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News from the University of Cologne

University of Cologne Adopts Holistic Sustainability Strategy

Sustainability will be a guiding principle of research, teaching and transfer / faculty, students and staff participate in its implementation and identify further opportunities for improvement on the way to a sustainable, climate-neutral campus.

News from UA Ruhr

Prof. Renée Tribble on the Planning and Implementation of Citizen Science Projects

Prof. Dr. Renée Tribble conducts research on questions of participation and cooperative urban development at the Faculty of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University. Her approach is to involve civil society actors as early and comprehensively as possible in her projects. In an interview, she talks about the opportunities and challenges of research with citizen participation.

STEP USA University Program

Five Questions for Alamir Mohsen

The DWIH New York had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Alamir Mohsen, founder of Lithium Designers GmbH, a German startup in the field of architectural and facade planning services, which just celebrated its fifth anniversary.

News from Fraunhofer USA

Fraunhofer USA Awarded Patent for Detecting Air Leakage in Buildings Using Communicating Thermostats

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Fraunhofer USA with a patent for algorithms that detect and quantify air leakage from single-family homes using data from commercially available communicating, thermostats.

News from the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI)

Deepen your Knowledge in the Most Modern Areas of Computer Science

Let´s create the digital world together! At the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, we want to unite students from all over the world in their spirit of innovation. Join HPI!

News from Campus OWL

More sustainability, less waste: intelligent production facilities for small baked goods

A consortium from research and industry is examining how the manufacturing process for rolls, doughnuts, pretzels could be made more sustainable.

News from Universität Hamburg

Social Change More Important than Physical Tipping Points

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).