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Portrait Sofia Chybisova, DAAD-Preisträgerin 2025

DAAD award winner

Sofia Chybisova

Dates

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Info Event
15/07/2025, 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm

Work@Heart: Open Consultation Hour for Career Guidance

Target audience: University members, Students
Location: Online
Assembly
16–17/07/2025

FHP University Day: Further Education Format in the Context of the Organisational Development Project FHP 2.0

Target audience: University members
Landgut Stober
Exhibition
13/06–18/07/2025

Exhibition "Schwedt/Oder − Urban Redevelopment and Development Prospects"

Exhibition
Target audience: Professional audience, University members, Lecturers, Employees, Students, Public, Prospective students
Rathausfoyer Schwedt/Oder
Buchstaben FHP als Sitzgelegenheit
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Shape the FHP of tomorrow

With the Freiraum project, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is launching a comprehensive reform process to make its organisational structures fit for the future and develop them sustainably by 2028. 

The aim is to optimise internal structures, strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration and use resources more efficiently. 

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

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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Awards

Press release

DAAD Prize 2025 of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam goes to Sofia Chybisova

Sofia Chybisova, a student of cultural work at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, was awarded the DAAD Prize 2025 for her special social and university-internal initiative. During the Summer and Alumni Festival, she was honoured for her diverse commitment within the university, in Potsdam…

Awards

Press release

Interactive flowchart wins gold at the Information is Beautiful Awards

The interactive flowchart "I Want a Better Catastrophe" was honoured with gold in the Places, Spaces & Environment category at the prestigious Information is Beautiful Awards. The flowchart was created in collaboration with climate activist and author Andrew Boyd.

Research

Press release

WIM-WissKomm crash course launched

Every week, the research project "Women scientists in the media" shares tips for more visibility of women scientists.

Transfer

Retrospective

Kick-off for national Diamond Open Access service centre - FHP heads the "SeDOA Innovation Lab (SIL)"

From 30/06/2025 to 01/07/2025, the official kick-off meeting for the establishment of the national service point for Diamond Open Access (SeDOA) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) took place at the FU Berlin in Berlin-Dahlem.