Long before the event began, it was clear that the topic had struck a chord: the event was fully booked after just three weeks! More than 60 attendees came to the university’s 13th public lecture at the student café “Zur Auszeit,” which was titled “Knowledge, Thought, Speech: How to Discover the Truth Between the Lines.” [more]
published: 16.06.2026
Global energy demand continues to rise, while at the same time the amount of waste from industry and households is still growing. Biogenic residues and plastic waste in particular often… [more]
published: 05.03.2026
How do students perceive life in Hof - and how does this perspective differ from that of the local population? A research seminar for students on the Business and Organizational Sociology course looked at this question. [more]
published: 16.07.2025
A successful premiere: for the very first time since it was founded, Hof University of Applied Sciences organised a New Year's lecture that was open to everyone. 250 guests ensured that even the university's "Audimax" could no longer cope with the crowds and the lecture had to be transferred to another room at short notice. [more]
published: 02.02.2024
Hof University of Applied Sciences invites you to a New Year's Lecture for the first time. Carsten Stark, Professor of Economic and Organizational Sociology, will provide an entertaining introduction to the new year and speak on the topic of "Civil religiosity in liberal societies?". [more]
published: 08.01.2024
For some it is simply prostitution, for some just a special form of relationship between old and young: in the Economic and Organizational Sociology course, the relationships between older, mostly wealthy men and their favored partners are now also the subject of research. [more]
published: 15.04.2023
Hof University of Applied Sciences would like to become independent of external energy in the future. To achieve this goal, the project "Energy self-sufficient Hof University" has now been launched. By the end of the year, Oliver Stark and his team at the iwe want to gain the necessary insights to achieve the big goal. [more]
published: 09.03.2023
We met the professor of human resource management and organization and head of the new program in economic and organizational sociology. [more]
published: 29.03.2021
Until now, young people in Hochfranken and parts of the neighboring states who were interested in sociology as a field of study had few local alternatives. If they wanted to obtain their desired education, they sometimes had little choice but to move away from the region. This is now to change permanently from the winter semester 2021/22 [more]
published: 16.03.2021