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Moving Closer Together - EDUC partners from the Czech Republic and Ukraine visit Potsdam
Representatives of the Czech Masaryk University (MU) and the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU) from the Ukrainian Ivano Frankivsk... more
Building Strong Alliances - EDUC and YERUN partners from Norway visit Potsdam
Representatives of the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) visited the University of Potsdam on June 5-6, 2023. The two universities are doubly... more
“We need a more complex picture of ecological processes.” – Why a paradigm shift towards an individual-based ecology is necessary
The world is in crisis. But not only climate change is alarming researchers; the biodiversity crisis has also assumed threatening proportions. There... more
Cultures of Violence – Insights from work towards a systematic approach to military violence
Deportation, torture, and killing: How has the use of violence changed or even become radicalized in the armies of the great European powers? What has... more
33 Questions to Prof. Dr. Katharina Scheiter, Professor of Digital Education at the Department of Education
Digital media are increasingly finding their way into schools. On the one hand, their use in schools is intended to prepare children and adolescents... more
Face to Face – David Schlangen wants to enable artificial intelligence to interact with us in real time
Whether in an online help chat or when calling a service provider on the phone: communication with dialogue systems has become omnipresent. Most of... more
“Soils build the basis for existence of lives on our planet” – Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Batswana soil scientist Peter Eze
Peter N. Eze is a soil scientist and professor at the Botswana International University of Science & Technology. His research centers on pure and... more
After the Flood – what can be learned from reconstruction in the flooded areas along the Ahr and Erft rivers
In July 2021, parts of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia experienced one of Germany's most severe natural disasters after 1945. The... more
Early Detection at the Push of a Button – Prof. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan has developed a toy to indicate the risk of a language disorder
The teacher gives specific instructions: “When you have finished the exercise, pack the book, go to the shelf, and get a worksheet from the rack.” The... more