From today, the pop-up store will offer a colourful programme of exhibitions, lectures, hands-on activities and much more for four weeks. The programme starts with an exhibition on climate protection at the university.
From today until 30 May, the University of Oldenburg has a "branch office" in the city centre: in a shop at Haarenstraße 39, it is offering many exciting insights into research, studying and working at the university to mark its 50th anniversary. There will be experiments and hands-on activities, exhibitions, theatre evenings, lectures and much more. All pop-up store offers are free of charge and can be visited spontaneously (with the exception of the theatre performances).
"Presenting ourselves as a university in a shop right in the city centre is a first for us and a very special campaign in our anniversary year. It is an expression of the fact that the city and university are becoming ever more closely linked and creating an 'Oldenburg campus' in which urban and university spaces merge," explained University President Prof Dr Ralph Bruder.
The pop-up store is an excellent example of how research, teaching and university life can be taken directly from the university premises into urban society, emphasised Prof. Dr Ralf Grüttemeier, Vice President for Research and Transfer, at the opening of the pop-up store. "We will take a close look at what is well received and whether there are offers that should perhaps be found more frequently here in the city centre or could even be made permanent," said Grüttemeier.
The first item on the programme after the opening is the exhibition "Climate neutrality under the magnifying glass" - it will still be on display tomorrow, Friday. Anna Krämer, Climate Protection Manager at the university: "We have set ourselves the ambitious goal of being climate-neutral by 2030. At this interactive exhibition, visitors can find out about climate protection at the university and what measures we are planning in areas such as energy, mobility and ecology." Energy and transformation will also be the subject of a lecture on Thursday afternoon from 4.15 pm by Dr Alexander Dyck, lecturer at the university's C3L - Centre for Lifelong Learning and Acting Director of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He will be addressing the question of what role hydrogen can play in the future energy system and inviting discussion.
On Saturday, 4 May, from 12.00 to 18.00, researchers from neuroscience, hearing research and psychology will present their projects in the fields of tinnitus, loneliness, depression treatment, post-Covid syndrome, hearing research and science communication under the title "HiRn geschaut". Interested parties can find out more about the projects at information stands, try out neurological tests and research set-ups at hands-on stations or give their opinion on current research questions. Short presentations on various topics round off the programme.
The following week, starting on Tuesday, the programme will focus on the history(ies) of physics over a total of four days. Science historians Dr Falk Rieß and Wolfgang Engels will present replicas of historical apparatus that tell their very own story: of scientific searching, failure and discovery; of the competition between ideas and people who vehemently defended these ideas, and of the co-operation between scientists and instrument makers that is often neglected in the tradition. The instruments were built with the support of numerous students and the university workshops.
All dates and opening hours of the university pop-up store can be found at uol.de/50jahre/pop-up-store. The creative interim use of the shop is made possible by the agency RAUM AUF ZEIT.