The City Museum and the Bonn Adult Education Center, in collaboration with the Department of Early Modern History and Rhenish Regional History at the University of Bonn, invite you to the symposium “Bonn’s (Lack of) Power.” Interested parties are invited to attend the lectures and discussions of the urban history symposium on Thursday, March 26, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Haus der Bildung, Mülheimer Platz 1, 53111 Bonn. Registration is required.

The University of Bonn is cordially inviting all graduates to the Universitätsfest 2026! The event is being held on Saturday, July 11, 2026 at KUNST!RASEN on the Rheinaue park lawn for the first time. Prior registration is obligatory and open from noon on March 16, 2026 to May 31, 2026.

The University of Bonn´s NimbRo team convincingly defended its @Home League championship title at the RoboCup German Open, finishing well ahead of the runner-up. From March 10 to 14, the service robots demonstrated their capabilities in everyday environments. They understood complex voice commands, navigated safely through a simulated apartment and an unfamiliar restaurant, delivered orders, and removed laundry from the washing machine.

The University of Bonn is participating in the newly established Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence. This Germany-wide graduate program brings together outstanding researchers from universities and non-university research institutions to conduct research at the intersection of biomedicine and artificial intelligence.

It is official, since mid-March: The University of Bonn is system-accredited. This means that the internal quality assurance system for teaching and learning, devised in a participative process, has been recognized as efficient, reliable and fit for the future. The University is thus now authorized to award the seal of the Accreditation Council to its own degree programs on the basis of clearly defined standards that are binding nationwide, after conducting a corresponding internal review.

The University of Bonn was prominently represented at the 2nd German Robotics Conference in Cologne. The conference was organized by the Robotics Institute Germany (RIG) and brought together leading figures from politics, academia, industry, and startups to further strengthen research, innovation, and technology transfer in robotics. Among those in attendance were the Vice Rector for Digitalization and Information Management at the University of Bonn, Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz, and Rector Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Hoch. Numerous researchers from the university also presented their work and robotic systems. The conference also featured an exchange with the Federal Minister for Research, Technology, and Space, Dorothee Bär. The strong presence at the conference underlines the importance of the University of Bonn as one of the leading research centers for robotics in Germany.

Brazil Day at the University of Bonn is an innovative forum for dialogue and networking—a day dedicated to strengthening academic ties with Brazil by stimulating conversation, generating ideas and gaining new perspectives. Researchers from North Rhine-Westphalia, representatives of funding organizations and members of the Brazilian academic diaspora in Germany came together at the conference to present their projects and discussed potential collaborations.

Large language models, such as ChatGPT, perform significantly less well in Portuguese than in English despite both languages being spoken worldwide. This gap has now been closed with "GigaVerbo". The team led by Dr. Nicholas Kluge Corrêa from the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn is now presenting the project in the journal "Patterns". The researchers were among the first to utilize the new "Marvin" supercomputer at the University of Bonn. Nicholas Kluge Corrêa and his colleague Aniket Sen are both members of the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Sustainable Futures" at the University of Bonn.