To what extent are tourism and town planning sustainable? How resource and environmentally friendly can mobility and the production of energy be? And how can artificial intelligence help to make our life [...] public lecture to mark the start of the on-site events, which will be held by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Joosten from the University of Greifswald on the topic of: “The Great Rewetting: How to solve the World’s [...] and the Rostock University of Music and Drama in their quest to promote Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a location for education and research to an international audience. The summer school SustainMV is funded

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opportunity to assume its social responsibility and to contribute towards finding answers to politically relevant scientific questions. The great reception shows that the research institutions are keen to meet [...] n, which we are very much looking forward to and which is fundamental to DAM.” This is a press release from the German Marine Research Alliance (DAM) Contact German Marine Research Alliance (DAM) Eva Söderman [...] of Greifswald will contribute expertise in coastal engineering and marine biotechnology to the alliance and are to become full members. The two departmental research institutes – the BGR is part of the

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and lived there until she was 16. She fled with her family to Jordan in 2012 due to the ongoing war in her home country. The student came to Greifswald in 2015. She had previously taken part in a ten-month [...] the chance to further extend her excellent German language skills. The Studienkolleg (Preparatory Courses) made it possible for Sara Qarqash to attain her goals and looked after her well. Due to her excellent [...] family is so far away, it is a comforting feeling to have people who care nearby. I am so grateful to the family for their kindness,’ she says. In addition to her native language, Arabic, Sara Qarqash also

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periods, thus losing less water due to evaporation. Both of these factors lead - as long as there is enough water - to more forest growth. ‘We aren’t the first scientists to confirm this trend,’ says Dr. Tobias [...] reconstruction is that we were able to calculate these growth rates using our own data method that we had developed especially for this project. This enabled us to show that average summer rainfall amounts [...] scientists from Greifswald have shown how important it is to statistically consider the growth conditions of today, which are considerably different to those of the pre-industrial period, when producing climate

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northwards by 30 to 80 km - a significant loss in coverage. Thawing and dry (often drained) peatlands hold additional dangers: Peat fires, which can burn underground for months and are hard to extinguish, cause [...] further emissions and pose a health risk to people living in large-scale regions. Mining, agriculture and growing infrastructure projects are another menace to permafrost, which also serves as living space [...] that are of global importance and are yet to have been recognised and dealt with sufficiently. The report is published in six languages and made available to governments and environmental institutions

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Library provides private and scientific users with free access to sources which are relevant to cultural history. It makes it possible to study the State’s cultural historical treasure, irrespective of [...] institutions involved now use a joint technological platform to digitise their holdings and enrich their digitised content with meta data according to uniform international standards. It is only with the help [...] partners can use the portal to enter their offers into national and international portals, such as the German Digital Library or Europeana . What does the Digital Library have to offer? The Digital Library

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able to further his excellent command of German. The Studienkolleg supported Gonzalo Landau on his chosen path and it enabled him to meet people from all over the world, and from Greifswald. Due to his [...] remain the place where I was able to develop the person I am today. The town’s active offers have also made it possible for me to keep up with my musical skills, allowing me to make valuable new friends with [...] his great interest in history and his enthusiasm for teaching things to others. Gonzalo Landau has successfully been studying to become a teacher of history and German at Gymnasien (grammar schools) since

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that we would not be able to hold the figures we have been able to achieve in the last few years due to the pandemic. We are therefore all the more thrilled that we are again able to greet around 2000 new [...] sessions for getting to know fellow students that were subject to face masks and the observance of sufficient distance, this year saw several online offers that were helpful for adapting to the special cir [...] ceremony, which is to be broadcast for the first time as a livestream on the University’s website. In spite of the restrictions caused by COVID-19, the new students were introduced to the University last

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university helped the partners get to know each other and to discuss specific exchange plans for the coming years. The President and the delegation also used the opportunity to get to know the University, the town [...] partners from Hanoi made their way to Greifswald. Cooperation between the University of Greifswald and universities and research institutes in Vietnam dates back to the 1960s,” explains Katharina Schmitt [...] which are enabled by the programme, help us to intensify the cooperation and realise projects such as joint summer schools or research projects.” Contact at the University of Greifswald Katharina Schmitt

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was submitted to the Prussian State Government in 1933, asking for permission to carry the name Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald . In 1954 the name was reinstated officially to the University’s [...] regarding a change to the name of the University in the Basic Regulations was made in spring 2010 after a thorough academic investigation and public hearing. Back then, 22 senators voted to keep the name and [...] and 14 voted to change the name, the two-thirds majority for changing the Basic Regulations was not attained. The details of the discussion, as well as extensive information about Arndt, were documented

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has a total of 10,196 students. Approximately 800 of these come from a total of 96 countries. Similar to previous years, both medicine and dentistry, but also courses in psychology and human biology, which [...] political science were amongst the most popular courses with no admission restrictions. Students were able to select two new degree courses: the master’s degree course in Business Administration and the first [...] International’. ‘We are currently developing a number of new international degree courses with which we aim to attract more international students. This is an area in which we still have a great deal of potential

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be awarded as a recognition of efforts to intensify the cooperation with Polish institutions at the University of Greifswald and at institutions directly linked to the university. With her thesis on ‘The [...] field of text production and reception in German-Polish foreign language acquisition. It is relevant to both German and Polish linguistics and is an empirically-based study in the field of German-Polish [...] (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań). As a result of intensive exchange activities and joint visits to conferences – initiated by Dr. Susanne Kabatnik – a close research collaboration has evolved between

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times. Access to on-site seminars and lectures is only permitted to persons who are fully vaccinated, tested, or who have fully recovered from a COVID-19 infection. It remains compulsory to wear masks inside [...] new additions to the University’s study offers this autumn. ‘We are pleased we can start the semester with a considerable increase in the number of on-site teaching formats that we are able to provide in [...] in safe conditions. I would like to thank all those of you who have have shown high levels of commitment to help prepare the new semester. Surveys of our students and staff members show that more than 90

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and can only be stretched to twice its length due to the different treatment it is given. In contrast, the spider’s combed silk is extremely extensible. It can be stretched to 14 times its original length [...] parts of the webs. Such large differences in mechanical properties have previously only been attributed to differences in protein composition. The study has now shown for the first time that cribellate spiders [...] prey, but as supporting threads for the web. The catching ladder made of combed silk is then attached to these supporting threads. Nevertheless, the odd-clawed spiders’ uncombed threads are much more elastic

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scientific quality and the nice atmosphere in the working group inspired her to apply for the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to pursue her own project. “I believe the high standards of scientific research [...] master’s degree in Plant Diversity from the University of Reading (United Kingdom) in 2011. She went on to work at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL in Switzerland before [...] the synergistic collaborations with other research groups make Greifswald a very stimulating place to work” says Alba, who will also collaborate with the Experimental Plant Ecology group led by Prof. Jürgen

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