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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important supporter of German-Finnish academic, social and cultural collaboration. ‘I am very grateful to the President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, for this great honour. It is an expression of a profound [...] Buchmesse . Furthermore, several artists from Greifswald’s partner town, Kotka, have been invited to the festival over the course of the years. Prof. Pantermöller is also deputy chairman and managing [...] and the Helsinki Institute for the Languages of Finland, Kotus. Further Information Media Photo Contact at the Embassy of Finland Heini-Tuuli Onnela Press Counsellor of the Embassy of Finland Rauchstraße

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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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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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consists of Dzaneta Kaunaite and Dr. Fabian Schmitt. You can contact us at forschungsdaten@uni-greifswald.de at any time. We would be happy to arrange a personal consultation. Die Universitätsbibliothek

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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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the Faculty of Medicine from 2002 to 2012. In 2011 he completed the master’s degree course Health Care Management at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. Contact at University Medicine Greifswald [...] Munich. He completed his doctorate and habilitation and worked as a surgeon at TU Munich before coming to University Medicine Greifswald in 2001, where he took over the Chair of General and Visceral Surgery

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gigantic carbon sinks. Drained peatlands, in contrast, globally emit over 2 Gt of carbon dioxide per year. To reverse this dramatic climate damage, peatlands must be rewetted and can often still be cultivated [...] Almost 200 scientists, land owners, land users and environmentalists have come together at the RRR2017 to promote this promising and necessary concept. Prof. Dr. Johanna Eleonore Weber, rector of the University [...] editorial purposes in combination with this media release. You must name the image author. Download Contacts at the University of Greifswald Dr. Franziska Tanneberger & Greta Gaudig Greifswald Mire Centre

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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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