Helping people to organise their lives more flexibly with a technological innovation: That is the goal of the university's latest start-up, LowoTec, which has now been awarded a one-year EXIST start-up grant. The computer science graduates affectionately call their products "Alice" and "Bob".

On 19 November, Oldenburg researcher Prof. Dr Henrik Mouritsen, who is known worldwide for his research on migratory birds, accepted the €5,000 prize for excellent research from the Oldenburg University Society (UGO).

Studying humanities, cultural studies and social sciences opens up a wide range of academic appointments - but usually without a clearly defined path. This was also the experience of university graduate Daniela Maschmann. The TV journalist is one of the alumni who will be giving tips at the "Career…

The world's most modern research vessel is now in the service of science. The "Sonne" was handed over to German marine research by politicians at the ICBM site in Wilhelmshaven - where it also has its home port. In December, she will set off on her first expedition to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Twelve students from the School of Business, Economics and Law took part in a business etiquette seminar.

UGO proposes renaming Uhlhornsweg. Excerpt from the board's letter to Lord Mayor Krogmann.

What would Oldenburg be without the university? Eleven students on the "Museum and Exhibition" Master's degree programme have addressed this question and designed the "Cloud Cuckoo Castle" exhibition. The exhibition will open on Monday, 17 November at 6 p.m. in the Schlaues Haus.

The new "Teacher of the Year for Science Subjects" comes from Jülich: Werner Decker received the €15,000 Klaus von Klitzing Prize, which was awarded for the tenth time by the University of Oldenburg and the EWE Foundation.

It was founded shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain: The Federal Institute for the Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE) - an affiliated institute of the University of Oldenburg - is celebrating its 25th anniversary at an international conference.

"Limits…

"The idea of the university" is the focus of an international symposium hosted by School IV - School of Humanities and Social Sciences on 13 and 14 November.

What constitutes a university? To approach this question, Prof Dr Volker Berghahn from Columbia University, New York, will begin by comparing…

When there is noise from several sources, hearing aids often no longer help the hearing impaired. With the help of electroencephalography (EEG), scientists at the Hearing4all cluster of excellence are working on developing a new type of hearing aid - controlled by the wearer's thoughts.

The University of Oldenburg is training several thousand future teachers. Some Master's students have now had a hands-on experience of teaching in Dutch schools - and noticed some interesting differences.

How do you make the attitude to life of a bygone era resound, and with students to boot?

who were all born two decades later? With the 70s Revue, the Institute of Music has found an

found an answer that delighted the audience.

Prof. em. Dr Stefan Müller-Doohm, sociologist at the University of Oldenburg, will be focusing on Jürgen Habermas over the course of six evenings at the Karl Jaspers House.

The Ebola epidemic makes his book highly topical: historian Malte Thießen has published an anthology on the history of epidemics in modern and postmodern times. In this interview, he talks about tapping into current fears, health policy as a national prestige gain and missed lessons from history.

Blotted, scribbled on or mouldy in the archive: Oldenburg scientist Prof Dr Jörg Lücke is researching how dirty and therefore unreadable texts can be cleaned automatically. The newly developed text cleaning software can do a lot more in the future.

Opening ceremony and information market for first-year students on Monday, 13 October, in the Audimax of the lecture hall centre

Dr Rolf-Peter Illigen, former member of the Executive Board of Gegenseitigkeit Versicherung Oldenburg (GVO), has been honoured with the University Medal. Prof Dr Bernd Siebenhüner, Vice President for Young Academics and Quality Management, presented the award at the annual conference of the…

The University's Start-up and Innovation Centre is continuing its successful work: the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is extending funding from the EXIST IV programme for a further two years. The central theme of the second project phase: "Female Entrepreneurship".

More than 300 students from the University of Oldenburg are now drawn abroad every year. One of them is Mira Hazzaa: the semester in Istanbul was both a new beginning and a journey of discovery for her.