From 10 to 15 March, things were in full swing at the University of Oldenburg: two conferences on the subject of hearing took place almost simultaneously, and the results were impressive: the University of Oldenburg and everyone involved, both on stage and behind the scenes (members of the university, Jade University of Applied Sciences, Hörtech and many more) can look back on a series of sunny days that were a success both academically and organisationally.

The 40th German Annual Conference on Acoustics (DAGA) took place from 10 to 13 March 2014 on the Haarentor campus, welcoming around 1,200 registered participants to plenary lectures, presentation sessions and poster sessions, as well as an industry exhibition. Several award ceremonies also took place during the conference: the Helmholtz Medal of the German Acoustical Society was awarded to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Möser (Technical University of Berlin) for his outstanding contributions to teaching and research in the field of technical acoustics. The Lothar Cremer Prize for early-career researchers was awarded to Dr.-Ing. Ercan Altinsoy (Technical University of Dresden) for his innovative and pioneering work in the fields of multimodal interaction and product noise quality. The DEGA Study Prizes for outstanding final-year projects were awarded to Christian Bloch for his bachelor’s thesis ‘Design and evaluation of actively controlled lightweight structures under diffuse-field excitation’ (Technical University of Berlin) and to Philipp Schmidt for his Master’s thesis ‘Improvements in Localisation of Planar Acoustic Holography’ (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz). For the first time, prizes were also awarded for the best posters: the winners, Janina Fels, Wiebke Heeren and Geske Linnéa Eberlei, can look forward to a small financial award.

At the 17th campus event held on March 12–15, 201 Annual Conference of the German Society for Audiology (DGA), held from 12 to 15 March 2014 on the Wechloy Campus, nearly 700 participants were able to learn about the latest research findings in the field of audiology through plenary lectures, structured sessions and tutorials. Here, too, prizes were awarded for the best posters.