In a recent study, a team of economists, amongst others from the University of Passau, shows that the pandemic more than 100 years ago resulted in a stable shift towards left-wing parties; extremists could not benefit.
The responsible institutions are the University of Bayreuth and the Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg: close cooperation in the future fields of digitization.
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) works for stronger research, continuing education and spin-offs relating to education technologies. At the new TUM Center for Educational Technologies interdisciplinary research teams will investigate the effectiveness of digital tools for learning and teaching and will develop new applications. The center will put this into practice using continuing education programs and by supporting start-ups.
In view of a growing world population and the issue of global food security, the following number is staggering: According to the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture, 78 kilograms of food are thrown away per capita every year in Germany alone. Over 50 percent of global waste along the food value chain is generated in private households. People thus spend money on products that then end up in the garbage bin. But what is the background to this irrational behavior, which is more than a private decision in the face of resource scarcity?
Ukrainian management researcher Olga Goncharova will continue her work at the University of Passau as DAAD Guest Professor with the Chair of Professor Carolin Häussler – among other tasks, she will act as mentor for German-Ukrainian student teams.
Regensburg researchers appeal to the EU Parliament to implement a commission ban. The Commission is refusing to implement a commission ban within the new retail investor strategy. In doing so, the Commission is ignoring scientific findings according to which savers could achieve significantly higher returns.
Magdalena Glas and Alexander Kalus, PhD students at the Faculty of Informatics and Data Science (FIDS), University of Regensburg, received internationally prestigious award for their research work.
Research is being conducted on biodegradable polymers at the University of Bayreuth. Now an environmentally friendly coating has been developed that could be a full-fledged replacement for the millions of plastic packaging materials used worldwide. The scientists and the industrial Partner have now been awarded the Dres.-Volker-und-Elke-Münch Prize for the Promotion of Science and Research.
Multinational food corporations have increasingly expanded their distribution networks and sales markets in the Global South. By way of their products, they are present in many African countries. A new project at the University of Bayreuth will now use the example of Ghana to systematically investigate for the first time how these companies define their responsibility for food, nutrition and health and put that into practice. The project is funded by the DFG and led by Prof. Dr. Tina Bartelmeß, Junior Professor of Food Sociology at the University of Bayreuth’s Kulmbach Campus. The findings are expected to generate new impulses for strengthening public health that extend beyond West Africa.
The University of Bayreuth has once again positioned itself in the top group of German universities in the CHE Ranking 2023: it has achieved excellent ratings in the student survey conducted in the subjects of Law, Business Administration, Economics, and Business Administration & Engineering. The nationwide comparison published today confirms that the University of Bayreuth continues to be one of Germany’s leading higher education institutions in the fields of in the fields of law, business, and economics.
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