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Students bring diversity of opinion to television

Practical seminar of European Media Science with ALEX Berlin

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28/04/2025, 10.30 am – 12.00 pm

ttt #6: Constellation Analysis – making Complexity visible and workable

Zielgruppe: Professional audience, Lecturers, Employees
Location: OnlineRoom Link nach Anmeldung
Info Event
29/04/2025, 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Information Event: Starting a Business at the FHP from the 1st Semester

Zielgruppe: University members
Location: OnlineRoom via Zoom
Info Event
29/04/2025, 6.00 pm – 7.30 pm

Online Info Evening: Social Justice and Diversity Training

Zielgruppe: Public
Location: Online
Info Event
29/04/2025, 6.30 pm – 8.00 pm

Options for Financing your Studies

Part 3 I Seize Opportunities: Scholarships – for you too!
Zielgruppe: Students, Prospective students
Location: Online
Buchstaben FHP als Sitzgelegenheit
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Shape the FHP of tomorrow

With the "FHP 2.0" project, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is launching a comprehensive reform process to make its organisational structures fit for the future.

The aim is to optimise internal structures, strengthen interdisciplinary cooperation and use resources more efficiently in order to lay the foundations for long-term and successful further development by 2028.

You can find out more about the content and progress of the project on the project page.

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Course catalogue as an app!

The VVZ app gives you a quick overview of your department's courses directly on your smartphone. It's that easy:

  1. Open link in smartphone: https://vvz.fh-potsdam.de
  2. Save the app
  3. Select your department and off you go!

Departments & Degree Programmes at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

For 30 years, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam has offered a diverse range of courses with a personal working atmosphere in the departments of Social and Educational Sciences, CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Civil Engineering, Design as well as Information Sciences.

Social and Educational Sciences

Department 1 was the first department at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and is also the largest department with approximately 1,000 students.

CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE

The various degree programmes and focal points of department 2 are interlinked via a cultural and (cultural) design claim.

Civil Engineering

Department 3 has been training young people to become civil engineers for 25 years and has seven laboratories that are used for research and study.

Design

Characteristic of department 4 is the close integration of its degree programmes in Interface, Communication and Product Design and European Media Studies.

Information Sciences

Department 5 is known for its study concept of partially integrative training of archivists, librarians and information managers – also called the "Potsdam Model".

Degree Programmes

Find out about our more than 30 Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes and the various study options – from full-time face-to-face studies to dual degree programmes and part-time programmes.

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First legal commentary on Creative Commons licences published in open access - a milestone for open legal scholarship

With the publication of the "Creative Commons Public Licence - Commentary and Handbook for Legal Practice", a legal commentary on the Creative Commons Licences (CCPL) is being published for the first time in Germany - completely openly licensed. The work is not only a new standard work on the legal…

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Architecture and Construction Career Entry Challenge: Discussion and Networking Event on the 29th of April

Together with representatives from business, universities, alumni and students, we discuss the challenges and opportunities of starting a career and look for concrete solutions.

Further education

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Conference Proceedings "Building Material Recycling and Earth Building Materials – Perspectives for a Circular Economy in the Construction Industry" published

The symposium "Building Material Recycling and Earthen Building Materials – Perspectives for a Circular Economy in the Construction Industry" took place on the 26th of August 2022 at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. The conference proceedings are now available.

Transfer

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Science live and entertaining: University of Applied Sciences Potsdam at the 4th Brandenburg Science Slam in Luckenwalde

The Science Slam is about presenting scientific topics in a creative, understandable and entertaining way in a short space of time. Within ten minutes, the participants bring their research topic closer to the audience - not with PowerPoint karaoke, but eloquently with passion, humour and…