If you are planning a career in the limelight alongside your studies or simply want to live out your creativity, the university offers many opportunities: Whether theatre, music, dance - everything is possible right on campus. Here are a few examples.

It enables communication for people who cannot communicate using speech: the "Accent 1200" communication device. The electronic communication aid, worth 7,700 euros, was donated by the aid company Prentke Romich Deutschland to the "Counselling Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication"…

In a nationwide competition organised by the Federal Foreign Office and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Oldenburg education scientists and their partners in East and South Africa came out on top. Among other things, the aim is to train future leaders.

More than 100 young German and international scientists took part in a career day for doctoral students in marine and climate sciences co-organised by the University of Oldenburg. The graduate symposium at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen offered 19 presentations by speakers from business,…

Biodiversity, sociobiology, nature and species conservation - three fields of research that the American biologist and evolutionary theorist Prof Dr Edward O. Wilson has played a key role in shaping. One day after his 85th birthday, the university awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Hunting instead of cooking, searching instead of shopping, swapping instead of buying - for a year, author Greta Taubert led a self-sufficient life far removed from Western consumer culture.

Tactical remixes and new inventions that nobody expected: The World Cup in Brazil can also be expected to inspire the future game of football. But it is difficult to be enthusiastic in view of the problems in the host country. An interview with sports sociologist Thomas Alkemeyer.

Around 40 German and Dutch experts have agreed on nine key recommendations for the cross-border expansion of renewable energies - and sent them to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil, today, Friday, 6 June 2014.

The City of Oldenburg and the University of Oldenburg signed the "Diversity Charter" on the nationwide Diversity Day. Together with BTC AG, three large employers with a total of over 6,000 employees now stand for the goals of the charter.

When people talk on the streets of Ukraine, they often do so in the form of "Surzhyk" - a mixed language in which Ukrainian and Russian elements alternate. Slavicist Gerd Hentschel is now dedicating his own research project to this phenomenon.

Experience everyday university life ‘first-hand’, get a taste of seminars and find out all about studying – school pupils, A-level students and other interested parties will have this opportunity on Friday 6 June, from 9.00 am, at the University of Oldenburg. That’s when the University Information…

The expansion of renewable energy was the subject of a high-level energy symposium. The experts summarised their findings in a key issues paper. The event was organised to mark the visit of the Dutch royal couple: King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima paid a working visit to the university.

For the fifth time, the EWE Foundation, in co-operation with the University of Oldenburg, has awarded the Helene Lange Prize for outstanding young female scientists in STEM disciplines. The prizewinner has achieved outstanding success in materials mechanics.

To mark the visit of the Dutch royal couple, the university is inviting renowned experts from Germany and the Netherlands to a symposium in co-operation with the affiliated EWE research centre NEXT ENERGY. The key question: How can key technologies in the expansion of renewable energies be further…

How effective is the care of heart attack patients - and can it reduce the risk of suffering another heart attack? This is one of the questions that the University of Oldenburg and the BREMER HERZEN FOUNDATION will be working on together in future as part of a co-operation.

Oldenburg historian Prof Dr Hans Henning Hahn has been awarded the highest Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. He received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from Polish President Bronisław Komorowski during a ceremony at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

An exhibition curated by Detlef Haberland, Professor of German Studies at the Oldenburg State Library, is dedicated to the theme of the literary garden until 16 August.

A team of researchers led by Oldenburg biologist Prof Dr Henrik Mouritsen has been able to prove this for the first time: The magnetic compass of robins fails completely as soon as the birds are exposed to electromagnetic interference in the medium wave range.

Irina Scherbakowa has been awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Prize by the city of Oldenburg. The Russian historian and human rights activist has now been invited to the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE) for an expert discussion.

The European Research Council (ERC) is the institution with which the European Union funds excellent scientists with unconventional approaches. One of them is Dr Oliver Wurl: The marine scientist has been awarded a 1.48 million euro "Starting Grant" for young researchers.