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Anna Zerner, Prof. Natalia Filatkina, Prof. Laura Edinger-Schons, and Birgitta Büsch

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05.03.2025|Campus
University Health Management: University of Hamburg Signs Okanagan Charter
The Okanagan Charter is an international guideline to promote health at universities and higher education institutions. The charter calls for incorporating health throughout organizations and linking health promotion and sustainability. On 5 March 2025, University representatives signed the charter.
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Eibach

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27.02.2025|Campus
Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Benjamin strengthens the Faculty of Education.
Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: music teacher Prof. Dr. Benjamin Eibach
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26.02.2025|Research
New Database Helps Sports Teachers Find Digital Tools
The Spodigi-Tools database should make it easier for sports teachers to use digital tools in their classes. The database was developed by researchers at the Universities of Hamburg and Wuppertal. In the upcoming months, it will undergo live testing and evaluation so that teachers can make the best...
Meeresströmungen

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25.02.2025|Forschung
Weaker ocean circulation could cost trillions
A major motor for the global climate is beginning to falter: a massive system of ocean currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which also includes the Gulf Stream. As a new study conducted by experts at the University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence for climate...
Group photo of the delegation from Leeds at the University of Hamburg

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24.02.2025|Campus
The Universities of Leeds and Hamburg Expand Cooperation
Representatives of the University of Leeds visited the University of Hamburg on 20 February 2025. The universities, which have been strategic partners since 2023, used the meeting to discuss topic and focus areas for future cooperation.
Illustration showing a woman whose password is stolen after she clicks on a link in a phishing email.

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20.02.2025|Internal
University of Hamburg Kicks Off Comprehensive Cybersecurity Initiative
The threat of cyberattacks remains heightened at the University of Hamburg. All University members acting prudently is essential to successfully fending off these attacks and increasing cybersecurity. We have thus started a comprehensive cybersecurity initiative in February 2025.
Fuelt2theFire logo, which shows a newspaper with facing pages in different colors and two people screaming at each other.

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06.02.2025|Research
The Media and Polarization in Europe
Even established democracies such as Germany are becoming increasingly polarized and endangered by the conflicts polarization creates. The role of the media in this process is the focus of 2 research projects being conducted by the Professorship for Climate Communication at the Faculty of Business...
Eine Doktorandin der Graduate School des Exzellenzclusters UWA
03.02.2025|Exzellenzstrategie
Cluster of Excellence UWA: Video Insights Into Manuscript Research
From the history of paper structures to 19th-century Peruvian music archives: Two doctoral students from the Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts” show their exciting and interdisciplinary research in a new video.
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Eine Doktorandin der Graduate School des Exzellenzclusters UWA
Cluster of Excellence UWA: Video Insights Into Manuscript Research

From the history of paper structures to 19th-century Peruvian music archives: Two doctoral students from the Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts” show their exciting and interdisciplinary research in a new video.