The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has honoured the University of Oldenburg with the "E-Quality" seal of quality. With this award, the DAAD recognises special merits and achievements in the ERASMUS programme.

A new initiative at the University of Oldenburg is aimed at pupils from non-academic families - to encourage them to study. The project is being funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science (MWK) with 45,000 euros.

What do Oldenburg students like about their university? That's exactly what we asked ourselves and walked around the campus with our camera. The result: there are many reasons to like the university - you can see the answers from nine students here in a short video.

The University of Groningen's Science Truck is on tour again. 60 Oldenburg students and a good 400 schoolchildren are experimenting and researching in the rolling classroom on the topic of "The fascination of the Wadden Sea".

The Leo Trepp-Lehrhaus and the University of Oldenburg are continuing their joint lecture series with the lecture "Nathan Marcus Adler (1803 - 1890) Jüdische Erziehung und Bildungskonzepte".

"Small literatures" usually emerge in ethnic, religious and linguistic marginalised areas. At the international conference "Specifics and Typology of 'small' Literatures" on 8 and 9 June, literary scholars will address this topic.

Which style of play will prevail at the European Football Championship? Sports sociologist Thomas Alkemeyer on the beauty of the short passing game, the German team's status as favourites and the German media's view of the host countries Ukraine and Poland.

The Immanuel Kant Research Prize of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) will be awarded for the first time on 15 June at 6.00 pm. Interested parties can register for the subsequent public conference "Cultural Landscapes" until 8 June.

Suddenly, the course catalogue was a thing of the past and students no longer had to go to the Office to get seminar materials: How e-learning pioneers left the world of paper behind - and changed the University of Oldenburg campus.

On Tuesday, 29 May, ten students from the University of Oldenburg were awarded the OLB/EWE Prize for "special achievements in their studies".

The way is clear for a major new project at the University of Oldenburg: the German Council of Science and Humanities has approved the construction of a new "Research Laboratory for Turbulence and Wind Energy Systems". The building is to cost 20 million euros and provide space for more than 130…

On our own behalf: The new issue of the research magazine EINBLICKE and a relaunch of the online alumni magazine "AlMa".

Edward O. Wilson, the outstanding American evolutionary biologist and "father of sociobiology", is dedicating an annual lecture series on biodiversity, which starts at the university on Wednesday, 30 May. The renowned biologist Prof Dr Georgina Mace will kick off the series.

How does a novel become a bestseller, an author a star? These are questions that scientists will be discussing at the "Precarious Alliances" conference. Oldenburg-based popular culture researcher Martin Butler is already revealing that personal networks and social media play an important role.

She has become famous for her drawings: The artist Isabel Kreitz made a name for herself with her comic adaptation of Uwe Timm's "Die Entdeckung der Currywurst". Now she is the university's 2012 poetry professor.

We need flexible study structures for working people, say Oldenburg university lecturers Anke Hanft, Heinke Röbken and Olaf Zawacki-Richter. This is because German universities are not sufficiently geared towards the requirements of lifelong learning.

Are you nearing the end of your studies and still no job in sight? Students in the final phase of their studies and graduates in particular need guidance when starting their careers. This is what Career Day offers - with more than 40 companies and non-profit organisations.

Technical companies - especially in the STEM fields - have a high demand for qualified junior staff. Women in particular are underrepresented there. The university and the Jade University of Applied Sciences want to change this together.

Marine researchers call the substance that gives seawater its yellowish colour "Colored Dissolved Organic Matter". It can be used to track the path of water through the oceans. Its sky-blue fluorescence enables highly sensitive spectral fingerprints.

Oldenburg lawyer Prof Dr Jürgen Taeger is expecting participants from five countries at the conference "A Democratic Europe - Memory, Unity and Diversity". It will take place from 7 to 10 May at the University of Oldenburg.