"Faith and Education" is the title of the book by Reinhard Cardinal Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, and the Oldenburg educational scientist Prof Dr Klaus Zierer, which will be published in April. We are publishing an article from it in advance - in which Zierer sheds light on the changing…

The university's contact study programme "Intercultural Competence in Education, Counselling and Social Work" is aimed at highly qualified refugees. Recently, 16 graduates of the further education programme were bid farewell. The new programme starts in April.

Niko Paech, economist at the University of Oldenburg, has been nominated for the ZEIT WISSEN "Courage for Sustainability" award in the "Knowledge" category.

The university is getting a new interdisciplinary research centre in the field of safety-critical systems. Here, scientists will develop and test socio-technical systems for cars, aeroplanes, ships and trains. The goal: safe and environmentally friendly mobility.

With the Höffmann Science Prize, the University of Vechta honours academics who have published outstanding and pioneering work on intercultural competence. In mid-January, Prof Dr Paul Mecheril, Professor of Intercultural Pedagogy at the university, received the prize, which is endowed with 10,000…

Vierkind is an Oldenburg start-up that develops innovative Internet projects. Coached by the Start-up and Innovation Centre, Vierkind has now received its first award - for a test report network designed to provide orientation in the multimedia product jungle.

Nadja Kuhlmeier and Christin Nadermann, graduates in biology and chemistry, spent two months at a high school in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. We spoke to them about their experiences - and about extremes in everyday school life.

34 million years ago, a lush forest still grew in Antarctica. Within 200,000 years, the Earth's atmosphere cooled - Antarctica became an ice-covered continent. What contributed to climate change? Researchers report in the journal Nature Geoscience.

How does inventing work? And why do inventors sometimes find it difficult to inspire others with their good ideas? Exciting questions like these are also on the programme in the tenth year of the KinderUniversität Oldenburg. Advance ticket sales for the spring semester start on 7 February.

Electromobility, IT supplier management and knowledge transfer: three major projects on these topics have recently been launched in the area of Information Systems/Very Large Business Applications. They are being supervised by Computing Science Professor Dr Jorge Marx Gómez.

Prof. pens. Dr Dr h.c. Wilfried Wackernagel, geneticist at the Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, has been reappointed by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection to the "Central Commission for Biological Safety" (ZKBS) of the Federal Republic of Germany for a…

What makes a young person devote themselves entirely to music? Soprano and music teacher Ute Büchter-Römer explores this question in her book "Erzählte Biographie". She will present it on 25 January at 6 p.m. as part of the composer colloquium "Musik unserer Zeit".

"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.