"Border Carbon Adjustment (BCA) is the name of a foreign trade instrument. It is intended to mitigate the competitive disadvantages of countries that pursue ambitious climate and environmental policies. An international study has now been published on "Border Carbon Adjustment".

They would probably never have met: Ramona Sachse, a special education student from Oldenburg, and Jing Li, a PhD student in Electronic Systems from China. They got to know each other through a language tandem. Now they teach each other their mother tongue.

Researchers around the world are working hard to develop new time-resolved electron microscopes. Oldenburg physicists have now taken an important step towards realising such microscopes: They propelled electrons with short flashes of light.

They have a lot in common: George Enescu and Béla Bartók. An exhibition at the university presents the life and work of the two great composers. The internationally renowned pianist Luiza Borac will give a concert at the opening.

Prof Dr Niklas Nilius, previously head of the "Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy and Spectroscopy" working group in the Department of Chemical Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, is the new Professor of Experimental Physics at the University's Institute of Physics.

The number is enormous: four out of five maths students at German universities drop out of their studies. Prof Dr Daniel Grieser, university lecturer in mathematics, has addressed this problem and developed the lecture "Mathematical Problem Solving and Proving".

In the end, the innovation, the new product, the invention, is there as a matter of course. But what actually happens before that? Oldenburg innovation researchers now want to answer these questions together with colleagues from Göttingen.

How can entire vehicle fleets be managed and controlled in traffic? These are fundamental questions of electromobility that scientists from the new joint project BESIC want to answer - funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology with 2.3 million euros.

Flag football, slackline, ultimate frisbee and fun high diving are just some of the sports that anyone interested can try out at the NEwsports day in OLDenburg on 12 January. Students from the "Sport and Lifestyle" Master's degree programme are organising the day.

In 1996, Ulf Gebken started a girls' football project in Oldenburg, which has since become popular throughout Germany. In this interview, the sports educator explains how this success came about - and why the topic of poverty is so difficult to communicate.

Two new projects, "Neverhill" and "vekoop", are being launched on the market. They were coached by the university's Start-up and Innovation Centre (GIZ). These are projects that bring together things that were once separate: Contemporary design and ecological awareness.

Getting to know the respective research cultures in technical chemistry and Computing Science and facilitating an intensive exchange: This was the aim of a visit to Oldenburg by students, doctoral students and lecturers from the partner university Voronezh.

Oldenburg physicist appointed Fellow of the Optical Society of America

The writing pad is full of notes, the books are ready and yet the topic cannot be properly grasped: The learning workshop of the Central Student Advisory Service provides support in writing academic papers. Stephanie Lamping and Stefan Grazius took part in the courses.

The autumn issue of the research magazine EINBLICKE has been published: Contributions from neurobiology, social sciences and theoretical physics.

Around ten to twenty per cent of older adults suffer from hearing problems caused by neurological processing disorders. The neurogenetics working group has tackled the problem - and discovered genetic backgrounds.

The Smart House Oldenburg (Schlossplatz 16) will host an international conference on "Language and Critical Theory" from 13 to 15 December. It is being organised by the Adorno Research Centre in co-operation with the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt.

In 2012, it will be two hundred years since Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their fairy tales for the first time. The fairy tales are part of the cultural heritage of many countries - including the Dutch-speaking world.

Why do neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's develop and what role does "autophagy" - the self-cleaning of cells in the brain - play? An interview with molecular biologist Christiane Richter-Landsberg.

The DFG research group BioGeoChemistry of the Wadden Sea received the award for its outstanding marine research. Spokesperson Prof Dr Jürgen Rullkötter accepted the award at Hamburg City Hall. What exactly the prize recognises and what the researchers discovered in the mudflats.