The president of the University of Augsburg, Prof Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, wishes all members of the university a happy and healthy Christmas. She also a podcast recommendation for the festive season.

The University of Augsburg has been honoured with the “Best New Participating University” award in the international UI GreenMetric ranking. The ranking evaluates universities worldwide in areas including research, teaching, and sustainable campus design. The University of Augsburg impressed with its sustainability-orientated research and its future-orientated campus concept.

From the 1^st of January 2025, the University of Augsburg will have a new head of administrative services. Katja Graßl will join the university executive alongside the president, Prof Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, and the three vice-presidents.

The University of Augsburg’s Mietek Pemper Award for Reconciliation and International Understanding was awarded for the ninth time at a ceremony on the 3rd of December 2024. Farida Khalaf, an Iraqi human rights activist, was this year’s winner.

An international team with the significant involvement of Augsburg University Medicine has made progress in the risk assessment and treatment of extracranial malign rhabdoid tumours. Recently published in the renowned journal “Clinical Cancer Research,” the study shows how clinical and molecular factors can influence disease progression.

Following successful evaluation by an international expert committee, twelve new graduate positions have been funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, with the call for applications already advertised. Twenty-one professors researching and teaching in the environmental humanities at the University of Augsburg and LMU in Munich are looking forward to receiving applications.