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EUR 1.6 billion for Healthy Ageing

25. April 2013 Leuphana University Lüneburg will apply for an EU Innovation Project, with an investment volume of up to EUR 1.6 billion – Big Data revolution in Healthcare through focused European collaboration in the most promising application... [more]

Foundation Model brings Success

14. May 2013 Lüneburg. The positive results are clearly visible ten years after Leuphana University of Lüneburg assumed the legal status of a foundation under German public law. One particular advantage from the university’s perspective is... [more]

Algae can make sewage treatment plants more effective

12. April 2013 Economists would certainly call it a win-win situation: in the future algae may well be used to clean contaminated water while simultaneously serving as an energy source.  For now, this remains only a remote prospect. ... [more]

New method revolutionizes reading comprehension

04. April 2013 Study shows: struggling students can improve their reading by one to two grade levels over a nine week period. Some students have not learned how to read fluently, or how to understand the content of written texts by the time... [more]

Biofuel plant Jatropha put to the test

28. March 2013 World’s largest study of Jatropha projects exposes unsolved problems First considered a salvation, then treated as a curse: the biofuel plant Jatropha is symbolic for the fate of the entire biofuels industry. Biofuels are not... [more]

Tourism Industry: A Good Reputation Matters

18. March 2013 Vacationers prefer trustworthy agencies A good reputation pays off for any tour agency. This is the central conclusion of a study conducted by Leuphana University of Lüneburg.  According to the study, vacationers prefer... [more]

Sharing Economy – "Germany shares"

08. March 2013 Is Germany on its way to a new Consumer Culture? Lüneburg.  This year’s CeBIT, the world’s largest convention dedicated to the digital economy has made the current trend in sharing goods and services via the Internet, the... [more]

Conference Week: Hot on the Trail of Change

05. March 2013 How does social change function and what can the actively engaged individual bring to the process?—this is what 1,800 students investigated during their first academic conference.  Under the banner, “Awakening, Upheaval,... [more]

Wild pollinators increase crop fruit set

01. March 2013 A recent study, published in Science, highlights the importance of the interaction between wild pollinators and production of animal-pollinated crops. An international research team of 50 authors led by Alexandra Maria Klein... [more]

Leuphana wins ZEIT-WISSEN Sustainability Prize

22. February 2013 On February 21st Leuphana University of Lüneburg was given the “ZEIT-Wissen Encouraging Sustainability Prize” in Hamburg.  By granting this prize, ZEIT-Wissen and the Initiative “Encouraging Sustainability” recognized the... [more]