On 1 January 2026, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts accepted seven new scholarship holders into the Junge…
Honoured: Wuppertal junior professor becomes a member of the Young Academy

Children today are growing up in a digital world. The aim of computer science education is to teach them to act independently and responsibly. A new…
Anthology dedicated to computer science education in primary schools

Together we are starting a new year; a year with new opportunities and challenges in which we can build on strong cooperation and look forward to…
Welcome to the year 2026 at the University of Wuppertal!

Francis Davis invented the first power steering system in 1926. In the Jahr100Wissen interview, Prof Dr Uwe Janoske from the University of Wuppertal…
When driving cars became easier

Dr h.c. Josef Beutelmann, Chairman of the University Council of the University of Wuppertal, was reappointed as a member of the Accreditation Council…
Dr h.c. Josef Beutelmann continues to be a member of the Accreditation Council

Due to current construction work on the Grifflenberg campus, pyrotechnics are once again banned at the University of Wuppertal on New Year's Eve in…
Fireworks ban at the University of Wuppertal on New Year's Eve

The religion book "OrtswechselPlus 9" from Claudius Verlag has won the inaugural Henny Brenner Prize for the best textbook critical of anti-Semitism.…
Preventing anti-Semitism: school book team wins new Henny Brenner Prize

The international research group "Future Methods for Studies of Trapped Gluons in Quantum Chromodynamics", led by the University of Wuppertal, has…
DFG funds cutting-edge research in Wuppertal on the fundamental force of nature more

The University of Wuppertal (BUW) is awarding the title of "Distinguished Professor" for the first time. The new honorary title recognises outstanding…
Karl-Heinz Kampert becomes the first Distinguished Professor

With the exhibition "effort + flow - mathematics and art in exchange", the Kunsthalle Barmen will be showing from 16 January to 29 March 2026 how…
New exhibition at the Kunsthalle Barmen: Maths and art in dialogue