UNIVERSITY of COLOGNE Annual Report 2016 UNIVERSITY of COLOGNE Annual Report 2016 Contents

UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE Annual Report 2016 UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE Annual Report 2016 Contents

Foreword 5

Highlights 2016 6

Research 10

Teaching 38

University and Society 56

Honours 66

Personnel 76

Infrastructure 88

Governance 96

Donations 114

List of Abbreviations 119

Publication Details 120

University of Cologne Foreword 6 | 7

Professor Dr Axel Freimuth

With its educational mandate and as an engine for research and innovation, the University of Cologne is making a major contribution to the development of our society.

Universities stand for new ideas and current scientific developments and opportunities and makes it possib- change, often coming from a com- firmly embedded in social discourse. le for us to become involved in a pletely unexpected direction. They Our dynamic international network diverse range of areas. Moreover, are an engine for research and in- – with 85 partner universities and I would like to thank our many fri- novation and help to solve pressing more than 500 Faculty partnerships ends and benefactors as well as problems in our society. Moreover, – as well as the international and di- our collaboration partners for their they are in increasing demand as verse life on campus create a cosmo- continuous and generous support. educational institutions: Today, one politan and stimulating atmosphere Their commitment helps to stimula- in two young people in Germany and excellent opportunities for aca- te social discourse with and within starts a degree programme. Besi- demic exchange. our university, thus creating a fer- des preparing our students for a tile environment for contemporary professional career, the UoC’s stu- This Annual Report provides infor- research and teaching. dy programmes convey knowledge mation about the UoC’s wide ran- and skills. But it is more than that ge of activities in 2016 and gives an I hope you will all enjoy this report. – higher education also helps to overview of key trends and develop- strengthen young people‘s capaci- ments. I would like to offer my he- ty for social responsibility and their artfelt thanks to all those involved critical faculties, encouraging them for their commitment to teaching to become involved in society. In and research and to our university. view of the current social, political Over the years, the University of and economic situation around the Cologne has repeatedly adapted its world, not losing sight of the big- orientation as a result of fundamen- Professor Dr Axel Freimuth ger picture appears more important tal reforms and viable new ideas. Rector of the University of Cologne than ever. We intend to document this process with this and subsequent Annual The University of Cologne is rising to Reports. this challenge with its wide range of programmes for study and educati- I would also like to thank the many on and by promoting cutting-edge supporters and friends of our uni- research and innovation. One of our versity, in particular the state, for priorities is to support young talents steadily increasing our financialen- in their professional and academic dowment in recent years and for careers. Our key research and tea- granting us substantial autonomy, ching areas are at the forefront of which opens up a wider scope of University of Cologne Highlights 2016 8 | 9 HIGHLIGHTS 2016

Poetica II NRW Innovation Prize 1 4 ‘Blue Notes – living in sentences, dan- On 29 February, the NRW Minister of Science at the time, Svenja Schulze, cing in verses’ was the theme of the presented the Innovation Prize to four excellent researchers. The prize ‘Poetica’ Festival for World Literature was awarded in three categories. In the ‘Innovation’ category, the pri- in 2016, which took place at the end ze was awarded to Professor Dr Jürgen Wolf, Head of the Centre for of January. The German Academy Integrated Oncology at Cologne University Hospital. Wolf developed for Language and Literature and the personalized therapeutic approaches for cancer patients that can lead Morphomata Center for Advanced to a higher life expectancy, especially in patients with lung cancer. The Studies in the Humanities organized Innovation Prize is endowed with a sum of 150,000 euros and, after the the event for the second time now. Future Prize, awarded by the Federal President, it carries the highest pri- From 9 to 14 January, twelve interna- ze money of any award of this kind in Germany. tional writers brought their works to the UoC, performed them in public at various venues in Cologne and discussed them with countless visitors to the COPT Building Opened event. The curator of the 2016 festival 5 was the Slovenian author and publi- On 20 May, the COPT Center for Organic 1 sher Aleš Šteger. Electronics was scientifically inaugurated with a one-day conference. Experts in materials and applied research from Germany, the USA and the UK reported Ethics Forum ‘Freedom and Relevance on the latest developments in organic of Science’ electronics. Under the leadership of Pro- 2 fessor Dr Klaus Meerholz, the COPT Cen- 4 5 Demographic change and climate chan- ter fosters technology transfer between ge are among the challenges that scien- the UoC and small and medium sized ce and politics now have to face. In early enterprises. February, leaders from academia, politics and culture discussed the goals and limits of science policy management within the setting of the Ethics Forum at 2 the UoC. An evening lecture by Charité Judith Butler is Albertus Magnus Executive Board Member Professor Dr Professor 2016 Klaus Zöllner opened the event. 6 The US philosopher and philologist Pro- fessor Dr Judith Butler is one of the most important representatives of gender re- Digital Transformation search and cultural research on sexual 3 identity. Her lectures met with an ext- On 19 February, the conference ‘Digital raordinary amount of interest and were transformation – on the future of soci- also streamed live from the packed 1,200- ety’ took place. It was organized by the seat auditorium to the equally full lecture Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Eco- halls. The Albertus Magnus Professorship nomics and Social Sciences of Health (ce- of the University of Cologne was estab- 6 res). High-ranking experts from science lished in memory of the mediaeval poly- and industry, including the former Pri- math Albertus Magnus. Each year, a per- me Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia sonality with an international reputation (NRW), Hannelore Kraft, discussed the is appointed to the professorship. 3 question how digital technologies will change our lives in the future. University of Cologne Highlights 2016 10 | 11

HÖHEPUNKTEHIGHLIGHTS 2016 2016 Five Years of the Centre for Teacher Education 9

Federal Minister for Research With around 14,000 teacher trainees, Professor Dr Johanna Wanka at the the UoC is one of the largest loca- University of Cologne tions in Europe for training for the 7 teaching profession. On 24 October, What happens in our body‘s cells when the Centre for Teacher Education ce- we age? How do Parkinson‘s disease, lebrated its fifth anniversary with a Alzheimer‘s disease, diabetes and can- podium discussion on the future of cer come about and what are their mo- school. As a central academic institu- lecular foundations? On the second day tion, it makes a major contribution to of her summer trip to the Max Planck the cross-Faculty and cross-University Institute for Biology of Ageing and the design of the teacher training degree Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research programmes at the UoC. CECAD at the UoC, Federal Minister for 9 Research Professor Dr Johanna Wanka found out all about the research work currently being carried out on the sub- Leibniz Prize for Cologne Expert ject ‘The Future of Life in Old Age’. in African Studies 10 In December, the Cologne expert in African Studies Professor Dr Anne Storch received the prestigious Gott- fried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the 7 German Research Foundation for her outstanding research achievements. With her linguistic analyses, Storch, whose areas of focus include taboos and secret languages, has made a de- First Further Training Programme at cisive contribution to understanding the Business School 8 contemporary Africa from a cultural anthropology perspective. In cooperation with the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus Uni- 10 versity, the UoC launched the Colog- Honorary Doctorate for ne-Rotterdam Executive MBA in the Professor Dr Klaus Müllen winter semester, an internationally-fo- 11 cused programme tailored specifically On 15 December, the chemist Professor to managers. The programme is offe- Dr Klaus Müllen, long-standing mem- red at the Business School, founded in ber of the Scientific Advisory Board of 2015 by the Faculty of Management, the UoC, received an honorary docto- Economics and Social Sciences. The rate from the Faculty of Mathematics Business School serves as the umbrella and Natural Sciences. The UoC was organization for further training in ma- thus honouring his pioneering work nagement at the UoC. on the synthesis and application of or- 8 ganic semiconductor materials. In the early 1980s, Müllen taught at the UoC as Professor for Organic Chemistry. Most recently, he served as the Direc- tor of the Max Planck Institute for Po- lymer Research in Mainz. His work has 11 been rewarded with countless grants and prizes, including the Max Planck Research Prize and the ERC Advanced Grant. RESEARCH

The University of Cologne has consolidated its position as an internationally renowned research institution. Many individual achievements contributed to this success in 2016, including extensive external funding: the UoC was able to initiate seven new Colla- borative Research Centres and five projects funded by the European Research Coun- cil (ERC). Moreover, we won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and Alexander von Humboldt Professorships. Last but not least, a multitude of highly regarded publi- cations added to our prestige.

Vice-Rector for Research Professor Dr Bettina Rockenbach University of Cologne Research 14 | 15

Research in Figures

Development of external funding income according to funding providers

in € m 250

208,1 189,7 200 181,9

157,5 150 Whether in the arts and social sciences, in natural sciences or life 125,7 sciences – excellent appointments, top-notch prizes and success DFG in gaining external funding provide evidence of the quality and 100 EU attractiveness of the UoC as a research location across all Faculties. Federal Government The awarding of an Alexander von Humboldt Prize, a Leibniz Federal States Prize and five European Research Council (ERC) grants have given 50 Foundations particular acknowledgement to the research achievements of our Industry scholars and scientists this year. Other 0 The research strengths and competitiveness of the UoC were also 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 demonstrated by the first-time granting or continuation of seven Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) and Transregional DFG Collaborative Research Centres and transregional research areas according to term Collaborative Research Centres (TRR), the successful application for a second phase of funding by the Mercator Foundation for 670/3 the ‘Mercator Institute for Literacy and Language Education’ and 680/3 the procurement of EU funding from the COFUND programme 806/2 for the ‘a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne’. 829/3 Overall, the UoC has been able to increase its income from 956/2 external funds by 65 %in the last four years, from 125.7 million 1211/1 euros in 2012 to 208.1 million euros in 2016. 1218/1 1238/1 In addition to the individual achievements of specific scholars and 1252 scientists, the development of profiles in the Key Profile Areas TRR 32/3 and Competence Areas provedparticularly successful. In the Key TRR 134/1 Fixed term Profile Areas Aging-associated Diseases; Behavioral Economic TRR 172/1 Engineering and Social Cognition; Quantum Matter and TRR 183/1 Materials; Socio-economic, Cultural and Political Transformations TRR 191 Open term in the Global South; and Plant Science, internationally visible research centres have been founded which act as a driving force 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2016 for new research projects. /// Duration Funding sum 10 financially strongest externally funded projects at UoC in terms of annual external funding budget (years) (total) in € ‘Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases’ 5 20,513,815 Establishing additional study places for teacher training for special needs education 5 19,126,800 BISS – Education through language and writing: consortium of sponsors to implement the joint initiative of the federal government and federal states to promote language and linguistic diagnostics and to encoura- 6 12,196,326 ge reading ‘Conditions and Impact of Star Formation – Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Laboratory Research’, 3 11,052,620 central project Mercator DaZ framework programme 5 10,650,000 Graduate School 1094 ‘a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne” 5 9,346,920 Encouraging the establishment of a Centre for Teacher Training NRW Ministry of Culture and Science 5 8,170,000 Graduiertenschule 260/2: „Graduiertenschule Bonn-Köln in Physik und Astronomie“ 5 7,589,920 National Grant Programme (‘Deutschlandstipendium – NRW Ministry of Culture and Science and Foundation’) 6 4,889,700 Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary, TP Z1 5 4,515,550 University of Cologne Research 16 | 17

Successful Profile Development

Key Profile Areas

As part of the Institutional Strategy, candidates in all Key Profile Areas. KPA I Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) five thematic Key Profile Areas were Furthermore, theapplications of defined that form internationally KPA II, KPA III and KPA IV to become CA I Aging and Demographic Change competitive research centres with a Centers of Excellence in the course high level of scientific, technological of the UoC Excellent Research and societal relevance. They benefit Support Programme were also from strong networks and close successful. The resulting Centers of KPA II Behavioral Economic Engineering and Social Cognition collaboration with many regional Excellence now receive funding of non-university research institutes as up to 640,000 euros per year for a CA II Social and Economic Behavior well as partners from industry. term of five years each. As Clusters of Excellence, KPA I and KPA V have Since the start of funding in 2012, also been awarded the status of a 19 new professorships, including ten UoC Center of Excellence. /// KPA III Quantum Matter and Materials W3 positions and nine other W1/W2 Tenure Track positions, have been CA III Quantitative modeling of Complex Systems successfully filled with excellent

KPA IV Socio-economic, Cultural, and Political Transformations in the Global South

CA IV Cultures and Societies in Transition Competence Areas

KPA V (in development) Each Key Profile Area is embedded Examples of successful collaborati- into an interdisciplinary Competence on and profile development in the CA V Social Inequalities and Intercultural Education Area. The Competence Areas Competence Areas are: the Colog- strengthen cross-Faculty research in ne Center for Ethics, Rights, Econo- selected areas and help to integrate mics, and Social Sciences of Health the Key Profile Area into the UoC. (ceres), which was established in KPA VI Plant Science (CEPLAS) They bring together the projects and 2013 within the framework of CA activities of scholars and scientists I. In CA V, the Mercator Institute CA VI Food Security from the most varied disciplines. for Literacy and Language Educati- on has received eight million euros for a second funding period until The abbreviations refer to the terms Key Profile Area (KPA) and Competence Area (CA) 2022. /// University of Cologne Research 18 | 19

Record Year

Seven Approved Collaborative Research Centres at the University of Cologne

CRC 1218 | With six new and one continued Collaborative Research It is especially pleasing that three of the new CRCs evol- Mitochondrial Regulation of Centres, 2016 was an exceptionally successful year for ved from projects initially funded by the UoC’s Excel- Cellular Function the University of Cologne. This means that there are lent Research Support Programme. Below, the six newly currently 14 CRCs and TRRs with Cologne participation. approved CRCs provide an insight into their research. Mitochondria are the powerhouses and their cellularenvironment. The of our cells and, among other things, aim of the research is to explain the CRC 1211 | responsible for cell respiration. influenceof mitochondria on the ac- Earth – Evolution at the Dry Limit According to the latest findings, tivity, differentiation and survival of however, they play a more com- cells. research results will help us to In extremely arid areas of the world, the temporal and spatial patterns of plex rolethan previously assumed. gain a better understanding of the biological activity and the processes biological settlement processes and Mitochondriaare dynamic structures originand development of disea- of the earth’s surface are much slo- landscape development and how the- thatcommunicate with their cellular sesresulting from adysfunction of wer because of the shortage of water. se are influenced by the climate. environment in many ways and the mitochondria,and to fight them Scientists from the Universities of Co- have a key influence on apoptosis, with the help of new therapeutic Professor Dr Thomas Langer logne, Aachen and Bonn, Forschungs- The latest methods in genetics and theprogrammed dying off of cells. strategies. /// Speaker – CRC 1218 zentrum Jülich and the German isotope geology are being used, As a result, mitochondria also influ- Research Centre for Geosciences in some of which are being developed ence the course of diseases such as Institute for Genetics & CECAD Potsdam aim to identify the key fea- specifically for and within the scope Alzheimer’s, diabetes and heart disease. CRC 1218 is researching the tures influencing biological processes of this CRC. Among other things, ‘The combined expertise of the interactions between mitochondria and changes to the earth‘s surface in the studies are intended to provide working groups involved in CRC Professor Dr Tibor Dunai such an area – the Atacama Desert in information on periods of evolutio- 1218 allows new approaches to Speaker – CRC 1211 Chile. The researchers want to deter- nary delay, processes of the earth‘s better understanding the effects Institute for Geology and mine the critical threshold in the en- surface where water is largely ab- of faulty mitochondria on the Mineralogy vironmental conditions that enable sent and the influence of geogra- cell and organism.’ ‘The scientific environment at the settlement of life and changes in phical barriers on the climate-rela- the University of Cologne and the landscape. To do so, the scientists ted migration of species. /// our partners in the region were are studying the interactions between key to the success of this interdisciplinary CRC.’

Atacama Desert, Chile

Mitochondria in primary hepatocytes labelled with Tom20 antibody University of Cologne Research 20 | 21

CRC 1238 | Control and Dynamics of Quantum Materials

The development of new materials CRC 1238 is working at the inter- is an important basis for technologi- face of these research areas with a cal innovations that are fundamen- diverse team of outstanding scien- tally changing our everyday lives. tists from experimental and theo- One example of this is the manufac- retical physics and from the field of ture of innovative data storage me- crystallography. They are examining dia. Without basic research, howe- physical phenomena and materials ver, these innovations would not be from various angles in order to un- possible. Right at the top in this area derstand their dynamism, be able is the study of quantum materials, to control them and enable new functionalities. CRC 1238 is enhan- Professor Dr Paul van Loosdrecht for example topological insulators cing Cologne’s solid-state research Speaker – CRC 1238 and strongly correlated oxides in which the interaction of spin-orbit and its network with the associated University of Cologne coupling, correlations and topology groups in Bonn and Jülich, making it Institute of Physics II lead to a number of fascinating phe- an internationally leading centre of nomena, such as Majorana bound research into quantum materials. /// states in topological superconduc- tors and in Kitaev quantum spin li- quids or magnetic vortex structures, skyrmions in chiral magnets.

CRC 1252 | Prominence in Language

Prominence describes a communi- at modelling linguistic prominence cation strategy that enables a single on the basis of various European, Af- linguistic element to be particularly rican, Asian and South American lan- emphasized in comparison to other guages and language families. The similar elements, both in speaking research will provide a better under- and in writing. Thus, linguistic ele- standing of the enormous flexibility ments are weighted and structured of language. With a limited lexicon for various communicative goals. For of words, an enormous variety of example, through emphasis – to con- communicative messages can be cre- vey particular information, it is not ated. CRC 1252 is using various em- appropriate to put the same empha- pirical and experimental methods for Professor Dr Klaus von Heusinger sis on all of the words in a sentence; the analyses – from recording poorly Speaker – CRC 1252 with mem- it is only the prominent emphasis of documented languages in the field bers of his working group a specific word that draws the most to evaluating brainwaves when peo- attention to this word. In addition to ple are speaking and understanding Institute for German Language emphasis, sentence structure or word language. /// and Literature I choice can help to structure the communication of linguistic information. In July 2017, speaker Professor How prominence works in detail, Dr Klaus von Heusinger (2nd how it is used and which languages from right) and his colleague, the in the world make use of prominence neurolinguist Professor Dr Ina are the subject matter of CRC 1252 Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (3rd from Ultra high vacuum Raman spectrometer ‘Prominence in Language’. For the right), invited guests to their linguists, this research project repre- opening ceremony. sents a first comprehensive attempt

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CRC/TRR 191 | Symplectic Structures in Geometry, Algebra and Dynamics

Symplectic geometry has its origins CRC 191 brings experts in symplectic in the mathematical formulation of geometry together with mathemati- classic mechanics, in particular the cians from other fields where sym- equations of motion of Hamiltonian plectic methods are used, the full dynamics. Planetary or satellite orbits, implications of which have not yet for example, can be studied using been researched. One goal of this this formalism. Symplectic geometry collaboration is to develop a broader and topology developed as a sepa- spectrum of methods for symplectic rate field of mathematics around 30 geometry. One example is the sym- Professor Dr Hansjörg Geiges years ago. But there have repeatedly plectic packing problem, which will Speaker – CRC/TRR 191 been surprising applications in other be addressed using algorithmic me- fields of mathematics, for example in thods and highly efficient computers. University of Cologne knot theory. This symplectic analogue of the ques- Mathematical Institute tion as to how greengrocers should most effectively stack their oranges is of fundamental importance in many areas of geometry. ///

Professor Dr Alexander Altland talking to students

CRC/TRR 183 | Entangled States of Matter

Complex quantum systems can have CRC 183 intends to contribute to- entangled states of matter in which wards overcoming this challenge. various physical states overlap. Stu- In addition to work on theoretical dies on these key properties of quan- foundations, specific proposals for tum mechanics are at the centre of the design of efficient components the work of the CRC/TRR ‘Entangled for quantum information processing States of Matter’. For example, the form a part of the research program- How does the greengrocer stack oranges most effectively? bits of a classic computer can exist me. In the long term, the project aims in only two mutually exclusive sta- to develop components for quantum tes that are termed ‘on’ or ‘off’. In information processing. The CRC is quantum bits, by contrast, ‘on’ and based oncollaboration with scientists Professor Dr Alexander Altland ‘off’ states can overlap. Consequent- at Freie Universität Berlin, the Weis- Speaker – CRC/TRR 183 ly, a multi-bit quantum computer man Institute (Israel) and the Univer- University of Cologne could process information with sity of Copenhagen (Denmark). /// Institute for Theoretical Physics much greater computational power. However, entangled quantum states are highly sensitive to disruptive factors from the environment – one of the main reasons why quantum information processing has not been realised to date.

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Research Highlights in 2016 (selection)

Collaborative Research Centres Extinction of Species, Better Wound Healing and Black Holes as of December 2016 Hope for better wound healing for Biology of Ageing in Cologne and sible to treat the wound site locally for diabetics Professor Dr Maria Leptin, Research with medication that will activate Nr. Titel seit Group Leader at the UoC’s Institute the insulin metabolism locally and SFB 670/3 Cell-Autonomous Immunity 2006 In Germany alone, around six million for Genetics at the UoC, have de- encourage healing. /// SFB 680/3 Molecular Basis of Evolutionary Innovations 2006 diabetics often struggle with poorly ciphered the actual mechanism using healing wounds. Researchers at the the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.  nature.com/articles/ncomms12972 SFB 806/2 Our Way to Europe 2009 Cologne Max Planck Institute for The flies serve as a model for diabe- SFB 829/3 Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Skin Homoeostasis 2009 Biology of Ageing, at the Center for tes because the insulin metabolisms SFB 956/2 Conditions and Impact of Star Formation 2011 Molecular Medicine Cologne, at the of flies and mammals are very similar. SFB 1211/1 Evolution at the Dry Limit 2016 CECAD Cluster of Excellence and at the UoC’s Institute for Genetics found Normally, neighbouring cells form an SFB 1218/1 Mitochondrial Regulation of Cellular Function 2016 out that an inhibited insulin metabo- actomyosin cable immediately after SFB 1238/1 Control and Dynamics of Quantum Materials 2016 lism at the site of the wound is often an injury. This forms a ring around SFB 1252 Prominence in Language 2017 the cause of the delayed wound hea- the site of the injury, pulls together SFB/TRR 32/3 Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems 2007 ling. Previously, doctors had assumed and thus closes the gap. However, if SFB/TRR 134/1 Ingestive Behaviour: Homoeostasis and Reward | Speaker: University of Lübeck 2014 that high levels of glucose in the the insulin metabolism is disrupted, blood lead to blood vessel and nerve this cable is weaker and forms much Arctic Amplification: Climate-Relevant Atmospheric and Surface Processes SFB/TRR 172/1 2016 and Feedback Mechanism (AC)3 | Speaker: University of Leipzig cell damage and a reduced immune later. This results in incomplete or slo- response,thus triggering the prob- wer wound healing. These findings SFB/TRR 183/1 Entangled States of Matter 2016 lems. Professor Dr Linda Partridge, foster hope for new treatment for SFB/TRR 191 Symplectic Structures in Geometry, Algebra and Dynamics 2017 Director of the Max Planck Institute diabetics. In future, it may be pos-

Researcher Groups Was early Homo sapiens a climate refugee? as of December 2016 Starting out from Ethiopia, Homo sapiens conquered the world appro- No. Title Spokesmen ximately 300,000 years ago. But preci- Design and Behaviour – Economic Engineering of Firms sely when and why did our ancestors FOR 1371 Prof. Dr. Axel Ockenfels and Markets set off to discover and populate other Psychoeconomics. Interacting Decision Processes and Their FOR 1882 Prof. Dr. Carlos Alós-Ferrer parts of the world? CRC 806 of the Consequences for Economic Performance Universities of Cologne, Aachen and Relativity in Social Cognition: Antecedents and Consequences FOR 2150 Dr. Christian Unkelbach Bonn is exploring these questions of Comparative Thinking on the basis of sediments from Lake (Lymph)angiogenesis and Cellular Immunity in FOR 2240 Prof. Dr. Claus Cursiefen Chew Bahir in the south of Ethiopia, Inflammatory Diseases of the Eye also known as Lake Stefanie. ‘On FOR 2495 Inductive Metaphysics Prof. Dr. Andreas Hüttemann the basis of the lake sediments, we Basal Ganglia - Cortex Loops: Mechanisms of Pathological KFO 219 Prof. Dr. Gereon Fink can reconstruct the climate and the Interactions and Their Therapeutic Modulation environmental conditions of the last Exploiting defects in the DNA damage response for the KFO 286 Prof. Dr. Michael Hallek 200,000 years and examine factors treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia that ultimately encouraged the dis- persal and migration of modern humans’, says Professor Dr Frank Schäbitz from the UoC. To do this, the researchers drilled up to 280 metres into the bed of Lake Chew Bahir and brought up the 3,500 kilograms of sediment they are currently evaluating. /// Staff and scientists from Germany, Ethiopia and the UK came together in Ethiopia  sfb806.de/media to study the climate history of the region. University of Cologne Research 26 | 27

Focus on Black Holes The Institute of Physics I at the On the Extinction of Species Fear of Retaliation the observers. This was the conclusi- suspect that this is associated with UoC developed and built the two on reached by a study led by Bettina the fear of retribution from the per- The large telescope in Chile‘s Ata- spectrometers for GRAVITY for If people do not intervene, or only in- Let‘s assume that passengers ob- Rockenbach, Professor for Experi- son breaking the rules. This fear is cama Desert is the showcase obser- this purpose. Spectrometers ana- tervene to a minor extent, meadows serve two environmental sins on mental and Behavioural Economics greater with more serious violations vatory of European ground-based lyse the wavelength of the star- provide habitats to many species of a station platform – one person in Cologne. In a team which inclu- of the rules than with lesser ones. astronomy. The European Southern light being observed and convert plants and animals. But intensive use throws their empty coffee cup onto ded researchers from the University The authorities, police or security Observatory operates what is proba- the photons received into elec- of land by humans results in more the ground. The other not only so- of Innsbruck and New York Univer- staff are therefore needed if the in- bly the most highly developed opti- tronic signals. To form a virtual monotonous communities of plants ils the platform with a coffee cup, sity of Abu Dhabi, she studied the fringement of the rules is more ext- cal instrument in the world. In 2016, telescope with a diameter of up which, in turn, provide habitats for but throws away a whole bag of way people react to lesser and more reme. /// scientists from Cologne, Heidelberg to 200 metres, the high-perfor- ever fewer species of animals. rubbish. Which one would be more serious violations of social norms in and Garching commissioned a new mance GRAVITY combines the likely to receive a reprimand from the public sphere.  nature.com/articles/ncomms13327 instrument called GRAVITY on the te- light from several telescopes into Under the leadership of the Technical bystanders? lescope. Its main task will be to rese- a gigantic interferometer. This University of Munich, a large consor- On the basis of 800 cases, the study arch black holes. In particular, GRAVI- technology enables astronomers tium of around 300 scientists for the Although throwing away a whole disproves the thesis that more se- TY will examine what happens in the to recognize much finer details first time examined what consequen- bag of rubbish was felt to be a more vere violations of norms are punis- extremely strong gravitational field than would be possible with a ces more intensive land use is having serious violation of the ‘rule’, it does hed more severely by those present in the centre of the Milky Way. single telescope. /// across species groups at the landsca- not cause a more severe reaction in than minor violations. The scientists pe level. For the first time, the resear-  eso.org/public/news/eso1601/ chers have statistically proven that all meadows become similar due to in-  eso.org/public/germany/news/ tensive agriculture and only provide eso1601/?nolang habitats for a few species, and that this is the case across various regions in Germany.

Scientists studied more than 4,000 species in the UNESCO biosphere reserve on the Swabian Alb, in the Hanich National Park and its surroun- dings and in the Schorfheide-Chorin biosphere reserve. Ecologists from The more serious environmental sin of throwing away a whole bag of rubbish (right) does not cause a more severe reaction than the small discarded the UoC were responsible for analy- coffee cup. sing the smallest creatures, the sing- Picture (a) shows the minor infringement – throwing away a coffee cup. Picture (b) shows the more serious infringement – throwing away a whole bag of rubbish, which contains a coffee cup, among other things. le-cell organisms of between two (Picture http://nature.com/articles/ncomms13327) and 50 thousandths of a millimetre. The single cell organisms in the soil have an important function in controlling the bacterial degradation of organic substances and nutrient mi- Insurance Makes Professor Dr Matthias Sutter from insured purchasers are less critical neralization in the soil. ‘Extensively Services More Expensive the Chair ‘Economics: Design and of costs than uninsured purchasers managed grassland areas are essen- Behaviour’ in Cologne, worked with because a third party is paying the tial for protecting species diversity Honesty is a key element of coope- colleagues from the University of bill. Professor Sutter and his col- because the interaction between in- ration in human societies and for Innsbruck to examine the role of leagues described the behaviour of dividual species diminishes as species their economic well-being. But ho- insurance policies in this context. the customers and the salespeople diversity falls’, concludes Professor Dr nest behaviour is not always a gi- Their conclusion – the price of a as second degree moral miscon- Hartmut Arndt from the UoC. /// ven. Markets for services based on computer repair rose by more than duct. /// GRAVITY discovers that one of the stars in the constellation of Orion is a double star. trust, such as repair costs or medical 80 per cent when the salespeople (Picture http://eso.org/public/news/eso1601/) treatments, open the door for sales learned that the service was cover-  nature.com/nature/journal/v540/  pnas.org/content/113/27/7454 people to engage in dishonest de- ed by insurance. Some computer n7632/full/nature20575.html alings because the purchasers are parts were replaced unnecessarily  www.nature.com/nature/journal/v536/ often unable to assess the quality of and too many hours of labour were n7617/full/nature19092.html the services rendered. charged. According to the study,

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Biology of Aging Research Areas New Findings from Aging Research at the University of Cologne Research Area E

TNF-R/ In recent years, the focus of the UoC TLR on aging research has developed into a leading international centre with a Research F Area Insulin- Receptor wide reach. With the construction of Research Ceramide IKK Area D Jnk a separate building for the CECAD IRS

y Cardiolipin ATP NF B Cluster of Excellence very close to the K og Research l Area ROS o A DNA collaborating research institutions of n h c e the Max Planck Society, the UoC has T misfolded folded Research now created the appropriate buil- Area B t n ding infrastructure to enhance colla- DNA me y repair n t p i o l o i Research DNA damage Degradation Aggregation l t a boration among the various scientists response e a u c Area v q C u e E d and to foster the long-term develop- r E r D e e d ment of their key focal area of aging e n e ar Research G C Cancer Diabetes Neurodegeneration research. Together, more than 400 48 Platform 49 A scientists from the UoC, Cologne Uni- versity Hospital, the Max Planck Ins- Translation titutes for Metabolism Research and Research B Platform for Biology of Ageing and the Ger- Research man Centre for Neurodegenerative C Platform Diseases form the CECAD Cluster of Excellence in Aging Research. Their Forschung mit Killifischen At the leading international centre for aging research, the CECAD Cluster of Excellence, biologists and clinical scientists research the cellular causes of aging vision is to decipher the molecular in highly complementary research areas (Research Areas A-F), which range from mitochondria (A), protein-homeostasis (B) and genome stability (C) to lipid mechanisms of aging and thus im- senescence (D), inflammatory responses (E) and metabolism (F). The research areas are embedded in technology platforms (A), training and equality measures prove the treatment of aging-associ- Together with Professor Dr Tamas year, the working group led by Pro- (B) and translation into clinical application (C). ated diseases. Horvath (International Faculty of the fessor Dr Thomas Langer identified a UoC, the working group led by Pro- new mechanism through which dis- Scientific Highlights from CECAD fessor Dr Jens Brüning succeeded in turbances in protein depletion in the Damage in the genome causes seri- Moreover, CECAD scientists are also Dr Björn Schumacher, which is con- defining new concepts for the way mitochondria lead to neurodegene- ous diseases and its ceaseless increa- collaborating on a number of other cerned with research into the effects In 2016, important contributions sensory nerve cells control physiolo- ration in spinal cerebral ataxia. The se is one of the causes driving the joint projects. For example, the ne- of chronic DNA damage. /// were made that, for example, provi- gical responses to changes in energy loss of a mitochondrial protease in aging process. CECAD researchers are wly approved CRC 1218 deals with ded new insights into the importan- metabolism. Furthermore, the group the patient in question leads to dis- therefore analysing the mechanisms mitochondria. The loss of mitochond- ce of protein aggregation in old age identified a specific cell population ruption in the absorption of calcium with which cells react to genome da- ria function is closely associated with and into age-related inflammation that elicits inflammatory responses by the mitochondria, as a result of mage. CECAD researchers from the aging. CECAD working groups are in processes. Insulin is of key import- which are associated with obesity. which neurons are affected and die fields of immunology and protein particular studying the complex in- ance for the regulation of energy These studies give indications for off with increasing age. homeostasis are working together teraction of mitochondria with their management. By binding to insulin possible new therapies to treat me- closely with DNA repair researchers cellular environment in aging-asso- receptors on the cell surface, it con- tabolic disorders, which are especially Innovative Approaches to Research for this project. Within the context of ciated diseases. Furthermore, the trols important cell functions that in- important in old age. on the Molecular Foundations of a clinical research group, specific the- Remix Network (REgulation of the fluence life span. The working group Aging rapeutic approaches are being de- MItochondrial GeneXpression) will led by Professor Dr Thorsten Hoppe The working group led by Professor veloped that take effect on the DNA be established under the leadership was able to show for the first time Dr Manolis Pasparakis is studying the The shared expertise and close col- repair mechanisms. of Professor Dr Aleksandra Trifunovic, that the frequency of insulin recep- regulation of cell death and inflam- laboration among the scientists and will involve Europe-wide studies tors is regulated by specific depletion mation that frequently occurs in old involved in CECAD opens up new This joint project has now been ex- into the way functional disruptions processes. Inhibition of these pro- age. Their most recent work revealed opportunities for gaining a better tended after a positive assessment in to the form of mtDNA have an effect cesses results in the life span being the mechanism by which a specific understanding of the complex pro- the last year. The disruption of skin on diseases and aging processes. shortened in various model organis- kinase prevents cells from dying off cesses at the heart of aging. The im- homeostasis in old age is the topic of ms. The studies indicate that the dis- and thus suppresses inflammatory re- portance of these interdisciplinary another Collaborative Research Cen- Three European Marie Skłodowska ruption to the protein balance that sponses in the skin. approaches is also made clear by the tre that has also been extended by Curie Initial Training Networks have occurs in old age is closely linked to countless collaborative research pro- a further funding period. Here, the been brought to a successful conclu- the regulation of the insulin uptake Finally, various CECAD working jects in which the working groups of leading international DNA repair and sion with the training of almost forty in the cell and thus contributes to a groups are studying mitochondria; the CECAD Cluster of Excellence are aging researcher Professor Dr Jan Ho- doctoral researchers. These included shortening of life span. the loss of mitochondria function is participating. eijmakers has been recruited to join the CodeAge Network, coordinated closely associated with aging. Last the International Faculty of the UoC. by the CECAD researcher Professor University of Cologne Research 30 | 31

Age – More than Biology Innovative Plant Research for the Needs of the Future Aging and Demographic Change From Complex Properties to Synthetic Modules

In addition to raising medical and Climatic changes, a rising world po- From Annual to Perennial Crops Arabis alpine that are responsible for scientific questions, aging and de- pulation and the shortage of arable the development of the flower head mographic change entail funda- land, water and nutrients require CEPLAS is the only Cluster of Excel- and an extensive, branched root sys- mental challenges of an ethical, innovative strategies for growing lence in Germany in the field of plant tem – features that differ between legal, economic, human and social plants. To ensure sustainable provisi- research. In recent years, it has achie- annual and perennial plants. scientific nature. Various interdisci- on with plant raw materials, almost ved key results in the development of plinary research endeavours at the 50 working groups from the Univer- sustainable, resource-efficient plant Based on these findings and other UoC are dedicated to these chal- sity of Cologne, Heinrich Heine Uni- production. One approach is the re- genome comparisons of annual and lenges. ceres (the Cologne Center versity Düsseldorf, the Max Planck gulation of the annual and perenni- closely related perennial plants, CE- for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Institute for Plant Breeding Research al nature of plants, since perennial PLAS scientists are planning in the Social Sciences of Health), which and Forschungszentrum Jülich are plants make more efficient use of nu- next step to change annual crops into was set up at the UoC in Novem- Ethical and Legal Framework Condi- Self-determined Consent for Health collaborating in the CEPLAS Cluster trients and offer better erosion pro- perennial crops. ber 2013, forms the institutional tions in Alzheimer‘s Research Apps of Excellence. tection than annual plants. However, framework for this collaboration. The Cluster of Excellence is studying the majority of our current crops are Here scientists research the quality Alzheimer‘s dementia is a disease that An increasing number of people is ways in which crop yields can be annuals. To identify the mechanisms of life for very old people in North already affects around 40 million very using apps and digital media to be sustainably increased by optimizing which control the annual or perennial Rhine-Westphalia, for example, or old people worldwide. In the last 15 constantly informed about what is central biological processes such as nature of a plant, the genomes of the the effects the most recent technical years, considerable progress has been happening in their own bodies and photosynthesis, nutrient uptake and annual rock cress varieties Arabis ibe- developments, such as health apps, made in the early diagnosis of Alzhei- to be able to influence their own fit- resistance to pathogens, especially rica and Arabis auriculata (rock cress) can have – not only on our lifestyles, mer‘s using special biomarkers. The ness, for example by means of per- with regard to conserving limited have been deciphered which are but also on our rights to determina- early diagnosis of Alzheimer‘s disease sonalized diet and exercise plans. resources such as water, land and fer- closely related to the perennial rock tion. ceres is funded by five Facul- allows early treatment and the mo- Mobile health apps and wearables tilizers. The aim is to create the basis cress Arabis alpine (Alpine rock cress). ties at the UoC and is dedicated to dification of risk factors. In future, it can be used to measure and store for future-oriented plants to provide CEPLAS scientists have succeeded in research, the development of young may even be possible to stop demen- your pulse, calorie intake and usa- food, animal feed and energy. identifying genes in the model plant talent, teaching and public relations tia in its tracks with an early, specific ge, sleep pattern and a great deal work on pressing issues in the field treatment. However, carrying out a of other body function data, twen- of health. predictive examination on a large sca- ty-four hours a day. But what the le is associated with ethical and legal various devices and apps store and Quality of Life and Well-Being of risks – even being aware of the risk how this data may be further proces- Very Old People in NRW of becoming ill can represent a heavy sed or passed on is often not made mental burden for those affected and transparent for users, or they cannot The 80+ age group is the fastest their families, and the data acquired influence it – more than half of all growing age group in our society from such an examination is extre- such applications do not contain any and already has almost one milli- mely sensitive. data protection provisions. Within on members in North Rhine-West- The scientists involved in the ceres the framework of a study, a team at phalia. Nevertheless, they are un- PreDADQoL project therefore want to ceres under the leadership of Pro- der-represented in social science develop ethical and legal framework fessor Woopen is therefore current- studies. This should change with the conditions for carrying out predictive ly drawing up criteria for consent NRW80+ study launched in 2016. examinations to help ensure that the options for health apps that satisfy 1,800 people from a representative quality of life of those affected and of ethical and legal requirements and group of persons over 80 years of their families will in future remain at are intended to be incorporated in age are to provide information on the heart of diagnosis and treatment. the development and assessment of their quality of life and their subjec- In addition to Cologne University Hos- new consent options. /// tive well-being. The aim of the stu- pital, Fundació ACE (Barcelona, Spain) dy, conducted under the auspices or is also involved, an internationally lea- Professor Dr Christian Rietz, Profes- ding institution in the field of demen- sor Dr Michael Wagner, Professor Dr tia research. Christiane Woopen and Professor Dr Susanne Zank, is to provide reliable information and thus also the basis for planning for a target-group oriented policy for older people. In the CEPLAS greenhouse University of Cologne Research 32 | 33

Increasing Yields with Optimized New Paths in Epistemology Photosynthesis Center for Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition C4 photosynthesis is a promising ‘tool’ to increase crop yields. It is a special form of standard C3 photosynthesis and has developed in What activities are planned for the several species over the course of near future? In addition to epistemology and evolution. C4 plants can grow bet- the Kantian tradition, I am also very ter than C3 plants in hot, dry locations with high levels of light. Some interested in medical epistemology of our most productive crop plants, and the subjects of memory and such as maize, millet or sugar cane forgetting. We have already held a workshop on medical epistemology are C4 plants. Other plants, such as wheat, rice or rapeseed, however, in October 2016, and a major conference is planned for December use C3 photosynthesis. Within the context of the CEPLAS research, and 2017. Another major conference on through the collaboration between the philosophy of memory will be experimental and theoretical biolo- held in July 2017, and a Kant work- gists, it has been possible to identify shop in the autumn. I will also be for the first time the steps which involved with the summer school must have been taken in evolution, and conference organized by my and in which order, to enable de- Improved Nutrient Supply and their advantages or disadvanta- colleague Professor Dr Thomas Defence Reaction of Plants through ges for the plants. Grundmann. The two of us make velopment from a C3 plant to a C4 plant. One important prerequisite Interaction with Microbes up the ‘epistemology wing’ of the Furthermore, CEPLAS working Philosophy Department. for C4 photosynthesis, for examp- Plants interact with a multitude of groups have been able to show Professor Dr Sven Bernecker is one Professor Bernecker, what is the fo- le, is a CO2 pump that increases the microbes (bacteria, fungi, protists) that both the root architecture of the leading contemporary philo- cus of your research at the Universi- Will the Center focus more on rese- concentration of CO2 within specific cells, which is then converted that live either within or outside and the composition of the root sophers, with research interests in ty of Cologne? arch and supporting early-career re- into sugar. This knowledge lays the of the plant (micro-flora). These in- exudate are influenced by special epistemology, metaphysics, philo- Professor Bernecker: Epistemolo- searchers? groundwork from which to develop teractions can be advantageous to bacterial signal molecules. sophy of the mind and philosophy gy is a vibrant research area with a No, the Center’s lectures and semi- a synthetic approach to try to ‘re- plants, for example due to an impro- of language, and the philosophy of long tradition in the Philosophy De- nars will be addressed to all students ved supply of additional nutrients, Not only micro-organisms, but Kant. In July 2016, he was appoin- partment. The Center I am establis- – from Bachelor’s to doctoral level. produce’ C4 photosynthesis, step or can also be disadvantageous. plants, too, produce chemical si- ted Alexander von Humboldt Pro- hing will deal with selected subjects But doctoral candidates will indeed by step, in a current C3 plant and thus expand the possible cultivation gnal substances. Recently, tran- fessor at the UoC and is establishing of contemporary epistemology. Ho- be given intensive support due to In the last few years, CEPLAS scription factors were identified the Cologne Center for Contempo- wever, for some time now Kant has the close and in-depth thematic fo- areas for current C3 crop plants and increase the biomass yield. scientists have been able to iden- that regulate the synthesis of se- rary Epistemology and the Kantian hardly played any role at all in this cus of the Center and through inten- tify and characterize the com- condary metabolites (glucosinola- Tradition (CONCEPT). An important research. The aim of the Center is sive exchange. We plan to present plete micro-biome of the model tes). On the basis of the targeted criterion for funding within the fra- to reinterpret Kant using theorems and discuss our projects internally plant Arabidopsis thaliana (thale regulation of signal and defence mework of the Alexander von Hum- from contemporary epistemology once a week. This is the only way cress) and of the crop plant barley. substances of this kind, it will in boldt Professorship is that the candi- and, in turn, to enhance current de- that we can offer one another help. Furthermore, so-called ‘microbial future be possible to equip plants dates be well integrated at the host bates in epistemology using Kant‘s But there will be no shortage of per- hubs’, i.e. central microbes, have with the appropriate properties universities, provided with excellent work. spectives from outside – so far seven been identified that, for example, for an efficient defence reaction. working conditions and that they international visiting academics have have a strong effect on epiphytic contribute to enhancing an existing How will the Center be staffed? announced that they will be coming and endophytic bacterial coloniza- Equipping the plants with modi- research area. Professor Bernecker‘s The five-year initial funding from to the UoC in 2017. /// tion or directly interact with bacte- fied defence substances and op- expertise in Kantian philosophy – a the Alexander von Humboldt Foun- ria in the phyllosphere (e.g. on the timized symbiosis partners can traditional thematic focus of the dation finances the professorship at surface of a leaf). Knowledge of help to ensure that the plants will UoC’s Philosophy Department – will the beginning, but also six doctoral the composition of the micro-flora need fewer nutrients in future, strengthen this research area in the positions for a period of three ye- of various plants and the establis- reducing the need for fertilizers. long term and create an internatio- ars and two post-doctoral positions hment of a microbe culture bank Furthermore, the improved nutri- nally unique academic environment. for a period of two years. In addi- now enable various combinations ent supply can also enhance plant tion, funds to invite international of synthetic microbe communities growth and yield. /// guests and organize conferences to be generated and examined for and workshopswill be provided. The UoC is establishing two long-term W1 professorships and a position for one research fellow. University of Cologne Research 34 | 35

The Institutional Strategy of the UoC

Strategic Research Funding and International Networking

With its Institutional Strategy, fun- Innovative projects and new ideas The Emerging Group ‘ULDETIS – Ul- ded in the context of the Excellence that encourage academic exchange tra-sensitive Detection of Isotopes’ Initiative, the UoC is strengthening within the UoC and among all the has evolved into CRC 1211 ‘Evolution its excellent research and teaching, partners involved in the ResearchAl- at the Dry Limit’. improving flexibility and dynamism liance Cologne are supported in the and fostering the integrative de- funding line ‘Forum’. The Emerging Group ‘DSLC – Dyna- velopment of the whole university. mic in Structuring Language Com- Two very successful funding measu- Groups with outstanding academic munication’ was successful with its res are the Excellent Research Sup- achievements, a strong international application for CRC 1252 ‘Promi- port Program and the International reputation and substantial third-par- nence in Language’. The Emerging Faculty Program. ty funding are supported as UoC Group ‘ET-CC Energy Transition and Centers of Excellence. These Centers Climate Change’ is involved in SFB/ Excellent Research Support serve as platforms for the UoC’s Key TRR 172 ‘Arctic Amplification: Clima- Programme Profile Areas. Research collaborati- te-Relevant Atmospheric and Surface on projects with a high potential for Processes and Feedback Mechanisms Main Building of the UoC, view from the Green Belt

The Excellent Research Support Pro- the future are funded as Emerging (AC) 3’. gramme (ERSP) is the central strate- Groups. The UoC supports individual gic research funding system of the academic excellence with the UoC re- In addition, the foundations for the UoC. The ERSP provides support for search prizes, creating the necessary successful application for CRC 191 research – from excellent individual leeway for independent research ‘Symplectic Structures in Geometry, International Faculty Program In 2016, four renowned internatio- research to outstanding major pro- conducted by individual researchers. Algebra and Dynamics’ were laid in nal academics were recruited to the jects – in four funding lines, thus sup- the UoC Forum project ‘Symplectic The International Faculty Program is program. Since March, Professor Dr porting the strategic development The ERSP is extremely successful, with Techniques in Topology and Dyna- a particular highlight of our Institu- Jan Hoeijmakers (Erasmus University of the UoC and the implementation the result that four of the projects mics’. In total, 50 projects have been tional Strategy – the program aims Rotterdam) has been researchingat of innovative ideas. funded in 2016 have applied to be- funded in four funding lines since the to increase the international visi- CECAD and is PI in CRC 829 – Mole- come Collaborative Research Areas. start of the ERSP (see illustration). bility and networking of the UoC’s cular Mechanisms Regulating Skin Key Profile Areas. Top international Homeostasis). Professor Dr Pavlos academics are given a part-time con- Kollias (Stony Brook University) is tract with the UoC to research and strengthening the Competence Area teach for two to four years in Colog- Quantitative Modelling of Complex ne, for 4 to 8 weeks each year. Since Systems and Professor Dr David An- the start of the programme in 2013, derson (Warwick University) and Pro- 22 researchers have been members fessor Dr Julio Ortega (Brown Uni- of the International Faculty. versity) were recruited for the Global FUNDING LINES LEVELS South Studies Center. /// The International Faculty professors Centers of Excellence Key Profile Areas are PIs in third-party funded projects, provide mentoring to doctoral Forum Competence Areas students students and are involved in teaching at the UoC. Emerging Groups Emerging Areas

Research Prizes Individual Research New Members 2016

Fig. Funding Lines of the ERSP Professor Dr Professor Dr Professor Dr Professor Dr Jan Hoeijmakers Pavlos Kollias David Anderson Julio Ortega

Institute of Genetics School of Marine and African History, Global Hispanic Studies, Erasmus University, Atmospheric Sciences, History & Culture Centre Brown University, Rotterdam Stony Brook University, at the University of Providence New York Warwick, Warwick University of Cologne Research 36 | 37

EU Funding for Early-Career Language Education Researchers in the Arts and Humanities University-wide Doctoral Network Established Second Funding Phase for Mercator Institute Europe-wide Graduate The UoC has established Faculty-wi- support and mentoring. Moreover, School in the Arts and Language skills are a key require- It is also a partner in the Leibniz Rese- de and subject-specific UoC gradua- many additional support offers, for Humanities ment for children and young peo- arch Alliance on Educational Potenti- te schools (GS) in all six Faculties, so example for international doctoral ple if they are to fulfil their poten- als, an alliance that includes a num- that all doctoral researchers at the researchers, have been established. tial – at school, when studying for ber of well-known Leibniz Institutes. UoC have access to structured gra- The AMGC acts as the central infor- The integrated graduate school of a degree or in vocational training. duate programmes. This network of mation platform for all interdiscip- the Faculty of Arts and Humanities However, educational institutions The Mercator Institute will receive Faculty and major discipline-specific linary questions relating to docto- ‘a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the face challenges when teaching lan- further funding from 2016 to 2022, GSs was initially funded externally, rates at the UoC and, for example, Humanities Cologne’ is being ex- guage skills – the number of children with 8 million euros coming from the for example the Excellence Initiati- offers cross-Faculty qualification and panded into a pan-European gra- and young people who start school Mercator Foundation and additional ve-funded graduate schools Bonn Co- further training as well as mentoring. duate school for the arts and hu- with an inadequate knowledge of funds from the UoC amounting to logne Graduate School of Physics and It fosters the internationalization of manities. Early-career researchers German is rising. Set against this 6.5 million euros. In the second pha- Astronomy (BCGS) and the a.r.t.e.s. doctorates at the UoC and organizes thus have the opportunity to carry background, the Mercator Institute se of funding, the Mercator Institute Graduate School for the Humanities networking meetings for all doctoral out research in an interdisciplinary for Literacy and Language Educati- wants to increasingly expand its own Cologne, or the Cologne Graduate researchers. The networking of the and international context within on was founded at the University of research activities and develop into School of the Faculty of Manage- UoC GSs creates important synergies a three-year fellowship. This way, Cologne in 2012 on the initiative of Germany’s central research institu- ment, Economics and Social Sciences, in doctoral education that will be a.r.t.e.s. wants to encourage the the Mercator Foundation. The aim of te for matters relating to language initially financed by the federal state continuously expanded in future. /// mobility of the next generation of the Mercator Institute is to improve education. /// of North Rhine-Westphalia. In additi- scholars and enhance the networ- language education and language on, the University founded the Gra- king of research in the arts and support across the whole course of duate School in Human Sciences and humanities in an international en- education. The institute advises uni- the Graduate School of the Faculty of vironment. versities and institutions of educatio- Funding for the Laws as well as the Graduate School UoC Graduate Programmes nal administration on the integration of Geosciences with the funding as To set up and expand the program- of German as a second language into a University of Excellence. The cent- me, the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School their teacher training. It funds, arran- Mercator Institute ral hub of the UoC GS network is the CENTRAL HUB: ALBERTUS MAGNUS GRADUATE CENTER (AMGC) acquired 2.35 million euros as part ges and carries out applied research Albertus Magnus Graduate Center of the ‘Horizon 2020’ EU Funding and contributes towards the training until (AMGC). In 2016, the UoC decided Graduate Programmes International Max Planck Programme for Research and In- of educational experts and teachers. novation. These funds provided via to permanently institute the UoC GS financed by the UoC Research Schools The Mercator Institute has now esta- network and thus create a sustain-  the COFUND programme of Marie blished itself nationwide as a contact  F1: Management, Economics & Social Sciences Age/Metabolism Skłodowska-Curie Action will be able central foundation for doctoral  Plant Sciences for education policy issues.  F2: Faculty of Law matched by a.r.t.e.s. from its own 2022 training at our university. The joint  Studies of Societies task of the network of UoC gradua-  F3: Human Medicine and Dentistry funds. ///  Astrophysics te schools is to continuously improve  F4: a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities doctoral training. The UoC GSs offer  F5: BCGS Physics and Astronomy central selection and admission pro- Biological Science Helmholtz Research Schools cedures and ensure quality standards Geosciences  Space Life  for doctorates in their fields. Further-  F6: Faculty of Human Sciences BioSoft more, the network gives all doctoral   C: Teacher Training Energy & Climate candidates of the UoC access to a structured, subject-specific doctoral Excellence Graduate School Funding from Institutional Strategy programme, as well as further qualification offers and provisions for

EXTERNALLY FUNDED GRADUATE PROGRAMMES

Clusters of Excellence (DFG): 2 Marie Curie Training Networks (EU): 2 Collaborative Research Centres (DFG): 9 NRW Fortschrittskolleg: 1 Research Training Groups (DFG): 4 Others: 3

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New Centre for Eastern European Studies

Leibniz Prize 2017 for the African Studies Professor Dr Anne Storch Cologne-Bonn Centre for Central and Eastern Europe Founded

Professor Dr Anne Storch is a wor- A new Centre for Eastern European The interdisciplinary Bachelor’s- ld-renowned African Studies spe- Studies was founded at the Univer- programme ‘Regional Studies Eastern cialist, who has made a major con- sities of Cologne and Bonn in early and Central Europe’, supported by the tribution towards a far-reaching April 2016, known as CCCEE | Colo- CCCEE, corresponds to this research reorientation of the subject with her gne-Bonn Centre for Central and focus. Thanks to the establishment of work. Taking a cultural and anthro- Eastern Europe. The CCCEE is sup- the interdisciplinary joint Master‘s de- pological approach, she has opened ported by five institutes of the UoC gree ‘Cultural and Intellectual History up African Studies to sociological – the Eastern European History Sec- between East and West’ in the winter descriptions of power practices and tion in the History Department, the semester 2016/17 in collaboration with political mechanisms of action. In Department for Byzantine Studies the University of Warsaw and the Hig- this way, she has opened up classical in the Institute of Ancient Studies, her School of Economics in Moscow, linguistics to new, interdisciplinary the Institute for Eastern Europe- students in Cologne will in future also perspectives. In December 2016, she an Law and Comparative Law, the have the opportunity to transition to was one of ten prize winners to be Martin Buber Institute for Jewish research, and research work will be- awarded the prestigious Gottfried Studies and the Slavic Department. strengthened by future young acade- Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2017 for her The University of Bonn is represen- mic talent. In addition to a growing work. The Leibniz Prize is endowed ted by the Department of Eastern range of options for students, the with 2.5 million euros in prize mo- European History at the Institute for CCCEE also organizes events for the ney and is the most important re- Historiography. The institutes are public, including the ROME lecture se- search prize in Germany. The prize collaborating closely with the Lew ries in the winter semester 2016/17 on was presented in Berlin on 15 March Kopelew Forum e.V. in Cologne, a current research subjects from Eastern 2017. /// forum that fosters cultural exchan- European Studies. /// ge and encounter between eastern and western Europe. The CCCEE is carrying on the strong tradition of research on eastern Europe in the Cologne-Bonn region. Averroes: Research on a Major Philosopher of the Middle Ages

The research project ‘Averroes (Ibn is one of the most important authors Rushd) and the Arabic, Hebrew and of the Middle Ages. His writings on Latin Reception of Aristotelian Na- the teachings of Aristotle influenced tural Philosophy’ was accepted into well-known scholars of his time, for the programme of the Academy of example Thomas Aquinas and Alber- Sciences, Arts and the Humanities tus Magnus. Averroes’ work is avai- 10.6 of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2016 lable in Arabic, Hebrew and Latin in as one of two research endeavours. various differently edited versions, million euros from the North It will be funded over a period of 25 which the scholars plan to analyse, years with a total of 10.6 million eu- compare and finally publish in a criti- Rhine-Westphalian Academy ros. The long-term scope gives the cal edition of 18 volumes. /// of Sciences, Humanities scholars the opportunity to permanently establish Cologne as a centre and the Arts of Averroes research of international standing. In a well-funded research project, scholars from the Thomas Institute want to publish selected texts of the philosopher Averroes in a critical edition. Averroes, who is CCCEE podium discussion ‘The Russia-Ukraine Conflict and Civil Society’ also known by the name Ibn Rushd, TEACHING

The University of Cologne is popular among students, with around 335 degree programmes offered in six Faculties. We are also one of the biggest teacher training institutions in Europe. One of our goals is to combine theory and practice in a meaningful way in our teacher training degree programmes. One example of this is the ‘Weichenstellung’ (Setting Course) programme, launched in 2016, which helps primary school children during their transition to secondary school. In this context, Cologne teacher trainees give support to children at schools in Cologne.

Vice-Rector of Teaching and Studies Professor Dr Stefan Herzig University of Cologne Teaching 42 | 43

Teaching in Figures

Spread of Students in Winter Semester 2016/17

WINTERSEMESTER 2016/17 Proportion of International Total Proportion women students Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences 9,122 18 % 46 % 12 % Faculty of Law 5,167 11 % 58 % 11 % Faculty of Medicine 3,511 7 % 63 % 17 % The continuous further development of our teaching offer and Faculty of Arts and Humanities 14,978 30 % 65 % 11 % formats is one of the main reasons why the UoC was once again Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 9,092 18 % 45 % 8 % one of the most highly demanded places to study in Germany in Faculty of Human Sciences 7,934 16 % 84 % 5 % 2016, with a total of 49,804 students. Whether research-oriented UoC total 49,804 100 % 60 % 10 % teaching, such as our Intensive Weeks and Student Fellow-ship Programmes for early access to academic topics or career-oriented further training courses, such as those at the newly-founded Cologne Business School – the UoC offers students countless op- Development of Students According to Faculty portunities for gaining qualifications beyond the standard subjects in order to be well-prepared for their future tasks, irrespec- 60,000 tive of whether these are in academic or non-academic fields.

48,689 50,427 48,962 49,804 50,000 In recent years, we have paid particular attention to teacher trai- 45,521 ning. At the UoC, four Faculties are involved, working in colla- 41,576 40,660 41,835 boration with the UoC’s Centre for Teacher Education (ZfL), and 40,000 37,095 36,725 36,739 36,902 just under a third of students are taking part in a teacher training course. This makes the UoC one of the biggest teacher training 30,000 institutions in Europe. The strategic and conceptual development of teacher training at the UoC will be supported until 2018 by

Manag./Econ./Social funds from the BMBF, from the ‘Qualitätsoffensive LehrerInnen- 20,000 Law bildung’ programme. Under the title ‘Future Strategy Teacher Medicine Training’, the ZfL offers four sub-projects – Competence Labs, 10,000 Arts/Humanities Inclusive Studies, Development of Young Talent and Quality As- Math./Natural surance – to further develop teacher training at he UoC. Inno- Human vative learning concepts, such as Design Thinking Seminars, are 0 currently being tested in the Faculties and then implemented in WiSe WiSe WiSe WiSe WiSe WiSe WiSe WiSe WiSe WiSe WiSe WiSe 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 a broader setting. ///

Graduates According to Faculty in the Examination Year 2016

EXAMINATION YEAR 2016 Proportion of International Total Proportion women students Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences 1,512 21 % 49 % 8 % Faculty of Law 409 7 % 63 % 7 % Faculty of Medicine 402 6 % 62 % 9 % Faculty of Arts and Humanities 2,138 35 % 75 % 5 % Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 1,217 20 % 52 % 6 % Faculty of Human Sciences 501 11 % 85 % 4 % UoC total 6,179 100 % 63 % 6 % University of Cologne Teaching 44 | 45

Making Degree Programmes Comparable Nationwide Both German and Italian compa- In addition to perspectives for an academic nies and lawyers‘ offices appreciate Model Accreditation at the UoC the ability of the graduates of this career, the requirements binational Bachelor‘s degree to negotiate with partners in their native The University of Cologne has has, however, not been completed of the employment market are increasingly playing language – especially when dealing opted in favour of system accre- with the award of the seal of qua- with difficult legal or business situ- ditation to ensure the nationwi- lity from the accreditation agency. an important role in degree studies. ations. de comparability of degree pro- Evaluations will be carried out in fu- grammes and their qualifications, ture to regularly check whether the The students will complete the pro- and indeed made a major first self-imposed standards are being New Degree Programmes at the UoC gramme with the qualification ‘Ba- step in this direction in 2016 by met. Student satisfaction, student chelor of Laws’ as a joint degree introducing a model accreditati- success and graduate opportunities Study Today What Will Be in Demand Tomorrow from the UoC and the Università on. Model accreditation defines on the employment market are key Fit for the World of Work degli Studi in Florence. It is mainly standards – for all programmes to the assessment. aimed at students who already have the university offers – for the Graduates of the UoC School-leavers in Germany are in- the research and development of an excellent knowledge of German structure of degree programmes The next major step, system accre- Successful on the creasingly opting to study for a innovative medicines along the and Italian before the start of the and modules, examination regu- ditation, will be prepared from 2017 degree, not least because statisti- whole value chain. The program- programme. lations, permissible number of ex- onwards. /// Employment Market cally this offers them much better me is aimed at graduates of the aminations, and on subjects such job opportunities, even outside of relevant Bachelor’s programmes In addition to the German–Italian as internationalization, equal With the annual graduate survey the academic market. In addition in the fields of chemistry, biology BA, the Faculty of Law already of- opportunities and citizen parti- carried out since 2008, the UoC to the major, omnipresent subjects or medical-pharmaceuticals and fers Bachelor’s programmes in Ger- cipation. The structure of study wants to ensure that its teaching for study, the UoC therefore also gives them the chance to supple- man– French (together with Paris programmes and examination provision prepares students for offers tailor-made degree program- ment their specialist knowledge. I), German–English (with University regulations are harmonized with both the academic and the non-aca- mes that lead to qualifications for a Graduates therefore not only gain College London) and German–Tur- the model requirements, which demic employment market as well specific academic or non-academic a qualification for pharmaceutical kish (with Istanbul Kemerburgaz) is especially advantageous with as possible. The results of the most profession and meet current skills research in industry, but also for Law. At Master‘s level, there are joint degrees and teacher trai- recent graduate survey from Oc- needs. Two examples are the Mas- work in national and internatio- already two programmes available, ning programmes. The project tober 2015 show that graduates ter‘s programme ‘Drug Discovery nal licensing authorities or for a a German–Turkish Master’s degree take up employment on average and Development’ and the degree further career in academia. (Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi) and a 2 months after completing their in ‘German–Italian Law’, which German–French Master’s degree studies. This positive result is also were introduced at the UoC in 2016. German–Italian Law Programme (Paris I). /// supported by the results of rele- (LLB Cologne/Florence) vant personnel surveys, such as the Master’s Programme in Drug Disco- career ranking lists in ‘Wirtschaft- very and Development In the winter semester 2015/16, the woche’ magazine or in the Financial first and, so far, only Bachelor‘s pro- Times German edition. In the winter semester of 2016/17, gramme in German and Italian Law the new, interdisciplinary program- was successfully launched. Fifteen The Faculty of Management, Econo- me ‘Drug Discovery and Develop- students each from the UoC and the mics and Social Sciences, with 9,000 ment’ (MSc) was launched. From Università degli Studi in Florence students currently enrolled, once basic research through clinical tes- form the first Dante Alighieri year again occupies the top spot here. ting to introduction onto the mar- group. They will complete the first The UoC evaluates these results as ket, students gain in-depth insights four semesters in Florence, follo- an indication of the ‘precision fit’ of into all the phases of pharmaceuti- wed by four semesters in Cologne. its teaching provision of academic cal research. This research-oriented The students are trained in two le- and vocational degree courses and programme is offered by the Facul- gal systems, cultures and languages the successful work of the Professi- ty of Medicine and the Faculty of and are thus intensively prepared onalCenter, which forms the inter- Mathematics and Natural Sciences for international work. As two of face between degree studies and at the UoC in cooperation with the the four biggest member states of practice. /// Faculty of Applied Sciences at TH the EU, Germany and Italy enjoy Köln/University of Applied Scien- a close political relationship. The ces. Students earn a joint degree economic relationship is just as clo- from both universities. The pro- se. After all, Italy has been among Students in the specialist Biology library gramme provides them with skills Germany’s top ten foreign trading that will equip them for roles in partners for many years now. University of Cologne Teaching 46 | 47

Suggestions and Complaints Learning to Teach Office Set Up Teacher Training at the UoC Dealing Constructively with Complaints and Suggestions Teachers play a key role in shaping 2011/12, studying to teach has been the future opportunities of chil- switched to BA and MA degrees dren and young people. The UoC across the state of NRW. The pro- From the legal services offered by is therefore very committed to the gramme is followed by an 18-month the General Students’ Committee training of new teachers. With period of teaching practice, which is (AStA) via the UoC’s central student approximately 14,000 students concluded by a state examination. counselling and advisory services to studying to be teachers, the UoC is One innovation in teacher training is the psycho-social counselling offer one of the biggest teacher training the practice semester, implemented of the Catholic Student Community – universities in Europe. for the first time in 2015, in which our university’s established network students spend a period of time in a of counselling facilities on various Students are trained at four Facul- school during their Master‘s degree, subjects is well prepared for any ties of the university – the Faculty providing them with practical expe- possible problems or conflicts which of Arts and Humanities, the Faculty rience at an early stage. may arise. The specific offers of the of Human Sciences, the Faculty of Faculties, central institutions and the Mathematics and Natural Sciences The students are supported and gi- administration were supplemented and the Faculty of Management, ven guidance in the Faculties and in the winter semester 2015/16 with Economics and Social Sciences. Half at the Centre for Teacher Education the establishment of an overarching of the students registered in each (ZfL) throughout the whole course Suggestions and Complaints Office of the first two Faculties are stu- of their degree programme. Further- (ABS). The staff of the SCO are neu- dying to be teachers. The subjects more, with the ‘Training Region Co- tral points of contact outside the of Sport and Music are offered in logne’, a dense network has been structures of the Faculties and ad- collaboration with the German created that brings together all the ministration for all issues as well as Sports University Cologne and the institutions in the Cologne area that organizational or personal concerns, University for Music and Dance Co- are involved in teacher training. and they guarantee absolute confi- logne. Since the winter semester dentiality.

The SCO is distinct from the many Five Year Anniversary – The Practice Semester in subject- or discipline-specific coun- Centre for Teacher Education The coaching sessions allow teacher the Cologne Training Region selling provisions, in particular with trainees to reflect on their career its openness to problems or com- choice at an early stage and to pre- Teacher trainees gain work experien- plaints of any kind, its mediating The Centre for Teacher Education pare themselves for their roles as tea- ce during their Master of Education function between the complainant (ZfL) is responsible for cross-discip- chers. Furthermore, it is useful for an programme in a five-month practice and various players in the university line mentoring and support of stu- early assessment of their aptitude for phase in a school and apply their in the case of complex complaints, dents training to become teachers the demanding job of a teacher. theoretical knowledge. The practice and its support for the issue from at the UoC. Alongside the involved phase is in the second semester of the beginning to end. From its incepti- Faculties, it makes an important Master‘s degree, after a mandato- on to the end of 2016, the ABS has contribution to the successful trai- The UoC organizes events to get in- ry preparatory seminar. During the addressed a total of 190 concerns. ning of the students. In 2016, more volved in public debate on schools practice semester, the students work than 24,000 enquiries for advice and and education – under the heading in a total of three different places In terms of our organization struc- concerns were raised by students ‘Lighthouse Leadership’, the ZfL hos- of learning. They spend four days of ture, the SCO is assigned to the Of- and those interested in studying for ted a series of events in 2016 with a the week at a school in the training fice of the Vice-Rector for Teaching a degree. In the five years of its exis- good 500 participants from schools, region, where they actively participa- and Studies, but always supports all tence, the ZfL has thus become an universities and industry. At the te in shaping lessons and carry out a those involved in finding a solution, important point of contact for all events, debates were held on current study project agreed with the school, from a neutral, mediatory point of matters relating to teacher training. findings and experiences on the sub- which, for example, may relate to view. In 2016, ‘Subject Coaching Teacher ject of ‘Leadership’ (in schools and their own practical teaching work, Counselling session at the Centre for Teacher Education Training’ and the series of events classrooms, in universities and com- research on other teaching methods ‘Lighthouse Leadership’ were two panies). or research on school development of the new offers set up for teacher processes. trainees.  zfl.uni-koeln.de  zfl.uni-koeln.de/filme.html University of Cologne Teaching 48 | 49

Minister Svenja Schulze presented research into how new learning for- Shaping Heterogeneity and To motivate teacher trainees to pur- the successful participants with their mats can be used in practice to the Inclusion – Future Strategy for sue a doctorate, teacher training certificates. Ment4you and MICADOS benefit of all pupils is conducted. Sin- Teacher Education research classes are offered in close attend information events, organize ce the 2015/16 school year, the Helios collaboration with the Cologne Gra- consultation sessions and regularly School has been the inclusive univer- The project funded by the Federal duate School for Teacher Education, provide information via social media. sity school of the City of Cologne. The Ministry for Education and Research in which teacher trainees can acqui- UoC monitors the school‘s work and (BMBF) has continued successfully re additional skills in empirical rese- ‘WEICHENSTELLUNG’ (Setting supports it with teaching materials, since its launch in 2015. It encompas- arch methods. Course) for Year 4 Pupils – Creating international exchange and additio- ses four sub-projects. In the ‘Com- Educational Fairness nal staff. petence Labs’ sub-project, practical The fourth sub-project is designed teaching elements are integrated to monitor the first three sub-pro- Creating equal opportunities for Since the level of previous knowled- into university teacher training. For jects. For this purpose, a longitu- educational transitions – a big topic ge and development paths of the example, school classes come to the dinal analysis was started in the in all of the federal states. This is children are very different – especial- university for science experiments summer semester 2016. More than the goal pursued by the WEICHEN- ly in the primary sector – the school and are supported by students. In 1,000 teacher trainees took part in STELLUNG project initiated by the pursues the goal of individually tailo- the ‘Inclusive Studies’ sub-project, the first survey; the results can be ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Buce- red support within the framework of awareness of the heterogeneity of accessed online. /// rius, which is aimed at pupils in year the curriculum requirements. At the pupil and student groups is raised 4. Within the context of this project, same time, it wants to encourage among university teaching staff teacher trainees provide support in the children to have fun and enjoy with the aim of permanently integ- the primary school pupils‘ transition learning, and endeavours to promo- rating the subject into the curricula to secondary school. Intensive sup- te creativity and socially appropriate of teacher training programmes. The practical experience and progress Projects in port is given to pupils who basically behaviour. of the study project is monitored and meet the requirements to attend an supported within the framework of Teacher Training academic high school (Gymnasium) profile groups at the UoC, with di- but are often not able to take up this Competence Labs can be permanent institutions, gital learning formats organically Ment4You and MICADOS – More opportunity due to specific weaknes- but may also be mobile, extramural places of supplementing classroom teaching. Teachers with a History of Migration ses, e.g. in the German language. Finally, the students spend four days learning or learning environments. of the semester at one of five centres The composition of school classes in In the 2016/17 school year, the WEI- of practical teacher training (ZsFL) in Germany is becoming ever more he- CHENSTELLUNG programme was NRW, where they receive their sub- terogeneous in terms of language launched at the UoC’s Centre for ject-related practical training. and culture. Teachers with a histo- Teacher Education, as the only site ry of migration can offer important in NRW, thanks to financial support The practice semester can currently support in dealing with this diversity from the Dr. Harald Hack Foundati- be completed at one of the appro- in everyday life at school. However, on. In 2016, 30 teacher trainees from ximately 900 schools in the Cologne the proportion of such teachers is the University of Cologne supported Training Region. The Cologne Trai- still very low, and studies show that 93 pupils in year 4 at 17 Cologne pri- ning Region was established in col- teacher trainees with a history of mary schools and will mentor them laboration with the five centres for migration tend to drop out of their through their first two years at se- practical teacher training (ZfsL) and courses with disproportionately high condary school. There will be a sig- the Cologne District Government, frequency. The ‘Teachers with a His- nificant expansion of the program- and covers a wide area for every type tory of Migration’ network of the me in 2017 and 2018. Thanks to of school. In 2016, 1,193 Master‘s stu- federal state of NRW therefore initi- the comprehensive mentoring and dents completed a practice semester. ated the ‘Ment4You’ project in 2016. support for the pupils, the course Teacher trainees with and without a will be set for a successful transition The UoC’s ZfL supported the intro- background of migration are trained from primary to secondary school; duction of the practice semester in to be mentors to advise and support at the same time, the students ac- the Cologne Region with an intensi- teacher trainees with a background quire the skills to give individual ve evaluation study. The results were of migration, right from the start support to pupils. published in 2016. of their degree programme. In the 2016/17 winter semester, a group of Inclusion at the Heart of Our five mentors was formed from the ‘Own’ School  zfl.uni-koeln.de/sites/zfl/Publikati- ‘MICADOS’ university group (a stu- onen/Materialien_zum_PS/ZfL_Pro- dent network for the intercultural The Helios School is an innovative, zess-Evaluation_Ergebnisse_PS.pdf opening up of teaching, founded in inclusive primary school following 2014), who were trained by the abo- a Scandinavian model. Lessons are ve-mentioned network. The then taught here while at the same time Students at the Faculty of Human Sciences University of Cologne Teaching 50 | 51

Innovation in Teaching

New Ideas and Formats for University Teaching

With the programme ‘Innovation in teams from Human Medicine and in Brussels. In addition to students Teaching’, established in the winter Health Economics, who play against from Cologne, influx of patients into semester of 2012/13, the UoC has each other, reflect the composition a certain area, and see the impact been supporting innovative ideas of a hospital management team, students from partner institutions, and teaching concepts from the Fa- whose members each have to take such as the Université Paris Sorbonne culties and central institutions. The into consideration different medical (Paris), Sciences Po (Paris), Universita programme has met with great inte- and economic perspectives when ma- Karlowa (Prague) or the Türk-Aleman rest across the university. In the cur- king decisions. This joint decision-ma- Üniversitesi (Istanbul) can also take rent project period (winter semester king process, which sometimes has to part. The highlight of the teaching 2015/16 to summer semester 2017), take place under great time pressure, project is a two-day real-time negoti- more than 60 project applications could not be conveyed with previous ation simulation in which the various were submitted. Twenty-one of these teaching methods. teams negotiate with and against applications could be approved with each other before a simulated Euro- the project funds available. The spec- PROTEUS – Orientation Course in pean Court of Justice. The student de- trum of innovation ideas is wide – di- Law and Politics of the EU System legations take on the roles of various gital forms of teaching and learning political players in these negotiations are currently very popular, as are in- As part of the PROTEUS teaching and try to put forward their positions terdisciplinary or international and project, students of law and political in the negotiations on the basis of diversity-oriented concepts. Here are science deal with both the theory of the factual knowledge they have ac- two examples: the legal and political framework quired. The strong identification of conditions of European integration the participants with their roles is not Design Thinking Seminar on the Redesign of the Pupils‘ Laboratory Computer-based Simulation Game and their practical implementation intended to result in a hardening of ‘Hospital Management’ for Students in political negotiations. To do this, the content, but rather a change in at the Ecological Rhine Station of the University of Cologne of Health Economics and Human they first take part in various courses perspectives. This year‘s project had Medicine in law and political science and then the theme ‘Attached, detached, un- complete a course at an international matched? Alternative forms of part- In the summer semester 2016 and laboratory, to design teaching con- were made by the teaching equip- In the winter semester of 2016/17, and interdisciplinary summer school nership beyond EU membership’. /// winter semester 2016/17, under the cepts according to the real needs of ment manufacturer LD Didactic and Human Medicine and Health Eco- leadership of Professor Dr André schools and to make our students‘ were tried out with pupils at the nomics students had the first-time Bresges, the Institute of Physics and lessons informative and motivating Ecological Rhine Station. In the win- opportunity to acquire practical its Didactics carried out two Design for the pupils. ter semester 2016/17 another ‘Re- knowledge in the management of Thinking seminars on the redesign search and Development’ seminar a hospital with the simulation game of the pupils‘ laboratory at the Eco- In the supporting seminar ‘Research became involved and, in addition to TOP-SIM – Hospital Management. logical Rhine Station of the Universi- and Development in Teaching’, sim- this, an academic thesis for a Master TOP-SIM offers the realistic simulati- ty of Cologne. The Design Thinking ple prototypes of experiments were of Education was produced on the on of a hospital managed by a team method was developed in Stanford developed on the basis of two older process. The test equipment is cur- of students. In the role of the com- by the IT specialist Terry Winograd, studies on the interest of pupils, rently being conclusively revised by pany management, each student the biomedical specialist Larry Leifer the IPN Study of Interests and the the manufacturer and will in future team takes on responsibility for its and the designer David Kelley. It is ROSE Study, that could be intensi- be available in the pupils‘ laborato- virtual hospital and makes strategic used for a team to work in an inter- vely tested in the pupils’ laboratory ry Ecological Rhine Station. /// decisions against the backdrop of the active process to identify the needs by pupils of the Liebfrauen School uncertainty of the health market in of a target group with respect to in Cologne. The experiments gave a dynamic competitive environment. an offer, to make proposals for the pupils the opportunity to find out Whereas, in the past, students only offer and to test it for its suitability for themselves about fluid mecha- calculated the consequences of ma- together with the target group. nics, the physical build of fishes and nagement decisions in the running of other river creatures and about the a hospital on an individual basis and The participants in the seminar at geomorphology of the Rhine, and on the basis of theoretical models, the UoC were 18 teacher trainees to understand the connections bet- with this simulation game they expe- as well as just under 50 year 10 pu- ween the physical build of the fishes rience in a realistic way, for example pils. Specifically, with this innovative and the character of the environ- the consequences of individual deci- format, a way was to be identified, ment. With the feedback from the sions such as a reduction in post-natal using the example of the pupils‘ pupils, more complex prototypes care, on the this has on the running of the hospital as a whole. The mixed Participants in the PROTEUS summer school in Brussels University of Cologne Teaching 52 | 53

Managers in the Lecture Hall

Teaching Innovation Project ‘Collaborative E-Learning at Master’s Level’ Launch of the Cologne-Rotterdam Executive MBA

Network Initiative of Scandinavian/ res on new Finnish literature that are Currently, the Network of Scandinavi- Excellence Meets Experience – this The participants can apply their fres- Finnish Studies held at Turun yliopisto (Turku Univer- an/Finnish Studies is made up of five motto could be said to sum up hly acquired knowledge directly in Profile of the First EMBA Cohort sity) and supported by a face-to-face collaborating universities alongside the ‘Cologne-Rotterdam Executive their work environment and they Executive MBA Students The project ‘Collaborative E-Learning seminar at the UoC. the UoC, which is responsible for the Master of Business Administration can also write their final thesis on a at Master‘s Level. A Network Initia- coordination of the project. These are (EMBA)’, which was launched at the practice-based topic from their own Number: 21 students tive in Scandinavian/Finnish Studies’ In the courses specifically designed as the University of Freiburg, Goethe UoC’s Business School in September companies. With a third of parti- was granted funding for an initial digital learning communication, the University Frankfurt, Humboldt Uni- 2016. The programme, which stu- cipants from abroad, the ‘Colog- two years in 2016 from the Future students are also given the opportuni- versität Berlin, the University of Stras- dents complete alongside their pro- ne-Rotterdam Executive MBA’ has Fund of the federal state of North ty to benefit from a diverse range of bourg (France) and Turun yliopisto fessions, came about through col- also been well-received beyond nati- Age ( ø 33) Rhine-Westphalia. It aims to achieve networking opportunities by means (Turku University, Finland). /// laboration between the Rotterdam onal borders. years international networking of teaching of cross-institutional communicati- School of Management, the Univer- in so-called ‘minor subjects’ – initially on. They communicate with teaching sity of Rotterdam and the UoC. It is In addition to the Executive MBA, the for Scandinavian and Finnish Studies. staff, and also with students from aimed at managers with several ye- Cologne Business School offers open  skanfen.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/ 24 % Digital networking offers students the different cultural and university con- ars of professional experience who professional development courses as 28 % opportunity to make use of cross-uni- texts. As a supplement to face-to-fa- e-master.html already have a university degree and well as consultancy and professional versity teaching provisions and thus ce teaching, e-learning thus enables  www.youtube.com/watch?v= have gained some initial managerial development courses tailored to the to benefit from specializations from a more concise degree programme b9R3pG0qunY experience. needs of specific companies. /// various locations. By means of colla- that is not geographically restricted, 48 % boration with institutions in Germany is freer in terms of time and can be The high-quality lecture and seminar < 29 and abroad, a varied repertoire of designed to allow more autonomy. It programme prepares participants for 29 - 35 themes from the entire spectrum of is also particularly well- suited to stu- managerial tasks in senior manage- > 35 subjects can be permanently offered dents with physical or mobility restric- ment and is concluded with a dual via a digital events pool. Thus, stu- tions, as well as students at different degree from both universities. It is dents of Scandinavian/Finnish Studies stages of life, e.g. with parental or designed to take two years and al- Professional Experience ( ø 8) can, for example, now listen to lectu- caring responsibilities. lows for a combination of theory and practice. years

10 % 23 % Pupils at the University

Record Demand for Cologne Children‘s University 67 % < 5 5 - 10 Under the title ‘Cologne Children‘s Together with pupils, Franz Bauske > 10 University’, the University of Colog- from the Centre for Aging Studies ne has been organizing an annual questioned the pupils‘ parents about two-week programme of lectures their own school days, and Professor and workshops since 2003 to inspire Kirsten Schindler from the Institute school children to develop more infor German Language and Literature Most Important Branches terest in science – whether by having presented scientific explanations for Pharmaceuticals Industry the chance to conduct their own ex- the way everyday conversations work. Consultancy & Services periments, carrying out their own stu- Energy Sector dies or hearing exciting explanations Pupils from years 3 to 6 could take Financial Services for everyday phenomena. In 2016, the part, either individually or as a who- Experiencing physical phenomena in a workshop Healthcare number of participants reached a rele class. Especially keen participants cord level of 1,500. received a diploma from the Chil- Engineering dren‘s University at the end of the Oil and Gas Industry Contributions from all of the Faculties event. /// Law were on the programme of events. Education Professor Dr Hans G. Edelmann from Automotive Industry the Biology Department explained why trees can‘t grow up to the sky, Participants in the Cologne-Rotterdam Executive MBA in the new seminar building of the UoC University of Cologne Teaching 54 | 55

Finding and Promoting Young Talents Train the Trainer – Project Management – Foundations of Entrepreneurship

Attracting more pupils from At the UoC, which is collaborating In the winter semester 2015/16, the further course in collaboration with cations which are available. With the non-academic homes and families with Cologne University of Applied UoC, together with the Cologne the IHK was launched in the summer knowledge they gain, students are in with a background of migration to Science in the project, three talent Chamber of Industry and Commerce semester of 2017. The one-semester a better position to prepare themsel- study for a degree – that is the goal scouts are involved in the current pi- (IHK), launched the programme ‘Train course concludes with the ‘Project ves for their future field of work and of the talent-scouting programme lot phase at four schools in Cologne. the Trainer’. It was designed for stu- Manager (IHK)’ exam. Here, up to to highlight their skills in their job ap- of the federal state of North Rhi- Ideally, they will support young peop- dents in all disciplines and teaches 20 students can learn the methods plications. /// ne-Westphalia, in which the UoC is le from their first thoughts about en- participants the basics of adult educa- and instruments of project manage- participating. In the programme, rolling in a degree programme right tion. Students acquire theoretical ment in project groups and consoli- so-called talent scouts offer orien- up to graduation. With personal ad- and practical skills for designing trai- date this with e-learning. tation, advice and support in star- vice as well as workshops, the talent ning courses – specialist vocational ting out in academic education. scouts pass on knowledge about the knowledge that they can provide There are also further courses on of- What is special about the concept: university, convey general study skills evidence of with the ‘Trainer(IHK)’ fer for students contemplating the the talent scouts are not waiting and provide advice on questions of certificate. founding of a startup, such as the around on campus for interested student finance and future career certificate ‘Fundamentals of Entre- parties, but actively visit secondary prospects. In September 2016, the first group preneurship’, which can be acquired schools in the region to make con- of 14 students passed their IHK ex- via a collaboration agreement bet- tact with talented pupils. This way, Alongside the pupils, parents are amination, after two semesters of ween the university’s incubator ‘Ga- those young people who might not also given the chance to find out further training. A second course teway’ and the ‘ProfessionalCen- have thought about studying for a about the opportunities to study for with 16 students started in Octo- ter’. With this programme, students degree are alerted to the available a degree and to overcome any reser- ber. The transition into the world are ideally prepared to establish opportunities. vations. Through a launch event in of work is supported by the UoC their own (spin-off) company from September 2017, to which represen- ProfessionalCenter with a range of the UoC. The certificate courses the In establishing contact with schools, tatives of secondary schools were in- further offers. Due to the success ProfessionalCenter offers are the in addition to their existing cont- vited, the project will be brought to of the ‘Train the Trainer’ course, a basis for a number of other qualifi- acts, the UoC can make use of the a wider public. In total, the University existing network of the ‘Cologne of Cologne will receive funding of Training Region’ – a collaboration one million euros up to 2020 for their initiative among universities and talent scouting programme. /// Skills for Research schools, which was set up in particular to organize the practice semes- Research-oriented Teaching ter for teacher trainees.

The research strength of the UoC is New Programme in Quantitative also reflected in special offers that Biology (B.Sc.) prepare students for the working methods in research. Top-level rese- In the Life Sciences, for example, re- and in 2016 the first students started. arch, as carried out in the context of search questions with large data sets The students‘ research interests were the Excellence Initiative projects, thus are playing an increasingly import- already clear – the very topical da- makes a great contribution to tea- ant role, for example studies into the ta-intensive fields of system biology ching and enriches it with innovative genetic material of plants or patient and synthetic biology. themes and excellent infrastructure. studies to research diseases. In additi- A wide range of offers, such as the on to solid knowledge in the subject Graduates of this programme will be course in Quantitative Biology, In- concerned, researchers need in-depth of great interest to those running mo- tensive Weeks, top-level research in knowledge of quantitative analysis dern, data-oriented research projects teaching and research grants for stu- methods and on how to deal with in biology, such as the CEPLAS Cluster dents specifically offer them oppor- large quantities of data. On the initia- of Excellence, which is based at Hein- tunities and incentives to become fa- tive of the CEPLAS Cluster of Excellen- rich Heine University Düsseldorf and miliar with current research projects ce, the ‘Quantitative Biology’ degree the UoC, as well as the Max Planck at an early stage and to develop their programme was developed jointly Institute for Plant Breeding Research own research initiatives. by precisely these requirements. The and Forschungszentrum Jülich. The programme, which is offered by the interdisciplinary and research-ori- UoC and Heinrich Heine University ented four-year Bachelor‘s degree Düsseldorf, was accredited in 2015, programme ‘Quantitative Biology’ University of Cologne Teaching 56 | 57 comprises modules in mathematical Funded in the Excellence Initiative: modelling, bioinformatics, biostati- Research-oriented Teaching at the Research Grants International Top-level Researchers stics and the equally heavily quanti- Bonn-Cologne Graduate School for for Students in Teaching tatively-oriented biology subjects of Physics and Astronomy the biophysics of the cell, system bio- In the CECAD Cluster of Excellen- The students also benefit from the logy and synthetic biology. The sub- The Bonn-Cologne Graduate School covery of the Higgs particle, allowed ce, students with ‘Medical Student worldwide and regional research col- ject matter is taught in lectures, with for Physics and Astronomy (BCGS) bacteria populations to evolve and Fellowships’ can gather practical re- laborations of the UoC. Scholars and around two thirds of the teaching offers an integrated doctoral pro- investigated topological effects in so- search experience in the Cluster of scientists from non-university rese- time being devoted to exercises and gramme that includes a Master‘s de- lid-state physics. Excellence‘s research laboratories. arch institutions, with which the UoC practical sessions. gree. Master‘s students are involved The Center for Social and Economic collaborates in the Research Alliance in research groups in the context of Intensive Weeks comprise lectures, Behavior (C-SEB), a Center of Excel- Cologne (see p. 109), are involved practical research work. During term research-related problems, which are lence in the UoC’s Institutional Stra- in teaching, including, for example, break, the BCGS organizes Intensive often solved in groups, compact expe- tegy, offers Master‘s students grants the Max Planck Institute for Plant Weeks in which Master‘s and docto- riments and discussions. In the words to enable them to develop and carry Breeding Research and Forschungs- ral students are given excellent op- of a participant, ‘In the Intensive out their own experiments. In 2016, zentrumJülich. Added to this are the portunities to become familiar with Week we didn‘t get tired, even after 13 Master‘s students received this lectures and seminars offered by top current research subjects and to learn working in the lab for hours. Rather, funding. The experience gained this international researchers in the cont- alongside top international scientists. we were able to develop more new way is particularly exciting for those ext of the International Faculty Pro- In 2016, Intensive Weeks were offered models, simulate them on the com- students who want to stay in research gramme (see p. 33), through which on a variety of subjects. Among other puter, test them in experiments and after completing their Master‘s thesis. outstanding international resear- things, the students recreated the dis- then present them.’ chers come to the University of Colo- gne to teach and advise students and doctoral candidates. ///

Taking a Broader View

Studium Integrale at the UoC

With the Studium Integrale, the The following subjects are offered in Humanities and the Faculty of Law UoC offers Bachelor‘s students in all the summer semester 2017: ‘Thinking are involved in the programme, as Faculties the opportunity to attend History, Writing History. Approaches well as guest lecturers from Germany teaching events outside their regu- from Antiquity to the Present’, ‘Reli- and abroad. Beginning in the winter lar subject curriculum to the value of gion, Gender, Identity - these three? semester 2016/17, the range of tea- 12 credit points. This is intended to Concepts, Criticism and Social Reali- ching events will be supplemented encourage students to follow their ty’, ‘A Sense of Justice’ and ‘The Fu- by events from the Faculty of Human own interests and look beyond their ture of the Theatre – the Theatre of Sciences and the Faculty of Mathe- own subjects, learning new ways of the Future’. The Faculty of Arts and matics and Natural Sciences. /// thinking. A reform of the Studium Integrale was initially launched by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in 2015 under the heading ‘WeiterDen- ken’. In 2016, a new structure for the events of all Faculties was developed Students are encouraged to follow their own and a control body was instituted responsible for the re-conception and interests and look beyond their own subjects, Test Setup as part of the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School for Physics and Astronomy further development of the events within Studium Integrale starting learning new ways of thinking. from the winter semester 2016/17. UNIVERSITY AND SOCIETY

A university wants to generate and pass on knowledge. For this knowledge to benefit people and the economy, the University of Cologne, the City of Cologne and the Co- logne Chamber of Commerce and Industry founded the Digital Hub Cologne in 2016 as an innovation and digitization centre for the regional economy. The Hub’s offers are mainly aimed at start-ups and small and mid-sized enterprises.

Rector’s Commissioner for Alumni Work, Fundraising and Technology Transfer, Dr Rainer Minz University of Cologne University and Society 60 | 61

Digital Hub Cologne

The transfer of knowledge and technology are among the central taks of the UoC and they are highly important to society. That includes contributing to our knowledge society by means of educational and information events, supporting economic innovation, for example by encouraging start-ups, and fostering the integration of refugees.

The UoC has been increasing its activities in these areas for many years now. For example, in 2015 it set up the GATEWAY Incubator to support the start-ups of students and staff. The COPT Center is a high-tech platform to offer support to businesses, in particular aimed at SMEs in the field of organic electronics. Currently, there is a particular focus on digital innovation – in 2016, together with the City of Cologne and the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the UoC founded the ‘Digital Hub Cologne’, where digital innovation Meets small and mid-sized enterprises.

RA BEI T Thanks to concepts such as the ‘Pupils‘ University’ and study

opportunities for senior citizens, the UoC is opening up to

Uni IHK different generations, and supports the broad passing on of Köln Köln knowledge in society. In doing so, the university makes use of a wide range of formats to take up topical issues and get

Stadt Köln involved in public debate. Moreover, this involvement includes many current areas of society, for example with programmes for refugees who want to start a degree programme, the Cologne Summer Schools for international students, and participation in the Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which offers grants to refugee academics. The Centre for Teacher Education has also become involved in the area of language teaching for refugees. /// University of Cologne University and Society 62 | 63

Internationalization at Home Social Responsibility

Cologne Summer Schools Integration of Refugee Scholars, Scientists and Students at the University Summer schools are an exciting subjects through a competition held The Cologne summer schools are also way for students to deepen their in the previous winter. The summer open to students at international knowledge of an academic discipline school is aimed at students and doc- partner universities who are consi- Conflicts and the rise of autocracies people from crisis regions. In 2016, through which more than 400 uni- in a short time and to make internati- toral researchers in Cologne as well dering doing a semester abroad or a in many regions of the world lead to the university acquired more than versities, research institutions and onal contacts during their studies. In as postdocs and alumni in the Colog- Master‘s programme in Cologne and situations in which people have to 100,000 euros in donations for this other academic organizations in 39 particular, students who find it diffi- ne Alumni WORLDWIDE network. would like get to know the UoC du- flee or are driven out of their home purpose. countries collaborate to protect re- cult to integrate a longer stay abro- ring the summer school. /// countries. In 2016, a large number of searchers at risk and to strengthen ad into their degree programme can refugees were accepted in Germa- Support for Persecuted Scholars values such as academic freedom. It benefit from the offer. The Cologne ny, including many scholars, scien- has also registered with the Institute Summer Schools have been orga- tists and students. The UoC provides The International Office of the Uni- of International Education Scholar nized for the last four years by the customised programmes to help rese- versity of Cologne finds opportuni- Rescue Fund, which assists persecu- university‘s International Office, with archers and students affected to inte- ties for refugee scholars and scien- ted students and academics from financial support from Santander grate into the German academic and tists in the Faculties. The faculty, crisis regions and awards grants to Consumer Bank AG. In 2016, this col- education system. Furthermore, the departments and institutes are given established researchers whose lives laboration was extended by a further university is committed to helping support in the choice of suitable pro- and work in their home countries are three years. academics who have been persecu- grammes and in submitting applica- at risk. ted and threatened in their home tions for financial support. Refugee Since the start of the project in the countries and takes a clear stance scholars and scientists receive finan- ‘PROMPT! Learn German’ – an Initia- winter of 2012, 30 Cologne Sum- against discrimination, racism and cial support from various organiz- tive for Refugee Children and Young mer Schools have been organized, sexism. It stands up for the principle ations, including the international People around half of them in the year of a discrimination-free university, Scholar Rescue Fund and the Philipp 2016. They have covered a broad which is also firmly established in its Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander In the ‘PROMPT!’ initiative, teacher spectrum of subjects – from media statutes. von Humboldt Foundation. trainees from Cologne teach German and law, environmental sciences and to refugee children and adolescents. aging research to international tea- Funding Refugee The UoC is also involved in networks PROMPT!’ was developed as a langu- cher training. The Faculties, teaching Students to support academics in need – it is age support project by the Centre for staff and institutes can submit their Participants in the 2016 summer school a founder member of the German Teacher Education (ZfL) at the UoC, The UoC is currently supporting section of Scholars at Risk, which was the German Red Cross and the City of approximately 85 refugee students founded in September 2016. Scholars Cologne. This support results in a si- with their integration into the Ger- at Risk is an international network tuation that is advantageous to both man university system. For this purpose, it has ac- Pioneer of Guest Student and Senior Citizens‘ Studies Hands Over the Reins quired 570,000 euros in a joint programme of the German Academic Exch- Over the last few decades, the ‘Guest country – 1,579 senior citizen stu- ange Service (DAAD), Student and Senior Citizens‘ Studies’ dents and guest students were re- German universities and section of the UoC has been built up gistered in the winter semester of partner organizations into what it is today – a teaching 2016/17. They are not only allowed for the integration of re- programme which is open to all in- to take part in the regular teaching fugees. The UoC is using terested parties. This great success is events at the UoC, but can also get this funding for German particularly due to the work of the involved in teaching, for example, by 1,579 courses, counselling and long-standing head of the coordi- acting as mentors or career coaches, senior citizen students intercultural training. It nation office for Academia and Pu- allowing younger students to bene- is moreover making an blic Relations, Professor Dr Hartmut fit from their experience of life and and guest students in important contribution Meyer-Wolters. He retired in March work. Recently, the concept of rese- to supporting refugee 2016 and handed over to his long- arch-based learning, which has been the winter semester of students with the refu- term deputy, Dr Miriam Haller. part of Senior Citizens‘ Studies at the 2016/17 gee fund from the uni- UoC from the outset, has been de- versity‘s own Studies and Dr Haller will now lead the most po- veloped further as ‘Citizen Science’, Teaching Foundation. pular Guest Student and Senior Citi- allowing citizens to take an active From the donations, it zens‘ Studies programme in the part in research, too. /// awards grants to young Cologne teacher trainee teaching German

University of Cologne University and Society 64 | 65 sides – the refugees receive support the teacher trainees and for project New Leadership for Alumni, Transfer and Fundraising in learning German and the students evaluation. can develop their social skills and ga- The UoC was able to win Dr Rainer Minz as the Rector’s Commissioner for Transfer, Fundraising and Alumni, ther practical teaching experience. Enabling the Best Support in Europe with effect from 1 January. For 25 years, Dr Minz was Senior Partner and Managing Director of Boston Consul- The initiative was launched in 2014 ting, working with banks, insurances and public institutions, and had previously held a leading position in the in the Cologne emergency accom- Information on the best provision of IT service company of Generali Deutschland AG. In 2014, he founded RM Consulting GmbH, a Human Resources modation centre in Herkulesstrasse. supportfor refugees at universities consultancy for specialist technical personnel. At the UoC, he will teach Media and Technology Management. In 2016, it was joined by more emer- is collected and compared across He is a member of the supervisory board in various start-ups and of the Advisory Board of the School of Business gency accommodation centres in Europe. This allows universities to and Economics in Maastricht. Under Dr Minz’s leadership, the areas alumni, transfer and fundraising will be the Cologne/Düsseldorf region, and learn from each other and to offer reoganized. more students got involved. The stu- the best possible support. The UoC dents teach the children and young is involved in the benchmarking people the basics of the German lan- project ‘Supporting University guage and thus make the transition Community pathways for REfu- to be built directly on campus and I am convinced that, in many cases, it into the German school system easier gee-migrants’ (SUCRE), which is will be aimed at students interested is too late if you get post from Köln- for them. By the end of 2016, more being conducted under the auspices in starting a business. Alumni sometime after being awar- than 11,000 euros had been dona- of Aristoteles University in Thessalo- ded your degree certificate. You can ted to the refugee fund of the uni- niki (Greece) and the Vrije Universi- What else do the City of Cologne only develop an emotional relations- versity‘s own Studies and Teaching ty in Amsterdam (Netherlands). /// and the UoC need to offer so that hip with your university while you Foundation to fund ‘PROMPT! Learn students can successfully set up their are actually studying for your degree. German’. This funding was used to own companies? Even international students, who finance preparatory and processing only stay here for one or two semes- seminars, psychological support for The start-up scene is very important ters, look back fondly on this special to the city authorities. Cologne’s time. We have therefore undertaken ambition is to be the number two to secure students‘ loyalty to the uni- for start-ups in Germany, after versity from the outset by offering Berlin. But that will only be possible them things that are attractive to in conjunction with the UoC and them, such as networks and events, other universities. This is why we and thus develop a lifelong feeling of have founded the Digital Hub belonging. Statement of the Senate of the University of Cologne for Cologne. This is a place where start- ups come together with companies a Discrimination-Free University Dr Rainer Minz How does membership in KölnAlum- and scientists to develop digital ni remain interesting even many business models together. What years after having completed your In view of the events at Cologne Railway Station on New Year‘s Eve, the University of Cologne and Dr Minz, a new university foundation we still do not have at the UoC are degree? its members would like to reaffirm the principles of a discrimination-free university as laid down in is planned for the anniversary year of entrepreneurship teaching posts and its guiding principles, and take a clear position against sexism and racism of any kind. Our solidarity 2019. What will be special about this the corresponding events – across We offer events, for example, round lies especially with the women who were the victims of sexual assaults. This year, too, in line with foundation? all Faculties. Moreover, many start- table discussions, online conferences these principles, we want to continue with our specific campaigns and activities against sexism and ups can only be realised with skills or professional development cour- racism, as well as developing new ones, within the context of initiatives by students and in research Dr Rainer Minz: We will officially re- in Engineering Sciences. That is why ses. But what is much more import- and teaching. gister the foundation on the 100th we will be collaborating closely ant is the network that comes with anniversary of the university’s re- with Cologne University of Applied KölnAlumni. Today, we have around We already support many initiatives and measures to help refugees. Our International Office is a cent- founding. We can use the anniver- Sciences. It is already clear that 4,000 members. In ten years‘ time we ral point of contact for refugees. Here, countless different actors and institutions have come together sary to draw the public‘s attention we are on the right path. With the want to be at 50,000. On their first in an open working group. They organize measures such as the German lessons given in emergency to the UoC and its excellent research GATEWAY Incubator, there is already day at the UoC, all members receive accommodation by teacher trainees, or the support offered to newly immigrated children and young and teaching. The purpose of the a point of contact and a support an alumni e-mail address, by means people in schools. foundation is very broadly defined structure for those interested in of which we want to enable access and not only covers research, as is the starting up businesses. Incidentally, to a planned Alumni app, for examp- The University of Cologne is also well prepared for protection against sexual discrimination and in the case with many comparable founda- one start-up that developed from le. With this, they will have lifelong debate about sexual violence, for example with assertiveness courses for women and lecture series tions, but also teaching and student this now has the most employees in access to former fellow students or on gender and violence. initiatives. As a beacon project, we the country. other contacts relating to the univer- want to create a new innovation and sity. And the best thing is – members- start-up centre through the founda- You are working on restructuring hip remains free of charge. /// tion. There are plans for a four-sto- KölnAlumni, the UoC’s alumni rey building with a conference area, organization. Why will students soon traditional co-working spaces and be asked to join on their first day at advice centres. All of this is planned university? University of Cologne University and Society 66 | 67

Support for Self-Employment

GATEWAY Incubator Awarded the 2016 University Prize

As a comprehensive, research-orien- The services provided by GATEWAY Another start-up project is TAVLA, ted university, the UoC produces a are aimed at students, graduates which has been funded since Janu- wealth of research results from all and research assistants. Every year, ary 2016. TAVLA is developing an of its Faculties every year, as well as the start-up advisers at GATEWAY application and service portal for creative solutions for a wide range conduct around 100 initial consul- senior citizens and is thus improving of problems – often not in the con- tancy interviews as well as vari- quality of life and participation in text of regular research work. Ho- ous information events for people digital services by senior citizens. wever, it can be a long way from an thinking about starting a company. idea to the successful product, and Furthermore, there are around 35 The first start-ups have already left support is often neecessary. work spaces available for young the GATEWAY and moved into their entrepreneurs to use. own premises, for example UVIS Lore ipsum est For this reason, the UoC has founded UV-Innovative Solutions GmbH, the GATEWAY Incubator for compa- Currently, 13 start-up teams are which won the NUK Rhineland Start- nies started by university members. developing their business models Up Prize in 2015 with its product to GATEWAY offers advice and qua- here. One of these companies is disinfect escalator handrails. /// lification measures for companies TAGXTER. TAGXTER develops soft- started by members of the UoC or ware for outdoor terrain to make Tour on the day of the opening ceremony other universities that are members orientation easier for visitors, e.g. of hochschulgründernetz cologne on the university campus. The com- e. V. (UoC Founders’ Network). In pany was funded with a start-up Science meets SMEs 2016, GATEWAY was awarded the grant from GATEWAY until the end University Prize in the category ‘Ad- of June 2016 and acquired its first COPT Center for Organic Electronics Opened ministration’ for their outstanding large order before the end of 2016. professional consultancy work and support associated with start-ups. ference on 20 May, the COPT Center phalia in the future. On its 1,000

for Organic Electronics (Centre for square metres of laboratory and of- Organic Production Technologies) fice space, there is not only a techno- was scientifically inaugurated. In the logical infrastructure of the highest years to come, Organic Electronics order available to SMEs; they can also The services provided by GATEWAY will produce completely new, previ- benefit from the academic expertise are aimed at students, graduates ously unseen electronic products, for on offer at the COPT Center. /// example unbreakable displays made of plastic, or medical diagnostic equipment to stick on the skin.

The COPT Center, which was completed at the end of 2015 after a construction period of nearly two years, fosters technology transfer between the University of Cologne and small and mid-sized enterprises under the leadership of Professor Dr Klaus COPT.ZENTRUM Meerholz. It is part of the technology transfer strategy of the University of During a kick-off conference for the Cologne and also an important ele- Science@COPT series of events, inter- ment in the federal state initiative nationally renowned experts from for future technology ‘Organic Elec- Germany, the UK and the USA pre- tronics’, which has plans to create sented the latest research in the field highly-skilled long-term employment of Organic Electronics. With this con- opportunities in North Rhine-West- In the GATEWAY offices HONOURS University of Cologne Honours 70 | 71

Honours in Figures

15 ERC GRANTS

8 ERC Starting Grants 5 ERC Consolidator Grants 2 ERC Advanced Grants In the year 2016, many UoC scholars and scientists received major prizes for their excellent achievements, also gaining international renown and thus contributing to the university‘s excellent international reputation.

In December, the Cologne specialist in African Studies, Professor Dr Anne Storch, was awarded the prestigious Gottfried Leibniz Prize Winners Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2017 for her outstanding research achievements. Storch, whose areas of study include taboo and secret languages, made a decisive contribution to the cultural Professor Dr Anne Storch 2017 and anthropological understanding of contemporary Africa Institute for African Studies and Egyptology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities with her in-depth linguistic analysis. Professor Dr Achim Rosch 2013 Institute for Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences On 1 July, the renowned philosopher Professor Dr Sven Bernecker from the University of California (Irvine, USA) commenced his Professor Dr Martin Zirnbauer Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at the UoC. The post 2009 Institute for Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences is endowed with up to five million euros in funding for the first five years and is thus the best-endowed research prize in Professor Dr Jens Claus Brüning Germany. 2007 Institute for Genetics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Professor Dr Thomas Mussweiler (no longer at the university since 11/2016) In addition to this, researchers at the UoC also won five ERC grants 2006 Institute for Psychology, Faculty of Education – a rise of two thirds in comparison to the previous year. ///

Professor Dr Axel Ockenfels 2005 Department of Governance and Public Policy, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences

Professor Dr Martin Krönke 2001 Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine

Professor Dr Andreas Kablitz 1997 Romance Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Professor Dr Ulf-Ingo Flügge 1996 Botanical Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Professor Dr Thomas Schweizer (†) 1995 Institute for Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Professor Dr Peter Schneider 1992 Mathematics Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences University of Cologne Honours 72 | 73

Honours and Prizes

Honours and Prizes at the University of Cologne 2016 to In-house and External Personalities N B E J

Dr Dirk Basten and Dr Nikolaus Dr Sarah Erne, Institute for Foreign Professor Dr Michael Jünger, Institute Adjunct Professor Dr Thomas Nisters, Tine Trumpp, Geographical Institute, Schmidt, Department of Business In- and International Criminal Law, was for Information Technology, received Philosophy Department, received the received the ‘Albertus Magnus Tea- formation Technology and System presented with the ‘Doctorate Prize the ‘Albertus Magnus Teaching Prize’ teaching prize for ‘outstanding com- ching Prize’ for the winter semester Development, received the ‘Junior 2016 of the Faculty of Law’ for her for the winter semester 2015/16. mitment in teaching’ at the Faculty of 2015/16. Teaching Award of the Faculty of dissertation. Arts and Humanities Management, Economics and Soci- K U al Sciences’ in the winter semester F O 2015/16 for their joint seminar ‘Selec- Thomas Kerl, Institute for Organic Dr habil. Daniel Ulber, Institute for ted Issues in Information I/II – IT Stra- Professor Dr Klemens Fischer received Chemistry, was awarded the ‘Special Professor Dr Axel Ockenfels, Depart- German and European Employment tegy & Governance’. the ‘Junior Teaching Prize of the Fa- Prize for Teaching in Human Medici- ment of Governance and Public Policy, and Social Law, received the ‘Hans culty of Management, Economics and ne’. received the ‘Albertus Magnus Prize’ Kelsen Prize for Young Academics’. Marie Bellec, Romance Department, Social Sciences’ in the winter semes- for the winter semester 2015/16. received the teaching award for ‘out- ter of 2015/16 for his seminar ‘Foreign Dr Helge Klemmer, Institute for Phy- W standing commitment to teaching’ in Policy – A Comparison of Foreign and sical Chemistry, received an ‘Albertus P the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Securities Policies: EU – USA – Russia Magnus Teaching Prize’ for the win- Dr Tanja Weber, Institute for Medi- – China’. ter semester 2015/16. Professor Dr Dr h.c. Hanns Prütting, aCulture and Theatre, received the Kathleen Kimberly Boström, Faculty Institute for International and Euro- ‘Teaching Prize for Outstanding Com- of Human Sciences, received the ‘Jen- Professor Dr Ulf-Ingo Flügge, Botani- Dr. Sandra Kliem, Department Physik, pean Insolvency Law, won the ‘Uni- mitment in Teaching’ at the Faculty of ny Gusyk Prize for Young Talent’. cal Institute, won the ‘University Prize erhielt einen „Albertus-Magnus-Lehr- versity Prize 2016 in the Category Re- Arts and Humanities. 2016’ in the category ‘Research’. preis“ für das WiSo 2015/16. search’. Professor Dr André Bresges, Institute S Z for Physics Education, together with Dr Oliver Froitzheim, Chair for Civil M the Department of Mathematics and Law, International Commercial Law, Maik Schössow, Zoological Institute, Sara Zavaree, Institute for African Natural Sciences Didactics, received IPR, Comparative Law and Banking Claudius Mandel, Chair for Political received the ‘Albertus Magnus Tea- Studies and Egyptology, received the ‘Albertus Magnus Teaching Prize’ Law was awarded the ‘Doctorate Pri- Theory and the History of Idea, recei- ching Prize’ for the winter semester the ‘Bene dikt and Helene Schmitt- for the winter semester 2015/16. ze of the Faculty of Law’ in 2016. ved the ‘University Prize 2016 in the 2015/16. mann-Wahlen Grant’. Category Teaching and Studies’ for C H the lecture ‘Orientation and Reflecti- Dr Irene Somm, Institute for Vocati- Torsten Ziegler, Marc Kley und Vesna on – a Dialogue Workshop’ onal, Business and Social Education, Domuz, Department 75 – Transfer, for Professor Dr Peter Chen, Physical-Or- Professor Dr Roland Hefendehl, Uni- received the ‘Junior Teaching Prize outstanding commitment in the con- ganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich, held versity of Freiburg, and Professor Dr Dr David Markworth, Institute for of the Faculty of Management, Eco- ception and development of the GA- this year‘s ‘Kurt Alder Lecture’. Rupprecht Podszun, University of Employment and Commercial Law, nomics and Social Sciences’ in the TEWAY start-up service, received the Bayreuth, was awarded the Ars le- was awarded the ‘Doctorate Prize summer semester 2016 for the event ‘University Prize 2016 in the Category Michael Cristescu and Andreas Pol- gendi Prize of the Faculty of Law. 2016 of the Faculty of Law’ for his dis- ‘Group Discussion Procedures in Ine- Administration’. lak, Department of Governance and sertation. quality Studies’. Public Policy, Chair of Professor Dr Dr Maria Hermanns, Institute for Ockenfels, received the ‘Junior Tea- Theoretical Physics, was awarded the Thorsten Merl, Institute for Gene- T ching Prize of the Faculty of Manage- ‘Max Delbrück Prize for Young Scien- ral Didactics and School Research, ment, Economics and Social Sciences’ tists’. received the ‘Jenny Gusyk Innovati- Dr Monika Tautz, Institute for Catho- in the summer semester 2016 for their on Prize’. lic Theology, received the ‘Teaching joint event ‘Conducting Experiments Professor Dr Johanna Hey, Institute Prize or Outstanding Commitment to with zTree’. for Tax Law, received the ‘Hans Kel- Dr Mahdad Mir Djawadi, Chair for Teaching’ at the Faculty of Arts and sen Prize’. Public Law, International and Europe- Humanities. D an Law, was awarded the ‘Doctorate Professor Dr Wilhelm Hofmann, So- Prize 2016 of the Faculty of Law’ for Professor Dr Ulrich Thonemann, Se- Myrle Dziak-Mahler, Managing Di- cial Cognition Center Cologne, recei- his dissertation. minar for Supply Chain Management rector of the Centre for Teacher ved the ‘Leo Spitzer Prize’. and Management Science, received Education (ZfL) received the ‘Jenny the ‘Albertus Magnus Teaching Prize’ Gusyk Prize for Family-friendly Ma- Professor Dr Thorsten Hoppe, Institu- for the summer semester of 2016. nagement’ te for Genetics/CECAD was awarded the ‘Max Delbrück Prize’. University of Cologne Honours 74 | 75

Honours and Prizes

Honours and Prizes in 2016 to Members of the University of Cologne

A E H K N

Dr Anan Al Sheikh Haidar, Professor Dr Werner Eck, Historical In- Junior Professor Dr Matthias Heinz, Prof. Dr. Axel Klawonn, Institute of Systems (AIS)’ since 2016. She has Professor Dr Dr h.c. Angelika Nuß- Institute for International Peace and stitute, Department of Ancient Histo- Department of Business Administra- Mathematics, was elected to the been appointed a member of the berger, Institute for Eastern Europe- Security Law, received a grant for ry, was appointed ‘Socio straniero’ by tion and Human Resource Manage- ‘Board Council of the Society for Ap- ‘Academic Working Group for Regu- an Law and Comparative Law, was refugee scholars and scientists from the ‘Accademia dei Lincei’ in Rome. ment, was awarded the ‘Joachim plied Mathematics and Mechanics’. latory Matters’ of the Federal Net- appointed Vice-President of the ‘Eu- the ‘Philipp Schwartz Initiative’ from Herz Economics Prize’. work Agency and, as a member of ropean Court of Human Rights’. the ‘Alexander von Humboldt Foun- Prof Dr Franziska Ehmcke, Emeritus Professor Dr Florian Klein, Depart- the ‘Academic Council of the Euro- dation’. Professor of Japanese Studies at the Charlotte Herbig, Institute of Phy- ment I of Internal Medicine/Centre pean Academy of Sciences’, led the O University of Cologne, has been awar- sics II, was awarded the ‘Wayne B. for Molecular Medicine of Cologne ‘Socio-Economic Sciences & Humani- B ded an ‘honorary doctorate’ from Nottingham Prize’. University Hospital, received an ‘ERC ties Division’ Professor Dr Axel Ockenfels, De- Kansai University in Osaka (Japan). Starting Grant’. partment of Governance and Public Professor Dr Georg Bareth, Geogra- Professor Dr Hans-Georg Herbig, In- Dr Kevin Lukes, Institute for German Policy, was appointed member of phisches Institut, wurde in den „Bei- F stitute for Geology and Mineralogy, Dr Felix Kölle, Chair of Economics, and European Employment and Soci- the ‘European Academy of Scien- rat der Deutschen Gesellschaft für was elected ‘Voting Member’ in the Design and Behavior, received the al Law, has been awarded the ‘Kütt- ces’, took 151st place in the ‘Global Photogrammetrie, Fern- erkundung Dr Sebastian Feiler, Attorney at Law, ‘International Subcommission on prize for young talent ‘Modigliani ner Doctorate Prize’ and the ‘Acade- Thought Leader Index’ and 9th pla- und Geoinformation (DPFG)“ ge- Institute for International and For- Carboniferous Stratigraphy’. Research Grant’ from ‘UniCredit & mic Prize of the Wolfgang Hromadka ce in the ‘F.A.Z. Economists‘ Ranking wählt. eign Private Law, has been awarded Universities’. Foundation’. – Germany‘s Most Influential Econo- the doctorate prize of the Alexan- Professor Dr Joachim Hennrichs, mists’. Dr Matteo Bergami, Cluster of Excel- der Lüderitz Foundation for his dis- Chair for Civil Law, Accounting and Professor Dr Frauke Kraas was ap- M lence CECAD, received an ‘ERC Star- sertation. Tax Law, has been elected to the pointed to the ‘Federal Government P ting Grant’. ‘Academic Advisory Council of the Academic Advisory Council on Global Professor Dr Heinz-Peter Mansel Professor Dr Ulf-Ingo Flügge, Botani- Federal Ministry of Finance’. Environmental Changes (WBGU)’. was appointed deputy chairman of Professor Dr Holger Pfaff, Institute Professor Dr Sven Bernecker, Philo- cal Institute, was elected member of the committee for awarding the re- for Medical Sociology, Healthcare sophy Department, received the ‘Al- the Senate of the ‘National Academy Professor Dr Klaus-G. Hinzen, Seis- Professor Dr Michael Kubiciel, Chair search prizes of the Alexander von Research and Rehabilitation Scien- exander von Humboldt Professors- of Sciences Leopoldina’ and also mic Station of the Institute for Geo- for Criminal Law, Criminal Law The- Humboldt Foundation and for awar- ces, was re-elected ‘Review Board hip’. Chairman of the ‘Organismic and logy and Mineralogy, was presented ory and Comparable Criminal Law, ding the Sofja Kovalevskaja prizes. Member on the DFG Board’ and was Evolutionary Biology’ section. with the ‘Award of Corresponding was awarded an ‘Honorary Doctora- appointed to the ‘Advisory Council Professor Dr André Bresges, Institute Astronomer’ by the ‘Royal Observa- te from the Universidad San Pedro’, Dr Riccarda Marcelli, Institute for of Experts of the Innovation Com- for Physics and its Didactics, was ap- Insurance Law, was awarded the G tory of Belgium (ROB)’. Chimbote (Peru). mittee’ by Federal Minister for He- pointed to the ‘Chair of the Commit- ‘Helmut Kollhosser Prize’ from the alth, Mr Gröhe. tee on International Education’ by L ‘Research Centre for Insurance at Dr Andreas Groten, Dissertation at Professor Dr Wolfram Höfling, In- the ‘American Association of Physics the Westphalian Wilhelms University R the Institute for Roman Law, recei- stitute for Constitutional Law, was Teachers’. Professor Dr Maria Leptin, Institute Münster’ for her dissertation. ved the ‘X. Premio romanistico in- re-appointed to the German Ethics for Genetics, was elected ‘Member Professor Dr Achim Rosch, Institute ternazionale Gérard Boulvert’ award Council. D of the German Academy of Sciences Professor Dr Sanjay Mathur, Institute for Theoretical Physics, received the for his book ‘corpus and universitas. I Leopoldina’. for Inorganic Chemistry, was awar- ‘Europhysics Prize’. Roman Corporate and Company Law Professor Dr Silvia Daun, Zoologi- ded an honorary doctorate from the – between Greek Philosophy and Ro- cal Institute, UoC, and Institute for Dr Philipp Lersch, Institute for Socio- University of Vilnius, Lithuania. man Politics’. Professor Dr Kei Ito, AXA Chair in Neurosciences and Medicine, For- Neurosciences: from genome to logy and Social Psychology, received schungszentrum Jülich, received the funding from the DFG for the ‘Emmy Professor Dr Karl Mosler, Institute Professor Dr Thomas Grundmann, structure and function, received the ‘Heisenberg Professorship’. Noether Junior Research Group’. for Econometrics and Statistics, was Philosophy Department, was elected ‘AXA Research Fund’. awarded honorary membership by the new ‘President of the GAP (Soci- Professor Dr Sebastian Diehl, Insti- Professor Dr Claudia Loebbecke, the ‘German Statistical Society’. ety for Analytical Philosophy)’. tute for Theoretical Physics, received M.B.A., Department of Media and an ‘ERC Consolidator Grant’ Technology Management, was elec- Professor Dr Klaus Müllen, Max Dr. Daniel Gutzmann, Institute for ted as an external and independent Planck Institute for Polymer Rese- German Language and Literature I, deputy member to the ‘12th WDR arch, received the Hermann Staudin- Linguistics, received the ‘Heinz Maier Broadcasting Council’, and has been ger Prize. Leibnitz Prize’. an ‘Honorary Lifetime Member of the Association for Information

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S Professor Dr Matthias Sutter, Chair norary Board Member of the Trans of Economics: Design and Behaviour, European Policy Studies Association Professor Dr Stephan Schlemmer, In- received the ‘Pater Johannes Scha- (TEPSA)’. stitute of Physics I, received the ‘Gay sching Prize’ and took 22nd place Lussac Humboldt Prize’. in the ‘F.A.Z. Economists‘ Ranking Professor Dr Jürgen Wolf, Depart- – Germany‘s Most Influential Econo- ment I for Internal Medicine, recei- Dr. Alexander Schmidt-Catran, InsIn- mists’. ved the ‘Innovation Prize of the Fe- stitute for Sociology and Social Psy- deral State of NRW’. chology, and PD Dr Dennis C. Spies, T Cologne Center for Comparative Z Politics, received the ‘Allbus Prize Sebastian Tonke, Department of Go- 2016’ of the Leibniz Institute for So- vernance and Public Policy, received Dr Conrad Ziller, Institute for Socio- cial Sciences (GESIS) for their article the ‘Junior Scholar Award’. logy and Social Psychology, received ‘Immigration and Welfare Support in the ‘German Study Prize (2nd prize) Germany’ published in the American Professor Dr Christine Trampusch, of the Körber Foundation’ and the Sociological Review. Cologne Center for Comparative ‘Early Career Prize of the Arbeitsge- Politics, was appointed advisory meinschaft Sozialwissenschaft- Professor Dr Karl Schneider, Geogra- council member of the project ‘Skill licher Institute e.V. (ASI) (working phical Institute, was appointed ‘DFG Mismatch: Measurement Issues and group of Social Sciences Institutes)’. Liaison Lecturer’ for the University of Consequences for Innovative and In- Cologne. clusive Societies’ at the University of Turin (Italy) and was joint publisher Professor Dr Detlef Schoder, Depart- of the ‘European Journal of Political ment of Business Information Tech- Research’. nology and Information Manage- ment, together with Daniel Döppner, Professor Dr Aleksandra Trifunovic, Honorata Siejka and Wolfgang Institute for Genetics and CECAD, Hennes in collaboration with their won the ‘Marie Skłodowska Curie practice partner ‘Jettainer GmbH Action’. (Lufthansa Cargo)’, earned 2nd place in the ‘German Logistics Prize’. V

Michael Schwan, Cologne Center Dr David Vilchez, Institute for Ge- for Comparative Politics, erhielt den netics and CECAD, received an ‘ERC Preis für das „Beste Forschungspa- Starting Grant’. pier eines Nachwuchswissenschaft- lers 2016“ des „Councils for Europe- W an Studies“. Professor Dr Stefanie Walch-Gassner, Professor Dr Dr h.c. Andreas Speer, Institute of Physics I, received an ‘ERC Philosophy Department, was appoin- Starting Grant’. ted Chair of the ‘E-Humanities’ working group by the ‘Union of German Professor Dr Wolfgang Wessels, Academies of Sciences’ and ‘DFG Pro- Centre for Turkey and European Uni- fessional Council Spokesperson for on Studies (CETEUS), received the ‘Vi- Philosophy’. sion for Europe Award’ from the Pra- gue European Summit. Furthermore, Professor Dr Fabian J. Sting, Depart- the European Commission awarded ment of Supply Chain Management him a ‘Jean Monnet Chair for Turkey – Strategy and Innovation, was pre- and European Union Studies (MON- sented with the ‘ERIM Top Article TEUS)’ and he was appointed ‘Ho- Award’. PERSONNEL

As one of the biggest employers in the region, the UoC has great responsibility. In 2016, we commenced implementation of the Contract for Good Employment Con- ditions. At the same time, we are developing a comprehensive personnel concept that offers attractive career paths and clear job profiles for the next generation and ensures the further professional development of our academic staff.

Vice-Rector for Planning and Academic Staff Professor Dr Martin Henssler University of Cologne Personnel 80 | 81

Personnel in Figures in the 2016 Budget Year

Staff with their main career in academia Academic Personnel Teaching staff/ Research Faculty Professors Total Lect./Assist. assistans

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Faculty of Economics 97 25 % 7 86 % 273 36 % 377 34 % and Social Sciences

Faculty of Law 41 22 % 0 0 % 197 48 % 238 43 % In 2016, the University of Cologne was able to raise its teaching Faculty of Medicine * 104 15 % 0 0 % 1296 56 % 1.400 56 % and research achievements to a considerable extent. This is also reflected in employee figures. Over the last five years, 30 additional Faculty of Arts and Humanitiest 151 39 % 106 64 % 622 57 % 879 55 % permanent W2 and W3 professorships have been established – Faculty of Mathematics and 149 21 % 46 46 % 896 36 % 1.091 35 % an increase of six percent. In addition, around 30 further junior Natural Sciences professorships have been established and employees have been Faculty of Human Sciences 74 47 % 104 65 % 246 66 % 424 63 % hired in all areas of the university. Fostering the next generation Academic staff outside of scholars and scientists in all stages of their careers is particularly 15 20 % 67 72 % 372 55 % 454 57 % of the Faculties ** important to the university. With the signing of the ‘Contract on Good Employment Conditions for University Staff in NRW’, we have drawn attention to career perspectives for academic and Academic Staff, total 631 28 % 330 64 % 3,902 50 % 4,863 48 % non-academic staff across the federal state.

A number of practical measures for personnel development and t = total number; f = female staff networking have been implemented at the UoC and, in particular, * Information deviates from the figures of the official statistics. The proportions of research and teaching are stated without healthcare. provisions have been put in place for the next generation of ** e.g. USB, RRZK, Rector‘s Office, Vice-Rectors‘ Office, Staff Units, Central Institutions scholars and scientists at all stages of qualification. The Albertus Magnus Graduate Center and the university-financed graduate schools set up in all Faculties provide early-career researchers with support in the course of their doctorates. The post-doc network and the Junior Faculty Club act as inter-disciplinary points of contact and advice foracademics from the post-doc Academic Personnel Professors According to Faculty (in %) phase onwards. An importantmilestone was achieved with the incl. Professors (in %) in the 2016 Budget Year in the 2016 Budget Year implementation of the tenure procedure adopted at the end of 2015, which createstransparent conditions for the creation of 2,4 7,8 permanent junior professorships. /// 9,3 11,7 4,9 15,4 8,7

WiSo.-F. 6,5 ReWi.-F. 23,6 4,863 28,8 631 Med.-F. 22,4 Phil.-F. 16,5 Math-Nat.-F. Hum.-F Academic staff 18,1 23,9 outside of the Faculties

As of 1 December 2016 University of Cologne Personnel 82 | 83

Healthy at Work staff representations have therefore Act (Dienstrechtsmodernisierungs- Junior Faculty Club (target group – developed a hiring catalogue that gesetz) for the federal state of NRW, junior professors and self-employed Health Management at covers all the key qualification goals which came into force in June 2016. early-career group leaders at the and makes the hiring process effi- Since the amendment, scholars and UoC and its partner institutions). /// the University of Cologne Receives Awards cient and transparent for both types scientists from the qualification pro- of job. cedures, for example from the DFG Emmy Noether Programme, which The UoC‘s Occupational Integration employment conditions at the UoC. The establishment of BGM at the UoC The various impetuses from politics are equivalent to a junior profes- Management (Betriebliches Einglie- With this initiative, all health-related has been designed to meet the needs and legislation strengthen the UoC sorship, can be appointed to tenure derungsmanagement – BEM) recei- provisions for employees in academia and requirements of our employees. in developing a comprehensive per- track positions. This change will also ved two awards in 2016 – the Award and the administration are systemati- A university-wide employee survey to sonnel concept with a focus on at- be incorporated into the personnel of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland cally grouped together, connected identify levels of psychosocial stress tractive career paths for early-career concept and lead to a corresponding and certification by the Institute for and harmonized (e.g. UniSport, staff at work was conducted in 2016. In or- researchers and academic personnel adjustment to the UoC‘s Tenure Quality Assurance and Prevention. and leadership counselling, Occu- der to draw up specific measures for development. In the area of career Track Code. Occupational Integration Manage- pational Integration Management, improvement, ‘BGM workshops’ are paths, the university headship drew ment provides intensive support to in-house doctor‘s service). The UoC currently being held in all Faculties up a strategic concept in 2016 on Employees receive support and men- employees who have been ill for a sees the creation of working con- and administrative units, involving Every year, more than innovative job profiles for non-pro- toring on their career paths by means long time and are returning to work. ditions that are conducive to good all groups of employees. /// fessorial academic staff. On the of the tailor-made provision of the BEM is one of many activities within health as an important foundation one hand, the job profiles must be graduate schools in all Faculties, as the context of the university’s Occu- for excellent research and teaching. further developed for teaching and well as of the Albertus Magnus Gra- 200 pational Health Management (Be- The prime objective of the measures research-intensive non-professorial duate Center and the Department triebliche Gesundheitsmanagement is the preventative strengthening of academic staff; on the other, for the for Academic Personnel Develop- individual and team – BGM). the health of all employees, thus en- first time, a job profile must be desi- ment. In this context, more than 200 suring job satisfaction, motivation, gned for science managers. individual and team measures are measures for several The latter was implemented in 2015 innovative capacity and high perfor- provided for several thousand par- as a further measure to foster good mance. Changes in the legal framework ticipants every year. Moreover, the thousand participants

conditions for the appointability target groups also make use of the of early-career academics also arise networking provisions of the UoC from the Service Law Modernization in the post-doc network and in the

Sustainable Support for the Next Generation

Good Working Conditions for Careers in Academia

The UoC is committed to being a In 2016, political and legislative ch- spring of 2016 also imposes new re- good employer with reliable career ange led to new employment con- quirements on employee conditions. paths. The Vice-Rectorate for Plan- ditions in academia. In January, the One major change here concerns the ning and Academic Staff, which was ‘Contract on Good Employment appropriateness of the length of the founded at the end of 2015, started Conditions for University Staff’ took fixed term with respect to the desi- its work in 2016 and since then has effect, an agreement between the red qualification. been introducing improved employ- Ministry for Innovation, Science ment conditions for staff on acade- and Research, the federal state staff In academia, it is important to mic career paths (such as post-docs councils‘ conferences and the head- make a distinction between per- or research group leaders). The UoC ships of universities in the federal manent jobs and qualification jobs. is using new formats to implement state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Permanent tasks should be carried the requirements from academia Among other things, the contract out by qualified personnel with a and politics, as well as new legal fra- defines regulations on equality and permanent employment contract. meworks, and is developing transpa- inclusion, on establishing a federal However, every new generation of rent perspectives for university staff. state-wide university employment doctoral researchers and post-docs They receive support in subject-spe- market, on fixed-term contracts needs free positions. These needs cific and interdisciplinary workshops and part-time positions to be avai- must be balanced and a job con- and training formats, which helps to lable. The revision of the Academic cept for the entire non-professorial reduce the uncertainties of an aca- Fixed-Term Contract Act (Wissen- teaching staff developed. The uni- demic career. schaftszeitvertragsgesetz) in the versity administration, Faculties and Academic Personnel Development offers a wide range of options for personal professional development and individual career development. University of Cologne Personnel 84 | 85

Consistently working towards a Gender Equitable University

Personnel Development for the Next Generation of Academics Two Million Euros for Equality Measures

graduate schools of the Faculties, In 2016, the UoC acquired funds to mes. With the funds from the federal 29 percent of professorships at the advisory, professional development the amount of around two million state programme ‘Gender Equitable UoC are now held by women. This and quality-securing measures are euros from the nationwide Women Universities’ from the Ministry for In- means that the UoC is above the na- being designed and implemented. Professors Programme II and the novation, Science and Research, the tional average of 22 percent. Women In addition to courses on academic NRW federal state programme ‘Gen- university has been able to fund a also account for half of the staff in writing, giving presentations and der-Equal University’. These funds professorship in the field of gender the managerial bodies and the admi- making applications, the program- enable the implementation of many research in medicine. nistration at the UoC. /// me also includes orientation events measures to promote support for on the subject of self-employment, female professors and female ear- The aim of the Women Professors for example. ly-career researchers, including the Programme II of the federal govern- financing of three newly appoin- ment and the federal states is to • In 2014, the University of Cologne ted female professors for a period support the equality of women and implemented an interdisciplinary of five years. Furthermore, mobility men at universities, to permanently programme on the qualification of grants for female post-docs, grants improve the representation of wo- Around academic managerial staff in the for childcare costs, a job pool for men at all levels of qualification in form of Lead Excellent. This measu- newly appointed female professors the academic system and to increa- re is based on the university head- and female early-career researchers, se the number of women in top-le- ship’s conviction that (early-career) coaching for female early-career re- vel functions in academia. In the last 29 % academics in managerial positions searchers and a rotating guest lectu- few years, the UoC has continuously increasingly need to have manage- rer position on ‘Gender Studies’ are increased the proportion of female of the professorships at rial skills as well as all being funded via the program- professors at the university. Around In recent years, the UoC has intro- the University of Cologne duced extensive measures for career excellent research and teaching skills • For the group of advanced post-docs orientation and development for in order to be able to deal with the and junior professors on the way to are held by women. the various different status groups. complex challenges in the univer- a professorship, the Junior Faculty In connection with the new develop- sity context. As part of Lead Excel- Club (JFC) founded in 2013 offers ment of a career path concept for lent, management-specific skills are representation of interests and a the next generation of scholars and taught with various instruments. The platform for academic and social scientists, the competencies were programme also involves on-boar- further development and networ- newly summarized in 2016 to realise ding and the systematic qualification king. As an independent body to tailor-made counselling and qualifi- of around 40 to 50 newly appointed represent their interests, the Junior cation for the career stages of docto- professors each year, including the Faculty Club is organized indepen- New Funding ral phase and post-doc phase, and to introduction event ‘Academia Meets dently by post-docs. Their proximi- enable a possible reorientation. Administration’ held since 2013, ty and close coordination with the Medical Psychology – Neuropsychology and Gender Studies the ‘Scientists Welcome’ event for a Academic Personnel Development The result is a harmonized personal chance to meet the Rector and the Department guarantees optimal development system that provides Chancellor in an informal setting and collaboration. Elke Kalbe is Professor for Medical on the prevention and treatment of tailor-made support to early-career the basic qualification ‘Management Psychology, Neuropsychology and cognitive impairments in patients researchers, from doctorate to pro- Compact’. In addition to these points of contact Gender Studies. Since January 2016, with Parkinson’s disease. /// fessorship. The Department for Aca- and measures, many opportunities to her professorship has been funded demic Personnel Development, foun- develop and extend teaching skills by the federal state programme ded in 2013, acts as a guidance centre • As part of the Post-Doc Career Pro- are available to the next generation ‘Gender Equitable Universities’ of for the next generation of scholars gramme initiated in 2015, the uni- of scholars and scientists in the Center the Ministry for Innovation, Science and scientists from the post-doc pha- versity offers all employed post- docs for University Didactics (Zentrum für and Research. Kalbe studied General se and provides information on its a programme of target-group-spe- Hochschuldidaktik – ZHD). The GATE- Linguistics, Psychology and Commu- various career-supporting offers. The cific orientation, professional de- WAY Incubator rounds off the career nication Sciences at the Universities following measures and programmes velopment and networking. development support offer. Here, of Cologne and Bonn and completed have been set up in the past few ye- scholars and scientists receive guidan- her doctorate in the year 2000 with ars and are meeting with increasing • The Albertus Magnus Graduate ce in the implementation of innovati- distinction. In 2004, she qualified as demand: Center (AMGC), founded in 2014, ve business ideas on the career path a university lecturer by developing a acts as an interdisciplinary point of to starting a business. /// checklist for the diagnosis of aphasia. contact for doctoral researchers. In She is currently conducting research coordination with the more than 30 Professor Dr Elke Kalbe University of Cologne Personnel 86 | 87

Professorships New Professors at the University of Cologne

Jun. Professor Dr Dr Miguel Professor Dr Richard Bußmann Professor Dr Matthias Fischer Professor Dr Charlotte Alejandre Alcázar W3 Professor for Egyptology, pre- W2 Professor for Experimental Hanisch W1 Professor for Translational viously University College London Paediatric Oncology W3 Professor for Psychology Experimental Paediatrics, Cologne (UCL) and Psychotherapy in Curative University Hospital Education and Rehabilitation

Professor Dr Sven Bernecker Professor Dr Silvia Daun Jun. Professor Dr Andreas Jun. Professor Dr Emanuel W3 Professor, Humboldt Professor W2 Heisenberg Professor for Fügener Hansen for Philosophy, previously Univer- Computational Neuroscience – W1 Professor for Supply Chain W1 Professor for Economics sity of California, Irvine Modelling Neural Network Function, Management previously Research Assistant at the Zoological Institute and at For- schungszentrum Jülich

Professor Dr Tobias Bollenbach Professor Dr Dr Eldad Davidov Jun. Professor Dr Katharina Professor Dr Ludwig Heindl W2 Professor for Experimental W3 Professor for Methods of Em- Groß W2 Professor Biophysics pirical Social Research, previously Professor for Natural Science Ophthalmological Oncology University of Zurich Didactics with a Focus on Special Education, previously Research Assistant at the Institute for Che- mistry and Its Didactics

Professor Dr Christiane Bruns Professor Dr Eckhard Professor Dr Jörg Großschedl Professor Dr Kei Ito W3-Professorin für Chirurgie Deschler-Erb W1 Professor for Biology Didactics W3 Professor at the Zoological W2 Professor for Archaeology Institute

Professor Dr Jens Jordan Jun. Professor Dr Anne Burkard Professor Dr Mario Fabri Professor Dr Holger Grüll W3 Professor for Aviation W1 Professor for the Didactics of W2 Professor for Infectiological W2 Professor for Experimen- Medicine Philosophy Dermatology, previously Physician tal Imaging and Image-Guided at the Department of Dermato- Therapy logy and Venerology, Cologne University Hospital University of Cologne Personnel 88 | 89

Professorships New Professors at the University of Cologne

Jun. Professor Dr Peter Professor Dr Ingo Rohlfing Professor Dr Fabian Sting Professor Dr Simone Wiegand Limbach W2 Professor for Methods of W3 Professor for Company W2 Professor for Transport in W1 Professor for Investment Comparative Politics, previously Management and Logistics, Complex Systems (CfR), previously Karlsruhe Jacobs University Bremen previously Erasmus University Institute of Technology Rotterdam

Professor Dr Christoph Thole Professor Dr Matthias Messner Jun. Professor Dr Iris Karoline Dipl.-Kfm., W3 Professor for W3 Professor Economic Politics, Schneider German and Foreign Rules of Civil especially Macroeconomics and W1 Professor for Social and Procedure and Civil Law, previ- Public Finance, previously Bocconi Economic Cognition, previously ously Eberhard Karls University University, Milan University of Amsterdam Tübingen

Jun. Professor Dr Simone Professor Dr Eleftheria Paliou Jun. Professor Dr Frederik Vossel W2 Professor for Computational Schwerter W1 Professor for Cognitive Archaeology W1 Professor for Economics, Neuropsychology especially Behaviour and Experimental Economics

Professor Dr Christian-Mathias Professor Dr Jan Peters Professor Dr Matthias Sperl Wellbrock W2 Professor for Biological W2 Professor for the Physics W2 Professor for Media Manage- Psychology of Granular Matter, German ment,previously University of Aerospace Centre (DLR) Hamburg

Professor Dr Dominik Wied Professor Dr Ute Planert Jun. Professor Dr Susanne W3 Professor for Statistics and W3 Professor for Modern History, Steffes Econometrics previously University of Wuppertal W1 Professor for Empirical Personnel Economics INFRASTRUKTUR

Ob die im Jahr 2016 beendete Sanierung des Philo- sophikums, das Richtfest zur Erweiterung des Zen- tralcampus Nord oder die neue Fußballanlage am Zülpicher Platz – mit unseren großen Neubau- und Sanierungsprojekten und der Erhaltung bestehender Gebäude verbessern wir die baulichen Bedingungen für Lehre, Forschung und das Leben auf dem Campus.

Markus Greitemann, Dezernent Gebäudemanagement

INFRASTRUCTURE

Whether it’s the renovation of the Arts and Huma- nities building ‘Philosophikum’, completed in 2016, the topping out ceremony on the extension of the northern central campus or the new football facilities on Zülpicher Platz – with our major new construction and renovation projects, and the conservation of existing buildings, we are aiming to improve the architectural conditions for teaching, research and life on campus.

Markus Greiteman, Head of Facility and Property Management University of Cologne Infrastructure 92 | 93

Master Plan 2020

2020 New building for Chemistry

Bike station + Physics extension 2019 Albertus Magnus Platz A high-performance and functional environment supports the work of our scholars and scientists and contributes to providing the best conditions for study. Constantly improving the infrastructure Extension for Renovation of Economics is therefore an essential prerequisite for excellent research and Economics 2018 Building (HSP*) teaching. The timeline on the left shows important milestones in our architectural master plan.

For example, the COPT Center, an important element in the Server hall 2017 Renovation of Main Building university‘s transfer strategy, was inaugurated in the spring of 2016. With around a thousand square metres of space, the new building provides an excellent infrastructure for pre-competitive HSP* 2016 Physics Lab, research in the field of organic electronics. Gyrhofstrasse Working Group Professor Ando, Institute of Physics II In the next two years, a similar environment will be created in COPT Center for Medicine – the university has decided to commence construction Organic Electronics 2015 Renovation of Arts and Humanities of the ‘Centre for Integrated Oncology’ (CIO), a top centre on (HSP*) Building ‘Philosophikum’ the premises of Cologne University Hospital, distinguished and sponsored by the Deutsche Krebshilfe (German Cancer Aid) charity. With the help of the newly created infrastructure, suitable Extension for 2014 facilities can be provided for interdisciplinary collaboration in Theoretical Physics cutting-edge tumour diagnostics and treatment. ///

Students‘ HSP* Faculty of Human Sciences Service Centre (SSC) 2013

CECAD 2012

Southern Building 2011 Paramecium Childcare Facility

Seminar Building 2010

* Building from university pact funding (HSP) University of Cologne Infrastructure 94 | 95

New Buildings, Modernization, Renovation

UoC Manages its own Construction Projects

In 2016, the University of Cologne academics in the Faculty of Artsand undertook extensive construction Humanities with modern facilities for work to improve the conditions for their work. Other large areas for re- teaching, research and technology search and teaching where building transfer. Here are a few examples work was completed in 2016 include that will facilitate research and tea- the Geology Department and a new, ching and make life on campus more centrally located Seminar Building attractive for everyone: with a modular construction style. The Seminar Building is initially to be After six years of intensive building available for five years as an interim work, the renovation of the ‘Phi- building for teaching events, thus losophikum’, with a total budget enabling other construction work of 38 million euros, was completed on the campus to be undertaken. with the official inauguration. The The UoC has already had positive building is the main location of the experiencewith modular constructi- Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and on in other buildings. For example, brings together under one roof the more than 400 scientists in the Clus- libraries, seminar rooms and offices ter of Excellence for Aging Research of the majority of Arts and Huma- CECAD now benefit from laboratory Seminar Building with modular construction Football tournament for staff 2016 nities subjects. The building, which modules that can be combined in dates back to the 1970s, was in dire a range of ways in their building, need of renovation. The renovation which was opened in 2013. has greatly improved conditions for study and once again provides the

In addition to the buildings for research and teaching, there have also been new developments in the fields of technology transfer and sport. In the spring of 2016, the COPT Center for Organic Electronics was inaugu- In 2016, the University of Cologne permanently rated – an important element for im- plementing technology transfer at improved the conditions for teaching, research the university. With around a thous- and technology transfer with a large number of and square metres of space, the new building provides an excellent building projects. infrastructure for pre-competitive research in the field of Organic Elec- tronics. And in June, the university opened its renovated football facilities on the Zülpicher Wall. The modern facilities with artificial turf and a multifunctional football building is also available for use by schools and clubs. The City of Cologne authorities contributed a building subsidy of 1.3 million euros to the renovation of the facilities. ///

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Ultra-Modern Physics Lab for Renowned Scientist

Top-level research needs top-level- light in some of the rooms. A special conditions. This also includes an in- laboratory was created for measure- frastructure that provides the best ments at the lowest temperatures, support to the research project in close to absolute zero. The labora- question. The University of Cologne tory building is fitted with ultra-mo- has built an ultra-modern laboratory dern equipment, some of which Pro- building in a very short time for the fessor Ando brought from Japan. Institute of Physics II, custom-tailored Other equipment was purchased at to the scientific work carried out the- short notice using university funds re.The building is being used by the and from the DFG funding program- working group of Professor Dr Yoi- me ‘Large Research Equipment’. This chi Ando, one of the world‘s leading meant that Professor Ando and his scientists in the field of solid-state re- working group were soon able to search. Yoichi Ando is one of the most proceed with their current research Professor Dr Yoichi Ando quoted scientists in the world and his in Cologne. /// research has won many awards. In Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln (USB) 2015, the university appointed him as the new Head of the Chair ‘Physics of Topological Matter and its Device Applications’. After his appointment, suitable laboratory rooms had to be Advisory Council of the USB built quickly. The university decided on an energy-optimized building Strategic Process for Modern Libraries with a modular construction made of robust, standardized elements. It was built within six months of From their first literature search, the The key result of this process is the the contract being awar- USB is the starting point for studies Master Plan for Libraries. This is ded with a total const- and research for a good 5,600 users currently being discussed and de- ruction cost of five milli- every day. To keep up with the chan- veloped with the involvement of all on euros plus 2.5 million ging usage conditions and, in parti- the users of the library. Because of euros for the required cular, the challenges of digital trans- the need to make structural chan- equipment. The building formation, the Director of the USB ges, the planning process is being 5,600 meets the specific requi- Dr Hubertus Neuhausen, appointed carried out in close coordination rements of the users. It in 2014, has initiated a comprehen- with the construction management. users has special air-conditio- sive reform process in collaboration This lays the foundation for a fu- ning, low-vibration floors with the Faculties, for which the ture-oriented library in modern, and a specific quality of University of Cologne is being sup- user-friendly buildings. /// ported by a high-class academic advisory council. 3,600 Dr Rafael Ball, Director of the Li- loans per day brary at ETH Zurich, Kurt de Belder, Director of the UB Leiden, Dr Thors- ten Reimer, Head of Department at the British Library and Dr Beate Tröger, Director of the ULB Müns- The Laboratory Building is designed to meet the specific needs of the scientists. ter started their work as members of the advisory council in 2015 and, since then, have been supporting a comprehensive strategic and change process.

GOVERNANCE

In 2016 we created an interface between academia, the administration and the various governing bodies with our new Division 1. This allows for the concrete implementation of the ideas developed in our Change Programme for the Administration, through which we are endeavouring to improve our central working processes.

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Decision-Making Structure of the University of Cologne

University University Senate Election Assembly Council The management structure of the UoC traditionally comprises a participative structure of the various bodies, in which all Academic status groups are represented, as well as the Rector‘s Office Rectorate Advisory Council comprising the Rector, the Chancellor and five Vice-Rectors. To Senate Rector/Chancellor/Vice-Rectors improve the internal processes at the university, a number of Committee Equality Officer Rector‘s projects and management tasks from the ‘Change Programme Committee for the Administration’ have been initiated or implemented, University Dev- such as the setting up of a new Strategy and Academic Affairs elopment Plan (HEP) Department, improvements to the invoicing procedure and the Faculty Setting targets University further professionalization of our appointments procedure. Conference Resource Allocation Conference Furthermore, the UoC is also embedded in a dense network of Faculties non-university research facilities in the region and can look back on many years of excellent collaboration with these partner Research & Teaching Centres institutions. By founding the ‘ResearchAlliance Cologne’, these relationships have been formalized and developed into an integrated strategic network.

Collaboration with partner universities worldwide strengthens the UoC internationally in research and teaching. Exchange Information & Advice Management activities with our seven ‘Global Network Partners’ run through Election Advisory role and supervision all levels of the university, for example, and are strategically Decisions/Rulings Management and advisory role aimed at long-term collaboration. Our 15 ‘Strategic Research Constituted Advisory body Partners’ focus on collaboration in the Key Profile Areas of the UoC. Our many other research partners enable fruitful collaboration in research and in exchange programmes for students, scholars and scientists. /// University of Cologne Governance 102 | 103

Administrative Structure of the University of Cologne Rectorate of the University of Cologne

STAFF UNIT 01 STAFF UNIT 03 Controlling of Studies and Teaching Appointments Chancellor STAFF UNIT 02 OFFICE Legal, Security & University Council Environmental Affairs

DIVISION Strategy and Academic Affairs 1

DIVISION Student Affairs 2

DIVISION Organization, IT, Procurement 3

DIVISION Staff 4

DIVISION Facility and Property Management 5

DIVISION Economic and Financial Back row, from the left Management 6

Professor Dr Professor Dr Professor Dr med. Professor Dr DIVISION Manuela Günter Axel Freimuth Stefan Herzig Martin Henssler Research Management 7 Vice-Rector for Equality Rector Vice-Rector for Teaching and Vice-Rector for Planning and Diversity Studies and Academic Staff

DIVISION Communications 8 and Marketing Front Row, from the left

Professor Dr Dr Michael Stückradt Ina Gabriel Professor Dr DIVISION Gudrun Gersmann Chancellor Permanent Representative Bettina Rockenbach International Office 9 Vice-Rector for of the Chancellor Vice-Rector for Research International Affairs

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Faculties with Departments/Subject Groups

is zialw sensc Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences So ha nd ft u lic - h s e t f F a a h k • Business Administration c u

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U n • Social Sciences ive ln rsität zu Kö

scha ssen ftlich wi e Faculty of Law ts Fa h k c u e lt R ä t • Civil Law • Criminal Law

U n • Public Law ive ln rsität zu Kö

Faculty of Medicine

zinische Fa edi ku M ltä t • Preclinical Medicine • Theoretical Clinical Medicine • Conservative Medicine

U ni • Operative Medicine ver öln sität zu K • Dentistry

Faculty of Arts and Humanities • History of Art, Music and Media Studies sch ophi e Fak los ul hi tä P t • Archaeology, Ancient Studies and Cultures of the Mediterranean • German Language and Literature • Non-European Languages, Cultures and Societies

U Back Row, from the left n • Modern Languages and Cultures ive ln rsität zu Kö • History Professor Dr Stefan Grohé Professor Dr Dr Ulrich Preis Professor Dr Ansgar Büschges • Theology and Religion Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Dean of the Faculty of Law Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics • Philosophy Humanities and Natural Sciences

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Front Row, from the left wissen atur sch -N af • Biology h tli sc ch ti e

a F a • Chemistry m e k Professor Dr Hans-Joachim Roth Professor Dr Werner Mellis Professor Dr Dr Thomas Krieg u h

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ä t M • Geosciences Dean of the Faculty of Human Dean of the Faculty of Management, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine • Mathematics/Computer Sciences U Sciences Economics and Social Sciences n ive ln rsität zu Kö • Physics • Didactics of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences

a sensch ftlich Faculty of Human Sciences is e F nw a a ku m lt u ä t H • Education and Social Sciences • Special Education and Rehabilitation

U • Art/Textiles and Music n ive ln rsität zu Kö • Psychology University of Cologne Governance 106 | 107

Research and Teaching Centres

Research and Teaching Centres of the University of Cologne

As a complement to the discipli- Institutional Strategy of the UoC, nary structure in its six Faculties, funded through the Excellence the UoC currently maintains ten Initiative, and has proved itself central research and teaching cent- exceptionally well in practice. In res. On the one hand, they perform particular, it securesa dynamic, cross-Faculty tasks, such as teacher integrated thematic profile for training (Centre for Teacher Educa- the UoC, while maintaining its tion) and strengthening the pro- breadth in terms of disciplines. fessional orientation of the degree Staff are (usually) assigned to programmes (ProfessionalCenter). the Faculties and co-opted to the ZfL On the other, they form the major centres. The rights, duties and tasks Zentrum für thematic focuses of the UoC in re- of the centres arelaid down in LehrerInnenbildung search and embed them across the cooperation agreements between entire university. the centres, the Faculties involved and the university headship (and, The centres have their own budgets where appropriate, other regional and management structures, partner institutions). The Clusters and are involved in the decision- of Excellence CECAD and CEPLAS, making processes of the UoC – funded within the scope of the especially with regard to professors Excellence Initiative at the UoC, are Cluster of Excellence Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) appointments that concern their organized as centres, the latter as a centre. They are mostly housed in joint institution of the Universities Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS) their own buildings and provide of Cologne and Düsseldorf. /// their staff with state-of-the- Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB) art infrastructures. Just like the Faculties, these centres are regularly Quantum Matter and Materials (QM2) evaluated with respect to their strategic direction, their equipment Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and their success. Many centres are funded jointly by universities Center for Molecular Medicine of the University of Cologne (ZMMK) and non-university research institutions in the Rhineland area. COPT Center for Organic Electronics The organization of the UoC into Faculties and centres has been Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG) developed over the last few years, especially within the context of the Center for Teacher Education (ZfL)

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Internal Academic Advisory Council University Council

Chair Chair Vice-Rector for Research, Professor Dr Bettina Rockenbach, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences Dr Richard Pott, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Covestro AG

Members Members Professor Dr Axel Ockenfels, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences Dr Barbara Bludau, Counsel in the Lawyers' Office P+P Pöllath und Partners in Munich Professor Dr Heinz-Peter Mansel, Faculty of Law Professor Dr Rolf Dobischat, Faculty for Educational Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen Professor Dr Reinhard Büttner, Faculty of Medicine Professor Dr Ursula Lehmkuhl, Chair for International History, University of Trier Professor Dr Barbara Potthast, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Claudia Nemat, Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Telekom AG Professor Dr Klaus von Heusinger, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Professor Dr Leena Bruckner-Tudermann, Vice-President of the DFG Professor Dr Helmut Brückner, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Professor Dr Andreas Radbruch, Academic Head and Working Group Leader, German Rheumatism Research Centre Professor Dr Manolis Pasparakis, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Professor Dr Wilfried Hinsch, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne Professor Dr Stefanie Walch-Gassner, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Professor Dr Maria Leptin, Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg Professor Dr Mathilde Niehaus, Faculty of Human Sciences Professor Dr Franziska Völckner, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne Professor Dr Thomas Mussweiler, Faculty of Human Sciences

External Academic Advisory Council Senate

Chair Chair Professor Dr Dr h.c. mult. Reinhard Zimmermann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Professor Dr Axel Freimuth, Rector of the UoC Private Law, Hamburg Deputy Chair Dr Hermann Mellinghoff Members

Professor Dr Jane Caplan, Director of the European Studies Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford, UK Members (with voting rights) Professor Dr Klaus Müllen, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz Professor Dr Mark Ebers, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences Professor Dr Vera Nünning, English Seminar, Heidelberg University Professor Dr Wolfram Höfling, Faculty of Law Professor Dr Ewald Terhart, Institute for Educational Science, Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster Professor Dr Claus Cursiefen, Faculty of Medicine Professor Dr Carl-Henrik Heldin, Molecular Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden Professor Dr Christiane Bongartz, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Professor Dr Alexandra Freund, Institute of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland Professor Dr Ute Höcker, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Professor Dr Dorothea Kübler, Director of the Department Behaviour on Markets, Social Science Research Centre Berlin Professor Dr Ursula Stenger, Faculty of Human Sciences Professor Dr Bernhard Keimer, Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Research, Stuttgart Dr Kristina Klein, Academic Assistant Dr Hermann Mellinghoff, Academic Assistant Dr Anita Jain, Academic Assistant Stefan Thiel, Technology and Administration Assistant Dr Ralf Müller, Technology and Administration Assistant Stud. iur. (student of law) Heike Marie Reinecke Stud. rer. nat. (student of natural sciences) Senta Pineau Stud. rer. nat. (student of natural sciences) Florian Pranghe University of Cologne Governance 110 | 111

Change Programme for the Administration at the University of Cologne The four departments, including Department 11 Academic Affairs three which have been newly foun- coordinates central, cross-university tasks, such as supervising elections and ded, have the following main focus acting as a point of contact for governing bodies. The future of research and teaching Programme, for example, is the op- areas: can be shaped only in conjunction timised processing of invoices. He- Department 12 Strategy with a modern administration that re,the processing times for invoices draws up concepts and studies, provides advice for strategic questions and is open to reflection and further de- have been greatly reduced, which coordinates strategic projects, such as the University Development Plan and velopment of its activities. For this leads to considerable cost savings for the agreement of targets between the university management and the Fa- reason, in 2014 the Central Adminis- the university. Other projects, such as culties. tration was subjected to an evalua- the optimisation of personnel hiring tion within the context of the Insti- procedures or the improvement of Department 13 Strategic Controlling & Information Management tutional Strategy of the University of management and decision-making coordinates the establishment of a central reporting system, analyses ranking Cologne. The evaluation report and processes, will help to improve the lists and key performance indicators. the opinion of an external panel of working processes of the Central Ad- experts resulted in a number of ideas ministration for all users in the years Department 14 Evaluations for improvements that have since ahead. /// coordinates the evaluations of the Faculties and central institutions. /// been implemented in the ‘Change Programme for the Administration’.

The departments and staff units have revised countless processes in their projects and in the regular management structure; others have been newly established. The focus was on the Regional Collaboration following aspects: process optimiz- DÜSSELDORF  ation, cooperation between acade- The UoC collaborates closely with va- mia and administration, and efficient rious universities and non-university structures in management and col- research institutions in the Rhineland laboration. Employees are regularly area. Collaboration with non-univer- informed of progress by means of a sity partners is institutionalized in the newsletter. In March 2016, the first  ResearchAlliance Cologne. The Geos- information event for all employees JÜLICH  cience departments at RWTH Techni- was held – a chance to ask questions cal University in Aachen, the Universi- COLOGNE and participate in a lively discussion. AACHEN ty of Bonn, the University of Cologne One positive result of the Change  and Forschungszentrum Jülich have BONN established a strategic and far-rea-  ching collaboration platform in the form of the GeoAlliance ABC/J. ///

Strategy with a Sound Footing

New Founding of Division 1 for COLOGNE BONN The colours refer to the KPAs and Strategy and Academic Affairs German Aerospace Centre (Helmholtz) caesar Research Centre CAs to which these locations contribute: German Centre for German Centre for Infection Research  Aging and Demographic Change Neurodegenerative Diseases Strategic questions are gaining in In the last few years, the University third-party funding. That is why the (Cologne, Bonn) (Helmholtz)  Social and Economic Behaviour importance at German universities. of Cologne has had considerable suc- university headship decided to found Leibniz Institute for Social Research MPI for Mathematics  Quantitative Modelling of Complex Systems Whether this is at budget level or cess in many competitive procedures, a body within the central university (Cologne, Mannheim) MPI for Radio Astronomy  Cultures and Societies in Transition in profile building – good planning, such as the Excellence Initiative or administration: Division 1 for Stra- MPI for Biology of Ageing  Plant Science based on solid key performance in- in applying for major research pro- tegy and Academic Affairs. Since MPI for Research into dicators, evaluations carried out by jects. Academic quality and a wealth 2016, it has been bringing together MPI for Metabolism Research Common Goods experts and comparisons with other of ideas are clearly key to this. But actors from academic, administrati- MPI for Plant Breeding Research institutions, supports the university well-prepared data, well thought- ve and governing bodies across the University Collaboration in the Rhineland area MPI for the Study of Societies management in controlling and de- out planning for the whole universi- whole university, and acts as a central JÜLICH Non-university research institutions in the veloping the university. ty, and further organizational factors coordination office for the strategic Forschungszentrum Jülich (Helmholtz) ResearchAlliance Cologne are paramount to the acquisition of quality and development processes. Other research institutions

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UoC Worldwide

International Collaboration Partners

UoC

UoC USA Office China Office

India Office

7 Global Network Partners 15 Strategic Research Partners 85 Partner Universities 30 CEMS Partners

Liaison Offices University of Cologne Governance 114 | 115

UoC Worldwide (nur Graduierte) Indonesia Netherlands • University of Colorado, Boulder International Collaboration Partners • Gadjah Mada University • Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen • University of Michigan • University of Mississippi, Oxford Japan Poland • Aichi Prefectural University, • Uniwersytet Jagiellon‘ski w South America Global Network Partnership Strategic Research Partners University-wide Partnerships Nagoya Krakowie Brasilien • Aoyama Gakuin Daigaku • Uniwersytet Warszawski • Pontificia Universidade Católica do With the ‘Global Network Partner ‘Strategic Research Partners’ are These partnerships have signed uni- • Hitotsubashi University • Uniwersytet Wroclawski Rio de Janeiro (PUC) Universities’, the UoC is working on selected partner universities that col- versity-wide Memoranda of Under- • Josai Daigaku • PUC Minas, Belo Horizonte a particularly comprehensive and in- laborate with the UoC within the con- standing with the University of Co- • Kansai University, Osaka Russian Federation • Universidade Federal de tensive form of collaboration in rese- text of the four ‘Key Profile Areas’. logne to encourage the worldwide • Keio University • Gorkij-Literatur-Institut Moskau Pernambuco arch and teaching – across Faculties, The focus of these partnerships is on exchange of students, scholars or • Kyoto Sangyo University • Higher School of Economics (HSE), • Universidade Federal de Santa and with the aim of establishing per- intensifying research collaboration. scientists. • Kyoto University Moskau Catarina manent and sustainable institutional They are characterized by activities • Kyoto University of Foreign Studies • Moscow Pedagogical State • Universidade Federal do structures. The exchange activities such as the exchange of scholars and Africa • Ochanomizu University, Tokio University Ceará (UFC) affect all levels of the university (stu- scientists, jointly mentoring doctoral Ägypten • Seinan Gakuin University • Staatliche Universität Wolgograd • Universidade Federal Fluminense dents, faculty, researchers, administ- researchers and joint academic con- • Cairo University • Sophia University, Tokio (UFF), Niterói rators) and are strategically aimed at ferences within the context of the • Tenri University, Nara Spain long-term collaboration. The Recto- KPAs. Äthiopien • University of Tokyo • Salamanca Universität Chile rate provides funding to aid mobility • Addis Ababa University • University of Tsukuba • Universidad de Sevilla • Universidad Alberto Hurtado, for an exchange with the Global Net- Strategic Research Partners accor- • Cairo University • Waseda University, Tokio Santiago de Chile work Partner Universities. ding to KPAs: • Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Czech Republic Kamerun • Karls-Universität Prag Kuba The UoC‘s Global Partner Network KPA I • University of Buea South Korea • Universidad de la Habana currently comprises the following se- • Yale University • University of Dschang • EWHA Womans University, Seoul Turkey ven universities: • Institute of Research on Cancer and • In Istanbul: Mexico Aging, Nizza Kenia Taiwan Istanbul University • Universidad de Guadalajara Contact: • Global Skin Disease Research Net- • Kenyatta University • Tamkang University, Taipei Bogazici University • KU Leuven, Leuven/Belgien work (University of Colorado, Co- • University of Nairobi Bahcesehir University Christiane Biehl, M.A. lumbia University, Dundee Uni- Middle East Türkisch-Deutsche Universität Liaison Offices [email protected] versity, Keio University, Singapore Mali Iran • In Ankara: With its liaison offices, the UoC in- • Sun Yat-sen University, University) • Université de Bamako • University of Tehran Ankara University tends to strengthen its presence in Guangzhou/China Jordan Middle-East-Technical University the target regions, maintain cont- Dr. Susanne Preuschoff KPA II Namibia • University of Jordan Hacettepe University act with the partner universities and [email protected] • Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen • University of Namibia (UNAM) establish new collaboration agree- • Charles University, Prag • University of Dallas Europe North America & Australia ments. They support scholars and Tschechien Südafrika Belgium Australien scientists, teachers, students and Christiane Biehl, M.A. KPA III • University of Cape Town • KU Leuven • Monash University, Victoria alumni in international exchange in [email protected] • Université de Montreal • University of the Western Cape • Sydney University the regions in question. • Keio University, Tokio/Japan • McGill University • Witwatersrand University Bulgaria • University of Technology Sydney Dr. Johannes Müller • Weizmann Institute • University St. Kliment Ohridski (UTS) [email protected] • University of Copenhagen Togo Büro China • Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, • Université de Lomé Denmark Kanada Mrs Lan Qiu Niederlande KPA IV • University of Copenhagen • Simon Fraser University [email protected] Christiane Biehl, M.A. • University of Cape Town Asia • Mount Royal University [email protected] • University of the Western Cape, China France • New Brunswick Universität, Büro India • University of Cape Town, Cape Town • Sun Yat-sen University • Blaise Pascal University, Saint John Mrs Dr. Amisha Jain Südafrika • Universidade de Rio de Janeiro • China University of Political Science Clermont Ferrand II • Université de Montréal [email protected] Marejke Baethge, M.A. • Jawaharlal Nehru University and Law (CUPL) • Université Panthéon-Sorbonne • University of British Columbia [email protected] • Sun Yat-sen University • Fudan University (Paris I) Büro USA • University of Colorado • Universidad de San Martín, • Lanzhou University USA Mrs Dr. Eva Bosbach at Boulder, USA Buenos Aires • Renmin University of China Greece • Allegheny College [email protected] Christiane Biehl, M.A. • Tongji University • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki • Cornell University [email protected] • Duquesne Universität, India Luxembourg Pittsburgh • Jawaharlal Nehru University • University of Luxembourg • Pennsylvania State University • Indian Institute of Science Bangalore • Rutgers University • Indian Institute of Technology • University of California Bombay University of Cologne Donations 116 | 117 DONATIONS University of Cologne Donations 118 | 119

Many thanks for your support in 2016! Thank you very much! Committed donors, sponsors and companies support first-class education at the University of Cologne We would also like to thank the more than 200 donors who have already supported our university refugee fund with just under 130,000 euros by December 2016. With your donations, you are helping to ‘Good ideas. Since 1388’. Some of the things that have a diverse range of provisions to our students and to the ensure that we as a university can make an important contribution to the integration of refugees – in a characterized the University of Cologne for over 625 people of the city. well-founded, tangible and lasting way. Many thanks! years are now only possible through private and private-sector financial support – scholarships, endowed pro- We would therefore like to thank all of our donors – You can find an opportunity to donate, and more information about projects and current developments fessorships, summer schools, concerts of the Collegium also on behalf of our students – for their support over in refugee support at the University of Cologne at: www.portal.uni-koeln.de/erfolge.html Musicum or the pupils‘ laboratory, for example. the last year.

We can only realize all of this because committed pri- Naturally, we would also like to thank all of the donors vate individuals, foundations and companies have acti- who have generously and selflessly given to the stu- vely supported us with around 1.4 million euros. This im- dents at the University of Cologne without wanting to portant support makes our University what it has always be named. been since its foundation – a citizens‘ university offering

Arendt & Medernach Stadtwerke Köln GmbH Alumni and Private Individuals Dr Zahit und Nedret Metin Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA VON DER SEIPEN & STEINBERG Rechtsanwälte Professor Dr K. Bartenbach Gerhard Michel (†) Canada Life Assurance Europe Limited Dr Inge Bianka von Berg und Georg W. Oerter Dr Rainer Minz Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG Foundations and Associations Professor Dr Mark K. Binz Dr med. Wulf Nordmann DEG - Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesell- Annemarie und Helmut Börner Stiftung Erwin Breidebach Professor Dr Johann Radermacher schaft mbH Bayer Science & Education Foundation Professor Dr Hans-Joachim Burscheid Professor Dr Harald Schaumburg d-fine GmbH Gerd Bucerius Christiane Doben Thomas B. Schmidt elephant5 - Zentrum für moderne Zahnheilkunde im Doktor Carl-Arthur Pastor-Stiftung Professor Dr Walter Doerfler Dr Werner P. Schmidt Haubrichforum Dr Dirk Baier Stiftung Professor Dr Werner Engelhardt Professor Dr Ursula Schmidt-Westphal und Evonik Industries AG Dr Harald Hack-Stiftung Professor Dr Otto Ermer Professor Dr Siegbert Schmidt GAG Immobilien AG Dr Jost Henkel Stiftung Klaus Martin Finzel Rudi Schmit Gerolsteiner Brunnen GmbH & Co. KG Dr Jürgen Meyer Stiftung Helmut Graf Professor Dr Hansjörg Schneider-Poetsch Haus Kölscher Brautradition - Ein Unternehmen der Ernst & Young Stiftung e.V. Professor Dr Hermann Hansis Professor Dr med. Roland Schröder Radeberger Gruppe KG fgs - Verein zur Förderung des Gasthörer- und Klaus Dieter Henning Brigitte und Hans-Erich Schröder-Conrad IBM Deutschland Seniorenstudiums an der Universität zu Köln e.V Hartmut Hipp Professor Dr Otto Schult und Hiltrud Schult INEOS Köln GmbH Gustav von Mevissen-Stiftung Dr Klaus Hußmann Roswith Siewerdt InterScience GmbH – Partner für Wissenschaft Ford Motor Company Fund Wolfgang Ißleib und Elisabeth Steubesand Baruna Steinke und Wirtschaft Gemeinnützige Stiftung der Familie Gude Dr Manfred Jautelat Dr Kurt M. Strack JT International Germany GmbH Internationaler Lyceum Club Köln Ute und Christoph Alexander Kahl Professor Dr. Ulrich Trottenberg Kapellmann und Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB Kölner Gymnasial- und Stiftungsfonds Professor Josef und Elsabe Kloock Dipl. Kfm. Georg Virnich Kölner Bank eG Lionsclubs Köln Caligula Professor Dr Bernd Koglin Franz Wagenbach Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG PIM & CEMS Student and Alumni Club Cologne e.V. Professor Dr dres. h.c. Richard Köhler Helmut Weiß Koelnmesse GmbH Stiftung Copierpresse Ulrich Korwitz Professor Dr. Götz Voppel und Annelen Voppel LANXESS AG Stiftung Ehepaar Greiß Rosemarie Kraft Walter Weißenberger Linklaters LLP Stiftung Macaria Professor Dr Helmut Lamm Dr Engelbert Zass MEDA Manufacturing GmbH Stiftung Maria Pesch Brigitte Langner Torsten Ziegler, Thurn und Taxis Consulting AG NETCOLOGNE Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation mbH Studienstiftung Markommania-Franco-Guestphalia Professor Dr Eckhard Lechler Dr Reinhard Zinkann NRW.BANK Verein zur Förderung der genossenschaftswissen- Günter Lochten Rechtsanwälte Lampmann, Haberkamm & schaftlichen Forschung an der Universität zu Köln e.V. Professor Dr Werner Ludwig Companies Rosenbaum Partnerschaft ZEIT-Stiftung Eselin Friedrich Matthäus AIR Liquide Deutschland GmbH REWE GROUP Zonta Club Köln 2008 e.V. Rudolf van Megen AMGEN GmbH Santander Bank Ampega Investment GmbH Sparkasse KölnBonn List of Abbreviations

AvH Professorships KFO Alexander von Humboldt Professorship Clinical Researcher Group KPA CA Key Profile Area Competence Area MoU CECAD Memorandum of Understanding Cologne Cluster of Excellence in Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-associated NRW Diseases North Rhine-Westphalia

CEMS PI formerly ‘Community of European Principal Investigator Management Schools and International Companies’; now ‘The Global Alliance RCCC in Management Education’ Regional Computing Centre Cologne

CEPLAS SCO Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences Suggestions and Complaints Office

CRC TRR Collaborative Research Centre Transregional Collaborative Research Centre DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft USB (German Research Foundation) University and City Library

FOR UoC Researcher Group University of Cologne

HEP ZfL University Development Plan Centre for Teacher Training Publication Details

Published by: The Rector of the University of Cologne

Contributors: Professor Dr Alexander Altland, Yvonne Ayoub, Dr Christine Benn, Professor Dr Sven Bernecker, Dr Stefan Bildhauer, Dr Stefanie Bölts, Professor Dr André Bresges, Dr Britt Dahmen, Professor Dr Tibor Dunai, Marcella Ernst, Dr Florian Esser, Dorothee Franke, Professor Dr Hansjörg Geiges, Professor Dr Gudrun Gersmann, Sebastian Grote, Professor Dr Manuela Günter, Irmgard Hannecke-Schmidt, Dr Alan Hansen, Professor Dr Martin Henssler, Professor Dr Stefan Herzig, Professor Dr Klaus von Heusinger, Helene Hucho, Andreas Kirchner, Dr Carlo Klauth, Peter Kohl, Sabine Kuschel, Dr Mareike Land- mann, Professor Dr Thomas Langer, Dr Guido Lauen, Dr Julia Lieb, Dr Judith Link, Professor Dr Paul van Loosdrecht, Dr Katja Mertin, Dr Rainer Minz, Dr Hubertus Neuhausen, Astrid Nowotsch, Dr Antje Oesterle, Dr Wibke Petras, Dr Ulrich Pfeiffer, Dr Anja Pfletschinger, Dr Daniel Rauprich, Jürgen Rees, Benjamin Reeve, Professor Dr Kersten Reich, Professor Dr Bettina Rockenbach, Dr Beate Saal, Dr Kirsten Schäfer, Eva Schissler, Irina Schmidt, Anne Schielke, Holger Schmieschek, Juliane Schreiber, Professor Dr Inge Schwank, Professor Dr Andreas Speer, Dr Michael Stückradt, Bianca Weides, Brigitte Wingen, Nina Zimmermann

Design: Debora Schiffer

Title Picture: Helmar Mildner

Picture Credits: Lisa Beller: 8 (8), 30, 51, 64 (oben), 85/86 (Fügener, Hansen, Schwerter) Maya Claussen Photography: 4, 9 (10), 10/11, 29, 36, 56/57, 63, 66/67, 92, 95, 96/97, 101, 103 COPT.ZENTRUM: 7 (4), 64 | Roy Fochtman: 60 | format2d: 33, 88/89 | Fotolia: 14 (DN 6, Jürgen Fälchle, refresh(PIX), Gustavo, georgerudy), 17 (Wire_man), 19 oben (ulkas), 21 unten rechts (tunedin), 45 (Monkey Business), 46 (Rawpixel), 49 (Tobias Arhelger), 52 (StockPhotoPro) | Patric Fouad: 6 (3), 7 (6), 8 (7) | Gateway: 65 | Erim Giresunlu: 6 (2), 16 oben | Silviu Guima: 6 (1) | IStockVideos: 28 | KölnerKinderUniversität: 50 | Sascha Kreklau: 87 (Vossel) | MedizinFoto Köln: 83 | Mercator-Institut: 35 | nexd GbR: 26 | David Pla-Martin: 17 (unten rechts) | Benedikt Ritter: 16 (unten) | Fabian Stürtz: 35 (links), 42, 44, 94 UniSport: 93 (rechts) | UzK: 108 | Simon Wegener: 5, 18 (unten), 20 (oben), 38/39, 43, 47, 54, 76/77, 81, 82 | ZFL: 9 (9)

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