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Campus WechloyNatural Sciences

Campus Wechloy

Facts

• About 11,200 students• About 1,800 employees

(including 850 scientists)• All courses will be taught as Bachelor- or

Master degrees with the beginning at the fall term 2005/06

• Teacher education for all school types

Data

• 1793 Foundation of one of Germany’s earliest teachers training institutes

• 1973 Foundation of the university andintegration of the Teachers Training College

• 1974 The university starts its initial curriculum with 2,400 students

• 1991 The official name is adopted: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Name Giver

Carl von Ossietzky

(1889 – 1938)

• Editor of the journal “Weltbühne“

• Pacifist and opponent of the National Socialism

• Nobel Peace Prize 1936

• Prisoner in the concentration camp Esterwegen (close to Oldenburg)

Inscription of the memorial

Science and technologyhad not been there

to help. They have createdtools of destruction,

tools of the most horrible killing.We must make science

humane again.

Carl von Ossietzky 1889 – 1938Nobel Peace Prize-Holder and prisoner

in the concentration camp Esterwegen

Faculty I

Education

• Institute for Education• Institute for Special Needs Education

Faculties

Faculty IIComputer Science, Business Administration, Economics and Law

• Institute for Business Administration and Education

• Institute for Economics and Statistics• Institute for Law• Institute for Economic Education and

Technical Education• Department of Computer Science

Faculty IIILinguistics and Cultural Studies

• Institute for German Studies• Institute for Cultural Studies : Art, Textiles and Dress,

and Media• Institute for Music• Institute for Modern Languages

Faculty IV School of Humanities and Social Sciences

• Institute for Theology and Religious Education• Institute for History• Institute for Philosophy• Institute for Political Science• Institute for Psychology• Institute for Sociology• Institute for Sports Science

Faculty V Mathematics and Sciences

• Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences• Institute for Pure and Applied Chemistry• Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine

Environment (ICBM)• Institute for Mathematics• Institute for Physics

Fields of Research

• Psychoacoustics and Neurosensory Science

• Neurocognition• Information Technology (complex

and integrated systems, economy, media, health care)

• Marine Biology

• Energy- and Semiconductors• Environmental Research• Chemical Process Development• Educational Research• Gender Studies

AcousticsSoundproof Room

Lifelong Learning

• Center for Lifelong Learning (C3L)

• Center for Continuing Education

International Co-operation

• Official co-operations with over 130 universities in 42 countries

• About 950 international students from more than 50 countries

University Library

• 1.3 million books• 4,000 journals• 4,000 films• 40,000 video tapes• 60,000 CDs and LPs• digital information systems

MediathekLibrary

Media Center

Living and Eating

• 1,330 single bedrooms and apartments in student residences with phone- and internet-access

• Refectory: One million meals served annually using organic products from selected regional farmers

• 1999 EU-Eco-Award for promoting ecological efforts on and around the campus

Refectory

Halls of Residence

University Sports

• Focal point: casual and mass sports

• Modern sports facilities with gymnasium, small and large playing-fields, running tracks, tennis courts, indoor pool, sauna, etc.

• Sports opportunities for students and the general public in more than 90 courses

Campus Culture

• University Theatre OUT• University Orchestra• University Choir• Jazz Choir• Big Band• Cabaret-Stage UNIKUM

Uni-Theatre OUT

OldenburgThe Green City

• Over 158,000 inhabitants• Bikes as the number one form of transportation• First pedestrian zone in Germany• Culture: Oldenburg State Theatre, Horst-Janssen-

Museum, Kulturetage and more • Close by: North Sea, Zwischenahner Meer, Bremen,

Groningen

Impressions of Oldenburg

„City of Bikes“

Further Information:

• University Press Office

• Central Student Advisory Center

• International Students Office

www.uni-oldenburg.de

Public Relations Department • Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg • Design: Katja Brandt – February 2006