently, there is new...

16 January 2024|Excellence Strategy

How Do People Experience Political Conflicts in the Digital World?

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Esfandiari

The Postdoctoral Fellowships program aims to support researchers who are conducting research in emerging fields at Universität Hamburg. Dr. Niclas Rautenberg is one of our 4 new fellows. His research project is rooted in the philosophical tradition of phenomenology.

9 January 2024|Excellence Strategy

Open house for technology platforms: using large equipment and facilities

The coordinators for the technology platforms at Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence invite you to an open house in Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. On 31 January 2024, we will show you how to use large equipment and facilities and researchers can inform themselves about their uses.