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Interesse am Ingenieurstudium? Vom 29. August bis zum 7. Oktober 2022 beantworten drei Studentinnen der Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen alle Fragen rund um das Thema Studium und Bewerbung. Immer Montag bis Freitag von 10 bis 14 Uhr ist die »Studienstart Infohotline« unter der Nummer: +49(0)3643/58 45 62 oder per E-Mail unter studienstart@bauing.uni-weimar.de zu erreichen.

From 29 August to 8 September 2022, the Faculty of Media Studies and the University Library will be involved in the screening of a selection of silent films according to the motto of »Branntwein, Tabak, Kino!« [»Brandy, tobacco, cinema!«] during the 2022 Kunstfest Weimar arts festival. A total of 14 different films will be shown at the Lichthaus Kino and the Redoute of the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar on ten evenings, which will also provide insights into the artistic ambitions, economic opportunities and state regulations that prevailed in 1922. The films were originally shown in Weimar’s two cinemas, »Scherffs Lichtspielhaus« (Marktstraße 20) und »Reform-Licht-Spiele« belonging to the court photographer Louis Held (Marienstraße 1), exactly 100 years ago.

Unter dem Motto »keep on movING« laden die Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen und die Bauhaus Weiterbildungsakademie Weimar e.V. (WBA) am 2. September 2022 zum Studieninformationstag ein. Präsentiert werden die berufsbegleitenden Masterstudiengänge im Bereich Architektur und Bauwesen. Von 13 bis 17.30 Uhr können sich Studieninteressierte vor Ort umschauen und mit den Lehrenden ins Gespräch kommen.

From 20 August to 3 September 2022, 120 participants from almost 50 countries will once again come together on the campus of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar after a lengthy hiatus for the Bauhaus Summer School.

Martin Siegler, who is a research associate within the Professorship for Media Philosophy at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, has been awarded second prize in the humanities and cultural studies section of the 2022 German Study Prize for his dissertation on the subject of media articulations of human existence in emergency and catastrophe situations. Conferred by the Körber Foundation, this award honours outstanding work of particular social significance.

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.

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.