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21 June 2023|In focus

“We have set teacher education as a top issue”

Students in the lecture hall at Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/von Wieding

Well-trained teachers are urgently sought. his means that many young people will need to decide to study education in the coming years. This interview discusses both the challenges of teacher education and the measures being adopted to attract new students with Universität Hamburg president, Prof...
20 June 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg and Kyoto University Extend Strategic Partnership

Group photo of symposium participants

Photo: UHH/Schreiber

Universität Hamburg and Kyoto University extended their strategic partnership until 2026 in a festive act at the Hamburg City Hall on 19 June 2023. Planetary health will form the heart of our future cooperation. The topic area focuses on the connections between ecological, social, and economic...
19 June 2023|Press release

Plants Improve Performance and Feelings of Wellbeing in Virtual Realities

virtual office with plants

Photo: UHH/HCI

How can we improve cognitive abilities and feelings of wellbeing in virtual worlds? An international team, led by the Department of Informatics at Universität Hamburg made up of members from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, has found...
19 June 2023|In focus

Universität Hamburg Joins Network for More Open and Equitable Scholarship

Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, Prof. Simone Buitendijk, Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons

Photo: UHH/Víctor González Menéndez

How can we ensure that knowledge is available to all for fruitful exchange and use? This is the question that the Knowledge Equity Network (KEN), of which Universität Hamburg has just become a member, asks. The network’s goal is to address global challenges by making path-breaking research and...
15 June 2023|Research

“Also in Germany, Adult and Further Education Needs to Improve.”

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Anke Grotlüschen

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Ohme

The research project Study on Adult Learning and Education examined the status of adult and further education in 8 countries. We interviewed Prof. Dr. Anke Grotlüschen about the challenges of the sector and its role in political discourse.
13 June 2023|Intern

Introducing Dr. Rosalie Förster, head of University Strategy

New format for new faces: a video series is now introducing administrative and academic colleagues at Universität Hamburg. We are starting with Dr. Rosalie Förster, head of University Strategy since June 2023.
7 June 2023|Press release

Science and scholarship in the city: new dates for public lectures

University president Hauke Heekeren giving a public lecture

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Feuerböther

Floating crane, circus tent, botanical gardens— these are just some of the more unusual places that researchers from Universität Hamburg give public talks. Their lectures target the lay public and focus on their exciting, important research. Topics include, for example, the effects of climate change...
6 June 2023|Press release

Invitation to a public event: universities discuss competition and cooperation

GUC logo

Photo: GUC

How can universities and university leadership shape the future and productively tap into the complex relationship between competition and cooperation for the sake of scholarship and society? This was the central question at this year’s Global University Leaders Council Hamburg (GUC) from 14 to 16...
2 June 2023|Press release

Exhibition on Hamburg’s theater and opera house architecture: Was für ein Theater!

Hansa-Theater

Photo: Thorsten Baering

Since the eighteenth century, Hamburg has been one of the premiere cities for German-speaking theater. An exhibition curated by the architectural historian Prof. Dr. Frank Schmitz and his art history students at Universität Hamburg illuminates Hamburg’s theater and opera house architecture from an...
1 June 2023|Press release

Jetta Frost Confirmed as Vice President, Natalia Filatkina and Tilo Böhmann New in Office

Following confirmation by the Academic Senate (from left): Tilo Böhmann, Natalia Filatkina, Jetta Frost, and Hauke Heekeren

Photo: UHH/Röttger

The Academic Senate of Universität Hamburg confirmed the sitting vice president Prof. Dr. Jetta Frost in their session of 1 June 2023. Newly confirmed vice presidents are Prof. Dr. Natalia Filatkina and Prof. Dr. Tilo Böhmann. Universität Hamburg’s president Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren suggested the...
1 June 2023|Press release

New, promising approaches in genetic treatments: tricking harmful mutations

Symbolic image of DNA

Photo: Pixabay

An international research team headed by Prof. Dr. Zoya Ignatova from Universität Hamburg has developed an innovative strategy for using artificially construed transfer RNA (tRNA) to suppress genetic mutations. These mutations can lead to serious diseases. The tests, which have been successfully...
31 May 2023|Excellence Strategy

New video: The University of Excellence in Brief

What does “University of Excellence” actually mean? Why was Universität Hamburg only one of a few universities selected and how is it using the grant money? The most important facts in 2 1/2 minutes.
30 May 2023|In focus

“History research should have societal value.”

Portrait Prof. Ulf Schmidt

Photo: University of Kent

The Centre for the Study of Health, Ethics, and Society was recently founded in the Faculty of Humanities. It fosters transdisciplinary cooperation in the areas of health, ethics, and society and will be headed by the nucleus professor Ulf Schmidt.
24 May 2023|Press release

Images and Memory: Workshops on Political Imagery and Memory

Salon in Warburg-Haus

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Ohme

Certain images have been part of our visual memory for centuries. Yet the historical context remains obscure to many viewers. The workshop series on political imagery and memory in current press photos is open to all and is designed to increase understanding.
24 May 2023|Press release

Taking Stock After Three Years of the Excellence Strategy

Library Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/von Wieding

Funding for far more than 500 people and projects, 12 additional professors, new centers dedicated to sustainability, digitalization, and knowledge exchange— since 2019, 4 clusters of excellence have been doing research on the climate, physics, and manuscript cultures. Universität Hamburg has...
19 May 2023|Excellence Strategy

Taking stock of the Excellence Strategy—Quantum Universe

Cluster of excellence staff, group portrait

Photo: UHH/Grefe

Since 2019 Universität Hamburg has been a University of Excellence. A year earlier, it had applied for the distinction with 4 clusters. What has been accomplished since then and how has the funding been used? The Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe talks about its activities in astro-...
17 May 2023|In focus

First Scholarly App on Hamburg’s Colonial Past Goes Online

At the app presentation at the University Museum: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer, Katharina Fegebank, and Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Feuerböther

Hamburg was the capital of Germany’s colonial enterprise and is now treading new paths as it reflects upon its colonial legacy. Where the Colonial Institute once trained people for service overseas, the research team at the research center for Hamburg’s (post-)colonial legacy headed by Prof. Dr...
17 May 2023|Campus

Why Research in Internationalization Matters

panel discussion

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

In a post-pandemic, globally volatile world, what is the “new normal” for international research collaboration? This was the opening question for discussion at the Why Research in Internationalization Matters conference on 16 May.
15 May 2023|Excellence Strategy

Taking Stock in the Excellence Strategy—CLICCS

2 polar bears in the polar sea

Photo: D. Notz

Since 2019, Universität Hamburg has been a University of Excellence. A year earlier, 4 clusters of excellence received grants. What has been accomplished since then and how has the funding been used? In the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), 269 researchers from 16...
12 May 2023|Campus

Internationale Konferenz: „Why Research in Internationalization matters“

Kamera bei der Aufzeichung einer Konferenz

Photo: UHH/Keller

As a part of The Hamburg Forum for Global Science and Policy, Universität Hamburg and the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) invite to the conference "Why Research in Internationalization Matters" on 16 and 17 May 2023 in Hamburg.