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Partners from science and industry came together in Wolfenbüttel to discuss the automation of agricultural machinery; Ostfalia is leading the project.

Lively intercultural exchange at Ostfalia: lecturers and students from all over the world come to the Wolfsburg campus for the International Week.

The Faculty of Law at Ostfalia University has produced a new textbook that fills a gap in legal education.

New episode of "Einfach Forschung" - How jurisprudence is thinking outside the box In an emergency, we are glad that we can rely on lawyers. Their profession is all too familiar to us, especially through film and television. But what do lawyers actually research at a university? In this episode, Prof Dr Heinz-Dieter Quack and his guest Prof Dr Kai Litschen take a look at legal questions and...

Students on the "Finance Tax and Company Law" programme visit the UN with Prof. Dr Schlotmann and take a look behind the scenes of international politics.

What impact do new technologies and round-the-clock reporting have on journalism today? And was everything really better in the 1980s? In the new episode of "Einfach Forschung" we get to the bottom of these and other questions! Presenter Prof. Dr Heinz-Dieter Quack talks to Prof. Dr Marc-Christian Ollrog about "Journalism in times of digitalisation, AI and live tracking " - a conversation about...

On 8 October, the Braunschweig Office for Regional Development presented the funding decision for InnoREG.

As part of the DAAD-funded SDG Partnership Project “Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Comparative Approach in India, Nepal, and Germany,” BELS students Birte Diekhoff, Hannah Rother, and Gerrit Scharfenberg studied at the Kathmandu School of Law in Nepal during the Summer Semester 2025. During their stay, the students attended English-taught courses offered by professors at...

The Labour Court Braunschweig recently ruled against 55 lawsuits filed by former VW employees who had taken action against the fixed-term nature of their contracts, which were most recently extended by six months for a material reason. Prof. Dr. Horst Call from the Faculty of Law at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences clarifies in the Braunschweiger Zeitung article that the first fixed-term...

A new episode of "Einfach Forschung" is online: What really makes customers happy What do market research, hotel night shifts and functional dog treats have in common? In this episode of "Einfach Forschung", we take a closer look at this bizarre combination! Follow the lively exchange between presenter Prof Dr Heinz-Dieter Quack and his guest Tim Nieländer . Today's topic: "What really makes...