University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

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The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is a young, dynamic University founded in 1991, which has already achieved a remarkable reputation. Today, our courses of study offered by the Faculties of Civil Engineering, Design, Information Sciences, Social and Educational Sciences as well as Stadt|Bau|Kultur provide a well-grounded university education with strong professional prospects. Alongsid...e the specializations of the various disciplines, the exchange of ideas between them harbours a great potential for innovative developments. We provide optimal supervision for students and research based learning as a framework for international teaching. Furthermore, our modern infrastructure as well as a strong focus on applied research in cooperation with economic and public partners distinguishes us.
These close links with regional and international partners enable us to offer our students praxis-oriented study programmes from day one onwards. Interdisciplinary projects give students the opportunity to work with fellow students and teaching staff from other Faculties. Under our guiding principle of “Research-driven Learning”, students can swiftly become acquainted with the methods of applied research. In 2010, this approach received an award from both the Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany and the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs. Our University of Applied Sciences Potsdam has been credited with “Excellence in Teaching”, a distinction it shares with only three other universities of applied sciences in all of Germany.
We welcome researchers, partners and students from around the world and provide support for those who want to study and work with us.
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is a young, dynamic University founded in 1991. Today, 27 courses of study offered by the Faculties of Stadt|Bau|Kultur, Civil Engineering, Design, Information Sciences, and Social and Educational Sciences provide a well-grounded university education with strong professional prospects. Some 100 professors, assisted by about 200 lecturers and other staff members, offer teaching for around 3,500 students.
We are most pleased that you are considering a course of study at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam .
In our five Faculties of Social and Educational Sciences, Stadt|Bau|Kultur, Civil Engineering, Design and Information Sciences, we have a wide range of attractive and rewarding Bachelor’s and Master’s courses of study on offer.
Research at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam stands for practical applicability, knowledge transfer between disciplines and the opening up of research for students within the framework of “research-driven learning”. The University’s wide spectrum of study areas is matched by its broad range of research activities and research methods. Alongside the specializations of the various disciplines, the exchange of ideas between disciplines harbours a great potential for innovative developments.
The challenges our society faces today lie above all in the ongoing demographic, ecological, infrastructural, technological and economic transformation processes, which can be tackled only by interdisciplinary research. In reaction to this situation Potsdam University of Applied Sciences has, over the past few years, continually raised its research profile, and has now established three focal areas of research: Urban Futures, Social and Regional Transformation and Information and Visualization. In each of these foci, research disciplines from the social, cultural, IT, medial, engineering and artistic sciences are involved. “Urban Futures” and “Information and Visualization” (or Interaction Design and Information Visualization) have been recognized as research foci by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (HRK) and have accordingly been entered on the HRK’s Research Map.
To back up these focal areas of research, the interdisciplinary Institute for Urban Futures (IaF) was founded in 2014: it is to be a central institution in the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences with the remit of taking up inter- and transdisciplinary issues in the field of urban futures and pursuing them in corresponding research projects. The IaF has been assigned three dedicated research professorships with the following respective research fields: resource-optimized and climate-compatible building methods, sustainable urban development strategies and information and visualization. Despite its national and international network involvement, the IaF sees itself as a catalyst for applied research in joint co-operation with regional actors. It plays a leading and seminal role in establishing new research laboratories and co-operative research initiatives with companies and institutions.
The Potsdam University of Applied Sciences stands for the dovetailing of research and teaching. The FLEX formats and the new research-oriented Master’s courses of study in Urban Futures and Early Childhood Studies (in joint co-operation with the University of Potsdam) further extend our University-wide culture of research, learning and knowledge, through which we support and foster student initiatives.
The CECL is an independent and neutral institution that seeks to co-operate with those active in the field of construction engineering. Its overall aim is to foster new developments and to analyse new or only partially calculable constructions with the help of experimental procedures in conditions approximating closely to reality. This is relevant especially for already existing old buildings or constructions. The analyses can be carried out on all common building forms, especially on solid constructions (ferroconcrete, prestressed concrete, masonry, composite constructions), be they made of steel, wood, synthetic materials or composite materials.
With its digitalization lab, the Faculty of Information Sciences possesses a facility that is excellently equipped to assist both teaching and research. The technology available here makes it possible to experience in practical terms areas such as electronic inventorization, object digitalization and working with original prototype material including storage, digital storage and digital long-term archivization. Digitalization processes can thus be tested hands-on with reference to specific problems in co-operation with project partners.