News — University of Bonn

Supporting Equal Opportunity and Participation on a Structural Level¹

The University of Bonn has joined the Chancengerechtigkeit (“Equal Opportunity”) network based in the Rhineland. Founded in 2018, this alliance of leading teaching and research institutions from the region is committed to focusing on equal opportunity in all its various aspects in everything that they say and do. The University of Bonn has formally acknowledged the network’s guidelines in order to gain admittance.

International Security Forum in Bonn²

“A World out of Joint – Global Power Shifts and Religious Extremism”: this will be the focus of the Main Day at this year’s International Security Forum Bonn, which is being held at the University of Bonn from Thursday, 19 to Sunday, 22, October. Meanwhile, the Bonn Future Lab on Strategic Foresight will be tackling the topic of “Global Energy Transitions” on October 20. The Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the University of Bonn is organizing the high-caliber event at the Universitätsforum at Heussallee 18–24 in Bonn together with key partners including the Academy of International Affairs NRW (AIA-NRW), the German Economic Institute (IW) and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). Representatives of the media are warmly invited to attend for reporting purposes, while there will also be various public events open to anyone who might be interested.

Shining a Spotlight on Global Partnerships³

With its 2023 International Days, the University of Bonn will be focusing on two countries in particular this year: Ghana and Brazil. The Vice Rectorate for International Affairs would like to invite students, doctoral candidates, postdocs, researchers and anyone else who might be interested to come and join in the celebrations.

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"Go for it" and submit ideas for the ideas competition⁴

How can the diverse and innovative knowledge from the University of Bonn be turned into creative and innovative ideas? The ideas competition of the Transfer Center enaCom offers a great opportunity to turn such ideas into reality, plus the chance to win prizes of up to 1,000 euros. The deadline for submitting idea sketches is November 5th, 2023.

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Millions in funding for development of influenza drugs⁵

How can the propagation of influenza viruses be stopped? For a new approach in the therapy of influenza infections, Prof. Hiroki Kato from the Institute of Cardiovascular Immunology at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation2 of the University of Bonn receives an Open Philanthropy grant of 2.2 million US dollars. Together with his team, he found a compound that inhibits the body's own methyltransferase MTr1 and thus prevents the replication of influenza viruses. The funded project now aims to identify further MTr1 inhibitors with influenza-inhibiting activity that could be considered for clinical trials in the near future.

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Statement by the Rectorate⁶

The University of Bonn condemns the terrorist attacks on Israel over the weekend and the ongoing aggressions in the strongest possible terms.

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“Your Studies Open up a Wealth of Possibilities”⁷

On Wednesday—a few days before lectures actually start—some 2,000 new students came along to the First-Semester Students’ Welcome put on by the University of Bonn. The emphasis was on giving advice and information and enabling people to get to know one another. Whether it was at the large-scale opening event, the info market in the Arkadenhof or the party in the evening, the First-Semester Students’ Welcome provided ample opportunity for them to find out more about the University, their subjects and their fellow students.

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THE Ranking: University of Bonn in World’s Top 100 Once Again⁸

The UK-based magazine “Times Higher Education” (THE) has compiled its internationally renowned THE World University Ranking, which compares some 1,900 universities, for the past 20 years now. The University of Bonn came in 91st globally and 6th in Germany, putting it in the world’s top 100 universities. One noticeable aspect was that, compared to other institutions, a change to the methodology used in the rankings had virtually no impact on the University’s excellent results.

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