A new inclusive sports project at the University of Oldenburg aims to encourage children to take part in sport and exercise on Sundays. To kick off the "Open Sunday" project, 170 children came to the sports hall at Nadorst primary school over the past four Sundays. Under the guidance of specially…

What is the aim of health services research? Vice Dean Hans-Jürgen Appelrath talks in an interview about the establishment of the new focus area at the School of Medicine - and about how scientists are trying to analyse healthcare services in our healthcare system.

Current studies show that regular exercise has a positive influence on the course of schizophrenic psychoses. A research project at the university is looking at how schizophrenia patients can integrate more sport and exercise into their lives and thus actively contribute to their health.

"Medical Campus University of Oldenburg" - this is the name that the Evangelical Hospital Oldenburg, the Oldenburg Clinical Centre, the Pius Hospital Oldenburg and the Karl Jaspers Clinic in Bad Zwischenahn will be able to use exclusively in future. This is regulated by an agreement that was…

"The Polish January Uprising of 1863" and its "history of entanglement and perception" is the topic of an international historians' conference with participants from seven countries. It is being organised by the Department of Eastern European History at the University of Oldenburg and will take…

The literary scholar and President of the Hölderlin Society Sabine Doering has been awarded the prestigious Fellowship of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS). In this interview, she talks about her research goals and explains what fascinates her about the poet Friedrich Hölderlin.

The University of Oldenburg bid farewell to its President Prof Dr Babette Simon at an academic matinée. Numerous guests came to the Audimax of the lecture hall centre, including Lower Saxony's Science Minister Dr Gabriele Heinen-Kljajić.

Why do we find chocolate so delicious? And why should we avoid jellyfish and poisonous snakes? And what does all this have to do with our brain? In the last KinderUni lecture of the spring semester, neurobiologist Christiane Richter-Landsberg answers exciting questions.

On 21 January 2014, students at the University of London discovered the most important supernova explosion in decades. Scientists at the University of Oldenburg were able to provide early measurement data from the galactic event - which is now being accessed worldwide.

Ten out of 13 restaurants tested in Oldenburg have good to very good room acoustics: this is the initial result of a study conducted by physics students at the University of Oldenburg. Their ongoing investigation will be presented at the 40th Annual German Conference on Acoustics, which is currently…

Dr Antje Timmer has been appointed to the professorship of "Epidemiology and Biometry" at the School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Oldenburg. She previously worked at the Leibniz Institute for Epidemiology and Prevention Research (BIPS) in Bremen. Timmer is the…

The university invites the city and region to dance - at a very special venue: At the 6th Library Ball on 15 March, the University Library on the Haarentor campus will be transformed into a ballroom. The motto: "Swinging Library".

The Oldenburg economist and sustainability researcher Prof Dr Niko Paech has been awarded the ZEIT WISSEN Courage for Sustainability Prize in the "Knowledge" category. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.

The KinderUni will soon be taking place just like in ancient Rome: on 6 March, historian Prof. Dr Michael Sommer will be taking students on a culinary journey into antiquity in his lecture "Bon Appetit! To the table with Greeks and Romans", historian Prof Dr Michael Sommer will take KinderUni…

In future, a high-calibre Board of Trustees will advise the Presidential Board of the University of Oldenburg on forward-looking issues relating to the development of the European Medical School.

What are the building blocks of the energy transition? How does it affect the north-west region? To what extent does it burden citizens? "Energy transition - the greatest challenge of the 21st century" is the title of a public panel discussion with experts who will address these questions.

Bundling research on wind energy and promoting knowledge transfer between science, industry and politics - this was the goal with which ForWind was launched in 2004. The centre for wind energy research is now celebrating its tenth anniversary.

Around the campus world in 120 seconds: the university's 2013/2014 "Campus Clip Contest" video competition came to an end with the award ceremony. All of the competition entries were shown: very different views of the university and its history by students.

Afraid of the blank page? How to get started? How to overcome writer's block? Questions about content and research, structure and presentation? In the second "Long Night of (Postponed) Seminar Papers", students receive support with their work projects.

For the fourth time in a row, the university has been awarded the "Family-Friendly University" certificate. It is awarded for three years at a time by berufundfamilien gGmbH, an initiative of the Hertie Foundation. But how has the project developed at the University of Oldenburg? Here is an…