Developing new online business models and supporting and promoting the creation of a start-up team: This is the aim of the "IdeaJam Nordwest" ideas competition, which will take place on 11 and 12 May 2012 at the Oldenburg Technology and Start-up Centre.

There is now a central point of contact for anyone with a business idea: the university's start-up and innovation centre. Director Dr Petra Buchholz talks about the centre's goals and how a culture of creativity is being created on campus.

They use a new mass spectrometer to analyse isotopes and fossil marine sediments: Scientists from the second Max Planck Research Group at the university. Their aim is to decipher the role of the world's oceans in the climate.

Students with an academic appointment or with a foreign educational qualification receive support through a project accompanying their studies.

The University of Oldenburg today opened a central point of contact for those interested in setting up a business at regional universities in the form of the Start-up and Innovation Centre (GIZ). Lower Saxony's Science Minister Prof Dr Johanna Wanka was among the guests.

The international DAAD Alumni Summer School "Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems and Sustainable Development" started on Saturday, 14 April at the University of Oldenburg.

The idea has fascinated researchers for centuries: capturing and storing light. This is particularly complex in nanostructures. A German-Japanese research team led by Prof Dr Christoph Lienau, physicist at the University of Oldenburg, has now achieved a breakthrough.

Optimisation processes in business, technology and the natural sciences are the topics of the 4th "Modern Computational Science" summer school. It is aimed at students of natural science subjects as well as those interested in business.

Further funding for the "Science and Technology" Graduate School: OLTECH receives further funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) until 2014.

The lecture series "Early Childhood Education" offers scientific insights for educational work in the elementary and primary sector.

She is one of the most renowned German researchers on energy and sustainability issues: We are talking about Prof Dr Claudia Kemfert, who completed important stages of her career at the University of Oldenburg. A portrait.

"Health in interdisciplinary dialogue" - Prof. Dr Eckhart G. Hahn, founding dean of the future School of Medicine, opens the Institute of Philosophy's series of lectures with a lecture on this topic.

The German-Dutch choir project "Schrittweise" ("Step by Step") sets a musical accent for more understanding and rapprochement between the peoples.

An interview with the founding dean of the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen, Prof Dr Eckhart Hahn: On the sense of community among the players, the establishment of university clinics and the selection of students - who have significantly more learning time in Oldenburg.

"From Witches Cauldrons in Material Science" - this is the motto under which female scientists from Germany and abroad are gathering in the Harz Mountains.

Prof. Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier, hearing researcher at the University of Oldenburg, has received the International Award of the American Academy of Audiology in Boston - one of the highest honours for international researchers in the field of audiology.

Christopher Sommer has completed his Master's degree in Museum and Exhibition at the University of Oldenburg. He is now travelling through New Zealand - and investigating the representation of migration in immigrant museums.

The Start-up and Innovation Centre (GIZ) is committed to a successful start-up culture on campus. The opening will take place on 17 April - hosted by Klaas Heufer-Umlauf.

University opens the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (3GO) with a panel discussion.

The university's Field Theory working group has been researching Einstein's theory of relativity for years - and at the same time going beyond it. The Oldenburg physicists have now demonstrated the existence of wormholes with astonishing properties.