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A group of people in alpine region having a break. They seem to be exhausted but happy.

Exploring the Ötztal Alps – Day 6: On Local Perspectives and Rock Stars

Field Trip Diary of the CLEWS Master’s Program on Climate Change and Sustainability

Our day started where the second last generation enjoyed a fuuun snow fight. Instead of snow, this year the weather offered us the brightest sun, in …
Reservoir in Ötztal Alps

Exploring the Ötztal Alps – Day 5: Hiking and Rock Glaciers

Field Trip Diary of the CLEWS Master’s Program on Climate Change and Sustainability

On the fifth day of our hike, we started around 9 in the morning and took the cable car up to Hohe Mut, which is at around 2,670 m.
High Alpine Landscape.

Exploring the Ötztal Alps – Day 4: High Alpine Road Trip

Field Trip Diary of the CLEWS Master’s Program on Climate Change and Sustainability

Every day begins with curiosity… wondering what new wonders are waiting for us.
Ötztal Local History Museum, view from the outside

Exploring the Ötztal Alps – Day 3: A mummy and cultural heritage of the Ötztal Alps

Field Trip Diary of the CLEWS Master’s Program on Climate Change and Sustainability

What makes 17 people from 11 different countries go to the Alps and feels like child entering to a candy shop? The weather that was luckily enchanting …
People hiking along a small pathway towards to glacier in the the background

Exploring the Ötztal Alps – Day 2: Close to glaciers - Hiking to the Gaisbergferner

Field Trip Diary of the CLEWS Master’s Program on Climate Change and Sustainability

Getting up early has never been so easy, especially when you know that glaciers are going to be so close that they can be touched!
Arrived in the Ötztal Alps: Students from the CLEWS Master's program in a group photo.

Exploring the Ötztal Alps – Field Trip Diary of the CLEWS Master’s Program on Climate Change and Sustainability

Understanding climate change, assessing its consequences, and developing solutions—these are the core objectives of the international Master’s program …
A group of people posing for a photo.

The Earth System – Five Years of the CLEWS Master’s Program on Climate Change and Sustainability

Understanding climate change, assessing its consequences, and developing solutions—that is the focus of the international master’s program “Climate, …
Gruppe von kolumbianischen Studierenden vor dem Physikgebäude in Golm

Fostering oversea contacts – students from Colombia visited Potsdam geoscientists

The Institute of Geosciences at the University of Potsdam has established diverse contacts to Latin America for long time via study exchanges, …
Student of music didactics visit the VR/ AR Makerspace of computer science

VReiraum in the Makerspace – Innovative Teaching Project on Using Virtual and Augmented Reality in Academic Teaching

How do we want to live in the city of the future? Can it be designed in a way that protects the climate and environment and also promotes social …
3D point cloud model of the Golm Campus

From Space and From the Air, with Laser and Neutrons – Modern Sensor Technology Helps to Better Understand the World

Archimedes discovered the law of hydrostatic buoyancy because he himself caused his bathtub to overflow, Isaac Newton is said to have discovered the …