The University of Göttingen is an internationally renowned research university. Founded in 1737 in the Age of Enlightenment, the University is committed to the values of social responsibility of science, democracy, tolerance and justice. It offers a comprehensive range of subjects across 13 faculties: in the natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and medicine. With about 28,000 students and more than 210 degree programmes, the University is one of the largest in Germany.
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Tree islands restore nature in oil palm plantations
Southeast Asia’s tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face significant threats from the expansion of oil palm plantations. With global demand for palm oil rising, the urgency for effective restoration strategies in these landscapes has become critical. A long-running experiment led by Göttingen University with the IPB University, Bogor and Jambi University in Indonesia, investigated how ecological restoration promotes biodiversity recovery in oil palm plantations.
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Diverse and diverging demands on forests in Germany
Forests provide biodiversity, ecosystem functions, income and much more. How can these diverse and seemingly diverging demands be met? An international research team led by Göttingen University addressed this question by analysing the effects of enriching beech forests in Germany with commercially valuable native (to mountainous regions of Europe) and non-native conifer species, in this case, the Norway spruce and Douglas fir, respectively.
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Cohesion through resilient democratic communities
A new EU joint research project led by the University of Göttingen will explore how migration, demographic change and current crises are affecting social cohesion and democratic structures in Europe. A key objec-tive is to find out how resilient democratic structures can strengthen local communities in times of profound demographic change. The project “Identities - Migration - Democracy (We-ID)” has been awarded funding of around three million euros over three years by the European Union.
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Good results for academic subjects
In the current Shanghai Ranking, Ecology at the University of Göttingen has once again been ranked first in Germany. The ranking also puts the Agricultural Sciences (which includes Forestry Sciences) in second place in Germany. The subjects of Statistics, Economics, and Business Administration at Göttingen have also made it into the top ten in Germany. In the global comparison, Ecology was ranked 17th and Agricultural Sciences 32nd.
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Birds, bees and bats working together means more macadamia nuts
An international research team led by the universities of Göttingen and Hohenheim in Germany has gained new insights into how the interaction of birds, bees and bats significantly increases the quantity and quality of macadamia nuts. Furthermore, the effectiveness of their ecosystem services – pollination and biological pest control – depends on the altitude of the area and whether it provides natural habitats.The results were published in Ecological Applications.
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Millions in funding for interstellar astrochemistry research
Professor Alec Wodtke, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Göttingen and Director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences in Göttingen, is involved in a Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The EU is funding the IRASTRO project for six years with a total of around twelve million euros. In addition to Wodtke, three other European scientists are involved.
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