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The President of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Prof. Dr. Eva Schmitt-Rodermund, signed the Berlin Declaration on the 24th of January 2023. The Berlin Declaration from 2003 is considered one of the most important cornerstones of the Open Access movement. The University of Applied…

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…

On the occasion of his appointment as Professor of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Department of CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Prof. Dr. Rainer Schützeichel will give his inaugural lecture entitled "History as a Resource".

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".

On the occasion of her appointment as Professor of Theory and Practice of Childhood Education at the Department of Social and Educational Sciences, Prof. Dr. Tanja Salem will give her inaugural lecture entitled "The importance of space for language education in the context of migration".

To mark her appointment as part-time Professor of Garden and Landscape Architecture at the Department of CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Professor Maren Brakebusch will give her inaugural lecture entitled "The Nature of the City".

The Brandenburg Science Slam enters its second round in spring. (Young) scientists are invited to present their research topics and results to the audience in ten minutes.

In the 2022/23 funding period, 45 out of 127 applicants were awarded a Deutschlandstipendium scholarship. The outstanding students receive 300 euros per month for one year. Since the start of the programme, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, together with many partners and the Federal…

For the past year, student scouts at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences have been supporting first and second-semester students on two degree programmes.

Under the motto "Cultural Heritage in Climate Change", the degree programme Conservation and Restauration at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is celebrating the 5th European Day of Conservation on the 16th of October. Works of art will be presented in the mobile Tiny House FHP Mobil in…

After almost two weeks in Uzbekistan with documentation work in the Medrese Kukeldash in Bukhara, the Summer School 2022 ended successfully with presentations of the interdisciplinary working groups.

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…