From this autumn, Prof. Dr. Andrea Dreyer (Professor of Art Education, Faculty of Art and Design) and Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich (Professor of Virtual Reality Systems, Faculty of Media) will receive funding from the »Innovationen in der digitalen Hochschullehre« joint fellowship programme of the donors’ association (Stifterverband) of the German initiative to promote education, science and innovation (Deutsche Wissenschaft e. V.) and the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society. The state of Thuringia is supporting teaching concepts with up to €50,000 to encourage innovations in digital university teaching.

Vom 13. bis 15. September 2023 lädt das F.A. Finger-Institut für Baustoffkunde der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar und die Bauhaus Weiterbildungsakademie Weimar e.V. zur 21. internationalen Baustofftagung (kurz: ibausil) in das Kongresszentrum Neue Weimarhalle ein. Traditionell bilden die Herausforderungen der Baustoffentwicklung und Baustoffanwendung den Schwerpunkt der Vortragsveranstaltungen. Ferner wird eine tagungsbegleitende Ausstellung (Verfahren, Produkte) durchgeführt. Auf der Webseite www.ibausil.de können Interessierte das vorläufige Tagungsprogramm einsehen und sich mit einem Vortrag anmelden.

The Webis group involving Prof. Dr. Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Prof. Dr. Martin Potthast (Leipzig University) and Prof. Matthias Hagen (University of Halle) will cooperate with eleven other leading European research centres to develop an open web search infrastructure for Europe as part of the »OpenWebSearch.EU« project. The project aims to contribute to Europe’s digital sovereignty and to foster an open, human-centred search engine market. It is being funded with €8.5 million through »Horizon Europe«, which is the European Commission’s key funding programme for research and innovation.

In its meeting on 6 July 2022, the University Senate unanimously voted in Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrea Osburg as the new Vice President for Research, Arts and Young Academics. The professor for construction chemistry and polymeric building materials was nominated by the Interim President of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and appointed for three years beginning immediately after the vote, in accordance with the University Charter. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrea Osburg’s term in office thus began on 6 July and she will be available at least until the future university president takes office.

In the winter semester 2021/22, students from the Faculty of Art & Design embarked on an in-depth exploration of complaints and the processes these trigger that are often contrary to the intention of the actual complaint within the module entitled »Complaint!ivism?«. The outcome is almost 200 individual entries that address this highly topical social issue from an art-theoretical and artistic perspective in a wide variety of formats.

Mehr als 50 Architektur- und Urbanistikstudierende entwickelten im städtebaulich-freiraumplanerische Entwurf »C the Unseen« Ideen für das Gebiet des ehemaligen Elektrizitätswerks. Die Arbeiten werden vom 25. Juli bis 1. August im Kulturkaufhaus »TIETZ« in Chemnitz ausgestellt.

Im Rahmen ihrer Sommertour besucht die Thüringer Gesundheitsministerin Heike Werner derzeit verschiedene Institutionen des Gesundheitswesens, Ärztinnen und Ärzte und Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, um nach zwei Jahren Pandemie Bilanz zu ziehen. Den Auftakt beging die Ministerin am Montag, den 18. Juli an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Im Gespräch mit Frau Prof. Jutta Emes, vorläufige Leiterin der Universität, sowie Prof. Silvio Beier und weiteren Projektpartner*innen wurde der Erfolg des Pilotprojektes »SARS-CoV-2-Abwassermonitoring in Thüringen« (CoMoTH) ausgewertet. Trotz positiver Bilanz: Ob eine Anschlussfinanzierung des Projektes ab August 2022 bewilligt wird, steht noch nicht fest.

»Wer weiß? | Who knows?«: The summaery2022 had this deliberately ambiguous title and asked how, where and by whom knowledge is produced. Organized by the Faculty of Media, this year's annual show at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar was finally able to take place on campus again after a two-year pandemic.

On Friday 15 July 2022, Hannes Dünnebier was honoured with the Lyonel Art Prize during the »summaery2022« annual show at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The award for outstanding young artists is endowed with €2,000 and has been conferred to artistic dissertations from the Faculty of Art and Design since 2019 by the Lyonel e. V. association for the promotion of art, design and culture.

On Monday 18 July, the Thuringian minister will stop off in Weimar as part of her summer tour. The extent to which waste water should be analysed all across Germany to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and other pathogens will be discussed during an exchange with Professor Silvio Beier and other partners from the pilot project »SARS-CoV-2 waste water monitoring in Thuringia« (CoMoTH).