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More than 100 of the small green boxes are already in use: whether in Hamburg, or Zwolle in the Netherlands, or even on the Zugspitze in Bavaria - the "SenseBox" has long since left its hometown of Münster behind it.

Münster University sees itself not only as being rooted in the local region, but also as having an international orientation - in teaching, in research, among students and among its administrative staff.

The "Cells in Motion" (CiM) Cluster of Excellence at Münster University is providing 1.1 million euros of funding for no fewer than twelve new so-called flexible funds projects.

When Lei Guo and Tom Becker meet once a week to learn together, the result is a language mix of Chinese and German.

Prof. Leo O'Donovan, priest and former rector of Georgetown University in Washington DC, about the time he spent as a student in Münster and about Pope Francis It was at the invitation of the C

Münster University sees itself not only as being rooted in the local region, but also as having an international orientation - in teaching, in research, among students and among its administrative staff.

Not everyone is able, or even wants, to spend time abroad - especially as not every course of study includes a compulsory semester abroad.

Münster University sees itself not only as being rooted in the local region, but also as having an international orientation - in teaching, in research, among students and among its administrative staff.

Münster University sees itself not only as being rooted in the local region, but also as having an international orientation - in teaching, in research, among students and among its administrative staff.

There is a quick, clear answer to any question about his roots: Abitur in Schweinfurt (Bavaria), then university studies, PhD and a professorship at the Universities of Erlangen, Canterbury, Cambridge and Cologne.

When Anita and Jonathon Watson, both 31, think back today to Erasmus - i.e. the well-known exchange programme set up by the European Union in 1987 to enable students to spend time at universities abroad - it has now acquired a completely new dimension for them.

Fog is formed through a fine distribution of water droplets in the air. It is an everyday meteorological phenomenon - but it is becoming ever rarer.

Different skills, joint research: 1st November sees the start of four new pilot projects within the Cell-in-Motion (CiM) Cluster of Excellence at Münster University.

Rebecca Melzer, a 21-year-old student at the University of Münster, has been internationally-minded almost all her life: from holidays in the Netherlands as a child to work placements in France during her school and university years.

Ingrid Daubechies gives the Gauss Lecture of the German Mathematicians' Association.

MüNSTER/TWENTE. For many experts, nanotechnology is a key technology for the future. At the Universities of Münster and Twente, both national and international researchers are engaged on intensive work on just this future, and many of them are working closely together.

The universities of Münster and Twente have been collaborating since 1979, but in their search for common research funding they still have to deal with the border that lies between them.

Internationalization is a hot topic at many universities, and so it is for Münster and Twente. Both institutions are looking for partnerships all over the globe.

Here a nice discussion among fellow students; at the next stand, some quick advice about the Emmy-Noether Programme - Matthias Fischer strolls with great composure through the "Golden Gate A" hall of the "San Francisco Marriott Marquis" hotel.

Light is ideally suited to data transfer, as it can transmit large quantities of information in a very short time, and is an indispensable part of the IT world of today and tomorrow.

Nature can do it, and chemists in the lab often dream of doing it: producing substances simply and ecologically - as far as possible without any undesirable side-products.

Chitosan is a real all-rounder - a sustainable raw material with very useful properties. For example: the substance obtained from chitin stimulates the immune system.

At first, it was only meant to be a small contribution to an initiative started by Pope Francis to conduct a survey entitled "Ask the Faithful!" But then the reaction to the questionnaire (www.

In a joint project between scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, the Department of Biology and Biotechnology (IBBP) at the University of Münster and the

In future doctors will be able to take more sharply defined pictures of their patients' interiors when making clinical images - and entirely without any bothersome aids.

State-of-the art navigation systems still adhere to the principles of turn-by-turn navigation (left).