The larvae of coral fish in the ocean are millimetre-sized. And yet they find their way over kilometres back to their native reef. Oldenburg biologist Gabriele Gerlach has investigated how this is possible on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

The aim of the "Service Learning" module is to promote voluntary work by students and link it with university learning. Ana Kea König and Benjamin Kreß also took part in the first round of the programme in Oldenburg. Here they describe their experiences.

"Globalisation is challenging clearly definable national identities and creating new, cross-border concepts of identity," explains Prof. Dr Martin Butler. The Americanist founded the DIVERSITAS research network.

Hearing loss, including deafness, is the most common impairment of the human senses. Around one in 1,000 newborns is born with hearing loss. In half of these children, genetic mutations are the cause.

The university's Graduate Academy is opening up to young academics from the Jade University of Applied Sciences. This is regulated by a cooperation agreement that was signed today.

The Centre for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC) continues the work of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Education and Communication in Migration Processes (IBKM) with a new focus. It researches current migration processes.

Topping-out ceremony on the Wechloy campus: the shell of the "NeSSy" research building is complete. In a few months, the University of Oldenburg's Research Centres Neurosensory Science and Safety Critical Systems will be able to move in here.

How can biogas be utilised locally as a source of energy and income for businesses and households? Bioenergy as a building block for the sustainable development of coastal regions - this is the topic addressed by the EU project enercoast, led by the University of Oldenburg.

The University of Oldenburg is one of the winners of the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments: the "Hearing4all" Cluster of Excellence application will be funded for five years. Funding totalling 34 million euros was applied for.

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…