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How do we still talk to each other? In this special live episode, recorded in front of an audience at the Wissensort Wolfenbüttel, we get to the bottom of this question. Experience the exciting discussion between presenter Prof Dr Heinz-Dieter Quack and his guest Prof Dr Andreas Jain on the big topic: "Dare to be more decent! On discourse in democracy". What was special: After the discussion, the...

Funda Ertas-Spantgar, a long-standing research associate of Prof. Dr Sandra Verena Müller in the third-party funded projects SecuRIn (VW Vorab) and SmarteInklusion (BMBF), successfully defended her dissertation on 1 September 2020. The dissertation entitled "Evaluation of an assistive technology and the investigation of its effect with and without a specific therapeutic intervention for people...

Start your future at Ostfalia University now! There are still places available for the winter semester 2025/26.

Last Friday, the Faculty of Social Work celebrated the successful graduation of 101 Bachelor of Social Work students and 9 Master of Preventive Social Work students in a festive ceremony. The event was opened with a warm welcome from our Dean, Prof Dr Sandra Verena Müller , who not only welcomed the graduates and their families, but also numerous guests and colleagues. In her opening speech, Prof....

Ostfalia across generations: Sabine Reetz reports on how her father, husband and now her daughters studied at the university.

Episode 15 of Prof Dr Schlotmann's videocast puts the big promises of the crypto industry to the test.

In this episode of "Einfach Forschung", Prof Dr Heinz-Dieter Quack talks to Prof Dr Hendrik Ernst about the importance of neurodiversity in university teaching. How do different styles of thinking and perception influence learning? And how can didactics respond to this? Look forward to practical insights and new perspectives for a more inclusive design of teaching and learning processes. 🔗 Listen...

In collaboration with Hohrenk Systemtechnik GmbH from Cremlingen, bus and urban railway shelters are being equipped with self-sufficient irrigation technology and irrigation strategies for urban greenery are being tested. The aim of the project is to equip 10 bus shelters with a water tank and IoT sensors in order to irrigate their own green roof, a tree or urban greenery in a demand-orientated...

The Ostfalia sailing group has existed for exactly 10 years. The first theoretical training for a small group of 8 sailing enthusiasts was provided by the founder of the sailing group, Prof Dr Rolf Roskam, in 2015. This was followed in the summer of 2016 by practical training on a sailing trip to the Danish South Sea, which concluded with the demanding examination for a pleasure craft coastal...

A great success for the "WF Wolves" team: from 15 to 21 July 2025, five students from Ostfalia University competed at the RoboCup World Championship in Salvador, Brazil - and returned with strong placings. They secured a top 8 place in the Humanoid League (Kid Size) and 2nd place in the Technical Challenges. In the Humanoid League, autonomous, self-built humanoid robots compete against each other...