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Top News Teacher Education Study Affairs International affairs

Intercultural skills for future teachers

How to train future teachers in intercultural skills? An international project at the University of Oldenburg has got some established formats as well…

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Campus Life International affairs

Researchers from around the world

The University of Oldenburg is international. Here we introduce people from all over the world who have chosen to come to Oldenburg. The following…

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Microscopic picture of a microbial community.
Excellence Strategy Research Top News Marine Sciences

"Completely new worlds"

Computer scientist A. Murat Eren, who goes by Meren, is convinced that microbiology can contribute to solving many global challenges. In this…

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Top News International affairs

Meeting as equals

The tenth cohort of the "Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations" programme has celebrated its graduation. Coordinator Lydia Potts talks in an…

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The picture shows a coral landscape in the Red Sea. The corals are reddish-brown in colour and are only a few meters below the surface.
Excellence Strategy Research Top News Marine Sciences

New concept for the protection of marine biodiversity

Climate change also affects the oceans. But how can the marine life affected by it be protected beyond the scope of national jurisdiction? A new…

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Michael Winklhofer stands at the field emission scanning electron microscope
Excellence Strategy Research Top News Biology

A whole new world of experimental possibilities

The university recently acquired a particularly powerful electron microscope, which is also available to external users. It is capable of imaging…

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Susan Kurgat, Moi University Kenya, and Malve von Möllendorff in conversation in an office at the University of Oldenburg.
Top News International affairs

A new educational culture

The CERM-ESA project at Moi University in Kenya aims to improve the education system in East Africa through university research. After a decade,…

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Campus Life People

The networker

Kumar Ashish, a physics student from Oldenburg, represents the interests of the approximately 370,000 international students in Germany. With two…

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A stylised graphic of part of a head. A sound wave hits its ear.
Excellence Strategy University Medicine Top News

A digital twin for your hearing

Voice assistants are now found in many households and on our smartphones. Cluster of Excellence researcher Bernd T. Meyer and his team use the…

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Two people stand in front of the glass front of the Marum building in Bremen.
Sustainability Top News Higher Education Policy

Committed to sustainability

The universities of Oldenburg and Bremen have a long tradition of commitment to sustainability. Now, for the second year in a row, they have been…

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The Energy Lab with its historical solar panels can be seen in front of trees and the blue sky.
Research Energy Research Top News

The Oldenburg way

Oldenburg researchers were among the first to start investigating renewable energies back in the 1970s. On a tour of various locations on campus and…

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Top News People

Outlooks into the future

What will the world be like 50 years from now? To mark the university's 50th anniversary, Oldenburg researchers have designed different scenarios with…

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Three students and a lecturer are standing at the anatomage, a large screen table on which body parts can be displayed.
University Medicine Top News

125 million euros for university medicine

The current budget plans of the state government allow the University Medicine Oldenburg to plan reliably for the future. They secure the expansion of…

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Portrait of Hanin Karawani with Humboldt scarf.
Hearing Research Excellence Strategy Research Top News International affairs

Research goal: good hearing for longer

Hanin Karawani Khoury normally conducts her research at the University of Haifa in Israel.. Now the hearing scientist is spending a year at the…

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Transfer Top News International affairs

Start-up support with international appeal

The aim of the "Lighthouse Northwest – Shining across Borders" project is to connect the existing start-up support in Lower Saxony and Brement and to…

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Jubiläum Campus Life International affairs

International Summer Fest 2024

An intercultural marketplace, delicious food, music, dance, theatre and open-air performances on the festival stage – that was the International…

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Image of a boulder in the Atlantic at a depth of 560 metres. On the rocks are brittle stars and crinoids, important organisms in the deep-sea ecosystem.
Excellence Strategy Research Top News Marine Sciences

"One feels like a true explorer"

The oceans are home to much of the planet's biodiversity. They have a major influence on our climate and provide food for billions of people. To mark…

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View into the sky, in the foreground a computer cabinet hangs from a crane, in the background trees and the A1 building with a dove of peace, on the right the round wall of the lecture theatre centre still protrudes into the picture.
Buildings Sustainability Campus Life

Sustainable heating for the campus

The university is using heat energy more efficiently: It recovers waste heat from its computer centre, saving 100 tonnes of CO2 per year, making it…

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The picture shows Mario Dunkel. He stands outside the lecture hall centre and smiles into the camera.
Top News Music

Music is always political

Pop music can normalise populism, says musicologist Mario Dunkel. In the following interview he explains how this happens and what it means – for…

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Research Top News History

Unpack and marvel

A 200-year-old knitted sweater from the Faroe Islands discovered in the Prize Papers Project has made headlines around the world. How come? And what…

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