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An experimental recast of the sculpture “Betender Knabe” was produced in connection with an earlier project of the Professorship of Archaeology and the RWTH Aachen. Before the recast, the researchers had made a clay casting mold for the sculpture. (Photo: Zimmer/Laurentius).

Archaeologists investigate ancient bronze casting techniques

An excavation project carried out by KU archaeologists in the ancient metropolis of Jerash (Jordan), which is funded by the German Research Foundation…

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

KU students support social entrepreneurs from Kenya

Students of the KU Ingolstadt School Management (WFI) currently have a two-semester collaboration with five start-up companies from Kenya whose aim is…

(from left) Prof. Dr. Yuri Ishii from the Department of Education for International Understanding at Yamaguchi University and Prof. Dr. Klaudia Schultheis met at the Japanese partner university of the project. (Photo: Schultheis)

German-Japanese project on learning methods in elementary school

Cooperative methods of learning such as partner or group work are meanwhile part of daily teaching routines at many schools. But how effective are…

(f.r.) Moritz Brinkmann (graduate assistant), Prof. Dr. Robert Schmidt (Professor of Process-Oriented Sociology at the KU), Franziska Hodek and Max Weigelin (research associated at the Professorship of Process-Oriented Sociology) investigate the creation process of data regarding soccer games and their impact on professional soccer. (Photo: Schulte Strathaus/Press Office)

Sociologists investigate effects of numbers and data in professional soccer

Categories such as goal-scoring prowess, ball possession or space control have meanwhile become an integral part of professional soccer – both in…

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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.…

Prof. Dr. Krassimir Stojanov (Photo: Schulte Strathaus/upd)

“Social background only decisive after elementary school”

The new PISA study that has just been released reveals that pupils in Germany perform above average in an international comparison. However, results…

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)

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

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…

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)

Overwhelming response to student relief action for refugee camps in Bosnia

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…

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)

KU is honored as ‘exemplary place of learning’

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…

(from left) Prof. Dr. Bernd Cyffka with visiting researchers Dr. Nadira Degembaeva and Dr. Dušanka Cvijanović. (Photo: Schulte Strathaus/Press Office)

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…