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.

The selected students come from all subject areas. Economics, special education, educational sciences and Computing Science are most frequently represented.

Great success for hearing research: The German Future Prize goes to the hearing research team led by Oldenburg physicist and physician Prof Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier. Federal President Joachim Gauck presented the prize, which is endowed with 250,000 euros.

The Physical Chemistry working group headed by Prof Dr Gunther Wittstock has received special funding from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI). The funds totalling 28,000 euros are to be used to improve the equipment for the training of chemists in the field of electrochemistry.

Students René Grollmann and Cornelius Heller have developed the stock market simulation game ‘Stockvote’. It is designed to predict the outcome of the 2013 state election in Lower Saxony. All students and university staff in Lower Saxony are eligible to take part.

They are at home near lakes and rivers - the 70 or so dragonfly species in Lower Saxony. However, one in three of their species is endangered, including the green mosaic dragonfly. The Vegetation Science and Nature Conservation working group is now campaigning for their conservation.

Prof Dr Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog, Professor of Theoretical Computing Science, has been accepted into the prestigious Academia Europaea. Its members include scientists from almost all disciplines from all over Europe. Almost 40 of the 2,300 members are Nobel Prize winners.

Everything revolves around study and career opportunities for mathematicians and physicists at the "Day of Mathematics" and the "Day of Physics", which will take place simultaneously on Wednesday, 21 November, from 9.15 a.m., on the Wechloy campus of the University of Oldenburg. Both events are…

"Enough power for the great transformation?" - this is the question posed by the 4th Spiekeroog Climate Talks with a public production in five acts, which will take place on the East Frisian North Sea island from 22 to 24 November.