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Students and lecturers at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam are organising a free themed semester on democracy and are exploring the future of the free democratic order. Questions of democracy, diversity and openness will be discussed as part of courses, action days and workshops.

As part of the VEStOR project (networking, expanding and strengthening the OER community OpenRewi), OpenRewi e. V., the only community for open legal educational materials in law to date, is being expanded and strengthened. Networking with other OER communities is also being promoted.

The new web portal meinjob-bibliothek.de has been online since the 14th of December 2023. It offers all those interested in libraries – whether as trainees, students, potential employees or colleagues – comprehensive information on entry-level, training and career opportunities in the fascinating…

On the occasion of his appointment as part-time professor for "Digitisation of Archives and Collections" at the Department of Information Science, Prof. Dr. Felix Schäfer will give his inaugural lecture on the 29th of January 2024 entitled "What do we do with 1 million scans? Or: Open GLAMour at the…

On the occasion of his appointment as Professor of Library Science – Technologies, Systems and Services at the Department of Information Science, Prof. Dr. Veit Köppen will give his inaugural lecture entitled "Data Engineering in Research Data Management" on the 15th of January 2024.

How about taking some time out in front of the screen during the Christmas holidays to watch the new videos from the Department of Information Science? What are the differences between the Canadian and German library systems? And how does a major website relaunch actually work? This and other…

On the occasion of his appointment as Adjunct Professor of Digital Archiving at the Department of Information Sciences, Prof. Dr. Martin Stürzlinger will give his inaugural lecture "Digital Archiving. Who do you trust with your data?" on the 18th of December 2023.

Handling data confidently in an increasingly digitalised world is the goal of QUADRIGA, the new Berlin-Brandenburg Data Competence Centre for Digital Humanities, Administrative Science, Computer Science and Information Science. The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is part of the joint project…

The certificate course "Research Data Management for Students", organised by the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, the University of Potsdam and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, has been awarded the 10,000 euro State Teaching Prize for excellent university teaching…

In the 2023/24 funding period, 25 out of 78 applicants were awarded a Deutschlandstipendium scholarship. The outstanding students receive 300 euros per month for one year. Since the start of the programme, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, together with many partners and the Federal…

Research projects generate large amounts of data – often in the form of tables, measurements and surveys. These are increasingly available in digital form and can be accessed by partners inside and outside the universities. In order to make the information findable and usable in the long term, TH…

The POTSDAM LAB will open its doors on the 14th of October 2023. As part of the Smart City model project, the POTSDAM LAB has created a space for experimentation, learning and encounters between citizens, science and administration. The aim is to work together on new and creative solutions to key…