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Around 320 participants from the fields of education, social work, justice, paediatrics, paediatric and adolescent surgery, child and adolescent psychiatry, gynaecology and forensic medicine will come together at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam from 8 to 9 May 2026 for the 17th annual…

Students and graduates meet potential employers at the Matching Day. All students who are looking for a job after graduation or an internship at sought-after regional companies are invited to take part. The FHP offers preparatory workshops to give students a solid basis for the interviews.

Lea Giesecke talks about the new training programme "Bookbinding as a social practice" and shows how it can be used in working with people.

How do you start a business when your everyday life has long been full but you still don't want to give up anything? Laura van Altena talks to Doreen Löwe about the challenges of self-employment, being an employee and voluntary work and how the EXIST Women's Scholarship helps her to focus.

The advancement scholarship supports experienced professionals in their first university degree programme: full-time or part-time, regardless of income and without age limit. Applications are still possible until 1st of June 2026.

In April, the Student Counselling Services and the University Library at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam are once again organising the "Writing Night" - an opportunity for concentrated writing and networking.

In the shared office of the design studio "woven", two inexpensive workplaces for FHP members will become available from the 1st of April 2026.

In the FLEX innovation seminar, students worked with a well-known radio station to develop new business models and realistic concepts for a sustainable family radio station.

A previously little-known chapter of Potsdam's contemporary history is coming into focus for the first time thanks to a teaching research project at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam: the paediatric psychiatric clinic in the Villa Adlon in the Potsdam district of Neu Fahrland. Social Work…

The Entrepeneurship School's FLEX courses are once again open for self-enrolment. There are 5 interdisciplinary courses to choose from in the summer semester 2026. The cooperation with the Waschhaus Potsdam is new.

The Department of Social and Educational Sciences is now also represented on Instagram. The channel is intended to provide insights into studying, teaching, research and everyday life at the department - from the perspective of students, teaching staff and employees.