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New students will be joining Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences at the start of the 2025/26 winter semester. The university is expecting 2,330 first-semester students at its four campuses. 1.110 first-semester students at the Wolfenbüttel campus The official starting signal was given on Monday, 22 September at the central welcome events. 1.110 first-semester students have chosen a degree...

Junior Wilfried Noah Elomo, who comes from Cameroon, makes a special contribution to the university as a foreign student.

An Ostfalia study on human-robot interaction receives special recognition at the "International Conference on Social Robotics + AI" in Naples.

A new episode of "Einfach Forschung" is online: How technology creates opportunities This time it's all about digital participation, inclusion and self-determined labour market qualifications. Prof Dr Heinz Dieter Quack welcomes two experts who provide in-depth insights into this important topic: Prof. Dr phil. Ludger Kolhoff, who will share his extensive experience in the areas of social space...

Premiere at the Joint Campus Wolfsburg: The first summer school on the "Automotive Circular Economy" is taking place from 8 to 12 September.

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...

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...

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....

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

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