Bonn professor receives award
UNIPRENEURS honors Prof. Denise Fischer-Kreer for her outstanding commitment to entrepreneurship at universities
Starting your Uni Life
University hosts First-Semester Students’ Welcome for 2026
Threefold Success in “Global Minds”
DFG to fund two professorships and one Mercator Fellow in research alliances involving the University of Bonn
Bonn professor receives award
Starting your Uni Life
Threefold Success in “Global Minds”

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Threefold Success in “Global Minds”
Three world-renowned researchers are set to strengthen research consortia of which the University of Bonn is a member. Professor Joanna Kalucka, a biomedical scientist from Aarhus University, will serve as a Mercator Fellow Global in Collaborative Research Center 1454, “Metaflammation,” which is based in Bonn and also involves the University Hospital Bonn. One “Global Minds” professorship will be established in each of the Bonn/Cologne Clusters of Excellence DYNAVERSE and ECONtribute.
Marking the Start of Uni Life and Offering Guidance
The University of Bonn is inviting all new starters to come along to the First-Semester Students’ Welcome on October 8, 2026. Based in the University Main Building and the Arkadenhof, the event will provide information, advice and a wealth of opportunities for them to get to know the University, its departmental student bodies and their fellow students from their own and other subjects. The celebrations will be rounded off with a party in the evening.
Do Grasslands in More Diverse Landscapes Suffer Less from Drought?
During the heatwave of 2018, meadows and pastures also suffered from the drought. Are grasslands in diverse landscapes more resilient to yield losses than those in monotonous regions? Researchers at the University of Bonn led by Marco Ferro and Prof. Dr. Jan Börner from the Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR) investigated the influence of landscape diversity on the drought tolerance of grasslands as part of Collaborative Research Center 1502 DETECT.
UNIPRENEURS honors Denise Fischer-Kreer
Prof. Dr. Denise Fischer-Kreer received an award from UNIPRENEURS for her exceptional dedication to spin-offs and entrepreneurship. The professor for Entrepreneurial Behaviour at the Institute of Entrepreneurship, University of Bonn, was honored for her work promoting entrepreneurship within higher education and research in Germany, along with 19 other professors. The award ceremony took place in Berlin.

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