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In the winter semester 2026/2027, the CHARM-EU university alliance will once again offer students at the University of Würzburg the opportunity to take part in selected online courses at partner universities.

The JMU Centre for Teaching and Learning has expanded its English-language continuing education programme in educational development and opened it up to teaching staff from CHARM-EU partner universities.

There will be a lecture in German language for JMU students, teaching staff and employees on 18 June: "Resilience - definition, neurobiology, psychotherapeutic aspects". Registration until 15 June.

At the age of 66, psychotherapist Dr Ute Meiser has made a change of direction - towards the subject that interested her most as a high school graduate. She is now studying law at the University of Würzburg.

A study in the Antarctic proves this: If a group of people is isolated for months in a hostile environment, this promotes mistrust, conflict and group formation.

What role will the European Union play in space in the future? The 31st Europarechtstage organised by the Faculty of Law at the University of Würzburg will examine this question. They will take place on 15 and 16 June.

The Mozartfest is dedicated to beauty in the 2026 festival season. The Martin von Wagner Museum is once again taking part - this time with a dialogue format in front of works of art from its own collections.

The loss of an enzyme can reprogram cellular metabolism in a way that protects cells from a specific form of cell death. Paradoxically, the presumed blockade of this enzyme has the opposite effect.

Predicting the risk of diseases transmitted by ticks: Researchers in Bavaria are working on this. The University of Würzburg is contributing its expertise in earth observation with high-tech drones.

Rare plants can be seen on the Hubland campus: 30 specimens of the orchid, the buck's strap-tongue, are blooming there. The "Living Campus" initiative points this out.

Sediments in reservoirs are veritable time capsules: they show how contaminated the environment was and still is with pollutants. Würzburg researchers are now investigating the situation in five reservoirs in the Eifel region.

On 15 May 2026, the German chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) presented Würzburg computer scientist Professor Harald Wehnes with the Albert Endres Award for his work in the field of digital sovereignty.

Data science is to be more firmly anchored in the teaching of chemistry and biochemistry in Würzburg. The Chemical Industry Fund is supporting this plan with 100,000 euros.

Dr Thorsten Feichtner received the 360° Base Award, endowed with 10,000 euros, for his innovative research project on the production of fertiliser from water and light.

In a Latin manuscript from a monastery in Poland, a Latin scholar from Würzburg has found two new sermons by the Doctor of the Church, St Augustine. He is currently working with an edition company on the first edition.