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Universität Hamburg

Universität Hamburg, Faculty of Law
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University of Excellence

A Flagship University – Innovating and Cooperating for a Sustainable Future

In its strategy "A Flagship University – Innovating and Cooperating for a Sustainable Future", Universität Hamburg (UHH) focuses on the topic of sustainability. Further, it intends to intensify the cooperation with other research institutions in the Hamburg metropolitan area to promote internationally visible top-level research.

The Universität Hamburg (UHH) was founded in 1919, being the largest research and educational institution in northern Germany and one of the largest universities in Germany today. Following the strategy of a “Flagship University“, this marks the first time the Universität Hamburg receives funding as a University of Excellence within the Excellence Strategy. In addition to the central topics of research, teaching, knowledge transfer, and research infrastructures, the university’s strategic core theme is internationalization.

Additionally, as one of the first universities in Germany, since 2010 Universität Hamburg has been focusing on sustainability in all its facets and aims to combine the pursuit of academic excellence with a concern to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. To this end, a Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) was appointed and a Sustainability Office established as part its funding as a University of Excellence.

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Funded Clusters of Excellence

  • Quantum Universe
    The understanding of mass and gravity at the interface between quantum physics and cosmology is the core research objective of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe.
    Quantum Universe
  • CLICCS
    CLICCS will explore climate change with broad expertise. CLICCS will investigate how the climate changes and how society changes with it, thereby feeding back on climate. Understanding these changes, including how societies adapt, will enable us to assess with far greater confidence than before the range of imaginable climate futures.
    CLICCS
  • CUI
    Functionalities are at the heart of the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter“. Atoms bind together and form solids, molecules interact and react - new functionalities emerge with increasing complexity and growing system size.
    CUI
  • Understanding Written Artefacts
    Writing is one of the most important cultural techniques to have shaped the world’s societies. For most of human history, writing has been handwriting and has been part of diverse and complex manuscript cultures. Written artefacts have been continuously produced up to our own day, though the invention of printing with moveable types marginalised some while at the same time prompted new ones, not least digital media.Over the past three decades, scholarly interest in written artefacts has increased significantly.
    Understanding Written Artefacts
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