Founded in 1737 as a University of the Enlightenment, Göttingen University is internationally renowned for its great research tradition and remarkable spectrum of disciplines: 13 faculties, 120 study programmes, worldwide networks.
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The University of Göttingen is awarding student scholarships out of funds provided by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony. In the 2009/2010 academic year, students on Master’s degree programmes or who have passed their intermediate examination in the traditional study programmes are eligible to apply. more...
Contacts in academia, collaborative research, and student exchanges all link the University of Göttingen with the University of Nanjing in the People’s Republic of China. From 23rd to 25th October, 2009, the two universities celebrated in Nanjing this flourishing cooperation, which goes back 25 years, as well as the founding 20 years ago of the joint Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies. A University delegation including leading figures of the University and its academic staff took part in the festivities.
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A portrait of the Excellence Initiative at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen is shown via the DFG Video Portal. The film presented shows the successful implementation of the different measures of the award-winning institutional strategy at Göttingen University. The institutional strategy encompasses four central projects: Brain Gain serves as an innovative way to gain outstanding junior researchers by opening up solid career paths for the best among them. more...
When cars go to driving school
Scientists develop a learning driver assistance system
“Foresight”, as one learns in driving school, is the key to driving safely. But this is particularly difficult when it is dark and visibility is poor. Within the framework of the EU-funded project “DRIVSCO”, scientists have developed a driver assistance system that can solve this problem.
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Businesses guarantee five-year funding for professorship – modern orientation for China-focused research
Enabled by funding from trade and industry, the Stiftungsprofessur for East Asian Studies/China at Göttingen University has been filled: Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider took up his position at the beginning of August 2009 and now heads the Seminar of East Asian Studies at the Faculty of Humanities. more...
