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President Kocher: "We are deeply saddened by the terrible earthquake"

The effects of the devastating earthquake in the Syrian-Turkish border area shocked Viadrina, its students and employees. The European University feels with the people in the region and the relatives of the victims. Viadrina President Prof. Dr. Eva Kocher expresses sympathy in a statement.

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Professor Jan-Hendrik Passoth appointed new director of the European New School of Digital Studies

Professor Jan-Hendrik Passoth is the new Director of the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS) at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). His research focuses on the role of digital infrastructures in democracy and politics, software development as a responsible social practice and possibilities of intervention in and criticism of digitalization projects through critical design.

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Viadrina Prize for Polish MEP

For her pro-European commitment over decades, Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, Member of the European Parliament, has been awarded the 21st Viadrina Prize. The Encouragement Award was received by the project “Weimar Triangle“. The award ceremonies took place as part of the opening of the 31st Academic Year of the European University Viadrina.

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Online talk: "The Russian war and genocide debates – from Chechnya to Syria into Ukraine"

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Mar
Monday 16:00

Online talk: "Socialist gastronomies and cross-border learning in the 'Eastern Bloc'"

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Monday 16:00

Online talk: "Understanding contemporary Ukraine beyond established formulas"

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Courses in law, economics, cultural and social sciences

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Being international is our trademark. People from more than 100 countries meet on Viadrina campus. Foreign languages and study programs abroad at one of our 250 partner universities are a matter of course. Our study conditions are excellent: small seminars, close contact with your lecturers and counselling on your courses, internships and career service.

European and international perspectives play an important role in the study programs of our three faculties – the faculty of law, the faculty of economics and the faculty of social and cultural sciences. At Viadrina, counselling is given individually, students generally graduate within the standard study period of the course and, with our support, entry into a successful career awaits you.

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Prospective Students

Are you thinking about studying at the German-Polish border? If you have finished your school degree, Viadrina offers numerous study programs and occasions to see our campus. Visit us, meet academics, attend lectures and get a taste of student life in our twin city.

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Students

A very warm welcome in Frankfurt (Oder)! To help you find your way at Viadrina, we have a variety of things on offers for you. Find out about our tuition fees, re-registration deadlines, our courses as well as enrollment and exams.

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Graduates

Do want to start a career? Or are you thinking about a postgraduate program? There are many options. You might want to participate in our Doctorate programs, build up your academic network within our Mentoring program, or you simply want to keep in touch with Viadrina. We offer advice, support and information for your future career.

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Gesprächsrunde im Center for Peace Mediation

How is peace mediation established in the foreign policy context of Germany?

The analysis of this topic is a central research and transfer area at the Viadrina Center for Peace Mediation. Situated primarily in the environment of the third-party funded research project 'Mediation Hub of the European University Viadrina at the Federal Foreign Office', it provides a continuous comparison between methodological approaches, academic reflection and the realities of political processes.

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A social science lab for research-based learning

In the SKILL project, researchers from the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS), the Viadrina Center for Teaching and Learning (ZLL) and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are building and applying artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to recognize, analyze and visualize the structure of argumentation in scholarly articles and political arenas.

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Social practice and language in cross-border peripheries

The joint project "Linking Borderlands" focuses on the dynamics of cross-border peripheries and compares the two European border regions Greater Region Saarland/Lorraine and Brandenburg/Lubuskie. The linguistic project “Communicative Borderlands: social practice and language in the vocational training context" at the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION and at Saarland University analyses how trainees act communicatively and how the political framework and ideas are realized in cross-border vocational training at work and in vocational schools.

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Transformation in Poland and East Germany

The project “Transformation in Poland and East Germany. Barriers to modernisation in science and the economy” fills existing gaps in research on the origins and still lasting consequences of efforts at modernisation in East Germany and the barriers that they faced. It includes comparisons with West Germany and with other countries of East Central Europe. For the first time, modernisation processes in business and science, as well as their outcomes and consequences, will be comprehensively analysed using historical, sociological, economic and political science methods.

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