Author Archives: Rainer Krauss

Environmental project with the Hof Zoo supports homeschooling: experience sustainability!

A new joint project between the Hof Zoo and Hof University of Applied Sciences aims to strengthen environmental education for schoolchildren. The project "Aquaponics at the Zoo - Living Sustainability" converts the existing aquarium in the Savannah House of the Hof Zoo into an aquaponics display facility. [more]

published: 07.05.2021

Outreach in Corona pandemic: Hof University honors student environmental initiative

Hof University of Applied Sciences has expressed its gratitude to the Student Environmental Initiative Hof e.V.. As part of the Corona pandemic, it supplied up to 50 households of elderly citizens with drinks and food. [more]

published: 30.04.2021

Sustainable and ecological textiles: know-how from Münchberg in demand worldwide

Networking with the Indian subcontinent is one of the pillars of Hof University's international strategy. A current example from the field of materials science shows how much the expertise of Hof researchers is in demand in India. [more]

published: 28.04.2021

Excellent support: Hof University leads Bavaria in terms of regular graduates

At no other university in Bavaria do graduates stay within the expected standard period of study in percentage terms as frequently as at Hof University of Applied Sciences [more]

published: 26.04.2021

New at Hof University – welcome to Bavaria at the top!

As of the summer semester of 2021, new teachers have once again begun their duties at Hof University of Applied Sciences. [more]

published: 31.03.2021

About the person: campuls-digital in conversation with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Müller

The Gera native has been the new dean of the Faculty of Engineering since January 2021 - we met her for you. [more]

published: 30.03.2021

Computer voices – hardly distinguishable from the human original!

Especially for visually impaired people, computer applications that read texts aloud are already a great help in everyday life. The Institute for Information Systems is conducting a study to research the acceptance of artificially generated voices and is developing its own models. [more]

published: 30.03.2021

“Bioplastics – Science Meets Industry” with almost 300 participants

The Institute for Applied Biopolymer Research at Hof University of Applied Sciences (ibp) held its first symposium on March 3 and 4 this year under the motto "Bioplastics - Science Meets Industry" - and met with great interest. [more]

published: 29.03.2021

About the person: campuls-digital in conversation with Prof. Dr. Carsten Stark

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

Nationwide interest: Competence Center Digital Administration has been launched

The new Competence Center Digital Administration has opened. At an online kick-off attended by around 300 guests from all over Germany, speakers from politics, public administration and science spent the whole day reporting on exemplary projects from their institutions. [more]

published: 26.03.2021

They helped: Hof University thanks employees seconded to the health department

During the corona crisis, thousands of additional employees from other offices and institutions have already been deployed nationwide in the Public Health Service. At Hof University, too, a total of eight employees agreed without hesitation to help with testing and contact tracing [more]

published: 23.03.2021

“Girls in technology” – an evening for schoolgirls and parents with Hof University

The faculties of engineering and computer science would like to inspire girls in particular to study one of their technical disciplines. For this reason, Hof University of Applied Sciences invites you to an online information evening purely for young women on Thursday, April 8, 2021 [more]

published: 22.03.2021

Girls’ Day 2021 at Hof University of Applied Sciences – register now!

Girls' Day" will be held throughout Germany on Thursday, April 22, 2021. The aim is to give schoolgirls insights into occupational fields that girls usually only rarely consider when choosing a career [more]

published: 17.03.2021

Germany’s first practice- and career-oriented degree program in sociology starts in Hof

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

Successful opening: With the Lucas Cranach Campus into the future!

Bavaria's newest university location was launched in Kronach, Upper Franconia. The Lucas-Cranach-Campus starts into the future with the master's degree program "Autonomous Driving". Another building block in the high-tech cluster in the Franconian Forest - and a smart move against demographic change. [more]

published: 16.03.2021

Changeover launched: New corporate design integrated bit by bit

Hof University of Applied Sciences recently got a new logo, which can already be seen on our website. It is part of a new corporate design that is now being implemented step by step [more]

published: 15.03.2021

Upward trend despite pandemic: Hof University welcomes almost 500 first-semester students

Hof University of Applied Sciences will welcome a total of almost 500 new students at the start of the 2021 summer semester. With a total of around 3,500 students, the educational institution has achieved an increase of around 5.5 percent compared to the same time last year and the highest number of students ever for a summer semester [more]

published: 15.03.2021

University Information Days at Hof University of Applied Sciences on March 30 and 31, 2021

A meaningful study orientation is also possible in times of the Corona pandemic: The University Information Days at Hof University of Applied Sciences will take place this year during the Easter vacations on March 30 and 31, 2021 and virtually [more]

published: 12.03.2021