The University of Oldenburg is very attractive for foreign researchers. It climbed to 29th place in the current Humboldt Ranking - a significant indicator of the intensity of international co-operation.

An exhibition that is causing a stir: the Kunsthalle Rostock is showing "Werner Tübke and Michael Triegel - two masters from Leipzig" until 14 September. The Oldenburg philosopher Prof Dr Matthias Bormuth has known Triegel personally for years. In the Jaspers Year 2008, he succeeded in bringing the…

Strengthening and promoting Low German at schools in Lower Saxony - this is the aim of a further education programme developed by the Lower Saxony State Education Authority together with the Low German and Sater Frisian focus at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Oldenburg and…

The protein KCC2 plays an important role in the body: if it does not function properly, this leads to chronic pain and epilepsy - and if it fails completely, newborn babies cannot breathe. Biologists at the University of Oldenburg have published new findings on the evolution of this protein and its…

"Nowhere is more colourful than in the world", once proclaimed Oldenburg's honorary citizen Horst Janssen, one of Germany's most famous draughtsmen and graphic artists. However, things are perhaps even more colourful here than elsewhere: a tour of the cultural and leisure activities that make…

40 students have been studying medicine at the university every year since 2012: Anke Strautmann and André Fitze are two of them. They are studying "Human Medicine" in their second semester, the first medical degree programme in Germany to take place across borders.

The renowned director Christian Petzold will be a guest of the "Audiovisual Film Studies" seminar at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg on Friday, 18 July.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has christened it: The deep-sea research vessel "Sonne". Its home institute is the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg. Marine researcher Prof Dr Oliver Zielinski talks about the ship, the research work on…

A few months after taking office, the new Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), Monika Grütters, visited the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE) in Oldenburg.

Why are most players in European national youth football teams born in the first quarter of the year? And why does this continue in the later teams? Sports scientists have looked at the birth dates of all World Cup players - and have uncovered some interesting facts.

Abba's "Waterloo", Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" and Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" - global hits from the 1970s that (almost) everyone knows. "The 70s Revue" by the Institute of Music is dedicated to these and many other hits from this period.

The Repair Café will take place for the first time on Saturday, 12 July, from 10.00 to 14.00 in the Green School of the Botanical Garden at the University of Oldenburg.

The University of Oldenburg has been a family-friendly university for ten years - and is celebrating this with a family festival on the Haarentor campus on Friday, 11 July. On the Mensa forecourt (in the neighbouring open-air sports hall in case of bad weather), children and adults are invited to…

How do I eat healthily? And what regional foods are available? Questions like these are the focus of the University's Health Day, which takes place on 9 July in the Mensa foyer. Coordinator Alexandra Baumkötter talks about the concept and a cookbook with favourite recipes from university members.

Not knowing how the Internet works and what it is based on is dangerous, says Ira Diethelm, Professor of Computing Science Education. In this interview, she explains why she believes compulsory computer science lessons in schools are essential - and what its great opportunities are.

Two Oldenburg university lecturers were confirmed in office in the regular elections for the seven-member board of the International Hölderlin Society: German scholar Prof Dr Sabine Doering and philosopher Prof Dr Johann Kreuzer.

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,…