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“European Bioeconomy University”:
Six Universities Form International Alliance with Focus on Bioeconomy [21.11.2018]
JOINT PRESS RELEASE from the Universities of Hohenheim, Bologna, and Eastern Finland, AgroParisTech, BOKU Vienna, and Wageningen University and Research Think Tank for Europe: The six leading European universities in the field of the bioeconomy are planning to join forces in research, teaching/education, and innovation in this subject area. Following the initiative of the...more
On its 200th Anniversary:
Minister-President Commends University of Hohenheim’s Forward-Looking Focus
[20.11.2018]
Winfried Kretschmann, Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, calls his time studying at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart “one of the best times of his life.” He praised his alma mater’s current focus as forward-thinking. Fritz Kuhn, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, called the University of Hohenheim an asset to the state’s capital city. The Minister-President and Lord Mayor...more
Anniversary Year Highlight:
University of Hohenheim Celebrates Founding with Ceremonial Act [07.11.2018]
Guests of honors and friends from all over the world, a ceremonial act with Minister-President and Hohenheim alumnus Winfried Kretschmann, a reception in the Palace with transcontinental culinary delights, and a presentation of the University’s activities on four continents: At 5 p.m. on 20 November, the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart will celebrate the 200th anniversary...more
National-Socialist Past:
In its anniversary year, the University of Hohenheim examines one of the darkest chapters of its 200-year history for the first time [30.10.2018]
“Their names should serve as a warning to us”: That is how the inscription ends on a sculpture that is to be revealed on Monday, 12 November 2018 on the University of Hohenheim’s campus cemetery in Stuttgart. Over 240 forced laborers in Hohenheim, of whom two were buried on campus in 1945, are to be memorialized. In addition, all others who suffered from injustice by Hohenheim...more
Campus Expansion:
Guesthouse Opens & Computational Science Lab Renovation Begins [09.10.2018]
President Prof. Dr. Stephan Dabbert plans to open the new University of Hohenheim guesthouse on 9 October with the traditional German housewarming gifts of bread and salt for international researchers. He will also officially welcome the parent-child group “Hohenheimer Küken,” which has been using the ground floor as an interim room since 1 June. The opening represents the...more