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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.

Application is an important part of information technology. To advance applications, the Informatikum at Universität Hamburg runs the creative lab base.camp. With support from the Department of Informatics, students can develop their own programming and software ideas. The first projects since...

For the first time, researchers have conducted a nationwide study to gather comprehensive data on working and living conditions for doctoral candidates and doctoral graduates. Over 50,000 doctoral candidates nationwide have been invited to take part in an online survey.

It is now official—the future project Science City Bahrenfeld is due to start in 2020. The aim: to strengthen Hamburg as a hub for science! And to offer the greatest minds in Hamburg and worldwide a creative, attractive, and sustainable space to learn, teach, research, live, and work. A project that...

Poor grades in elementary school almost put an early end to this young man’s pursuits. Now Mahmut Yüksel is working towards a double degree in medicine and informatics at Universität Hamburg and off to earn a medical doctorate at Harvard University.

Alexander Gerst (42) is not only the most famous astronaut from the Federal Republic of Germany, and, from October, the first German commander of the International Space Station (ISS), but also a Universität Hamburg graduate. The Doctor of Geophysics is due to arrive at the ISS with his team...

In 2019 the University will be celebrating its 100th anniversary. On 28 March 1919 Hamburg Parliament resolved to establish the Hamburgische Universität. The celebration depends upon the ideas and commitment of the University’s members, so we are inviting you to join our initial activities and...

One year from today, on 28 March 2019, Universität Hamburg will be celebrating its 100th anniversary! On 28 March 1919 a new democratically elected Hamburg Parliament resolved in its first session to establish a university in Hamburg. This makes Universität Hamburg the first university in Germany to...

Following last year's successful Particles, Strings and Cosmology summer school pilot program, 3 new international programs on climate change, health economics, and physics will be offered this upcoming summer. The goal is to attract gifted young people from all over the world to Hamburg, where they...

Mangroves, salt-water tolerant trees with characteristically high root systems, grow all along the coast of the South Pacific island of Fiji. Yet the data we have on how these mangrove forests store carbon is sparse. Fiji, the Pacific nation taking the lead in climate change, is at pains to close...

With one year less of Gymnasium, German high school students are now younger on average when starting university. According to the Federal Statistics Office, more and more first-year students are minors when they begin their studies. Alissa D., however, is probably one of the youngest. At 16, she is...

Two alumni of Universität Hamburg, best-selling author Cornelia Funke and astronaut and geophysicist Alexander Gerst, have been appointed honorary senators of Universität Hamburg. This distinction recognizes their special relationship to the University.

A number of great names in the field of art history have taught and worked at Universität Hamburg: Aby Warburg (1866–1929), Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968), and Martin Warnke (born 1937), to name a few. Warnke, emeritus professor at our University since 2003, turned 80 on 12 October and to mark this...

Starting university is a big step—all the better one marks the occasion together with parents, friends and future study companions. Around 1,400 first-semester students and their families gathered yesterday in the Audimax to take part in the 2017 matriculation ceremony, which addressed the...

Networking, learning from one another, questioning conventions—it takes small steps off the beaten path to establish sustainability in a large institution like a university, but more and more universities around the world are ready to embark on the journey. The Center for a Sustainable University...

In 2003 the Children's University held its first lecture entitled—most appropriately for Hamburg—"Why does it rain?" The series of lectures, aimed at children between 8 and 12 years, celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year. [Read on in German . . .]

An evening in the spirit of academic pursuit: for the fifth consecutive year, the Universität Hamburg Alumni Association and the Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e.V. (HITeC) will be hosting the University Ball on 18 November in the Grand Elysée Hotel Hamburg. Order tickets now... [Read on in...

Violence in soccer stadiums, hate in the Internet—conflict, whether political or societal, is as multifold as its causes and solutions. How can you get help? Twenty-five students sought answers to this question at a summer university program organized by an initiative on peace building from 29...

Since 2015 the HOOU, a joint project of Hamburg's six public universities and the Multimedia Kontor Hamburg, has been developing models to expand upon the traditional classroom using digital technology. This should also make it easier for universities to collaborate and to get the general public...