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An excursion to Paris provided an exciting insight into social work in France.

In the winter semester 2022/23, four courses in the departments of Design and CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences dealt with barriers. The result is an exhibition that opens on the 5 of May and can be experienced on the university campus until the 13th of May.

In the joint lecture series "Sustainable Building" of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP) and the Brandenburg Chamber of Architects, the sustainability consultant of the Kommunale Immobilien Service (KIS) Potsdam, Dipl.-Ing. Jeannette Hanko, will shed light on the importance and effects…

To mark their appointments, Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß, Professor of Applied Data Science, and Prof. Dr. Ben Heuwing, part-time Professor of Usability and User Experience, will introduce themselves to the university public as part of their inaugural lectures.

At its meeting on the 5th of April 2023, the Senate of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam unanimously elected Prof. Dr. Ulrich Richtmeyer, Professor of Media Culture Work at the Department of CITY | BUILDING| CULTURE, as Chair of the Ethics Committee. Anna-Sophie Barbutev, research assistant…

It's been a while since your last health and safety training. You are standing in front of a machine and ask yourself: What was it all about again? This is where the Occupational Health and Safety Digital project comes in. Two web-based training courses (WBT) on working with typical machines in the…

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…

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".

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.

The Centre for Further and Continuing Education (ZEW) and the Family Centre at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam are offering a new part-time continuing education course from March 2023. An information evening in October offers the opportunity to get to know the lecturers and find out more…

From the 25th to the 29th of April 2022, students were in Brussels. The aim of the excursion was to meet those involved in European social policy in order to better understand the EU concept and its influence on the social work profession. The aim was also to find out more about the so-called Pillar…