“Be strong!” is a structured study support program at the University of Bonn that will be piloted in the 2025/26 winter semester. The program is highly diverse, covers all phases of the student life cycle and will help students to find their way around their studies, acquire and consolidate specialist and methodological skills, and build up their own resources. The pilot phase will initially draw mainly from elements in the “Be empowered!” block, which will give students the opportunity to strengthen their personal resources. Courses from the “Well-guided!” and “Fit for your subject!” blocks will be added gradually from the 2026 summer semester onward. With this pioneering program, the University of Bonn is giving a targeted boost to teaching and learning and thus implementing a key project in its Excellence Strategy.

As part of the DRD1 Gaseous Detectors School 2025, twenty-five young researchers from around the world visited the University of Bonn to gain deeper insights into the physics, technologies and applications of gas-filled detectors. This was the first time the event had been held outside of CERN.

The goals behind the project funding program “vielfältig.nachhaltig.digital” (“diverse.sustainable.digital”) are to cultivate the potential of individual students, raise awareness on sustainable development and anchor the acquisition of digital skills within teaching. Year after year, the University of Bonn provides funding for highly innovative individual and group projects within this program framework. Six projects emerged as this year’s competitive winners, on topics ranging from AI-assisted learning to a University-wide roleplay simulation.

After four years spent in lecture halls and delivery rooms, members of the first class to graduate from the new dual bachelor’s degree program in Midwifery were honored by the University of Bonn Faculty of Medicine on Friday, September 26, 2025 in a ceremony held at the teaching facility of the University Hospital Bonn (UKB).

The University of Bonn is at the forefront of artificial intelligence research. As a co-founder of the Lamarr Institute, its scientists work closely with colleagues from the Technical University of Dortmund and the Fraunhofer Institutes for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS in Sankt Augustin and for Material Flow and Logistics IML in Dortmund. Together, they are developing technologies that will transform many aspects of our lives. The institute’s mission is to create AI that is not only powerful but also trustworthy, sustainable, and socially relevant. In doing so, the University of Excellence Bonn is sending out a clear message: progress requires responsibility.

Going forward, students are to use a central online platform to apply for semesters abroad. The aim is to make the process faster, simpler and more transparent for applicants and staff alike. Before any digitalization work can begin, however, the Organizational Development team at the University of Bonn gets involved. 

The start-up project “WerksHub – Your digital assistant for smarter craft trade” is receiving Start-up Transfer.NRW funding of nearly €300,000 to bring its business idea to market. The team of five computer science students from the University of Bonn is developing modular, AI-supported business management software for skilled trade businesses. At the beginning of 2025, the students had already secured a start-up grant from North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Start-up Transfer.NRW is a funding program of the NRW Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection, and Energy (MWIKE) and the European Union.

A new study combining archaeological and genetic research offers fresh insights into social organisation and population dynamics in the Late Bronze Age (approximately 1500 to 1000 BCE). Conducted by an international team of researchers—including scholars from the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) in Mainz and the University of Bonn, both in Germany—the study focuses on burial practices in Mongolia. The findings have been published in the journal Nature Communications.