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    Jena receives two Clusters of Excellence

    Friedrich Schiller University has been successful in the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments with its "Balance of the Microverse" and "Imaginamics" Clusters. It therefore fulfils the requirements for an application to become a University of Excellence.
    Flag with the profile lines ‘Light. Life. Liberty.’ in front of the main building of the University of Jena.
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
  2. The University of Jena offers excellent research environment

    European Commission honours Friedrich Schiller University with the "HR Excellence in Research Award"
    By endeavouring to provide the best working conditions for researchers at all career levels, the University of Jena is positioning itself as an attractive employer.
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
    • Liberty
    How do societies develop common images?

    Research Training Group for the study of social imagining starts at the University of Jena
    The spokesperson of the Imaginamics Research Training Group Prof. Dr Johannes Grave (2nd from left) and the coordinator Dr Claudia Schroth (centre) with the new scholarship holders.
    Image: Nicole Nerger/Universität Jena
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    Opening event of the Research Training Group „Explorations in Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining”

    together with the student congress "Imagine! Utopias and dystopias as practices of social imagining"
    Banner Studierendenkongress 2025
    Graphic: Thibault Joyeux
    • Liberty
    Property issues remain in focus

    The German Research Foundation is funding the Collaborative Research Centre "Structural Change of Property" at the Universities of Jena and Erfurt for a further four years.
    They represent the CRC ‘Structural Change of Property’: (from left) Hartmut Rosa, Silke van Dyk and Tilman Reitz.
    Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
    • Liberty
    Jena expert in Oxford

    Contemporary historian at Friedrich Schiller University Jena receives fellowship and Gerda Henkel visiting professorship for research stays in England
    Prof. Stefanie Middendorf
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
    • Liberty
    Caspar David Friedrich inspires planned Cluster of Excellence

    University of Jena as an intellectual centre in the anniversary year "250 years of Caspar David Friedrich"
    A letter from Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) to the painter Louise Seidler dated 18 October 1815.
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
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    Psychology of Right-Wing Radicalization

    New book sheds light on how people develop right-wing extremist thoughts and behaviour
    Communication and media psychologist Prof. Dr Tobias Rothmund is co-editor of the new publication.
    Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
  9. Modelling the Anthropocene

    University of Jena involved in new Graduate School at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
    Steam rises from the Jena cogeneration plant.
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
  10. University of Jena is a "University with Strong Gender Equality"

    Friedrich Schiller University receives award once again
    Equality between women and men – that is the aim of the University of Jena.
    Image: Christoph Worsch (University of Jena)
    • Liberty
    The paintings offer questions, not answers

    University of Jena as cooperation partner of the exhibition "Caspar David Friedrich. Art for a New Age" at the Hamburger Kunsthalle
    Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), The Monk by the Sea, 1808-1810, oil on canvas, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie
    Image: © bpk / Nationalgalerie, SMB / Andreas Kilger
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    A critical look at Immanuel Kant

    Philosophy project is part of an exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle and opens up "critical perspectives"
    Immanuel Kant. Drawing by Antje Herzog 2023
    Illustration: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
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