Furtwangen University is currently setting up a new "Regio-Link" project in cooperation with the Charité Hospital in Berlin.  HFU will act as a representative of and an intermediary between companies in the medical instruments industry in Tuttlingen and the Charité in Berlin. The Coordination Centre will be set up on the Tuttlingen Campus of the university. According to the i...

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The HFU Marketing Department is running a student competition for the design of a new university T-shirt.  The theme of the competition is the new university slogan, "Reach new heights".  Voting for the best designs will be done on Facebook.  The deadline to submit designs is 2 June, 2013.   The best design will win a  €150 voucher for Amazon and the runne...

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Guido Wolf, President of the Baden-Württemberg parliament since 2011, has been voted an honorary senator for outstanding services to the university by the senate of Furtwangen University. As Chief Administrator of Tuttlingen Region from 2003 until 2011, Mr Wolf was deeply involved in the founding of the Tuttlingen Campus of Furtwangen University. According to Dr. Rolf Schofer, the Rector of the u...

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A controversial new book by Furtwangen University professor Dr. Stefan Selke has raised a great deal of media interest in Germany. Dr Selke, a socioligist and professor in the Faculty of Health, Safety, Society, lectures in the area of  "Changes in Society". The book titled  „Schamland. Die Armut mitten unter uns“, which deals with the subject of poverty and the widespread use ...

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Set up your own personalized, continuously updated timetable on your digital calendar.  It’s  quick and easy to do with the HFU digital timetable, “My timetable” function.  And here’s how: Click here to open the timetable page, then select your course and semester from the abbreviations listed. All courses currently offered are displayed.  Double click to select your cou...

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The aim of the new UNIKOPS project, coordinated by Furtwangen University and funded by the Ministry of Education and Research to a sum of €1.5 million is making embedded systems – the often invisible, but indispensable helpers in everyday life - more secure. Embedded systems are processors or computers, “embedded” in a multitude of applications and devices, for example in medical technology, pla...

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At the start of the summer semester the President of the university, Dr. Rolf Schofer, welcomed almost 600 new students to the Furtwangen and Schwenningen campuses of Furtwangen University. Following the first semester welcome ceremony on each campus, students take part in a wide-ranging orientation programme designed to make their university start as easy as possible.  In Furtwangen 406 new ...

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