Football and volleyball, table tennis and goal wall shooting: Sports students from the university helped to organise the summer festival of the Lower Saxony Reception Authority (LAB) in Oldenburg with sports activities for refugees.

Bringing history to life: students from the university's Department of Ancient History have researched the historical background of the Olympic Games. Together with pupils from the region, they recently recreated the games of the year 67.

To what extent are the parties immersed in local issues in the local election campaign in Lower Saxony? How do they position themselves in socio-political terms? Three social scientists at the university have created a "map" of the political offerings - including regional differences.

The university has two new high-performance computers. A crane transported the computing cluster's cabinets, which weigh several tonnes, over the roof into the IT services server room in Uhlhornsweg. The new system is one of the most powerful computers in northern Germany.

Success for the Oldenburg project "European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR)": The European Union is funding the European-African Master's degree course for a further five years as part of its ERASMUS MUNDUS excellence programme.

It is not only oceans that store carbon dioxide, which plays a role in global warming, but also tropical river systems. This new building block for understanding the global carbon cycle has now been discovered by an international team of researchers, including Oldenburg marine researcher Jürgen…

All KinderUni fans who have just landed back at school can take off again on Wednesday, 7 September: That's when the KinderUniversität autumn semester kicks off with the lecture "Really taken off - The path to today's aircraft".

The handling of veterinary pharmaceuticals affects us not only as meat consumers, but also as users of water resources. Oldenburg hydrogeologist Victoria Burke analyses residues of veterinary pharmaceuticals from liquid manure in soil and groundwater - as head of a new junior research group.

The "Intercultural Education and Counselling" degree programme at the university still has a few places available for the winter semester: Migrants who have started or completed a degree programme with a pedagogical or social science focus in their country of origin can still apply until the end of…

She has an open ear for doctoral students and brings people together at the STED microscope: a visit to Dr Beate Grünberg in the Research Training Group "Molecular Basis of Sensory Biology".

She spends a lot of time in the laboratory, but has also been to the Southern Ocean: a visit with Birgit Kürzel, Technical Assistant at the ICBM.

His motto: interlibrary loans at Oldenburg University Library have to be fast. A visit with Horst Rummel, Head of Interlibrary Loan since 1994.

Sixteen bands and three stages in the middle of the botanical gardens - on Sunday, 14 August, the Botanical Garden of the University of Oldenburg (Philosophenweg) invites you to the "Music of the Gardens" festival for the first time.

A change of perspective for Tobias Börger: normally in the university's accounting department, he spent two months helping out with the registration of refugees.

Hammer and paintbrush instead of pencil and notebook: 15 Oldenburg students have returned from an expedition to Israel. They took part in an archaeological excavation and report on their experiences here. Part 3: Saying goodbye.

Twelve young men and women started their training at the university this week - from precision mechanics to chemical laboratory technicians.

It is the largest conference for teachers in the region: the Pedagogical Week at the University of Oldenburg. It's back again in September, but this year many things are different. In an interview, academic director Julia Michaelis explains what this means.

Three students from the "Material Culture: Textiles" Bachelor's degree programme are inviting you to an artistic mediation project on Tuesday, 2 August, from 3 p.m., at the Bloherfelde/Eversten community work meeting point (Bloherfelder Straße 173).

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is driving forward the reform of higher education, teaching and further education. Oldenburg experts Anke Hanft and Annika Maschwitz are providing scientific support for the multi-billion euro project. An interview.

Welding, turning, soldering: Carolin Harms is an apprentice precision mechanic. The 21-year-old feels at home in the workshop - where she can do practical work.