Dominik Eulberg's biodiversity show focuses on the biodiversity crisis as a central challenge of our time. Eulberg translates ecological knowledge into visual and auditory experiences. Scientific findings become emotionally accessible. The show encourages reflection and responsible action. It takes place on April 2, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in the CAMPO Campus Cafeteria in Poppelsdorf.

In late March, a high-ranking delegation from the Canadian Western University visited the University of Bonn to expand existing relationships, particularly in the field of neuroscience, and form new collaborations in an array of disciplines.

Without powerful microchips, there would be no applications powered by artificial intelligence (AI), no connected cars and no energy-efficient data centers. Leading researchers and companies from across the globe have now come together in Bonn to debate how chips can be developed faster, more precisely and potentially with the help of AI in the future. The fact that one of the leading conferences in the industry convened in Europe for the first time and was held here beside the Rhine also illustrates Bonn’s importance as a center of science and research.

During the colonial era, vast quantities of gold from the Akan people of present-day Ghana ended up in European smelting furnaces. Historical sources suggest that African traders may have systematically diluted the gold. State-of-the-art technology and a sunken pirate ship have now made it possible to verify this claim. 

Two years after Marvin was switched on, the University of Bonn celebrated its supercomputer with a community event at the Research and Technology Center for Detector Physics. Researchers from various disciplines presented projects realized with the aid of high-performance computers and took the opportunity to chat with their counterparts from different fields.

TU Dortmund University and the University of Bonn are forming the AI Center for Entrepreneurship NRW (AICE.NRW). The new center will benefit universities throughout North Rhine-Westphalia, providing targeted, needs-based support for start-ups with business models around artificial intelligence (AI). Launched in January 2026, AICE.NRW has been granted 1.5 million euro for a three-year term by the state of NRW and the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the Start-up Fokuszentren.NRW program.

Unconventional, without a rigid agenda, and pleasantly informal: the “Hemdsärmelkolloquium” (Häko) follows this tradition to a T—this time at the University of Bonn. Around 300 researchers from solid-state chemistry, physics, and materials science filled the Grand Lecture Hall on the Poppelsdorf campus for three days. Conference fees? None, so that students and doctoral candidates could also participate. Prof. Dr. Robert Glaum from the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry organized the meeting with his team. About 40 years ago, he himself was still sitting in the audience as a student. 

The start-up “Datapods” has secured €500,000 in funding in a pre-seed financing round. “Datapods” was founded in 2024 by University of Bonn alumnus Lukas Stein, along with Jakob Endler, Finn Rübo, and David Goldschmidt.