Exciting insights into the world of research - that's what the KinderUni is offering eight to twelve-year-olds again this year. The lectures will cover topics such as animated films, how to use WhatsApp & Co. correctly and dwarves in physics. Advance ticket sales for the "spring semester" are underway.
And of course Kuni, the KinderUni mascot, needs support again and is looking for a "camera child" and a "gong child" for each lecture. Anyone who would like to take a look behind the scenes at the KinderUni can register online via the KinderUni website.
Tickets for the "spring semester" of the KinderUni are available from 11 February. It begins on 2 March with the lecture "Pictures, comics, cartoons - how Snow White changed storytelling". Dr Mareile Oetken from the Institute for German Studies will explain how picture stories became comics with speech bubbles and what comics actually have to do with animated films. In his lecture on 9 March, physicist Prof Dr Christoph Lienau will take the KinderUni students on a journey into the modern world of "nannos", which means "dwarves" in Greek. He will show them how the tiny creatures can be visualised and how physicists talk, play and research with them. The third lecture of the spring semester on 16 March is about punishment: a footballer who fouls gets a yellow card. A student who depreciates gets an F. Anyone who does something wrong is punished. But is punishment absolutely necessary? Or could it be completely different? Lawyer Prof Dr Dr Volker Boehme-Neßler gets to the bottom of these questions together with the children.
The lectures start at 4.30 pm. Admission to the lecture theatre centre (A14) on the Haarentor campus is from 4.00 pm. Tickets (2.50 euros) for the three spring lectures are available from Thursday, 11 February via www.kinderuni-oldenburg.de as well as at the offices of the Nordwest-Zeitung and all advance booking offices of Nordwest Ticket GmbH. Adults do not need an admission ticket - they are not allowed in the lecture theatre. They can follow the lectures on a screen in the foyer of the lecture theatre centre.
In addition to the lectures, there are many other opportunities to get active under the umbrella of the KinderUniversität: for example in the university chemistry laboratory (CHEMOL), in the Wadden Sea learning laboratory, in the physiXS teaching and learning laboratory or online at "Physics for Kids" and the Sachunterricht learning workshop. The Natural Science House Oldenburg (NAWI-Haus) offers courses on physics, chemistry, biology and technology. The "Green School" activity days in the Botanical Garden and the "Sensory School" also invite children to join in. They can experience art up close and get creative themselves in the seminars at the Emden Art Gallery, the Horst Janssen Museum and the Oldenburg City Museum.
The KinderUniversität project would not be possible without the commitment of the sponsors. This year's main sponsor is once again the Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg (LzO). The project also receives considerable support from the Oldenburg Employers' Association, the EWE Foundation and the business association "Der Kleine Kreis e.V.". The media partners Nordwest-Zeitung, NDR 1 Niedersachsen and Radio Bremen Vier also make a major contribution to the success of the KinderUniversität.
