University of Konstanz

"Shadow profiles" are created when social networks collect information about people who are not even members. But how are shadow profiles generated? Are they legal? What significance do they have for our society?

This is where the Centre for Human | Data | Society brings its perspective to the table: "Individual solutions will not fully protect our privacy."

Read our campus.kn article Shadow profiles: the data of others

Until 29 September 2023 you can apply for various study programmes, such as Politics and Public Administration or Biological Sciences. Admission for these programmes is based on a lottery procedure. Admission lottery for open positions (in German)

Information about applications and admission

Running a research project is like taking a journey to unknown regions. In "Science: a Road Story", uni'kon #78 looks into the daily routine of researchers and asks: How does a research idea emerge? What happens along the way? And what happens once the goal has been reached?

Read the current edition of uni’kon

The University of Konstanz has once again been selected as one of eleven Universities of Excellence or consortia in Germany.

It has been successful in all funding lines of both the German Excellence Initiative and the Excellence Strategy since 2007. Since 1 January 2019, two new Konstanz-based Clusters of Excellence are being funded through the Excellence Strategy, the follow-up programme to the Excellence Initiative: the “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” and “The Politics of Inequality: Perceptions, Participation and Policies”. On 19 July 2019, the university’s concept “University of Konstanz – creative.together” was selected for funding in the Universities of Excellence funding line.

Internationalization is key for us. This is why we promote international cooperation in research and student mobility, recruit excellent international (early career) researchers and work to increase our international visibility.

By successfully participating in the European Universities Initiative, we have taken another important step towards a joint European Education Area: Within the university network European Reform University Alliance, learning, teaching and researching across borders will become a reality.