All News of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

On the occasion of her appointment as Professor of Editorial Design at the Department of Design, Prof. Susanne Stahl will give her inaugural lecture "The book you want to design no longer exists" on the 11th of December 2023.

Hyeonji Kim, a graduate of the Department of Design, was awarded the FH Potsdam Gender Prize for her Master's thesis "Designing a Customizable Period Tracker With a Human-Centered Approach and Data Visualisation to Support Menopausal Transition".

To mark her appointment as Honorary Professor of Conservation and Restauration at the Department of CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Prof. Dr. Bärbel Arnold will give her inaugural lecture "Conservation and Natural Science – A Journey through Time and Forgetting".

The Volkswagen Foundation has approved funding totalling EUR 346,900 for the research project "Grenzwerte: Operative Verhältnisse von Klima und Migration". The project is embedded in the programme "Aufbruch – Neue Forschungsräume für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften" in the Exploration profile…

The certificate course "Research Data Management for Students", organised by the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, the University of Potsdam and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, has been awarded the 10,000 euro State Teaching Prize for excellent university teaching…

The Munich agency BRANDCODE has been honoured with the prestigious Splash Award. The coveted award recognises the best Drupal projects in Germany and Austria and honours outstanding digital projects and innovative solutions. The relaunch of the university website was realised by their own…

In a unanimous decision by the Senate of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP), Prof. Dr. Sebastian Meier was elected Anti-Discrimination Officer in October. This decision underlines the university's ongoing commitment to equal opportunities and the creation of a respectful environment…

Phantina Sholi, student in "Childhood Studies and Children's Rights (M. A.)", was awarded the DAAD Prize 2023 for her outstanding academic achievements and her remarkable intercultural commitment.

Drängende Gegenwart: Der Blick der jungen Generation is a joint exhibition of photography training centres in Berlin and Potsdam, which have joined forces at the invitation of the European Month of Photography Berlin (EMOP Berlin). The exhibition includes moving photographic works by five graduates…

Since the end of the Second World War, over 300 villages in Germany have been demolished for lignite mining and over 120,000 people have been resettled. With the help of a data visualisation in scrollytelling format, interface design student Tim Hönig tells the story of German open-cast mining and…

In the joint lecture series "Sustainable Building" organised by the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and the Brandenburg Chamber of Architects, architect Jörg Finkbeiner will present the topic "The cradle to cradle principle – The reused building materials of the future".

In the joint lecture series "Sustainable Building" organised by the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and the Brandenburg Chamber of Architects, the 3rd event will focus on the potential of natural resources. Prof. Dr. Anupama Kundoo (FHP) will speak on the topic of "Rethinking materiality…