Wie lässt sich der Zustand von Wäldern künftig präziser erfassen, Schäden frühzeitig erkennen und Aufforstung langfristig dokumentieren? Mit dieser Frage beschäftigen sich internationale Studierende vom 16. bis 20. März 2026 in einer Innovation & Startup Challenge an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Die Veranstaltung ist Teil der BAUHAUS4EU Spring School und bringt rund 20 bis 25 Teilnehmende aus den europäischen Partneruniversitäten der Allianz für fünf Tage nach Weimar.

From 12 to 21 March, the Bauhaus Spring School will once again bring students from all over Europe together in Weimar and celebrate its fifth anniversary. Since 2022, the international teaching format at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has been successfully connecting students from European partner universities. The anniversary programme is taking things to the next level: with a total of eleven interdisciplinary courses, there are more options that ever.

Interdisciplinary teaching, a green campus, or rethinking vacant rural properties: The BAUHAUS4EU Alliance is initiating three open calls for new international teaching formats. They are looking for European BAUHAUS courses, student-led courses, and Regional Living Labs. All formats are open to the ten partner universities’ communities and should improve international networking in studying and teaching.

How did modernist design ideal spread beyond Europe? And what did they come to mean in South Asian media cultures? This question forms the foundation of the »From Process to Aesthetic: Recontextualizing Modernism in South Asia through Cinema, Print, and Object-Oriented Ontology« (2025–26) research project. Funded by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s research workshop initiative, the project focusses on architecture, media, and material aesthetics and consistently examines modernism from a postcolonial perspective.

The second year of the European university alliance BAUHAUS4EU (B4EU) begins with a significant award: shortly before the end of the year, the European Commission described the project in an official statement as a successful model for regional transformation. The alliance is driving sustainable regional development in line with the New European Bauhaus Initiative, including through transdisciplinary curricula, regional living labs, and the sustainable development of the campuses of its ten partner universities.

On September 1, 2025, the DFG-funded research project Authoritarian Urbanism in the 21st Century: Progressive Urban Design and Participatory Planning in Hungary and Serbia started at the chair European Cities and Urban Heritage.

This year's German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Prize goes to doctoral student Ihab Al-Rikabi from Iraq. He is being honored for his outstanding commitment to social, societal, and intercultural issues at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

At the end of the year, the BAUHAUS4EU (B4EU) University Alliance will be hosting a Staff Week together with the Bauhaus Summer School. From 8 to 12 December, around 30 staff members from all ten partner universities, as well as from Kharkiv National University of Economics, Kharkiv School of Architecture and Lviv National Academy of Arts in Ukraine, will meet and visit the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Under the slogan »Summerschools als Instrument zur Umsetzung europäischer BAUHAUS-Kurse« (Summer School as a Tool for Implementing European BAUHAUS Courses), the workshop will focus on international short-term programme formats.

On November 13, the online event »Alumni.Insights« provided around 50 international students with valuable perspectives on pursuing careers in Germany. Hosted by the Faculty of Media and the Career Service, the event featured three international alumni Fauziah Permatasari (Human-Computer Interaction), Lucky Chandrautama (Computer Science for Digital Media), and Aayush Shah (Digital Engineering) who shared their professional journeys and insights.

From 12 to 14 November, the Sprachenzentrum | Centre for Language and Cultural Learning at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar invites you to the BAUHAUS4EU Staff Week: The theme of the event is »Let’s Talk About Language!«, and staff from the language centres of all ten BAUHAUS4EU University Alliance partners will meet in Weimar for the first time for a »Dialogue of Languages«. The three-day programme will focus on learning about one another’s institutions and approaches and exchanging ideas about innovative course formats for students and employees. A total of 25 guests from all over Europe are expected to attend the event and collaborate on concepts for intercultural learning and linguistic networking.

This week kicks off the first of four annual BAUHAUS4EU European University Alliance-organised photo competitions. Students and doctoral candidates at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar or at other Alliance universities are eligible to participate. The theme of the competition is »Inclusive Grounds: Stories of Belonging and Resilience« and is a call to participants to see their respective campuses as living ecosystems and to look for moments that reflect the B4EU Alliance's mission in terms of its values of resilience, sustainability, inclusivity, and beauty.

The international Erasmus Days will take place across Europe from 13 to 18 October: For six days, universities and educational institutions will invite visitors to learn about the projects and opportunities offered by the Erasmus+ Programme. In 2024, over 10,000 events took place in 60 countries. This year, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be participating for the first time with initiatives organised by the BAUHAUS4EU University Alliance and the International Office.

The BAUHAUS4EU (B4EU) University Alliance has published their first programme of events: Courses are now open to members of all ten partner universities, including the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The course catalogue includes lectures for students as well as workshops, staff weeks, and training sessions for administrative and technical staff, instructors, and researchers, providing opportunities for further education and networking with European colleagues.

Vom 22. September bis 1. Oktober 2025 findet das achte Science Camp für Thüringer Ingenieurstudierende an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar statt. Im Fokus der hochschulübergreifenden Lernreihe stehen dieses Mal akustische Signale, die von schwingenden Baustrukturen ausgehen. Ziel ist es, Hands-On-Erfahrungen mit Bauwerkserschütterungen und insbesondere Erdbeben zu sammeln und sich mit Studierenden und Industriepartnern zu vernetzen.

On 4 September, the BAUHAUS4EU University Alliance invited its partners from across Thuringia to a workshop at the Startup Hub »neudeli«. The Thuringian »B4EU-Regional Council« kicked off its work with the constituent meeting. The goal is to strengthen the relationship between the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and regional partners and to initiate collaborative projects. In addition to representatives from the Faculties of Architecture & Urbanism, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Media, University President Prof. Peter Benz was also in attendance.

The »spacing – Lernen zwischen Räumen« three-day conference will be hosted by the Learnraum.Bauhaus and the eTeach-Netzwerk Thüringen from 24 to 26 September at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The event will centre around the idea of designing physical, digital, and hybrid spaces so that they provide optimal support for teaching and learning. Registration is open for those interested and is free of charge.

From 6 to 31 August 2025, around 250 students from over 50 countries will take part in two to three-and-a-half week language and specialist courses at the Bauhaus Summer School. Guests are warmly invited to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar campus for the final presentation on 29 August beginning at 2 pm.

The PARFORCE project, led by the Professorship of Advanced Structures at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, was awarded the PROFFORMANCE Higher Education Teacher Award 2025, as well as 1st place in the digitalisation category for its innovative »Experimental Testing Based on Impact and Resistance: Wind, Fire and Earthquake« course. The award ceremony took place on 4 June as part of the »Teacher Power! - Hochschulpolitik in Aktion« online event. Of the 161 submissions, 17 projects were awarded prizes.

The BAUHAUS4EU European University Alliance ended last Friday, 13 June, after a three-day forum event. It was the first of four planned forums that will be organised by a different partner university every year during the project period from 2025 to 2028. The event centred around familiarising members of the various teams and committees of the Alliance with each other and holding collaborative work meetings. Industry and cultural partners from the Portuguese region of Castelo Branco and from other university alliances also participated.