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Viadrina students discuss the education system of the future in Indonesia

Viadrina students Tom Sauer and Awanish Srivastava have participated in the International Student Conference (ISC) at the Universitas Katolik Parahyangan (UNPAR) in Indonesia end of January. Following the motto "Empower the Youth, Shape the Future", they exchanged ideas with other international students and, at the end, took on the roles of politicians from the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) as part of a model general assembly in Jakarta.

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Between fleeing from and returning to Ukraine

While the war in their home country continues, 20 Ukrainian academics are currently executing their research projects at the Viadrina and elsewhere, funded by the scholarship programme of the KIU Competence Network for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies. One of them is Prof Dr Tetyana Panchenko.

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Viadrina leaves Platform X - Together for Diversity, Freedom and Science

The European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) will cease its activities on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). It is thus participating in a joint withdrawal with more than 60 other German-speaking universities and research institutions.

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Rio - Cape Town - Frankfurt (Oder). Anderson Lucas Macedo receives award for sociolinguistic doctoral thesis

The Brazilian linguist Anderson Lucas Macedo has written an award-winning dissertation on language variation in Cape Town, South Africa, at the Viadrina and his home university, the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Rio de Janeiro. For his work, which was supervised at the Viadrina by Prof Dr Konstanze Jungbluth, he has now received the prize for the best dissertation of 2024 from his university. He will be a guest at the Viadrina again at the end of January.

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Events

25
Jun
Wednesday 10.00

Open Day: Explore the Viadrina Campus and your study opportunities

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28
Jun
Saturday 13.00

Graduation Day 2025

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Shaping the future via European University

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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Faculties and schools

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Faculty of Law

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Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences

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Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

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European New School of Digital Studies

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Research

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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