"Pedagogical Week" online: Digital teaching and learning are increasingly characterising everyday school life - and consequently also the form and content of this year's teachers' conference.

Inga Rüdebusch has been the University's Inclusion Officer since mid-August. She represents the university in all matters relating to people with severe disabilities and their peers. A task with many overlaps.

The state of Lower Saxony is funding two new projects in which teachers at the university are developing free learning materials on education management and inclusion.

Almost 4,000 robotic floats drift through the world's oceans in the international Argo programme. Using new optical measuring methods, the robots will soon be able to collect biological and chemical data.

University Medicine Oldenburg hosted a parliamentary evening in Hanover on 14 September. The response was great, as was the need for dialogue.

In a seminar led by biologist Sascha Laubinger last winter semester, students explored issues relating to science communication and experienced what it is like to speak with politicians.

Gustavo Adolfo Leon Montoya has come to appreciate the short distances, nature and peace and quiet of Oldenburg. After two and a half years, the psychology student from Mexico has settled in well and would like to stay.

What is stronger? The branches of trees in tropical rainforests or the roots of the plants that grow on them? To find out, biologists Helena Einzmann and Jessica Tay conducted experiments in the University's wind tunnel.

Schoolchildren often react emotionally in class. The subsequent reactions of teachers and children usually follow a set pattern, according to a study by Oldenburg educational scientist Juliane Schlesier.

To monitor emissions from shipping traffic, Oldenburg scientists and partners from France are developing a network of autonomous sensors. The devices will look for soot or oil residues at the sea surface and in the atmosphere.

Whether IT specialist, gardener or chemical laboratory technician: career starters can choose from a variety of apprenticeships at the university.

It is 30 years now since the University of Oldenburg first launched its “Postgraduate Programme Renewable Energy”. Around 95 percent of the students on the course come from abroad.

Are tipping points suitable concepts for developing environmental policies? Probably not, as even small environmental changes can have major consequences, a research team led by Helmut Hillebrand reports in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Lithium-based batteries and accumulators have become indispensable as energy storage devices. Chemists led by Gunther Wittstock have developed a new method for observing processes on the surface of electrodes during operation.

Video chats instead of lecture theatres, online Master’s thesis defences: the past summer semester demanded a great deal of improvisation and flexibility from many. Here, lecturers and students share how they coped with their new everyday university life.

Start of the summer semester postponed, all courses held online: The past summer semester was a particular challenge for everyone. Here, lecturers and students share how they coped with their new daily routine at university.

The Mensa canteen offers students a fresh and varied range of food and drinks: from tasty lunches and fresh snacks to coffee for during the breaks.

New insights are paving the way for highly targeted cancer therapies. In this interview, Frank Griesinger, director of the Centre for Internal Medicine – Oncology at Oldenburg Pius Hospital, explains the latest results of a clinical trial.

Marine researchers at the university have investigated the antifouling effect of animals. Their findings could help to develop environmentally friendly biopaints.

Bring a project from concept to paper in two days – in a “Sciathon” Oldenburg PhD student Nora Bach took on this challenge. The competition was part of an alternative programme to the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.