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With our latest podcast episode "HILFE TRAUMA!", we stay close to the university enviroment. This time our guest is Bärbel Derksen, a long-time employee at our family centre. It's about developmental psychology, bonding, pregnancy and birth, early help and child protection. There will also be…

Under the theme "Libraries: a place of participation for people with dementia and their relatives", the Brandenburg State Office for Archives and Public Libraries organised a three-part training course for public library staff.

The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP) is celebrating a special anniversary this year: for 30 years, the Centre for Continuing Education (ZEW) has stood for practical, interdisciplinary and future-oriented continuing education. On 18 September 2025, members of the university, teaching…

In June 2025, students at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (Bachelor of the Social Work (BA) degree programme) worked intensively on current social phenomena in youth work in rural areas. The focus was on the question of how young people in public spaces can be involved in shaping their…

This year, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam will once again be taking part when everything revolves around international higher education in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 9 to 12 September 2025. The annual conference of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) is one of the most…

What actually happens at one of the largest library and information science conferences in Germany? What are the experiences of students attending for the first time? Four students from the Library Science degree programme share their experiences in the new video in the "Information(s)wissen" series…

At the start of the 2025/26 winter semester, the FH Potsdam Supporters’ Association is once again offering an attractive promotion for FHP students.

In the series "Potsdamer Vereine stellen sich vor" (Potsdam associations introduce themselves), the Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten newspaper has portrayed the FH Potsdam Supporters’ Association.

Good news: The EXIST-Women funding programme will continue and enter its third round in January 2026. The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is once again taking its budding female entrepreneurs on the exciting journey of founding a company. All (former) members of the FHP can apply until 30/10…

The latest start-up portrait by filmmaker Andrej Tschitschil provides an insight into the robot-assisted manufacturing processes of designer Sebastian Voigt and how these can build a sustainable bridge between mass industry and regional craftsmanship.

The Centre for Further and Continuing Education (ZEW) at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2025. The university is honouring its long-standing commitment to lifelong learning and professional development with a varied programme and special events.

As part of a study trip from the 18th of June,2025 to the 21st of June, 2025, students of the degree programme Social Work spent a day at the University of Westminster, which enabled them to gain deeper insights into the field of criminology. Here, student Pia Enterlein reports on the study trip.