How do we want to live in the future? What kind of society do we want to be? And how do we get there? These questions are at the centre of the SHAPE…
Good and fair: SHAPE field of activity invites you to play an active role in shaping social change

As part of the Wuppertal Literature Biennale, the internationally renowned Cameroonian author Djaïli Amadou Amal will be a guest in Wuppertal on 12…
Reading and discussion with writer Djaïli Amadou Amal

There is growing concern about the acceptance and future of our democracy. The thing that holds our democracy together like the rules of a football…
Joining in for democracy: BUW celebrates the Basic Law

The Night of Technology is coming to the Bergisch region for the first time. As a science partner, the University of Wuppertal is also opening its…
Night of Technology at the University of Wuppertal

The University of Wuppertal is strengthening its expertise in the field of multilingual didactics and digital foreign language learning: Jules…
New professorship strengthens research into multilingualism and digital education

An international research community has been honoured with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for its decades of work on the so-called…
Breakthrough Prize honours muon research - decisive contribution from Wuppertal

The "Faces of the Ruhr" exhibition at the Ruhr Museum in Essen presents people and their immigration history. It is about arriving, growing up and…
Talent scout from the University of Wuppertal part of the "Faces of the District" exhibition

The "Climate crisis and sustainability" lecture series is taking place for the tenth time this summer semester. This time, the lectures ask the…
A good life for all: How can we achieve this? Lecture series invites you to join the discussion

"Talks with taste" is an international series of events organised by the school of humanities and cultural studies in cooperation with the church at…
Exchange and diversity: three new "Talks with taste" in the summer semester

Felix Strieth-Kalthoff, Assistant Professor of Digital Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal (BUW), has been awarded a total of €1.1 million over…
From Light and Data to Complex Molecules: Wuppertal Assistant Professor Seeks New Methods in Chemical Synthesis