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The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam mourns the loss of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herbert Staadt, who passed away on the 17th of December 2023 at the age of 76.

On the occasion of his appointment as Professor of Design and Building Construction at the Department of CITY I BUILDING I CULTURE, Prof. Peter Eingartner will hold his inaugural lecture on the 8th of January 2024 entitled "Windows, façades, city. The window as an element shaping the cityscape".

The cafeteria of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam will reopen its doors on the 8th of January 2024 with the "Coffee Nerds". Restaurateurs Anett Chiriac and Bedri Restelica will take over the management of the cafeteria and invite FHP students, staff and residents of the Bornstedt district…

How about taking some time out in front of the screen during the Christmas holidays to watch the new videos from the Department of Information Science? What are the differences between the Canadian and German library systems? And how does a major website relaunch actually work? This and other…

In summer 2023, EXIST-Women, a new funding line of the BMWK – Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, came into force. It supports women at universities and research institutions who are interested in setting up a business in the initial phase of founding a company, particularly in…

The FH Potsdam Supporters’ Association celebrated its 30th anniversary this year and supports student projects, events, science and research. Time to take a closer look at the organisation. We spoke to Niko Ripka, FHP alumni and board member of the Supporters' Association.

On the occasion of his appointment as Adjunct Professor of Digital Archiving at the Department of Information Sciences, Prof. Dr. Martin Stürzlinger will give his inaugural lecture "Digital Archiving. Who do you trust with your data?" on the 18th of December 2023.

In the podcast Gründungsgeist Berlin-Brandenburg, Uwe Hanf, lecturer and luminary in the cultural work programme, meets cultural manager Doreen Löwe and talks to her about image, idealism and the compatibility with a living wage.

Handling data confidently in an increasingly digitalised world is the goal of QUADRIGA, the new Berlin-Brandenburg Data Competence Centre for Digital Humanities, Administrative Science, Computer Science and Information Science. The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is part of the joint project…

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".