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Interface Design, Communication Desing, Product Design

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Oldest choir stalls in Germany

Student makes sensational discovery
Oldest choir stalls in Germany
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Info Days 2024

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Occupational Health and Safety Officer Training
11/04/2024, 9.00 am – 11.00 am
Health and Safety Instruction – General
Zielgruppe: University members, Lecturers, Employees
Location: House 2Room 0.14
Start-up Service, Social and Educational Sciences, CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Civil Engineering, Design, Information Sciences Info Event
16/04/2024, 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm
Zielgruppe: University members, Students
Location: Main BuildingRoom Cafeteria
Administration Info Event
16/04/2024, 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Zielgruppe: Lecturers, Employees
Location: Main BuildingRoom Foyer
Social and Educational Sciences Info Event
17/04/2024, 10.00 am – 12.15 pm
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Zielgruppe: Prospective students
Location: Online
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Course catalogue as an app!

The VVZ app gives you a quick overview of your department's courses directly on your smartphone. It's that easy:

  1. Open link in smartphone: https://vvz.fh-potsdam.de
  2. Save the app
  3. Select your department and off you go!
Portrait Prof. Dr. Eva Schmitt-Rodermund; Text: "Das Bündnis für Brandenburg fördert Vielfalt, stärkt Toleranz und ermöglicht den Bürger*innen des Landes eine aktive Beteiligung. Kurz gesagt: Es sichert eine gerechte, inklusive und zukunftsorientierte Gesellschaft für alle."

Strong alliance for a cosmopolitan Brandenburg

Prof. Dr Eva Schmitt-Rodermund, president of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and chair of the Brandenburg State Conference of University Presidents, has signed the "Alliance for Brandenburg".

The alliance is committed to a diverse, cosmopolitan and democratic Brandenburg for all people, regardless of their ethnic origin, nationality, religion or ideology.

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Departments & Degree Programmes at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

For 30 years, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam has offered a diverse range of courses with a personal working atmosphere in the departments of Social and Educational Sciences, CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Civil Engineering, Design as well as Information Sciences.

Social and Educational Sciences

Department 1 was the first department at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and is also the largest department with approximately 1,000 students.

Social and Educational Sciences

CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE

The various degree programmes and focal points of department 2 are interlinked via a cultural and (cultural) design claim.

CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE

Civil Engineering

Department 3 has been training young people to become civil engineers for 25 years and has seven laboratories that are used for research and study.

Civil Engineering

Design

Characteristic of department 4 is the close integration of its degree programmes in Interface, Communication and Product Design and European Media Studies.

Design

Information Sciences

Department 5 is known for its study concept of partially integrative training of archivists, librarians and information managers – also called the "Potsdam Model".

Information Sciences

Degree Programmes

Find out about our more than 30 Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes and the various study options – from full-time face-to-face studies to dual degree programmes and part-time programmes.

Degree Programmes

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Design
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Indigenous lifeworlds as an interactive video installation in Rio de Janeiro

Results from the research project Amazonia as a Future Laboratory of the Ethnological Museum, the Institute for Museum Research and the Ibero-American Institute of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, the Botanical Garden Berlin…

Photo of the wooden stall of the church in Gängelow
CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE
Study & Teaching

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FHP student discovers oldest choir stalls in Germany

The choir stalls of the village church in Gägelow are the oldest choir stalls in Germany, according to research by Lea Morath, a Master's student of conservation and restoration at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, and building historian and dendrologist Tilo Schöfbek. The sensational find…

Illustration für den Ideenwettbewerb InNoWest, Gehirn dargestellt als Apfel mit Ideen als Früchteit
Research & Transfer
Transfer

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InNoWest: Ideas for sustainable digitisation projects wanted!

The research and innovation project "InNoWest - Simply do it! Sustainable and digital together in North and West Brandenburg" is looking for project ideas in the field of sustainable digitalisation. Selected proposals will then be implemented. The competition is aimed at local authorities, civil…

Studentin lernt in der Bibliothek der FH Potsdam
Student Counselling Service Library Social and Educational Sciences CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE Civil Engineering Design Information Sciences
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Registration for the Long Night of Writing is now open for FHP students

Register now for 18th of April and benefit from the "Long Night of Writing"! The student counselling service and the library of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam are once again offering the opportunity to advance your own writing project with input lectures and the chance to concentrate on…