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More eventsStudy and health: online webinars from Techniker Krankenkasse
Senate meetings in the winter semester 2025/26
Study and health: online webinars from Techniker Krankenkasse
Graduate Day in the Conservation and Restoration degree programme
Teaching Peers – Reading and talking with guests
In January the Outreach Hub Luckenwalde invites you to the Teaching Peers exchange series. In hybrid events, people from science, art, culture and community work come together to read, discuss and develop ideas for social innovation. Open, diverse and free of charge – in Luckenwalde and digitally.
Shape the FHP of tomorrow
With the Freiraum project, a comprehensive reform process for organisational development is taking place at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam until 2028.
The aim is to improve internal structures, promote interdisciplinary collaboration and use resources more efficiently.
The University Day 2025 was an important step: over 100 participants discussed specific approaches for a sustainable organisational structure.
All details and results can be found online on the project page.
Departments & Degree Programmes at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
For 30 years, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam has offered a diverse range of courses with a personal working atmosphere in the departments of Social and Educational Sciences, CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Civil Engineering, Design as well as Information Sciences.
Social and Educational Sciences
Department 1 was the first department at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and is also the largest department with approximately 1,000 students.
CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE
The various degree programmes and focal points of department 2 are interlinked via a cultural and (cultural) design claim.
Civil Engineering
Department 3 has been training young people to become civil engineers for 25 years and has seven laboratories that are used for research and study.
Design
Characteristic of department 4 is the close integration of its degree programmes in Interface, Communication and Product Design and European Media Studies.
Information Sciences
Department 5 is known for its study concept of partially integrative training of archivists, librarians and information managers – also called the "Potsdam Model".
Degree Programmes
Find out about our more than 30 Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes and the various study options – from full-time face-to-face studies to dual degree programmes and part-time programmes.
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Appeal for the provision of childhood educators in all-day primary schools
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…
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Scholarship programme: Leaders in Entrepreneurship
In summer 2026, engineering students will have the opportunity to gain practical insights into the corporate culture of the USA as part of a fully-funded scholarship from the Fulbright Germany Commission. The application deadline is the 4th of March, 2026.
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DFG appoints Prof. Dr Ulrike Wuttke to the Committee for Academic Libraries and Information Systems
The DFG's Joint Committee has elected Dr Ulrike Wuttke, Professor of Library Science with a focus on Digital Humanities and Open Science, to the Committee for Academic Libraries and Information Systems (AWBI). She will support the committee in the 2026 to 2029 term of office with her expertise in…
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FH Potsdam photography exhibition opens at the Ministry of Science
Science Minister Dr Manja Schüle today opened the exhibition "Drängende Gegenwart - Fotografie als Forschungsinstrument" at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (FHP). It will be on display at the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK) in Potsdam from 23 January to 6 March 2026.