"Approach your studies with confidence and joy. It is an amazing phase in your lives!" With this message, University President Ralph Bruder welcomed the new students to the University today.

The summer semester has begun - again largely digitally. Nevertheless, it is not always easy to tackle studies with motivation, as Vice President Verena Pietzner knows. She answers important questions in a video interview.

Voting with a cigarette butt? On the Haarentor campus, smokers can now use so-called ballot bins - bright yellow ashtrays that students regularly use to "choke off".

Six years after it was founded, the human medicine degree programme has its first graduates. One of them is Johannes Grone. He is currently completing his specialist training in Oldenburg. His degree programme has prepared him well for everyday life as a doctor.

Studying alongside your sports career? This is possible at the University of Oldenburg, in the Bachelor's programme "Business Administration for Competitive Athletes". A degree programme with its own rules.

History students have analysed more than 500 letters from the First World War that were stored almost untouched in a cellar in Herford. They will present their insights into the lives of the "Two Brothers in the Great War" at a reading.

Broad and multi-layered promotion of young talent: Four Schools invite Master's students and doctoral candidates, postdocs and postdocs to the third edition of the "Oldenburg School" for the humanities and social sciences in September.

Athletics with a difference: at the university sports festival, to which Oldenburg students invited around 600 primary school pupils to the Wechloy campus, the main focus is on having fun with exercise. A concept that goes down well.

Since summer 2016, the university has had its own student body for students on cooperative degree programmes. After all, studying at two universities at the same time brings its own challenges.

What does everyday life look like for people with and without disabilities? Are many things the same or do they live in separate worlds? Ten students at the university set out to find out - and designed an interactive exhibition.

Individual and online-supported - this is how Anke Hanft, Academic Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L) at the University of Oldenburg, sees the future of academic teaching and further education. In this interview, she explains why the changing world of work is also affecting…

A new teaching laboratory on the Wechloy campus will improve training in degree programmes such as Biology, Environmental Sciences, Medicine and Chemistry from March. Microbiologist Prof Dr Ralf Rabus is delighted with the new facilities, which will be used exclusively for block practicals.

Learning economics in the laboratory - this is made possible by the "Oldenburg Experimental Laboratory for Economics Education" (OX), which the University's Institute for Economics Education opened on Tuesday. In the OX, school classes and other learning groups can take part in experiments on…

Focus on good teaching: The first Day of Teaching and Learning will take place at the University of Oldenburg on Wednesday, 29 November. In an interview, Prof Dr Sabine Kyora, Vice President for Studies, Teaching and Gender equality, explains why good teaching is so important to her.

They have mastered the most comprehensive examination of their degree programme: the first five students of the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen (EMS), founded in 2012, have passed the Second State Examination.

14 Oldenburg student teachers have now had the opportunity to familiarise themselves with school lessons in another country. They spent a day in a Dutch school - and discovered exciting differences.

Students learn to apply their theoretical knowledge in practice at the School of Medicine's Clinical Training Centre (KTZ). The KTZ moved into its new premises in spring and has now been officially opened.

The first step has been successful: 27 graduates of the orientation year for refugees at the University of Oldenburg received their certificates at a ceremony.

Broad and multi-layered promotion of young talent: four Schools invite Master's students, doctoral candidates and postdocs to the second edition of the "Oldenburg School" for the humanities and social sciences. A series of events is open to all interested parties.

For the University of Oldenburg, internationalisation is more than just a buzzword. Students and international academics are a particular focus. Esther Ruigendijk, Vice President for Young Academics and International Affairs, talks about a welcoming culture and the best minds.