Universität Hamburg (UHH)

What about the Summer Semester 2020? What are the rules for working from home? And what guidelines must international guests observe? The following pages answer the most important question about the coronavirus. These FAQs are updated continually. [Last update: 19 May 2020, 2:05 PM]

Due to spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the start of the summer semester 2020 has been postponed from 1 April to 20 April. Until then, all University buildings such as libraries, museums and collections, the Regional Computing Center, and the Sportpark will remain closed to the public.

With regard to the growing number of coronavirus infections in Germany and in Hamburg, the President of Universität Hamburg Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Lenzen addresses employees and students of the university.

Dr. Michael Bauer has held the Heisenberg Professorship for Financial Market Economics in the Department of Economics at Universität Hamburg since 1 February 2020. Prior to this he lectured in a number of US universities, before taking on a position at the National Federal Reserve (Fed) of the USA...

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.

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...