Interviews

28 November 2019|Campus

International symposium at the Institute of Systematic Musicology

Photo: pixabay/DimitrisDoukas

The European Research Council funded project, “Slow Motion: Transformations of Musical Time in Perception and Performance/SloMo” examines slow motion stylistic devices in films and dance performances —to explore what effect this has on the audience’s perception of time. One symposium highlights the...

25 November 2019|Press release

DAAD to Support the Internationalization of Teacher Training at Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Dechant

With the “Tricontinental Teacher Training” project, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) will support the internationalization of teacher training at Universität Hamburg from 2020. Over the coming three years, Universität Hamburg (project lead) will cooperate with the University of North...

21 November 2019|Press release

Students from all over the world take part in Model United Nations at Universität Hamburg

From 28 November to 1 December 2019 at Universität Hamburg, students from all over the world will debate, negotiate, and mediate during the twenty-first Hamburg Model United Nations (HamMUN) in line with this year’s motto, “Shaping a New Era of Diplomacy.” They take part in simulations of UN...

20 November 2019|Campus

The University of Groningen and Universität Hamburg expand collaboration

Mitglieder der Universitäten Groningen und Hamburg

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

Universität Hamburg’s international network is continuing to grow: approximately 50 members of Universität Hamburg and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen met to talk about future, more comprehensive collaboration.

11 November 2019|Research

Euro 19.3 million for 4 new research training groups at Universität Hamburg

Photo: German Research Foundation

Universität Hamburg enjoys another resounding success with the German Research Foundation (DFG) DFG has approved and will fund all 4 research training groups (RTGs) to the tune of €19.3 million in total. The research training groups will begin their work in April 2020 in the Departments of...

23 October 2019|Press release

Executive University Board Statement on Renewed Disruption of Prof. Dr Bernd Lucke's Lecture

Photo: UHH/Baumann

Despite extensive security precautions taken by Universität Hamburg, today, the second lecture on macroeconomics delivered by Prof. Dr. Bernd Lucke was interrupted and had to be canceled. On this, the Executive University Board issued the following statement:

22 October 2019|Im Fokus

Questions and Answers on the Demonstrations against Prof. Dr. Bernd Lucke

Das Hauptgebäude der Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Denstorf

Events surrounding Prof. Dr. Bernd Lucke resumption of teaching duties have concerned students and staff at Universität Hamburg as well as the media. University management has been confronted with many questions which we have put together and answered below.

15 October 2019|Press release

Einladung zur HRK-Jahresversammlung 2019

Eine Presseeinladung der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz zur Jahresversammlung in Hamburg.

24 September 2019|Anniversary

Exhibition on the history of the University opens

Photo: UHH/Ohme

The new exhibition on Universität Hamburg’s past and present gives an exciting glimpse into 100 years of teaching, research, campus life, and university culture. It also reveals a University that reflects Germany’s own eventful history.

20 September 2019|Press release

Fourth DFG center for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences for Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Panzram

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has authorized funding for a new DFG center for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences at Universität Hamburg: Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity—Transcultural Processes on the Iberian Peninsula and in...

17 September 2019|Aktuelles

From individual partnerships to international university network

Photo: UHH

From 17–20 September 2019, the Department of International Affairs at Universität Hamburg invited all its all strategic and key international university partners to attend a conference at Universität Hamburg. The conference was attended by participants from 18 universities from 13 countries, with...

13 September 2019|Press release

New study reveals the role of childhood vision behind associations between shapes and sounds

Photo: Nadine Esche

How do our senses, like vision, hearing, and touch, work together to create the perception of the world around us? A new study by scientists at Universität Hamburg finds that commonly found associations between shapes and sounds might rely on childhood vision. The results were published in the...

5 September 2019|Press release

One million euros for inventory of galaxies

Photo: ESO/Y. Beletsky

The Universität Hamburg receives around 500,000 euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a spectrograph and supports its acquisition with a further 500,000 euros. The device is intended for an astronomical instrument in Chile that will be used in the future to conduct so-called galaxy...

4 September 2019|Press release

Forschungsschiff SONNE steuert kaum bekannte Korallenriffe an

Das deutsche Forschungsschiff SONNE startet am 6. September 2019 eine zweimonatige Expedition. Der Geologe Dr. Sebastian Lindhorst vom Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit der Universität Hamburg leitet die Fahrt. Ihr Ziel ist ein unter der Wasseroberfläche gelegenes System von...

27 August 2019|Research

“If the forest disappears, it changes the climate and rainfall of the whole continent”

Map: fire in South America on 27 August 2019

Photo: NASA/FIRMS

Every summer, farmers in the Amazonian basin light fires, to clear land for farming. Currently, there are thousands of forest fires that are burning out of control. Brazilian researcher Debora Ferriera Pestana, a doctoral graduate of Universität Hamburg, explains why the forest is so important as a...

1 August 2019|Press release

New Emmy Noether group studies complex materials

Photo: UHH/MIN/Fuchs

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new Emmy Noether junior research group at the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg that aims to systematically analyse, summarise and improve various theories in solid state physics. The junior research group will receive funding of...

24 July 2019|Video

What does the title “University of Excellence” mean for Universität Hamburg?

It is now official: Universität Hamburg is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. What, however, does that mean for Universität Hamburg? What steps can or must it now take? Where will it go from here? The University’s president, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Lenzen, explains what it means...

19 July 2019|Press release

First Rate: Universität Hamburg now a University of Excellence!

Balloons in the sky that represent the word excellence.

Photo: UHH/Ohme

Today in Bonn, the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, announced which German universities will be funded through the Excellence Strategy — Universität Hamburg is one of the selected few and will belong, as of November 2019, to the Universities of Excellence group.

19 July 2019|In focus

We are excellent!

Universität Hamburg is a University of Excellence. The official announcement was made by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, today in Bonn. The announcement was enthusiastically followed by many delighted members of the University via livestream.

16 July 2019|Research

First Joint-Postdoctoral Research Position with Macquarie University in Sydney

Photo: Private

Researching in Australia: Educational Scientist Dr. phil. des. Anja Augsdörfer has begun the first joint-postdoctoral research position with Universität Hamburg and Macquarie University in Sydney: She is researching the methods teachers currently use to help students develop what is known as...