"The campus is alive" is the motto of this year's Campus Clip Contest. The University of Oldenburg is organising the video competition for students for the third time. From today until the end of August, students can submit their two-minute videos.

"Media and practices of 'counter-royal' rule in the German Empire of the High Middle Ages" - this is the title of the lecture to be given by medievalist Dr Michaela Muylkens on Wednesday, 6 May at 7 p.m. in The Smart House Oldenburg (Schlossplatz 16).

Facilitating the transition from studying to academic appointments: that is the aim of the annual Career Day at the university. In addition to lectures, informal contact with companies can also help on the way to a job - as was the case last year with maths graduate Wilke Trei.

Is our education system too rigid, too sluggish? On the initiative of the University of Oldenburg, experts will be holding a discussion at Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover on 19 May. An interview with initiator Katharina Al-Shamery, acting president, about the aims and background to the event.

Immerse yourself in the soundscapes of "cat music": To make it easier for young people to access music, music lecturer Axel Fries has come up with something special - a new notation system that allows for individual interpretations.

Analysing how European societies are growing together - or not: this is the centre of the research group coordinated by Oldenburg sociologist Martin Heidenreich, which the German Research Foundation continues to fund. An interview.

Oldenburg piano quartet "Tastissimo" plays Simeon ten Holt's "Canto Ostinato".

A nationwide online series of lectures, to which the University of Oldenburg will be connected via video conference, will focus on the "unease about Europe".

With its research, it represents the technological core of the Hearing4All cluster of excellence: the "Individualised Hearing Acoustics" research group. The German Research Foundation is now funding this for a further three years with an amount of almost two million euros.

The idea was born in a seminar: eight students on the "Sport and lifestyles" master's programme developed a sports project for refugees. "Refugees Welcome in Sports" is now so well attended that the courses have been moved to a larger sports hall.

"Fireball on ice - emergency medicine at -50 degrees Celsius" - this is the title of Prof Dr Christian Byhahn's inaugural lecture. The 44-year-old is Head Physician at the Clinic for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at the Evangelical Hospital in Oldenburg and Associate…

The University of Oldenburg will be represented at this year's Hannover Messe, which takes place from 13 to 17 April, with several exhibits and training courses in the field of wind energy.

Academic texts are a hurdle for many students. The learning workshop of the Central Student Advisory Service - a permanent institution at the university since January - helps with reading and, above all, writing your own academic papers.

You can register for university sports courses from 30 March, 16:00.

Processors in computers and mobile phones contain billions of tiny switches: transistors. Can't get any smaller? It is possible, and more than a thousand times faster, says physicist Martin Silies. He convinced the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with his idea of an optical transistor and…

Oldenburg scientists have created 120 square metres of artificial islands in the Spiekeroog mudflats. The globally unique large-scale project provides new findings for biodiversity research.

Tomorrow, Friday 20 March, the Astronomie AG is offering the opportunity to experience the partial solar eclipse live from the University of Oldenburg. The meeting point is at 9.30 a.m. at the main entrance to the Wechloy campus.

Reintroducing insects and other aquatic animals to streams in their natural environment: This is the aim of a new research project led by biologist Ellen Kiel. For three years, she and her team, with the help of students, are developing suitable "mobile homes" made from natural materials such as…

Last lecture in the KinderUni spring semester on 18 March.

Lucien Minka studies at the University of Oldenburg. He also works with children and young people from socially disadvantaged families. His father already found his way from Cameroon to the University of Oldenburg - in the 1970s, under almost unimaginable conditions.