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For the 2025/26 winter semester, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is awarding nine international students with a Start-of-Studies Scholarship for the first time.

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 his appointment as Professor of Digital Building Surveying and As-Built Analysis at the Department of Civil Engineering, Prof. Dr Kutnyi will give his inaugural lecture entitled "Measuring, Recording, Understanding - Building Surveying in the Age of Digitalisation".

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…

Students on bachelor's degree programmes in Archival Studies and Library Science who have completed Training as a Specialist for Media and Services (FaMi) and have professional experience can now have certain skills acquired outside the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam credited towards their…

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Christa Heinrich, who played a pivotal role in establishing and expanding the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam for many years. Her death has left a huge void in the hearts of all who were fortunate enough to work…

Prof Dr Andrea Schmidt is the academic director of the Master's in Social Management. She reports on the start of the degree programme in 2016, its development and talks about her wishes for the future of ZEW in the coming years.

Two years of design studio, two strong voices: a conversation about an ending that marks a new beginning.

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.

The first signs of better orientation are now visible on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Planning and design took place on site with students and staff under the direction of Prof Christina Poth. The involvement of the university community was crucial to the development.

On the 10th of May, 2025, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP) once again took part in the 11th Potsdam Science Day with its FHP Mobile. At Research Camp A in the Potsdam Science Park, the Department of Civil Engineering demonstrated how sustainable cold recycling can be used in road…

Two Olympic gold medals and one bronze in Paris! There was great jubilation at the medals won by canoeist Jacob Schopf and rower Maren Völz. The two students are among the 72 athletes from Potsdam's universities who will now be honoured once again in a special way at the 2025 Sports Reception. The…