The Audimax and courtyard on Leipzig University’s city centre campus were occupied by about 50 to 60 people on Tuesday afternoon (7 May 2024). They unfurled banners, one of which read “Uni occupation against genocide” in German. Declaring that they were fighting for Palestine on campus, the…
Joining forces in order to attract international professionals is an important endeavour – an endeavour in which Leipzig University has now taken another step forward. Over the next four years, two projects will be funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
The Graduate Academy Leipzig invites all doctoral researchers and early postdocs to the Career Week at the Villa Tillmanns from 10 to 14 June.
The rapidly escalating prevalence of overweight and obesity poses a significant medical challenge worldwide. In addition to people’s changing lifestyles, genetic factors also play a key role in the development of obesity. Scientists at Leipzig University and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf have…
A team of researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig University (UL), and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has investigated the motivation and potential incentives for and challenges of low-intensity grazing among farmers and land…
What do young people expect from the future? On behalf of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, researchers conducted individual interviews with more than 12,000 young people from twelve countries in the Middle East and North Africa in 2021 and 2022. The interviewees, aged between 16 and 30, offered an…
