On Thursday 10 July 2025, the Student Council (StuKo) conferred Teaching Awards to six teaching formats at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar that students consider particularly good. The award ceremony took place during the Summaery opening event, which was held behind the main university building.

Im Rahmen des bundesweiten Digitaltags sowie der Woche des Wasserstoffs fand in Weimar ein zweitägiger Praxisworkshop für Fachleute aus Wissenschaft, Verwaltung und Praxis statt, um zentrale Zukunftsthemen des öffentlichen Verkehrs (ÖV) zu diskutieren: Digitalisierung und alternative Antriebe.

Die Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft (GiB) hat Tobias Held mit dem diesjährigen Wissenschaftspreis in der Kategorie »Dissertation« ausgezeichnet. Seine Arbeit mit dem Titel »Einblick: Gestalterische Potentiale und Perspektiven der Videotelefonie im Kontext von Nähe und Distanz. Eine praxis-basierte, (re-)kontextualisierende und diskursanalytische Studie« wurde im Rahmen der Mitgliederversammlung der GiB am 29. Juni 2025 in Münster feierlich gewürdigt.

Pascal Stappen has received the 2025 iF Design Student Award in the »Quality Education« category for his final project »Avito«, a bird station to be used in daycare centres and primary schools. The award ceremony was held at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Der Weimarer Architekturabsolvent Andreas Stanzel ist einer von vier Preisträgern des diesjährigen »EUmies Awards Young Talent«. Ausgezeichnet wurde seine Masterarbeit »Hotel Interim«, die sich mit den Möglichkeiten temporärer Wohnformen befasst im Kontext von Stadtveränderungsprozessen. Entstanden war die Arbeit an der Professur Entwerfen und Wohnungsbau an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Die Preisverleihung fand am 19. Juni 2025 im Rahmen der Architekturbiennale in Venedig statt.

Der Weimarer Architekturabsolvent Andreas Stanzel ist einer von vier Preisträgern des diesjährigen »EUmies Awards Young Talent«. Ausgezeichnet wurde seine Masterarbeit »Hotel Interim«, die sich mit den Möglichkeiten temporärer Wohnformen befasst im Kontext von Stadtveränderungsprozessen. Entstanden war die Arbeit an der Professur Entwerfen und Wohnungsbau an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Die Preisverleihung fand am 19. Juni 2025 im Rahmen der Architekturbiennale in Venedig statt.

Weimar Architecture graduate Andreas Stanzel is one of four winners of this year's »EUmies Awards Young Talent«. He was honoured for his Master's thesis »Hotel Interim«, which looks at the potential of temporary forms of housing in the context of urban changes. The work was completed during the 2024 summer semester at the Professorship of Housing Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The award ceremony was held on 19 June 2025 as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Weimar Architecture graduate Andreas Stanzel is one of four winners of this year's »EUmies Awards Young Talent«. He was honoured for his Master's thesis »Hotel Interim«, which looks at the potential of temporary forms of housing in the context of urban changes. The work was completed during the 2024 summer semester at the Professorship of Housing Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The award ceremony was held on 19 June 2025 as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Two final theses by students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar were honoured in the national 2024/2025 »JOANES-Preis« competition for cooperative housing construction.

With one Silver Nail and two Bronze Nails as well as two additional awards, design students from the Faculty of Art and Design have once again impressed at the renowned ADC Talent Award. The award-winning projects were designed in the Visuelle Kommunikation (Visual Communication) and Media Art and Design degree programmes and display a broad range of design and content, from biodiversity and typography to collective authorship, protest culture, and philosophically motivated forms of publication.

With one Silver Nail and two Bronze Nails as well as two additional awards, design students from the Faculty of Art and Design have once again impressed at the renowned ADC Talent Award. The award-winning projects were designed in the Visuelle Kommunikation (Visual Communication) and Media Art and Design degree programmes and display a broad range of design and content, from biodiversity and typography to collective authorship, protest culture, and philosophically motivated forms of publication.

The Centre for Higher Education Development’s (CHE) latest ranking recognises several outstanding degree programmes in the Faculties of Architecture and Urbanism as well as Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The general study situation and organisation as well as the university's support and facilities in particular were rated very highly by the students. The results were published in May 2025 in the »ZEIT Studienführer« and DIE ZEIT’s HeyStudium online portal.

Renowned neuroscientist Wolf Singer will be a guest at the Faculty of Art and Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on Tuesday, 27 May 2025 at 7 pm. With his public lecture on »Oszillationen, Wellen und Interferenzen als Lingua Franca der Großhirnrinde« (oscillations, waves, and interface as the lingua franca of the cerebral cortex), he will be opening his new lecture series »Sonic Talks«, which will focus on focus on rhythm, sound and healing in the 2025 summer semester.

Niels Cremer and Tom Kemter received an honourable mention at the Rimowa Design Prize ceremony on Tuesday, 13 May 2025. Their »Standalone« redesign of the traditional crutch won over the jury. The Produktdesign (Product Design) students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar received a total of 10,000 euros in prize money for their design.

Niels Cremer and Tom Kemter received an honourable mention at the Rimowa Design Prize ceremony on Tuesday, 13 May 2025. Their »Standalone« redesign of the traditional crutch won over the jury. The Produktdesign (Product Design) students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar received a total of 10,000 euros in prize money for their design.

Gleich zwei Projekte mit Verbindung zur Fakultät Medien der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar wurden in der vergangenen Woche beim renommierten Laval Virtual 2025 in Frankreich ausgezeichnet – der wichtigsten europäischen Veranstaltung für Virtual, Augmented und Mixed Reality.

Two projects with connections to the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar were honoured last week at the Laval Virtual 2025 in France, the most important European event for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.

Two Bauhaus-Universität Weimar student projects have made it to the final of the prestigious RIMOWA Design Prize 2025. The »TONBO« design by Marius Kintzel and Julian Solmsdorff and the »Standalone« design by Tom Kemter and Niels Cremer stood out to the international jury from the numerous entries submitted from across Germany. The award ceremony is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 13 May 2025.

Ursula Damm, professor and media artist in the Faculty of Art and Design, has been awarded first prize in the »Kunst am Bau« competition for her design »Eine biologische Uhr« (a biological clock). The competition coincided with the construction of the new »Kooperationsgebäudes Biodiversität« on campus at the Freie Universität Berlin. The jury recommended that Damm’s idea be implemented.

The film documents the rescue of 104 individuals in the Mediterranean Sea. How a sea rescue takes place is hard to imagine. Jonathan Schörnig, a Media Art and Design student at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, portrays this dramatic situation from the perspective of the rescuers in his documentary film »Einhundertvier«. The film has been awarded the prestigious 2025 »Grimme-Pries« in the »Information & Kultur« (information & culture) category.