All News of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

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.

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.

In February 2026, the book "Psychologie in der Sozialen Arbeit - Das Rätsel- und Ausmalbuch" was published on the OPUS server of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. This is an invitation to understand learning not only as a performance requirement, but also as a creative and self-caring…

The legal entitlement to all-day education and care at primary schools comes into force on 1st of August 2026. In the summer semester 2025, students on the Bachelor's degree programme in Early Childhood Education took part in the seminar "Reform and Primary School Pedagogy" to explore the question…

From initial questions about the right job after graduation to the development of personal skills and targeted job application coaching: 2 ECTS credits can be earned by completing the entire care4career programme.

To mark her appointment as Professor of Counselling and Intervention in Work with Children, Adolescents and Families at the Department of Social and Educational Sciences, Prof. Dr Susanne Dorothea Hommel will hold her inaugural lecture on 1 December 2025 entitled "The World of the 'Early…

During the "Merchandise for the FHP!" project week, design students dedicated themselves to the design, staging and presentation of new merchandise. The result is two motifs for the FHP and one motif for the Department of Design.