Press Releases 2023

20 December 2023|Press release

Watching Videos about Illness Increases SARS-SoV-2-Specific Antibodies

Symbolic representation of the coronavirus

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Test subjects who watch videos about people with symptoms typical of COVID-19 produce more secretory immunoglobulin A against the coronavirus spike protein. That is the finding of a 45-person study by researchers in the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg in cooperation with the University...

6 December 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg Manages Third Place in Germany in QS Sustainability Rankings 2024

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

Universität Hamburg placed outstandingly well at both the national and international level in the renowned QS Sustainability Rankings 2024. The University managed third place in Germany, forty-eighth place in Europe, and ninety-first place worldwide. In the categories “Impact of Education” and...

30 November 2023|Press release

€480,000 for Research Project on Developing Constitutions

Photo: UHH/Röttger

To what extent does the process of creating a constitution influence its content and a population’s adherence and acceptance? Now an international research team from Universität Hamburg and Warsaw are attempting to answer these questions. The German Research Foundation and the National Science...

28 November 2023|Press release

Art Historian Valeska von Rosen Receives Martin Warnke Medal

Art historian Prof. Dr. Valeska von Rosen

Photo: Private

The renowned art history Prof. Dr. Valeska von Rosen will receive the Martin Warnke Medal 2023 for her academic achievements in cultural studies. Valeska von Rosen is the seventh recipient of the award.

28 November 2023|Press release

End of ProfaLe: Sustainable improvement of Hamburg’s teacher education

Photo: UHH/Röttger

The project Professional Teachers’ Activities to Promote Subject-Based Learning Under Changing Social Conditions (ProfaLe) ends after more than 8 years. In close collaboration with the Hamburg Center for Teacher Education researchers from Universität Hamburg worked intensively on innovations for...

24 November 2023|Press release

Success for 2 Collaborative Research Centers at Universität Hamburg

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Höhere Strukturen, Modulräume und Integrabilität—this is the title of a new collaborative research center at Universität Hamburg. The CRC will focus on the mathematical principles of the quantum world and will receive funding from the German Research Foundation for roughly 4 years starting in...

20 November 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg among Top-Ranked Master’s Programs in New CHE Ranking

The WiWi bunker on the Von-Melle-Park campus

Photo: UHH/Röttger

The Centre for Higher Education (CHE) has published its current ranking on master’s programs in business in Germany. Six Universität Hamburg programs were ranked, with several taking top positions for, among other things, supervision and research publications.

20 November 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg Publishes Climate Protection Report for 2019–2022

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Denstorf

The report follows on the heels of the University’s sustainability report (2015–2018). The climate protection report is based only on greenhouse gas emissions, not on the entire spectrum of sustainability. A comprehensive report on sustainability in research, teaching, knowledge exchange, and...

13 November 2023|Press release

“Your Blood Donation Has Been Used”—How Feedback Text Messages Motivate Blood Donors

Photo: UHH/Oster

In Germany, 14,000 blood donations per day are needed for operations, accident victims, and patients with immunological disorders. But how can we motivate people to donate blood? A new study shows how blood banks can text message blood donors with information about the use of their donation—and how...

10 November 2023|Press release

Teacher Training Students at Universität Hamburg Take First Field Trip

Participants in the pilot project Lernreise coordinated by Tharchis Soosainathan (below right), Franziska Carol (left), and Maren Plaum (above right)

Photo: UHH/Weber

In Winter Semester 2023/24, students in the Faculty of Education will take a trip, bringing with them the question: What makes a good school? The new project seminar now gives teacher training students an opportunity for the first time to visit schools all over Germany that have implemented...

1 November 2023|Press release

Hamburg Declaration on University Careers in Academia

Photo: LHK Hamburg

Hamburg’s public universities have resolved to establish modern conditions for academic employment in Hamburg. This means that attractive and to some extent new types of career paths will open up and qualification programs for outstanding personalities in research and teaching will be modernized.

26 October 2023|Press release

Three New EU Projects with Universität Hamburg Researchers

“Research” from the University’s mission statement on its Main Building

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

The structure-function dynamic of proteins, the cultural history of artificial cooling, and new methods for analyzing Buddhist texts: the European Research Council is funding 3 new projects through its ERC Synergy Grants. Three researchers from Universität Hamburg are taking part. The well-funded...

24 October 2023|Press release

Public lecture series provides a glimpse at Hamburg foundations

The BürgerStiftung Hamburg, StiftungBüro Hamburg, and Universität Hamburg logos

Photo: BürgerStiftung Hamburg/Stiftungsbüro Hamburg/UHH

With roughly 1,400 foundations overseeing over €4 billion, Hamburg is considered the foundation capital of Germany. The University cooperates with many of these foundations. The Faculty of Business Administration, the Stiftungsbüro Hamburg, and the BürgerStiftung Hamburg are now coordinating a...

19 October 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg and the University of Leeds agree strategic partnership

Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, president of Universität Hamburg, and Prof. Dr. Simone Buitendijk, president of the University of Leeds.

Photo: Mark Bickerdike

As part of a multi-day delegation visit, Universität Hamburg and the University of Leeds have signed a strategic partnership agreement in Leeds. The partnership encompasses research projects and student exchanges among other things. An exchange program for administrative staff is also being...

18 October 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg Starts New Part-Time MBA Degree Program

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The Master of Business Administration in General Management beginning in November 2024 imparts applied expertise and methods covering the entire spectrum of corporate and organizational management. Students gain in-depth academic and methodological qualifications in leadership, strategy, management...

16 October 2023|Press release

Innovative Imaging through Development of X-Ray Sources

Photo: Staufer

From the dentist’s to the orthopedist’s office, x-rays are among the most frequent diagnostic procedures. Dr. Theresa Staufer and her team are conducting research to further develop an x-ray system that would make special analyses in biomedical research markedly easier to realize and more...

16 October 2023|Press release

Six New Universities in PIER PLUS Research Alliance

Photo: PIER PLUS

Starting immediately, the Hamburg research alliance PIER PLUS includes 6 further universities: the Bucerius Law School, the HafenCity University, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), the Helmut Schmidt University, and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater. The expansion is an...

12 October 2023|Press release

Accreditation for business schools: Faculty of Business Administration receives internationally renowned EQUIS accreditation

Faculty of Business Administration management staff (from left): Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth, equal opportunity representative; Prof. Dr. Stefan Voß, vice dean; Prof. Dr. Henrik Sattler, dean; Prof. Dr. Dorothea Alewell, vice dean for academic affairs; Prof. Dr. Nicole V. S. Ratzinger-Sakel, and Dr. Ferdinand Wenzlaff, faculty manager

Photo: Rahel Erdei

Following an intensive and comprehensive external review, the Faculty of Business Administration (Hamburg Business School) at Universität Hamburg has been awarded EQUIS accreditation—one of the most important international standards of accreditation.

10 October 2023|Press release

Internationalization: Topping-Out Ceremony for the guest house of Universität Hamburg

University president Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren and science senator Katharina Fegebank

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

Today, the University is celebrating the topping-out ceremony for its new guest house at Feldbrunnenstraße 72 in the Eimsbüttel district. The University’s president Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren and science senator Katharina Fegebank are opening the event with words of welcome. The guest house is...

10 October 2023|Press release

Around the Globe, Climate Adaptation Lacks Coordination

Photo: UHH/Jantke

Viewed globally, it is above all individuals and households that are pursuing adaptation to the impacts of climate change; systematic networking of the various groups affected is lacking. This is the conclusion reached by an international team of experts from Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of...

9 October 2023|Press release

Deep-sea research: Team Discovers Global Distribution of Predatory Crustacean

Photos of <i>Rhachotropis abyssalis</i> for comparison—taken directly on board at a depth of more than 3 km in the Ross Sea and the North Atlantic

Photo: David Bowden (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) and Nicole Gatzemeier (German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research)

A research team led by the Department of Biology at Üniversität Hamburg has discovered, for the first time, the predatory amphipod Rhachotropis abyssalis in 3 different oceans up to 20,000 kilometers apart. In each case, the animals live at depths of more than 3 kilometers. The findings were...

6 October 2023|Press release

Fridays for Future’s Decentralized Strategy Motivates More People

Junge Menschen mit Transparenten auf einem Klimaprotest

Photo: Unsplash/Tom Seger

Whether or not people choose to attend a climate protest partly depends on its expected size. When they expect a larger protest, they are less likely to take part – as Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence for climate research (CLICCS) shows in the journal Nature Climate Change.

6 October 2023|Press release

Public Lectures at Urban Beach Clubs, Pubs, and More

Vorlesung für alle public lectures at the end of August 2022 at the Golden Pudel Club

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

What do global climate negotiations really do? Why do travelers find places of horror so fascinating? And why is Germany so polarized? The University’s public lectures, Vorlesungen für alle, look at these and other questions. The project, developed within the scope of the University’s Excellence...

4 October 2023|Press release

Open Study Program at Universität Hamburg Celebrates 30 Years

Members of the Open Study Program at a lecture

Photo: UHH/ZfW

Roughly 1,500 members of the greater Hamburg public and its surrounding regions currently take part in the University’s Open Study Program every semester. Many have been attending for years. Now celebrating it’s 30th anniversary year, the educational program for people of all ages is once again...

29 September 2023|Press release

Two Days of Digital Total at Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Digital Total

Topics likes data science, artificial intelligence, and computing are very well represented in the research hub of Hamburg. The two-day Digital Total event on 9 and 10 October 2023 will show which exceptional research is already being done, and which areas may potentially provide even greater...

27 September 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg Offers Interdisciplinary, Sustainability-Oriented Academic Programs

Photo: UHH/von Wieding

From Winter Semester 2023/2024 all students in bachelor’s and master’s degree programs at Universität Hamburg have the opportunity to earn a certificate in the field of sustainability. The certificate program aims to bring students from a range of disciplines together and provide them with a...

25 September 2023|Press release

Written Artefacts: Balancing Research and Responsibility

Photo: Karsten Helmholz

From 27 to 29 September 2023, the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts experts will be coming together from all over the world to meet in Hamburg for its most comprehensive conference on manuscript research yet. Particular focus is given to ethical questions in dealing with...

4 September 2023|Press release

ERC Consolidator Grant: Research project Morethanmoney to receive €1.5 million

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

What incentives outside of remuneration motivate people to work? Are these different for men and for women? Prof. Dr. Iris Kesternich from Universität Hamburg is addressing these and other questions in a new research project. Her work has been granted a Consolidator Grant from the European Research...

23 August 2023|Press release

New Emmy Noether Research Group Studies Supermassive Black Holes

Photo: Universität Hamburg/MIN/Fuchs

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has admitted the astrophysicist Dr. Jan-Torge Schindler to the Emmy Noether Programme. His new independent junior research group at Universität Hamburg examines the emergence and early development of supermassive black holes in the first 2 billion years of our...

23 August 2023|Press release

€80,000 for Research Project on Innovative Production of Biochar

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Amann

Biochar has great potential in the fight against climate change, especially in agriculture. Dr. Maria-Elena Vorrath from the Department of Earth System Sciences at Universität Hamburg wants to develop and test a new production process. To do this, she will receive €80,000 from the Klaus Tschira...

22 August 2023|Press release

Funding for Social Innovations Research Team

Photo: UHH/Lutsch

Social innovations like multigenerational houses or crowdfunding have a long-term impact on living in society. But how can they be specifically encouraged at universities? That is the subject of a new research project at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences and the Faculty of...

17 August 2023|Press release

Pairing of electrons in artificial atoms discovered

3D view of some of the structures built atom-by-atom from silver

Photo: Lucas Schneider

Researchers from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg, observed a quantum state that was theoretically predicted more than 50 years ago by Japanese theoreticians but so far eluded detection. By tailoring an artificial atom on the surface of a superconductor, the researchers succeeded in...

15 August 2023|Press release

Europe’s biggest particle physics conference at Universität Hamburg with many public events

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

Universität Hamburg, together with the DESY research center are hosting this year’s Conference for High Energy Physics of the European Physical Society (EPS-HEP). The conference’s public program begins on 20 August, with the conference itself beginning one day later. Public talks, exhibitions, and a...

8 August 2023|Press release

Combating Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria through High-Resolution Structural Imaging

Antibiotic tetracycline (blue) and its interactions with ribosomal rRNA

Photo: Universität Hamburg and Paternoga

A European research team led by the Department of Chemistry at Universität Hamburg presents a study showing high-resolution structures of 17 distinct antibiotic ribosomal compounds. The knowledge could pave the way for the development of new antibiotics to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria. The...

25 July 2023|Press release

€750,000 for Research on Silent Film Music

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In silent movies the actors were, of course, silent, but the cinema itself was anything but. The films were accompanied by specially gathered and composed music. However, only few of the scores have thus far garnered interest. Musicologist Prof. Dr. Oliver Huck would like to study these forms of...

18 July 2023|Press release

Research project on the instrumentalization of the Kunsthalle for political ends

Photo: HIAS / Claudia Höhne

The Hamburger Kunsthalle was founded in the middle of the nineteenth century by Hamburg’s citizenry. Art historians Prof. Dr. Iris Wenderholm from Universität Hamburg and Dr. Ute Haug from the Hamburger Kunsthalle are now studying this link between the public and the collection, how this may have...

12 July 2023|Press release

Classical music, great beats, and stars: University Music Celebrates Its First Festival at the Observatory

Photo: Jakob Timm

On 21 and 22 July, University Music at Universität Hamburg and the Hamburg Observatory—which is also a University institution—invite the public to a heavenly music festival. Guests can enjoy the mix of music and science on the premises of the historical observatory park grounds in the Bergedorf...

7 July 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg Awards Carlebach Prize for Tenth Time

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Schell

The distinction was endowed in November 2003 on the occasion of the Sixth Joseph Carlebach Conference. The award is intended to keep the Carlebach name alive and to honor Joseph Carlebach’s important work as well as Miriam Gillis-Carlebach’s lifelong efforts to promote understanding, cooperation...

3 July 2023|Press release

EUR 4.5 Million for Research Unit on Learning Processes and Psychological Health

Photo: Kerstin Seipt

The world is changing quickly and we need to keep learning in order to adapt to new conditions. A new research group headed by Prof. Dr. Tania Lincoln is looking at how these learning processes can fail and what the consequences are for our psychological health. The German Research Foundation is...

30 June 2023|Press release

€5.8 Million for Foresighted Catastrophe Management

A bridge across a river in east African Uganda

Photo: Daniel Geiger

Introduce support measures before the catastrophe happens— this could help save human lives in the world’s increasing climate catastrophes while also reducing the scope of destruction in the affected regions. Prof. Dr. Daniel Geiger, organization expert at Universität Hamburg, is looking at how...

26 June 2023|Press release

Special Look at Manuscript Research

Photo: Cherie Lim

In the upcoming weeks, the public will have 2 opportunities to take a closer look at special written artefacts from today and the past: an international graffiti conference from 29 June to 1 July 2023 and a new exhibition on Hamburg’s written treasures starting on 5 July 2023 will provide some...

20 June 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg and Kyoto University Extend Strategic Partnership

Photo: UHH/Schreiber

Universität Hamburg and Kyoto University extended their strategic partnership until 2026 in a festive act at the Hamburg City Hall on 19 June 2023. Planetary health will form the heart of our future cooperation. The topic area focuses on the connections between ecological, social, and economic...

19 June 2023|Press release

Plants Improve Performance and Feelings of Wellbeing in Virtual Realities

Photo: UHH/HCI

How can we improve cognitive abilities and feelings of wellbeing in virtual worlds? An international team, led by the Department of Informatics at Universität Hamburg made up of members from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, has found...

7 June 2023|Press release

Science and scholarship in the city: new dates for public lectures

University president Hauke Heekeren giving a public lecture

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Feuerböther

Floating crane, circus tent, botanical gardens— these are just some of the more unusual places that researchers from Universität Hamburg give public talks. Their lectures target the lay public and focus on their exciting, important research. Topics include, for example, the effects of climate change...

6 June 2023|Press release

Invitation to a public event: universities discuss competition and cooperation

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How can universities and university leadership shape the future and productively tap into the complex relationship between competition and cooperation for the sake of scholarship and society? This was the central question at this year’s Global University Leaders Council Hamburg (GUC) from 14 to 16...

2 June 2023|Press release

Exhibition on Hamburg’s theater and opera house architecture: Was für ein Theater!

Photo: Thorsten Baering

Since the eighteenth century, Hamburg has been one of the premiere cities for German-speaking theater. An exhibition curated by the architectural historian Prof. Dr. Frank Schmitz and his art history students at Universität Hamburg illuminates Hamburg’s theater and opera house architecture from an...

1 June 2023|Press release

Jetta Frost Confirmed as Vice President, Natalia Filatkina and Tilo Böhmann New in Office

Following confirmation by the Academic Senate (from left): Tilo Böhmann, Natalia Filatkina, Jetta Frost, and Hauke Heekeren

Photo: UHH/Röttger

The Academic Senate of Universität Hamburg confirmed the sitting vice president Prof. Dr. Jetta Frost in their session of 1 June 2023. Newly confirmed vice presidents are Prof. Dr. Natalia Filatkina and Prof. Dr. Tilo Böhmann. Universität Hamburg’s president Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren suggested the...

1 June 2023|Press release

New, promising approaches in genetic treatments: tricking harmful mutations

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An international research team headed by Prof. Dr. Zoya Ignatova from Universität Hamburg has developed an innovative strategy for using artificially construed transfer RNA (tRNA) to suppress genetic mutations. These mutations can lead to serious diseases. The tests, which have been successfully...

24 May 2023|Press release

Images and Memory: Workshops on Political Imagery and Memory

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Ohme

Certain images have been part of our visual memory for centuries. Yet the historical context remains obscure to many viewers. The workshop series on political imagery and memory in current press photos is open to all and is designed to increase understanding.

24 May 2023|Press release

Taking Stock After Three Years of the Excellence Strategy

Photo: UHH/von Wieding

Funding for far more than 500 people and projects, 12 additional professors, new centers dedicated to sustainability, digitalization, and knowledge exchange— since 2019, 4 clusters of excellence have been doing research on the climate, physics, and manuscript cultures. Universität Hamburg has...

11 May 2023|Press release

CHE Ranking: Students Award Good Grades to Universität Hamburg

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Schell

Every year, the CHE Centre for Higher Education evaluates about one-third of the subjects taught at German universities to compile a university ranking. Universität Hamburg rejoined the CHE ranking in 2022 after a 10-year moratorium.

8 May 2023|Press release

New German Research Foundation research training group How to Increase the Quality of Health Care?

Photo: HCHE / Claudia Höhne

For research on improving the quality of health care, the Hamburg Center for Health Economics at Universität Hamburg has created a comprehensive doctoral program. The German Research Foundation will fund this program in the amount of €6 million for the next 5 years.

2 May 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg and DESY invite you to Science on Tap on 11 May.

Symbolic image for Science on Tap (beer mats)

Photo: DESY

Are climate negotiations just hot air? Can artificial trees generate electricity? And can AI also really cook? At 8 pm on 11 May 2023, researchers from Universität Hamburg and DESY will be talking about their research at 50 bars and pubs.

27 April 2023|Press release

New Endowed Professorship on Climate Change and Society at Universität Hamburg

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Ohme

How can we achieve greater climate protection in Germany? What are the biggest hurdles on the path to CO2 neutrality? These are the questions Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut seeks to answer within the scope of his Mercator Professorship at Universität Hamburg. Aykut is set to take up his position on 1 May...

25 April 2023|Press release

New public lecture series on modern leadership strategies—hockey player Janne Müller-Wieland kicks off series

Photo: Felix Stroh

Leadership should reflect a society’s diversity. As role models, they have the potential to challenge outmoded ideas of leadership. In the lecture series New Ways in Leadership hosted by the Faculty of Business Administration (Hamburg Business School) at Universität Hamburg, successful entrepreneurs...

18 April 2023|Press release

Hamburg Address on the Future of Europe with the Latvian President Egils Levits

Portrait of the president of Latvia, Egils Levits, and event announcement

Photo: Universität Hamburg

What holds Europe together? This is the guiding question for the Hamburg Vigoni Forum on research, policy, and society as participants discuss the future of Europe. Universität Hamburg hosts the Forum as an international strategy conference in collaboration with the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, the...

17 April 2023|Press release

EUR 3.1 million awarded to research the meat industry and sustainability

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What role does the meat industry play in social debates on sustainable modes of production? Dr. Christin Bernhold of the Department of Earth System Sciences at Universität Hamburg and her junior research group will examine precisely this over the next 5 years. Bernhold has been awarded EUR 3.1...

30 March 2023|Press release

Arts and Science: Exhibition in the city hall lobby

Photo: UHH/Mukherjee

Colorful images from the microscopic world of basic research require a close second look: Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter is hosting the Arts and Science exhibition, 4–24 April 2023 at Hamburg’s city hall. The event is free.

28 March 2023|Press release

Public Lectures at Universität Hamburg Started on 29 March

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Schell

If you are interested in science, research, politics, culture, and society, check out the General Lecture Series at Universität Hamburg. In Summer Semester 2023, the program includes roughly 140 public lectures on different topics. The lectures begin before the official lecture period (3 April...

27 March 2023|Press release

Telling Your Own Pandemic Story: Seeking Curators for Online Exhibition!

Photo: „coronarchiv“

While the corona pandemic affected everyone, the experiences of it were highly individual, to which the corona archive set up by researchers at Universität Hamburg 3 years ago attests. The online archive contains testimonials from the beginning of the pandemic and now the initiators are seeking...

27 March 2023|Press release

Founder’s Competition for Digital Innovation: Universität Hamburg Spin-Off Recognized

Dr. Matthes Koch, Dr. Nikolai Heinrichs, Dr. Nils Roemer, Dr. Markus Mickein, and Dr. Anna Christmann

Photo: Wolfgang Borrs

Research at Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence is a fertile starting point for many successful new enterprises. One of these spin-offs, PLANNINGIO, has now been awarded in a competition for digital innovation organized by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

7 March 2023|Press release

Multimedia special exhibition: Journey to the Big Bang extended to 7 May 2023

A glance at the exhibition How It All Began

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

The interactive exhibition How It All Began: Of Galaxies, Quarks, and Collisions at the Museum of Work provides interesting insight into the latest scientific findings in particle physics, astro-particle physics, and cosmology. The exhibition is now being extended until 7 May 2023. The extensive...

1 March 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg develops digitalization and AI research

Photo: UHH/MIN/Fuchs

Since 1 March 2023, Universität Hamburg has been taking part in 5 new collaborative projects on digitalization in natural science basic research. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the projects for 3 years. Two of the 5 research collaborations are being coordinated by the...

22 February 2023|Press release

What can generative AI do?

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To better understand the possibilities of certain types of AI, the Department of Informatics at Universität Hamburg is inviting you to a “prompt-a-thon.” You can try to solve problems using AI. The event is open to the public.

21 February 2023|Press release

Meat tax: Animal Protection More Compelling than Climate Protection

Photo: Sebastian Engels

Meat production causes climate-harming CO2 emissions. Furthermore, many animals suffer under livestock conditions. A meat tax could lower consumption and the money could be used, for example, to improve conditions. A new study by Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino and Henrike Schwickert from Universität...

14 February 2023|Press release

Hamburg university landscape: Hauke Heekeren Elected Spokesperson for Hamburg’s State Higher Education Conference

Hauke Heekeren in the stairwell of the Main Building

Photo: UHH/Lux

The president of Universität Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, has been elected as spokesperson for the Hamburg State Higher Education Conference. He succeeds Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Timm-Giel from the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) as of 1 May 2023. The office of spokesperson is filled...

14 February 2023|Press release

Information on Universität Hamburg’s Open Study Program

Worm’s-eye view of the Main Building of Universität Hamburg

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Denstorf

The Center for Continuing Studies will provide information about Universität Hamburg’s Open Study Program on 28 February 2023. The Open Study Program welcomes people of all ages interested in learning. The information day includes information via Zoom and consultation by telephone.

3 February 2023|Press release

ERC Consolidator Grant: replacing fossil fuels used in the chemical industry with biomass

The picture shows a permanent test facility for the OxFA process, which involves using oxygen to convert biomass to formic acid.

Photo: Private

The European Research Council has awarded Prof. Dr. Jakob Albert a grant of around €2 million: The chemical engineer based at Universität Hamburg will spend the next 5 years researching catalysts—so substances that influence the speed of a chemical reaction without being used up themselves. These...

1 February 2023|Press release

1.5-degree Goal not plausible: Social change more important than physical tipping points

Cover illustration of the Hamburg Climate Future Outlook 2023

Photo: UHH/CEN

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is currently not plausible, as is shown in a new, central study released by Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS). Climate policy, protests, and the Ukraine crisis: the participating researchers...

31 January 2023|Press release

Conference at Kampnagel: The Fleeting and the Constant in Dance

Photo: Evgen Rom

From 2 to 4 Februar 2023, the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts at Universität Hamburg illuminated the role of written records for the transient art of dance. Artistic performances, lectures, and audience discussions were open to the public.

25 January 2023|Press release

Exhibition Focuses on Sexualized Violence and Misguided Victim-Blaming

Photo: Emely Unger

From 31 January to 23 February 2023, the Cluster of Excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter at Universität Hamburg showed What Were You Wearing? at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at Science City Bahrenfeld. Two years ago, the cluster’s board had already decided to address the topic of...

12 January 2023|Press release

Sustainability Transformation Monitor Companies Putting Greater Focus on Sustainability

Photo: Sustainability Transformation Monitor

The transformation of the economy towards sustainability proceeds apace. Eighty-four percent of those responsible for sustainability at a company in the real economy say that the topic has become “more” or “much more important.” At 74 percent, the rate is lower in business finance. These are the...