Whether LipDub or campus radio: in the area of specialisation "Project management for students of the humanities, cultural and social sciences", projects are created that are also perceived beyond the confines of the university.

Business IT specialists launch new Erasmus Mundus project.

Oldenburg Declaration on the Promotion of Advanced Scientific Training for Older People

A World Music Ensemble is being founded at the University of Oldenburg's Institute of Music for the 2013 / 2014 winter semester. The ensemble's director Nangialai Nashir invites interested musicians to attend rehearsals every Wednesday from 6.00 to 8.00 pm in the Chamber Music Hall. Music students…

Students get together and set up a campus radio station. Their goal: to broadcast live programmes on a regular basis. Now they are looking for fellow campaigners - and will be presenting themselves and their project at the freshers' welcome at the Infomarkt

(7 October).

How should a classroom be designed so that pupils and teachers feel comfortable in it? In his new volume, the Oldenburg educational scientist Klaus Zierer addresses a fundamental - and hitherto largely ignored - question.

Morgens um 7.00 Uhr geht es für Sandra Karp in ihrem Nebenjob los. Dann prüft sie im Wechsel mit ihren KollegInnen der Medientechnik die technischen Geräte in den Seminarräumen der Universität – damit der Lehrbetrieb reibungslos abläuft.

Educator and school developer Heinz Klippert gives lecture at the Pedagogical Week

"Recovery needs to be learned - training what is actually self-evident" - this is the title of the short lecture with which the educationalist Dr Johann Bölts will open the autumn semester of the Uni am Markt on Saturday, 28 September at 11.00 a.m. in the Exerzierhalle at Oldenburg's Pferdemarkt.…

The "Zephyr" is the new research boat of the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM). It is small, manoeuvrable and fast - and is intended to help understand the little-researched interaction of the Wadden Sea between land and the open North Sea.

Most people take seeing for granted. But how does it actually work that the images come into our heads? The eyes and brain have to work hard to find out! Sensory physiologist Prof. Dr Jutta Kretzberg will provide the young researchers aged eight to twelve with a clear view in her lecture "Blind fish…

The ERASMUS MUNDUS degree programme "European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR)" started two years ago. Today, Prof Dr Gunilla Budde, Vice President for Studies and Teaching, bid farewell to the first 23 graduates.

They come from 20 countries and were selected from 2,000…

A business idea that aims to enrich the working culture: The Oldenburg start-up Tandemploy supports people interested in sharing a full-time position with a job-sharing platform. It has now been awarded an EXIST start-up grant.

It is a "gem of humanities research": the Karl Jaspers House, restored and furnished over the past two years, is home to Karl Jaspers' 12,000-volume library. The villa in the Dobbenviertel has now been opened with a grand ceremony.

More than 50 participants from countries including South Africa and Tanzania are expected to attend a two-day industry workshop on business informatics on 18 and 19 September at the PFL cultural centre in Oldenburg. Interested parties can still register.

The workshop is part of the international…

It grinds, rattles, scrapes and rings - the piano in the Audimax of the university's lecture theatre centre. Is it possessed by a wild spirit? Musicologist Christiane Abt will uncover the mystery together with KinderUni students on Wednesday, 4 September at 4.30 pm in her lecture "Mysterious sounds…

In high-performance sport, the boundaries between "permitted" and "unauthorised" are fluid, says Thomas Alkemeyer. The Oldenburg sports sociologist analyses the current doping debate - and finds the public uproar over the use of performance-enhancing drugs "astounding".

Dennis Höting and Jens Runge are students of business informatics at the university. In their joint master's thesis, they are focusing on bicycle traffic in the city of Oldenburg and are launching a measurement campaign from 26 August to 1 September 2013.

Sabrina Nordmann, Bachelor's student of Art & Media, German Studies, has won the student design competition for the University of Oldenburg's online journal "forsch!". Nordmann designed a logo for the interactive student journal, which will be launched this autumn.

Her logo, an owl, adorns the…

Prof Dr Babette Simon, President of the University, is a new member of the Supervisory Board of Düsseldorf University Hospital. The Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia appointed Simon for a four-year term as an external expert from the field of medical…