For the energy transition, local electricity, heating, natural gas and hydrogen grids need to be expanded and converted on a massive scale and at…
Software for the energy transition: Bergische Uni at the Electrifying Ideas Award

Teachers, as knowledge and skills mediators, play a central role in questioning and dismantling racist ideologies in dialogue with their students, but…
Better tackling racism in the classroom: online conference focusses on training foreign language teachers

Social pedagogue Prof Dr Fabian Kessl from the University of Wuppertal will give a lecture on Monday, 2 June on the topic of "Abuse in the church".…
Abuse in the church: University expert as guest at the Open Evenings

The Franco-German Spring School took place at the University of Wuppertal in mid-May. The event brought 13 students from France together with their…
Building bridges through play: German-French encounter in Wuppertal

Improving climate models and reducing uncertainties in climate forecasts - this is the aim of Emma Järvinen's research work. Born in Finland, she is…
How climate change can be better predicted

The Friends and Alumni Association of the University of Wuppertal, FABU for short, combined its general meeting with a summer party this year. Around…
A lively network: FABU members' meeting and summer party

6 June 2025 marks the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann's birth. To mark the occasion, the University of Wuppertal, in cooperation with the Goethe…
Study day on the 150th birthday of Thomas Mann

Fatty acids and the substances formed from them play an important role in inflammation in the human body - and therefore also in health and disease…
Wuppertal food chemists develop international standards for the analysis of oxidised fatty acids

The University of Wuppertal's families office is taking Father's Day on 29 May as an opportunity to draw attention to the topic of "Fathers and…
"Be a man": Families office launches campaign on fathers and parental leave

As part of the President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a very limited number of international…
High honour for Wuppertal environmental and soil expert Prof. Jörg Rinklebe