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Thursday, 09. January 2020

KU students support social entrepreneurs from Kenya

Students from the WFI module “Social Innovation” collaborate with five Kenyan start-up companies. (Photo: Schulte Strathaus)

Students of the KU Ingolstadt School Management (WFI) currently have a two-semester collaboration with five start-up companies from Kenya whose aim is to improve the quality of life in their home country. They mainly focus on the...[more]


Wednesday, 11. December 2019

Continuous path towards more sustainability

The newly published KU Sustainability Report for 2018 shows: There is always new potential for optimizing an institution’s environmental performance. The report illustrates the KU’s impressive development over the past seven...[more]


Monday, 02. December 2019

KU Master’s degree program in Psychology scores top position in CHE ranking

In the most current CHE ranking, Master’s students of Psychology at the KU were very positive about the strong scientific connection of their course of study, e.g. within the framework of projects that use electroencephalography (EEG). (Photo: Klenk/Press Office)

Students of the Master’s degree program in Psychology are very satisfied with the study conditions at the KU. This is the result of a new ranking for Master’s degree programs compiled by the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) in...[more]


Thursday, 28. November 2019

Overwhelming response to student relief action for refugee camps in Bosnia

Elisa Cankara Alonso (3rd f.l.) and Madina Farani (3rd f.r.) and their fellow students are delighted about the overwhelming response of the Eichstätt population to their aid program. People donated so much that the students had to make the tour to Austria twice in order to bring all donated clothes, shoes and blankets to the association “SOS Balkanroute Wien” which will pass them on to the Bosnian refugee camp. (Photo: Nowak/upd)

Deeply moved by the fate of refugees in a Bosnian refugee camp, the two KU students Madina Farani and Elisa Cankara Alonso have set up a relief operation to provide people in the camp with clothing, shoes, blankets and sleeping...[more]


Thursday, 21. November 2019

How children experience their everyday school life individually

Children’s perception of school, teaching and learning was now at the center of an international conference which was held at California State University Fullerton on the initiative of Prof. Dr. Klaudia Schultheis (Chair of...[more]


Thursday, 21. November 2019

KU is honored as ‘exemplary place of learning’

Dr. Catrin Hannken (Head of the department for regional education, education for sustainable development in the German Federal Ministry of Research) and retired Minister Walter Hirche (International advisor of the national BNE platform and chairman of the expert educational committee of the German UNESCO Commission) presented the award to the KU sustainable development coordinator Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer (middle). (Photo: German UNESCO Commission/Thomas Müller)

For the third time in a row, the KU has been honored as a place of learning for “Education for sustainable development” (BNE) by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German UNESCO Commission. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer,...[more]


Wednesday, 20. November 2019

International collaboration for protection of riparian forests

Dr. Nadira Degembaeva (Kyrgyz Naryn State University) and Dr. Dušanka Cvijanović (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) are currently staying at the KU Professorship of Applied Physical Geography (Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka) as guest...[more]