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On 28 April 2020, the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration published its latest report, which focuses on migration from Africa. In an interview, Claudia Diehl and Daniel Thym, the Konstanz members of the Expert Council, comment on specific aspects of the report. You can read the full interview on campus.kn, the online magazine of the University of Konstanz.

University of Konstanz rolls out programme on data and information literacy for all its students

Förderung der Themenreihe zum Roman „Die Jakobsbücher“ der Literaturnobelpreisträgerin Olga Tokarczuk

Interview with on the topic of home schooling and reopening schools: Konstanz education researcher, Professor Axinja Hachfeld, says that we risk setbacks in equal access to education and gender equality. In an interview with campus.kn, she criticizes the federal government’s current decision to reopen schools, citing a lack of planability for educational institutions as well as a lack of long-term policy regarding the social consequences.

Konstanz-based chemist Professor Andreas Marx has been awarded a Reinhart Koselleck Project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) amounting to one million euros plus programme allowance. This will enable him to investigate the structural principles of writing and reading synthetic genetic polymers, so-called xenonucleic acids (XNAs).

At the start of the lecture period of the summer semester 2020 – a semester that will be anything but normal – Rector Kerstin Krieglstein has an audio message for all university members (in German).

Unter dem Motto stronger.together starten die Universität Konstanz und ihre Fördervereine eine gemeinsame Hilfsinitiative für Studierende, die aufgrund der aktuellen Situation um das Coronavirus in Not geraten sind.

Doesn’t the coronavirus pandemic make us all equal? Where will society stand after the crisis? What can the welfare state do, and will the population’s trust remain unchanged? Professor Marius R. Busemeyer, inequality researcher at the University of Konstanz, answers these questions in an interview.

Prof. Dr. Florian Stengel vom Fachbereich Biologie an der Universität Konstanz ist mit dem Manfred-Fuchs-Preis 2020 der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften ausgezeichnet worden. Er ist einer von sieben jungen Forschenden aus Baden-Württemberg, deren exzellente wissenschaftliche Arbeit mit sechs gestifteten Preisen im Gesamtwert von über 60.000 Euro von der Akademie gewürdigt worden ist. Der Manfred-Fuchs-Preis ist mit einem Preisgeld in Höhe von insgesamt 10.000 Euro dotiert.