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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".

The joint exhibition "Drängende Gegenwart" will open on the 5th of December 2023 at 3.30 pm in the foyer of the main building of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Photographic and textile works by students from the Department of Design will be exhibited in the library of the FH Potsdam.

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…

Andrea Britz and Steffi Parlitz look after up to 10 children in the private childcare centre in House 5 on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. This is the right place for families who want their child(ren) to be looked after in a small group, want direct contact with the carer…

In an exclusive pre-reading, author Julia Korbik will give us an insight into her new book "Schwestern. Die Macht des weiblichen Kollektivs" and thus creates a wonderful setting for the presentation of the Gender Award 2023 of the FH Potsdam.

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…