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The Australian Outback. Picture: Julia Gebhardt/Pixelio

Borders of the Unknown – Ludwig Leichhardt from Brandenburg on Expeditions through Australia

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt was born in 1813 in Trebatsch, Brandenburg. At the age of 35, he disappeared during an expedition through the hot …
Taking samples in Cameroon. Picture: Dirk Sachse

Molecular Fossils as Climate Witnesses – Lake Sediments Reveal Climate Changes

Climate change and its possible consequences are widely discussed among experts and the lay public. Dr. Dirk Sachse, a geologist, addresses a specific …
Picture: Medico International

When the Flood Comes – Catherine Abon Develops a Flood Early Warning System for the Philippines

With its 7000 islands, the Philippines is the world’s fifth largest island country – and a holiday paradise. Lying at the border of the Philippine and …
Picture: Agnieszka Pufelska

The King, the Countess & the Bishop – A New Perspective on the Enlightenment and Relations between Poland and Prussia

Power games, machinations, political alliances and betrayal – the period of European Enlightenment was eventful with many ups and downs. In a research …
Professor Torsten Dahm. Picture: Thomas Roese

The Shaking on the Ground – Prof. Torsten Dahm Investigates Earth with Geophysical Methods

A deadly 8.2-magnitude earthquake devastated the Chilean northwest coast in early April 2014. It claimed many lives. The risk of aftershocks was very …
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Picture: Karla Fritze

Literature As Nourishment – Research on a New Spatial Understanding of the Holocaust

Trauma and space – literary scholar and philosopher Judith Kasper brings these two terms together in a research project funded by the DFG about the …
Picture: Karla Fritze

Grassfielder’s Guide to the English Language – Working on a Dictionary of West African English

English is an international language; in most countries, you can get by with “world English”. However, in many regions of the world, English is no …
Picture: Karla Fritze

Learning How to Lose Weight

Psychologists in Potsdam have developed a training program for obese young people

They’ve just grown out of children’s shoes and are already too fat. Unfortunately this no longer a rare situation. Pathological obesity at an early …
During our talks we concentrate on sustainable biomass utilization, particularly linking it to Brandenburg’s cluster strategy. This will be an important point of the future research cooperation between VTT, the University of Potsdam and the pearls Research Network, particularly linking it to Brandenburg’s cluster strategy. Photo: Wulf Bickenbach

Towards the Innovation City Potsdam: Research, Cluster, and Consortia – Networking Talks at VTT

Otaniemi/Espoo (Finland), 28th November 2014

On the last day of our trip we travel to Otaniemi in Espoo, Finland again. The day before we already learnt a lot about the Aalto University …
The student initiative Aaltoes (Aalto Entrepreneurship) enjoys an international reputation in the startup scene today. Photo: Wulf Bickenbach

Towards the Innovation City Potsdam: Benchmark – Or Why It Is Worth Squatting a House

Otaniemi/Espoo (Finland), 27th November 2014

Today we are travelling to Aalto University in Otaniemi, which was founded in 2010. It was established by merging the Helsinki School of Economics, …