How can virtually connected colleagues be perceived as equal team members in hybrid work situations? This is what business information scientists at the University of Siegen are researching in the joint project PRAESCO, which is funded with 1.6 million euros.

Major award for physicist Prof. Dr. Thomas Mannel from the University of Siegen: In recognition of his outstanding contributions to theoretical elementary particle physics, he has been awarded the Erwin Schrödinger Visiting Professorship 2025 in Vienna.

On May 5, the University Election Assembly unanimously elected Iris Litty as the new Chancellor of the University of Siegen in the first round of voting.

How do the traumatic experiences of the Holocaust and the Second World War still affect survivors and their descendants today? An interview with Prof. Dr. Simon Forstmeier, developmental psychologist at the University of Siegen, on the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe on May 8.

The University of Siegen has voted. The elections for the Senate, the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Faculty Council elections were held online for the first time in 2025. The results are now available.

The examination conditions at the University of Siegen are being improved: from the winter semester 2025/26, Bachelor's and Master's students will receive a limited number of free attempts for failed examinations. These "jokers" are primarily intended to help combat exam nerves.

Seven new trainees are starting their careers at the University of Siegen this summer. To make it easier for them to get started and feel less like strangers on their first day, the young people have already attended a Welcome Day at the university.