Support for scientists in early career phases: The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Henriette Herz Scouting Programme invites international researchers to conduct joint research projects in Germany. As a scout, Prof. Dr Daniel B. Werz from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Freiburg now has the opportunity to bring three excellent scientists in the early stages of their careers to Freiburg, funded by the Humboldt Foundation.
Dr Joana van de Löcht and Dr Niels Penke research entities from local myths and fairy tales in the Central German Uplands; Dr Balz Andrea Alter, Professor Nadja Germann and Professor Albert Gouaffo are investigating how to escape the colonial cul-de-sac using an experimental polylogue.
A cooperation with the University of Freiburg and Bosch Research seeks to enable safer, more transparent, and more robust overall systems. The focus is on interconnected and jointly optimized modules for automated driving. The cooperation is part of an initiative to strengthen applied research on automated driving in Germany.
The University of Freiburg Senate has elected Prof. Dr Sylvia Paletschek as Vice Rector for University Culture for a second term. The Freiburg historian Prof. Dr Melanie Arndt succeeds Prof. Dr Daniela Kleinschmit, Vice Rector for Internationalisation and Sustainability, who chose not to run for the post again. The new term begins on 1 April 2024.
During the strategy time period 2024-2030 for the international university alliance Eucor - The European Campus, the University of Freiburg will strengthen international mobility and digital networking among the member universities and expand its focus on sustainability. Over the next seven years, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts (MWK) will fund the State’s Eucor universities, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Freiburg, with a total of 5.5 million euros within the alliance. The University of Freiburg will receive 2.7 million euros of this. Shortly before the start of the new strategic time period, Eucor President Prof. Dr Andrea Schenker-Wicki, Rector of the University of Basel, and Eucor Vice President Prof. Dr Thomas Hirth, KIT Vice President for Innovation and International Affairs, were confirmed in office.
The historian Prof. Dr Jörn Leonhard, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Western Europe at the University of Freiburg, will receive the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2024, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced on 7 December 2023.
In the second annual sustainability ranking by the UK’s Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the University of Freiburg has taken fourth place nationally in competition with 47 other universities.
The project “XR Future Forest Lab” will develop virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality applications for forest and environmental sciences starting 2024.
A group combining the University of Freiburg and Berlin’s Charité Hospital, Free University and Humboldt University is researching into complex brain function issues
The Freiburg Academic Society is awarding a research prize for outstanding contributions to the humanities, social sciences, and law at a ceremony on 6 November 2023.
