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Prize for findings on social responsibility in digital publicsThe Hans Bausch Media Prize focuses on the topic of “social responsibility in digital publics”. The prize is intended to give excellent research that classifies and evaluates…

The Hector Foundation is significantly expanding its financial support for empirical educational research at the University of Tübingen: The foundation of the couple Dr. hc Hans-Werner Hector and Josephine Hector pledged 19 million euros…

The University of Tübingen is opening a “Center for Religion, Culture and Society (CRCS)”: The new center will conduct interdisciplinary research into the role of religion in social, cultural and public life and in historical contexts.…

The artist Zurab Bero is coming to the University of Tübingen as part of the “Invited Artist” program. From October 15th to November 30th he will teach and work in Tübingen. Media representatives are cordially invited to the official…

North-west of Tübingen-Unterjesingen lies in the Flur Ammenbühlen, west of the Enzbach, a prehistoric settlement. Although the site was discovered in 1926, with the exception of a few reading finds, little was known about the area. In the…

The Catholic Institute for Vocational Religious Education (KIBOR) at the University of Tübingen is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Founded in 2001, the team headed by Prof. Dr. Reinhold Boschki and Prof. (apl.) Dr. Mathias Gronover…

The oldest known footprints of pre-humans come from the Mediterranean island of Crete and are at least six million years old. This is the conclusion reached by an international team of researchers from Germany, Sweden, Greece, Egypt and…

The Tübingen University Council met for the first time on Tuesday with a new composition. Professor Irmgard Männlein-Robert and Professor Heike Oberlin took up a three-year term of office. They succeed Professor Stefanie Gropper and…

The natural substance collinolactone, isolated from soil bacteria, reduces artificially caused stress on nerve cells in laboratory tests and thus protects them from damage that occurs in neurodegenerative diseases. This is what an…

Neuroscientists have been researching the properties of neurons in the brain for more than 100 years. One of the central questions is to what extent the different types of nerve cells differ from one another and what influence this has on…