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Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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Friedrich Schiller University Jena is a dynamic and innovation-driven university centrally located in Germany. With a broad range of disciplines, it shapes the future through excellent research and teaching. Its scientific excellence is reflected in its profile "Light. Life. Liberty.", which provides pioneering insights and sustainable solutions for the society of tomorrow. Through close collaborations with leading research institutions, innovative companies, and renowned cultural organizations, it advances interdisciplinary developments. With around 17,000 students and approximately 10,000 employees, it defines Jena as a vibrant, internationally connected city of science and innovation.

Variety
Discover our range of more than 200 study programmes.

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Good reasons
Why Jena is the right choice

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Counselling
Our informatiom services before your studies

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Application & enrolment
Your path to your dream programme

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Latest News

Roadmap for Europe's biodiversity monitoring system

New study charts how digital technologies, DNA, and coordinated governance can transform biodiversity observation across Europe and support global conservation goals.
- Life
- Research
Image: Stefan Bernhardt (iDiv)
How open to change is Germany?

»Deutschland-Monitor« 2025 is available
- Research
- Knowledge Transfer and Innovation
Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
Smaller fish and changing food webs – even where species numbers stay the same

Long-term global data show shifts in fish size, feeding relationships, and trophic structure across marine and freshwater ecosystems
- Life
- Research
Image: Toby Matthews/Ocean Image Bank
Social media images help fill “major gaps” in global biodiversity data

Using the rapidly expanding tawny coster butterfly as a test case, a new paper shows how social media images strengthen—and also expose limits within—global biodiversity datasets and efforts to map species’ movements.
- Life
- Research
Image: Shawan Chowdhury
How the joint defence mechanism of two bacteria works

Research team from the University of Jena and Leibniz-HKI uncovers cooperation between bacteria.
- Life
- Research
Image: Markus Lakemeyer
Jena is celebrating 225 years of UV radiation

The University of Jena commemorates the discovery of UV radiation and its significance for modern key technologies.
- Light
- Life
- Liberty
- Event
- Knowledge Transfer and Innovation
- Research
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Positions

We stand in solidarity with all people

The University of Jena is committed to universal values such as democracy, diversity, justice and human rights.

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Upcoming Events

Three Minute Thesis Competition
25 Feb 2026
19 s.t. ·
- Cultural event
In this competition doctoral candidates present their research in three minutes
- presence
- public
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Quantum Ideas Factory 2026
27 Feb—2 Mar 2026
- Seminar/workshop
The Quantum Ideas Factory 2026 – a scientific hackathon in Jena, Germany, where bright minds turn bold ideas into breakthroughs in quantum science and technology.
- presence
- public
- barrier-free
- Subject to registration
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Start your studies in Jena: Preparation & infos (2) in English

11 Mar 2026

13:00

Planning your arrival, getting help, enrol and start studying
- online
- public
- barrier-free
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SaalePUTZ: Together for a clean city
21 Mar 2026
9 s.t. ·
- Seminar/workshop
Jena Community Foundation invites volunteers and students to a day of action
- presence
- public
- Subject to registration
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
WelcomeCafé at the International Centre
26 Mar—10 Apr 2026
- Informational event
Informations about study start for international students
- presence
- public
- barrier-free
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Intercultural get together: Jena from the top
31 Mar 2026
17:30 ·
- Informational event
Join us on the JenTower and enjoy the fantastic view over the city and the valley
- presence
- public
- barrier-free
- Subject to registration
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