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Professional bioacoustics in your pocket: The new BirdNET Live app is revolutionising the monitoring of animal calls. Its AI works without an internet connection and recognises more species than other apps.

The Faculty of Human Sciences has awarded Dr Katja Höglinger the Beatrice Edgell Prize for her doctoral thesis. The Matilda Prize for the best papers went to Dr Elena Dück and Dr Simone Schäffner.

Pharmacology professor Antje Gohla was awarded the Faculty of Medicine’s Albert Kölliker Teaching Prize, worth 10,000 euros, in recognition of her exemplary teaching.

How can the most subtle processes in our genetic material be made visible? A graduate of the University of Würzburg has developed an innovative approach to this – and has now been awarded a prize for her outstanding final thesis.

A showcase of technical achievements, a symbol of the spirit of research and a networking platform: the University’s Summer EXPO 2026 demonstrated just how capable Würzburg is as a centre for AI.

At the invitation of the Würzburg-Schweinfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Federal Minister Dorothee Bär visited the university. In the Mission Control Centre, she spoke about the opportunities that research, technology and space travel offer the Mainfranken region.

Students who wish to learn about entrepreneurial thinking and practice, work across disciplines and forge links with the start-up ecosystem can apply for the ZENTRIA 2.0 supplementary programme by 15 September.

For four years, WueDive has provided a space for experimentation in university teaching at the University of Würzburg. The project has now come to an end, but its key initiatives continue and will have a lasting impact in the future.

Read about new appointments, job anniversaries, research sabbaticals and more.

Turning ideas into innovations: The University of Würzburg’s Research and Technology Transfer Service Centre supports researchers with funding applications, collaborations and start-ups – now with an expanded team of innovation scouts.

Every year, Unibund announces the "Universitäts-Förderpreis der Mainfränkischen Wirtschaft", worth 25,000 euros. Researchers and project teams may apply by 30 August 2026.

The Contact and Information Centre for Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (KIS) is offering two training sessions in September: one on mental health issues among students, and the other on accessible PDFs.

Two students from the University of Würzburg spent three months each in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. With support from the DAAD and the Professional School of Education, the trainee teachers carried out research there for their admission theses.

War, heroism and conflict in the visual culture of antiquity: these were the topics explored by the participants at the Classical Languages Students’ Day at the University of Würzburg. The response was unexpectedly high.

600 selected early-career researchers from 87 countries took part in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting – five of them were from Würzburg.