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.

From 18 to 21 June 2025, scientists from the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns-Hopkins University in Baltimore are organising their first Summer Lab in Weimar. The event marks the beginning of an ongoing cooperation between the two institutions, which is aiming to bring researchers from both countries together to explore the concept of nature from philosophical, media, political, and literary perspectives. Jane Bennett, renowned political scientist at Johns Hopkins University, was already a Bauhaus Guest Professor in Weimar in 2023, and will also be taking part.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is funding the English-taught »Natural Hazards and Risks in Structural Engineering« (NHRE) Master's degree programme at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with nearly 850,000 euros. This funding will go towards full scholarships for students from developing and industrialising countries and annual grants for tutorials until 2032. Scholarship recipients acquire the technical skills required for planning, construction, and redeveloping in high-risk areas. Once students have successfully completed the programme, they are expected to bring their knowledge back to their home countries as international experts and contribute to sustainable development.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is introducing the »European Urban and Planning Studies« (EUPS) double degree programme taught in English at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism.« Students will have the opportunity to join the EUPS degree programme as part of the established European Urban Studies Master's degree programme, which, upon successful completion, awards students with a double degree from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden.

The Spanish architect duo Pablo Garrido Arnaiz and Carla Ferrando Costansa, founders of PARABASE, will be leading the Professorship of Architectural Space and Design in the 2025 summer semester at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Their approach combines analytical research with a strong spatial and material sensibility. What brought you to Weimar? What ideas do you hope to pass on to the students?

It’s a meeting that many have been working towards for a long time: Over 70 participants in the BAUHAUS4EU University Alliance project came together on Wednesday, 11 March for their first official work meeting. The principal aim is to plan and finalise eleven »Work Packages« and to continue working on them across national borders over the next four years. Some of the guests in Weimar had quite the journey – and not just because of striking airport staff: Alliance members come from a total of ten universities in nine European countries. Participants will be working together until 13 March with the goal of turning the vision of a joint European university into reality, or, perhaps more precisely, to lay the foundations for it.

Ten universities in nine European countries: The EU-funded »BAUHAUS4EU« Alliance launched at the beginning of January. The transnational cooperation, led by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, is aiming to develop innovative digital teaching formats and strengthen internationalisation. The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, as project leader, has invited over 70 participants from all over Europe to a kick-off meeting in Weimar from 11 to 13 March.

From 27 February to 7 March, the Bauhaus Spring School will attract students from all over Europe for its fourth year. With 226 participants from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and its European partner universities, this year’s international short programme has a record number of enrolments. In ten interdisciplinary courses on architecture and urbanism, art and design, and media and culture, participants will have the chance to work creatively together and engage in intercultural networking. Guests are warmly invited to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar campus for the final presentation on 7 March beginning at 2 pm.

For the third time in a row, an alumna of the binational Europäische Medienkultur (EMK) degree programme at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has received the Franco-German University (DFH) Excellence Award: Emilia Terodde was recognised this year for her Bachelor's thesis, »Hörbare Abwesenheit. Der Sound als Träger der Erinnerung in ›The Zone of Interest‹«. The award ceremony was held on 30 January 2025 at the French Embassy in Berlin.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, together with nine European partner universities, officially launched its »BAUHAUS4EU« University Alliance on 1 January 2025. The Alliance will be funded by the European Union with a total of 14.4 million euros as part of the ERASMUS+ »European Universities« programme. The goal is to establish a European campus that offers integrated education and research programmes and ensures seamless mobility for over 124,000 students and 10,000 staff members.

Radio has been a medium of listening for more than 100 years – worldwide. This is the subject of the six-part podcast »Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio Art«. All six episodes were broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur and can now be heard in the ARD Audiothek and wherever podcasts are available.

This year’s DAAD award went to doctoral candidate Pappal Suneja from India. He is being recognised for his outstanding commitment to social, societal, and intercultural issues at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

From 6 to 9 November 2024, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar hosted the first meeting of the Bauhaus4EU Student Council. Student representatives from all nine countries within the Bauhaus4EU university alliance met to lay the foundation for active and sustainable collaboration while formulating shared visions.

From 18 October to 10 December 2024, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Sprachenzentrum | Centre for Language and Cultural Learning will be hosting a series of events at the Markt 21 Gallery in Weimar and exploring topics of democratic participation and European identity.

Die Weimarer Studentin Sonia Fernandes eröffnet am 14. Oktober in Suhl ihre Ausstellung zum Wandel der artenreichen Bergwiesen, die auf ein Forschungsprojekt im Rahmen ihres Studiums der »European Urban Studies« an der Fakultät Architektur und Urbanistik der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar zurückgeht.

It’s that time again: From 7 to 31 August 2024, 230 students from over 50 countries will be in Weimar to 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 30 August beginning at 2 pm.

The city of Khulna in southern Bangladesh lies on two tributaries of the Ganges. Khulna is currently battling major waste issues, including huge amounts of plastic that get washed into the city from the rivers and further into the sea. Since 2021, scientists from the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) have been working with colleagues from the Environmental Engineering Department at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Eckhard Kraft investigating how to avoid waste in the long term and how to implement a sustainable waste management system in Khulna.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s »BAUHAUS4EU« application for the EU’s »ERASMUS + European Universities« initiative has been approved. Together with nine other partner universities from across Europe, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be receiving 14.4 million euros over the next four years. This means that BAUHAUS4EU now belongs to the 64 » European University Alliances« funded by the EU Commission.

In June 2024, members of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be travelling to partner universities in Thessaloniki (Greece) and Tirana (Albania) as part of the BAUHAUS4EU University Alliance. The aim is to increase cooperation within the alliance and to plan future projects. A visit to the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece from 17 to 18 June is the first stop on the trip. Following this, from 19 to 23 June, the delegation will visit Polis University in Tirana, Albania, which specialises in architecture, urbanism, civil engineering, and design.

»From Vision to Action: Co-Creating Rural Futures« – experts from the European Commission, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the »stiftung baukultur thüringen« and the Bauhaus4EU Network will be meeting in Brussels on 25 June 2024 to discuss shaping rural areas and developing potential concepts. The aim of the event is to launch a collaborative process for the development of rural areas in cooperation with European regions in order to influence European policy decisions related to the 10th general EU programme.