Press Releases:
Sustainability at the University of Hohenheim
New Centre of Excellence:
DAAD funds agricultural and nutritional research with South Africa [23.10.2024]
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is supporting the establishment of a new Centre of Excellence for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems and Applied Agricultural and Food Data Science in South Africa. The University of Hohenheim as well as three South African and one Malawian partner university are involved in the project. Funding totalling almost 6.5 million euros...more
SUSTAIN-LIFE:
EU awards "Seal of Excellence" for European University on sustainable agri-food systems [04.07.2024]
Fair, healthy and sustainable agricultural and food systems in Europe and worldwide is the goal of the European University SUSTAIN-LIFE initiative. The European Commission awarded the European University SUSTAIN-LIFE initiative a ‘Seal of Excellence’ as part of the Erasmus+ programme. This award recognizes outstanding project proposals that meet high evaluation standards. It...more
Euroleague for Life Sciences:
Scientific Student Conference at the University of Hohenheim [06.11.2023]
Global food, environment, and sustainability: Around 300 students from all over Europe will meet on 17 and 18 November, 2023, for a scientific discussion on these topics. The Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) invites students from its member and partner universities to participate in the Scientific Student Conference (SSC). Its motto is “The Power of Science – Many...more
Africa and Europe together for scientific research [22.06.2023]
Solutions to address sustainable systems for food production: The University of Hohenheim is the co-proposer of a new university partnership on this topic. The partnership proposal was triggered by the collaboration between the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities (The Guild) and the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA).more
EUR 2.6 million in REACT-EU recovery assistance:
New imaging device network advances research [21.04.2023]
The cliché that a picture often says more than 1,000 words holds true for research: A new pool of equipment at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart delivers high-resolution three-dimensional visualization of the objects under investigation. Another special feature: The devices can be linked together – so you can view the same detail at different scale levels. On 20 April...more
EBU Scientific Forum 2021:
International Conference on Bioeconomy Research and Teaching in Europe [14.09.2021]
They are the think tank of the bioeconomy in Europe: On 22-23 September 2021, researchers from the six leading universities in the field of bioeconomy will gather for the EBU Scientific Forum 2021 digital event. AgroParisTech (France), the Universities of Bologna (Italy), Eastern Finland (Finland), Hohenheim (Germany), the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life...more
Student group "FRESH“ receives distinction from UN [25.11.2011]
Eat ins, conventions and educational programmes about ethics in the agricultural sciences: Students of FRESH have been raising awareness of the importance of sustainabe nourishment over the last three years- not just in lectures, but also on campus and privately. For this no lesser organisation than the UN has distinguished the group for its work at the University of...more