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Expertise like that produced at Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS)” is essential in order to convince skeptics at the international political level of the reality of climate change, underscored Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas during his...

Universität Hamburg celebrates its 100th anniversary, exactly 100 years to the day after its official opening. Over 1,400 guests, including many honorary guests and prominent alumni, attended the ceremony while several thousand University members let their hair down at the Campus party.

At the ceremony to celebrate Universität Hamburg’s 100th anniversary, astronaut Alexander Gerst was made an honorary senator. In return, Gerst presented a University banner that he had taken with him into space. In his speech, he advocated for pioneering exploration.

Construction of the high-tech business incubator, a joint project of the City of Hamburg, DESY, and Universität Hamburg, is the first milestone for Science City Bahrenfeld.

In the most recent international University Impact Ranking conducted by Times Higher Education (THE), Universität Hamburg has ranked 60th. Above all, the University has been recognized for implementing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in exemplary fashion.

The international research project Event Horizon has now succeeded in photographing a black hole for the first time. But what is a black hole, actually, and what does it do? We’ve asked Prof. Dr. Jochen Liske from the Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg’s observatory.