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Campus Life

Star of the moment

Whether it's the canteen, gym or lecture theatre - her territory is the campus. However, she misses the usual hustle and bustle here at the moment: campus cat Fındık.

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EA young woman presents the prototype of the smart helmet: she wears virtual reality goggles and a shiny silver bicycle helmet.
Research Top News Computing Science

The power of data

Data has become one of the most important economic assets of the 21st century. Jorge Marx Gómez and a team of Oldenburg business informatics researchers are investigating how big data can help companies to glean new knowledge.

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Campus Life Law

The Basic Law as a podcast

Whether entertainment formats, interviews or crime thrillers: podcasts are more popular than ever. Law graduate Sebastian Ziemer also uses the audio format - for his course in the summer semester. The topic is the Basic Law.

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Research Top News Chemistry

The Batteries of the Future

Producing batteries in a completely new way is the goal of chemist Dmitry Momotenko. He has now started his research work at the university - funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council.

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Research Top News Health Services Research International affairs

Effective health services research beyond national borders

How do the different healthcare systems in Germany and the Netherlands affect the healthcare of individual citizens? In a new project, health services researchers from Oldenburg and Groningen are now addressing this question.

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Research Top News Economics

In the service of sustainability

The imperatives of ecology and the economy are often seen as contradictory. But for Jörn Hoppmann, Professor of Management at the Department of Business Administration, Economics, and Law, sustainability is a promising business strategy.

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Campus Life

More counselling for employees

The University of Oldenburg is expanding its counselling services and now offers employees support and advice on both work-related and personal issues.

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Presidential Board Top News

Shaping diversity

The University of Oldenburg is currently taking part in the Diversity Audit organised by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft. The aim is to promote diversity and equal opportunities even more strongly than before, says Vice President Annett Thiele in an interview.

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Top News GIZ

Top ranking in the Start-Up Radar

The University of Oldenburg is among Germany's best universities for promoting start-ups, securing fourth place in the "Large Universities" category.

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Campus Life

Senate: Academic freedom at partner university massively endangered

In a recent meeting, the Senate of Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg dealt with the alarming events at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. A statement by the Senate. 

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Presidential Board Top News

"There is still a lot to do"

Women's Day has been celebrated since 1911. An appreciation of the day is not dispensable even in times of pandemic, emphasizes Annett Thiele, Vice President for Early Career Researchers and Equal Opportunities, in an open letter.

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Covid Top News Human Medicine

Vaccination? Yes of course!

As a GP, Michael Freitag, a university lecturer in general medicine, has a lot of experience with vaccinations. In this interview, he explains what role GP practices should play in the Covid-19 vaccination programme - and what it's like to receive a vaccination yourself.

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Research Covid Top News Medical Physics and Acoustics

Close-up of coronaviruses on the attack

Researchers at the University of Oldenburg are using electron microscopy images of SARS-CoV-2 to generate images that for the first time provide a highly detailed impression of the infection process. The new method relies on machine learning.

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Research Covid Top News Economics

Between trust and control

How to work from home and manage from a distance is a topic that is currently on many people's minds - and is also occupying a project team at the university. Two experts, currently working from home themselves, in an interview.

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Research Marine Sciences Top News

An underestimated source of marine microplastic pollution

Marine paints can be a major source of microplastics in the North Sea. In a new study, Oldenburg environmental geochemists hypothesize that ships leave a kind of 'skid mark' in the water.

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Campus Life

Working in the pandemic - what works, what doesn't?

The pandemic has changed the university staff's working routines profoundly. A survey is set to find out how exactly. In a video, Vice President Jörg Stahlmann and Staff Council Chair Petra Mende explain why it is important to participate.

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Research Top News Special Needs Education

Having a say in career choices

For many young people with intellectual disabilities this career trajectory seems preordained – yet their wishes and ideas are not particularly taken into account. Special education professor Andrea Erdélyi wants to change this.

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Research Environmental Sciences Top News

The birth of an island

The North Sea island of Spiekeroog is a huge natural laboratory: A team of researchers led by Gudrun Massmann and Luise Giani has studied how its wild eastern part has been transformed from a small sand flat into new land.

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Research Top News Computing Science

When autonomous freight vessels cruise the city

Autonomous zero-emission ships could decongest cities that have a network of small waterways. Oldenburg IT specialists are studying this environmentally friendly kind of freight transport in the EU project AVATAR.

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Campus Life

"I like the interpersonal aspect"

How does the IT Service Desk team work under coronavirus conditions? During the walk, Daniel Drews, IT specialist for system integration, talks about his new everyday life and what inspires him about his work.

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