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Study faster, in a more structured way, and with greater international scope: these were among the more ambitious goals of the Bologna Process.  Fourteen years into Europe's most extensive university reform efforts, however, the reality in Germany's universities looks a lot different. Read on in...

Today,the Universities Member Group of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK) reelected Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen to act as its spokesman as of 1 July 2014.

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Der Präsident der Universität Hamburg und frühere Präsident der Freien Universität Berlin verantwortet seit 2007 im...

What should I study? And who is going to pay? Year after year, young adults who have just completed their secondary schooling are faced with these and other questions. They don't generally decide on their own - they turn to their parents for advice and, of course, financial help.

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Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen, chairman of Hamburg's State Higher Education Conference and president of Universität Hamburg, has expressed condolences on the death of Heinz-Günther Vogel, the longstanding chairman of the Karl H. Ditze Foundation:

"We deeply regret the death of Heinz-Günther Vogel. In...

This summer, Universität Hamburg is offering a rich program of public lectures. The General Lecture Series includes 28 public lecture series totalling about 300 single lectures. Lectures begin on Tuesday, 1 April 2014. Read on in German...

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The Loki Schmidt Haus in Klein Flottbek's Botanical Gardens is now hosting a new exhibition on medicinal plants. Illustrations by Stephanie Böhm, taken from her master's thesis project "Heilpflanzen illustriert," form the heart of the exhibition, which also includes information about medicinal...

Today, good technical customer service is a deciding factor in customer satisfaction and economic success. That makes it all the more important for technical service professionals to equip themselves with all of the information they require for their work, for example, with an application (App) on...

A new book entitled "Dazugelernt – Beiträge aus einem Jahrzehnt der Bildungsreform“ by President Lenzen includes articles, critiques and concepts on education reform from 2000 to 2010. Read on in German...

Das Buch, das sich an Fachwissenschaftlerinnen und Fachwissenschaftler, Dozentinnen und...

Procrastination sounds like a fairly threatening diagnosis, but students at Universität Hamburg and the HafenCity University can tackle the "I'll do it later" sydrome during the "Night of Postponed Term Papers" on Thursday, 20 February 2014 anytime from 4 pm to 12 am. Read on in German...

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Researchers at Universität Hamburg and Macquarie University in Australia have discovered that close relations among young spiders reduces conflict and increases the chances that siblings, in contrast to unrelated spiders, will survive. Read on in German...

Spinnen sind ein wichtiger Faktor...

Today, Federal Minister of Education Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka, Science Senator Dr. Dorothee Stapelfeldt, President Dieter Lenzen, and other speakers officially opened festivities to celebrate the new research project "Religion and Dialog in Modern Societies." Theologian Prof. Dr. Paul F. Knitter...

The Federal Minister of Education and Research Prof. Johanna Wanka, Hamburg's Science Senator Dr. Dorothee Stapelfeldt, the Director of the Academy of World Religions Prof. Dr. Wolfram Weiße, and Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen, president of Universität Hamburg, will officially open the festivities to...

Universität Hamburg cordially invites the public to this year's

Winter Concert
on Sunday, 2 February 2014, at 8 pm
in the large concert hall of the Laeiszhalle, Hamburg.

Tickets: www.adticket.de, hotline 0180 60 50 400, or at city-wide ticket offices or evening box office

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The University Players' winter production is about testing limits and breaking taboos. The theater group, which has its home in the Department of English and American Studies, is presenting the contemporary drama

Pornography by Simon Stephens
from 21 to 23 January and 25 January to 1 February...

Die CUI-Forscher aus dem Team von Prof. Dr. Klaus Sengstock konnten im Labor erstmals beobachten, wie eine Wolke ultrakalter Kalium-Atome kollektiv schwingt, quasi einen quantenmechanischen Wiener Walzer tanzt. Das Besondere dabei: Es handelt sich um fermionische...