The Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games, the world’s biggest multi-sport event of the summer, kicks off on Wednesday in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region and in Berlin. From 16 to 27 July...
Read moreAfter five successful years, the “MODUS – Enhancing student mobility across educational boundaries through recognition” project of the HRK will end on 30 June 2025. It supported German universities in...
Read moreThe President of the German Conference of Science Ministers, Minister Martin, and HRK President Professor Rosenthal congratulate the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on its 100th anniversary in...
Read moreThe Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism (Bundesverband der Recherche- und Informationsstellen Antisemitismus; RIAS) presented its annual report “Antisemitic...
Read moreHRK President Walter Rosenthal criticises the US government’s decision to ban Harvard University from accepting international students and to force enrolled international students to transfer to other...
Read moreThe General Assembly of the HRK met to discuss the current extremely high threat situation for universities regarding cybersecurity. Recommendations were adopted for universities, the federal states...
Read moreToday, at the 40th General Assembly of the HRK, the new Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space, Dorothee Bär, emphasised the important and indispensable role of universities for society...
Read moreThe three rectors’ conferences from Germany (Hochschulrektorenkonferenz; HRK), France (France Universités), and Poland (Konferencja Rektorów Akademickich Szkół Polskich; KRASP), representing the...
Read moreJoint declaration of the German Rectors’ Conference, the German Association of University Chancellors and the German Association of Chancellors of Universities of Applied Sciences.
Read moreOn the occasion of the agreement between the CDU/CSU and SPD on establishing a special federal fund for infrastructure investments and the associated deliberations in the current Bundestag, the...
Read moreThe HRK, the German National Association for Student Affairs (Deutsches Studierendenwerk – DSW) and the Free Association of Student Organisations (freier zusammenschluss von student:innenschaften –...
Read moreUniversities in Germany are increasingly becoming the target of cyberattacks. As large, intensively networked institutions with complex IT infrastructures and a high number of students and employees...
Read moreAt a joint event, the HRK and the German National Association for Student Affairs (DSW) outlined what they consider to be the most important and pressing tasks on the research and higher education...
Read moreFor the election to the Bundestag on 23 February 2025, the HRK´s Executive Board of the has named four central tasks in higher education policy to which the next federal government must give priority....
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