How teachers manage to awaken curiosity and a spirit of enquiry in their pupils in science lessons is to be more firmly anchored in teacher training in Oldenburg. To this end, the university will be cooperating with the association Forscherbambini e.V., which acts as the local network of the…

Under the title "Autumn Leaves - Concert between the Seasons", students from the University of Oldenburg will bring the year to a musical close on Thursday, 26 November from 5.00 pm in the university auditorium (Haarentor campus, building A11).

He has set up a professional laboratory, built an observatory and offers experimental workshops in his spare time: Teacher Christian Lorey from Würzburg receives the 2015 Klaus von Klitzing Award for special commitment to STEM subjects.

More than six million people across Germany suffer from depression every year. Although the illness is widespread, most people know very little about it - which makes life even more difficult for sufferers.

School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences has honoured graduates for the first time in its young history. 29 students from the model degree programme in Human Medicine at the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen (EMS) completed the first stage of the medical examination. In addition,…

Helping refugee students in their everyday lives or perhaps occasionally offering a sofa to sleep on? If you would like to get involved or find out about other ways to help refugees at the university, the student initiative "University without Borders" invites you to the lecture hall centre on…

The Start-up and Innovation Centre (GIZ) invites those interested in founding a company with a "green" business idea to the Sustainable Entrepreneurship School.

Oldenburg physicist Daniel Nickelsen has gained important insights for energy research in his dissertation. For this, he has been awarded the Science Prize of the Oldenburg University Society (UGO), worth 2,000 euros.

Hearing damage caused by noise has hardly been recognised to date. Oldenburg hearing researcher Sarah Verhulst wants to change this. The junior professor in the "Hearing4all" cluster of excellence is receiving 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council.

The university-wide project "Research-based Learning in Focus (FLiF)" was able to convince the selection committee of the Joint Science Conference for the second phase of the "Quality Pact for Teaching" funding programme with its FLiF+ proposal. Around 6.2 million euros will be available from…

What does the picture book "Auf dem Land" by Ernst Jandl and Monika Maslowska sound like? How music, illustration and literature can work together is the focus of the symposium "colour-sound-rhyme-rhythm", hosted by the University's Research Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature (OlFoKi)…

The University Senate and University Council have voted in favour of Sabine Kyora, Esther Ruigendijk and Martin Holthaus as part-time Vice Presidents. Their term of office is expected to begin on 1 January.

Staying in contact with colleagues and keeping up to date with what's happening at the University of Oldenburg: To this end, former employees of the university founded the "Alumni Initiative" in 2001.

Making scientific knowledge gained at the university freely accessible to everyone: This is the aim of an Open Access Publication Fund, which the University Executive Board is now setting up with the help of funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Using the "Strategic Planning Pyramid" method, participants in the 2nd UGO Innovation Dialogue on 5 November will have the opportunity to address the most pressing problems of our time and their impact on their company.

Doctoral researchers are currently being called upon to elect their representatives to the DFG's review boards and thus help shape the research landscape of the coming years. In this interview, Katharina Al-Shamery, Vice President for Research and Transfer, explains why it is important to take part…

How well does German science look after its young researchers? A panel discussion on 28 October is dedicated to the doctoral phase - with all its opportunities and risks.

The causes, forms and consequences of torture are the focus of an exhibition in the University Library on Uhlhornsweg, which can be seen until 6 November.

A new research network in the marine sciences is aiming for a future cluster of excellence together with Bremen. Coordinator Helmut Hillebrand from the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) talks about developing a joint agenda - and a new perspective on biodiversity.

What would Sinatra's "New York, New York" look like if it were a picture? Students at the University of Oldenburg have reinterpreted pieces of music. They are currently exhibiting their drawings, photo collages and sculptures in the lecture theatre centre A14.