Birger Kollmeier
Birger Kollmeier
My favourite experience at the University of Oldenburg was ...
the great teamwork of all university departments in organising the acoustics and audiology conference in March 2014, which was rewarded with the highest praise for the university from the 1,800 guests in total: The "party for all" with the university's soul ensembles, a perfect ambience and catering and a super atmosphere among perhaps the largest crowd that has ever been in our university library, it all came together: It's hard to top that!
If I could work in a different area for a week, I would choose ...
one of the university's "undiscovered treasures" in the public eye, such as the workshops or the nursery.
In the canteen I would like to have a chat with ...
Guest students or distance learning students from MINT online, i.e. with students from outside the university who you don't get to see that often, but who bring a lot of experience from areas that are foreign to me.
What I particularly appreciate about the University of Oldenburg ...
the flat hierarchies and the unpretentious way of working together, which enables a "direct line" to all members of the university. The North German mentality according to the motto "Ik sei Di, dat freut mi" certainly plays a role here - but the dynamism far away from encrusted structures is a treasure on which we should continue to build!
At the University of Oldenburg I would improve ...
standing by one's own profile and admission of the university's strengths. A few years ago, our ASTA wrote: "The battle against the lighthouses has only just begun" - in times of global competition for the best minds, this kind of thinking should finally be a thing of the past.