"Arriving" is the title of an exhibition by several students from the Department of Art and Media, which can be seen at the Horst Janssen Museum until 29 May. It shows pictograms designed to make everyday life in the region easier for refugees.

The C3L - Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Oldenburg is offering an online series of lectures on the topic of "Flight and Migration - Causes and Consequences". The lectures will be transmitted via video conference from the speakers' home university.

On Wednesday, 18 May at 4 p.m.,…

People from the Oldenburg region who are interested in founding a company can get a taste of start-up life for a week at the Entrepreneurship Summer School from 6 to 10 June, which is being offered by the University's Start-up and Innovation Centre (GIZ) together with the Oldenburg Technology and…

They are among the most stable chemical compounds of all: hydrocarbons. Over the past six years, an international team, including Oldenburg microbiologist Ralf Rabus, has been researching how nature nevertheless manages to break them down.

Within 34 days across the Pacific - from Auckland (New Zealand) to Dutch Harbour on the Aleutian Islands (Alaska). 40 scientists from the University of Oldenburg are currently on this spectacular journey. They are not only researching, but also blogging: about the extraordinary and the everyday on…

Mobility in rural areas - a growing challenge in times of demographic change. It is becoming increasingly difficult for rural districts and municipalities to offer appropriate services. Scientists at the University of Oldenburg are also working on this topic.

Thesis, application, interview: the transition from studies to academic appointment takes centre stage at the University of Oldenburg's Career Day. The job and internship fair will take place on Tuesday, 10 May.

In the AVACS Collaborative Research Centre, top Computing Science researchers have made supposedly "undecidable" problems in safety-critical systems manageable. In this interview, spokesperson Werner Damm looks back on an exciting twelve years.

When was the Colosseum in Rome built? What is a bolie? And who was actually the second man on the moon? Anyone who enjoys tricky questions will get their money's worth on Monday, 2 May. NDR Info invites you to a quiz at the university.

"Immigrant" plants and animals can change entire ecosystems and cause millions of euros worth of damage. A team of researchers led by Oldenburg is predicting which regions are particularly at risk. Far ahead: the North Sea.

Is it legitimate which section of cultural reality museums show us? How does the present get into the museum? And how is the aura of originals created? "Openly asked! What exhibitions don't usually talk about" - this is the title of a student exhibition that focuses on the "museum phenomenon"…

Four great Oldenburg Protestants who left their mark beyond their time are the focus of a new lecture series organised by the Institute of Philosophy.

Outstanding in Lower Saxony: the Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all is to receive millions in funding from the state to open up further fields of research and increase its chances in the follow-up programme to the Excellence Initiative. The new findings could have a lasting impact on our daily lives.

Like the University of Oldenburg, the Ocean University of China in Qingdao is also known for its marine research. In future, both universities want to cooperate in research and exchange students and lecturers.

Cuddly patients at Oldenburg Children's Hospital: medical students at the university organised a "Teddy Bear Hospital" for the third time. The event allays possible fears of visiting the doctor and at the same time trains the future doctors in dealing with children.

Which contemporary testimonies are in the right place in which archive? And how do archivists decide what to keep permanently and what to release for destruction? These questions are the focus of the 2nd Lower Saxony Archive Day, which takes place on 18 and 19 April at Oldenburg University Library.

"Is it bad if you have to go to hospital?" This is a question that particularly concerns children. To allay their fears of hospitalisation, medical students have created the "Teddy Bear Hospital". It's happening again on 12 and 14 April.

33 men and women started the newly designed orientation year for refugees at the university at the beginning of April. They would like to prepare for university studies in Germany.

Oldenburg care researchers warn: one in five nursing home residents receives medication whose dose has not been adjusted to their kidney function or which should even be discouraged altogether. The results of their study were recently published in the German Medical Journal.

"Collaborating" - this is the title of an exhibition of works by art students from various degree programmes, which is now on display in the Lecture Hall Centre. The students created the works last semester under the direction of lecturer Norbert Bauer.