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What makes the AfD so strong? It is a mixture of reasons that has promoted the emergence and rise of the party. Whether this success will last depends on a decisive factor. By Professor Barbara Zehnpfennig

Projects related to the guiding theme 'Europe and global Transformation'

Foto der Seminarteilnehmer zum Projekt „Ziel ETZ Freistaat Bayern – Tschechische Republik 2014 – 2020 (Euregio)“

EUREGIO Project: students sound out local government cooperation in the border region

A team from the University of Passau is working with lawyers from six EU countries to develop training materials on European procedural law.

LAWtrain – legal expertise from Passau for lawyers across Europe

Die grenzüberschreitende Förderung mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlich begabter Schülerinnen und Schüler der zweiten Jahrgangsstufe von Gymnasien ist Ziel eines gemeinsamen Projektes der Universität Passau und der Johannes-Kepler-Universität (JKU) Linz.

Cross-border promotion of talented student mathematicians in lower secondary school

Bild: Prof. Dr. Horst-Alfred Heinrich (von rechts) und Projektmitarbeiter Lorenz Klumpp; Foto: Christl Metzenrath, Forschungsverbund ForDemocracy.

‘ViDe(m)o’ research project examines (rule-based) images of democracy

ViSIT - virtual museum for Passau and Kufstein

Universities of Passau and Ceske Budejovice explore the linguistic and literary heritage of eastern Bavaria and southern Bohemia

INTERREG-Project - Starting in Tradition

‘Reconsidering Constitutional Formation’ EU project – Europe’s constitution needs communication

LIB(e)RO: Bibliotheken geben geflüchteten Jugendlichen europaweit Starthilfe

LIB(e)RO: Libraries in Europe provide starting aid for minor and young refugees

International Guests

Up until now, the black community in the U.S. has not received any compensation for slavery. Professor Jörg Fedtke discusses with Professor Robert Westley from Tulane University the reasons and the German concept of Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

In May 2019 Dr Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho took part in the international programme for guests scholars, by invitation from Professor Dr Malte Steinbrink. In interview, he explains the reasons for Bolsonaro's electoral success.

‘I think Passau is a very family-friendly town’: Mindy Nunez Duffourc lived in Passau from October 2016 to March 2019 to conduct comparative research on medical malpractice law at the Chair of Common Law, which is held by Professor Jörg Fedtke.

Phil Bednarczyk, political advisor on Europe for the US Congress, has spent the last months as Robert Bosch Fellow in Passau and Dresden. His impressions. By Phil Bednarczyk

Sustainable Development

As part of the “ELECTRIFIC” project, a Europe-wide team has developed methods for wisely managing the conversion to e-mobility. Researchers at the University of Passau are focusing on the intelligent integration of charging processes into the power...

Projects related to the guiding theme 'Migration, Sustainable Development and Just Order'

The German Research Foundation (DFG) network SONA – the voice of sociology in the sustainability debate

The EU project SUNI-SEA aims to massively increase effective prevention against high blood pressure and diabetes.

EU-project SUNI-SEA: Fight against 'silent killers' in Southeast Asia

EU project EcoVeloTour: fostering bicycle tourism in the Danube region

Reisbauern bei der Arbeit in Indonesien, Foto: V. Schreer

IndORGANIC: Passau Researchers prepare real Green Transformation Indonesia

Research project Human+ investigates sign of future migration movements

Research project Human+ investigates signs of future migration movements

Das europaweite Netzwerk WEGO nimmt den Gender-Aspekt bei Veränderungen in der Umwelt unter die Lupe.

European network "WEGO: Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity"

Discussion with irrigation scheme committee members in Malawi

Cash for Work II: How public works programmes work

Frauen bekommen in Burkina Faso Unterstützung zur Unternehmensplanung

FIdES: Formal Insurance and Productive Effects Study

Project Multi-Resilience - Resilience in multimodal energy distribution systems

Cyber<>Spaces

An international team of mathematicians from the University of Passau and other institutions has developed a new method of cracking cryptographic codes and set a new world record.

Received wisdom states that business founders should withdraw from their company once it achieves a certain size. A study conducted by researchers from the University of Passau, from Frankfurt and Heilbronn comes to a different conclusion.