
EIT Project for Social EntrepreneurshipAI Mentor Supports Students in Starting a Business
How can a good idea become a viable business model with social impact? AI will soon support students along the way. In the new “AURORA seizmic EIT-KIC” project, UDE and its partners are developing an existing platform into an AI-powered mentoring environment.

New doctoral research programme launched The social side of the climate crisis
Who contributes most to the climate crisis, who is hardest hit? These are some of the questions at the heart of the new doctoral research programme “The Political Economy of the Social-Ecological Transformation” at the UDE.

Work does not protect against social exclusionIAQ examines the labour market situation of EU citizens in the Ruhr region
The number of employees subject to social security contributions has risen sharply between 2014 and 2025, a trend attributable to people without a German passport, including immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria. Many of them are being pushed to the margins of the labour market.

Criticism of German Reunification Has Shifted PoliticallyFrom the Left to the Right

New Clustering Method Hidden Regularities in Data

Study on the Runner’s HighCannabis-like signaling molecules also increase over extreme distances

University of Duisburg-Essen and University of Bremen Launch DIFIS-SOFO How Key Technologies Are Reshaping Social Policy

UMWELT 2026 conference at UDEEnvironment under pressure

Research vessel NOVA sets course for RotterdamMinister Krischer and Consul General Tijmes give the signal to set sail

Detecting Crises EarlierAI for Situational Awareness in the German Healthcare System

Observed for the First TimeAtomic Rainbow in Graphene

Students explore the perspective of those affectedA child sent away – and life was different after that

Study on Problematic Internet UseTemptation Outweighs Stress

STRALI develops planning tool for local authorities Pinpointing where EV charging points are really needed

Federal Funding€580,000 for the West German Biobank Essen

Paper in Nature Communications Large-Scale Brain Analysis Reveals Multiple Pathways to Placebo Effects on Pain

41st round of the UDE Postdoc Seed FundingsTwo research projects have been awarded funding

IAQ Report on the Automotive Industry A Fair Transition?

New Series from the Institute for Socio-EconomicsWhy Economists Often Disagree

20 years of accreditation as a high-voltage laboratory at the UDE 20 years under high tension

Funding from the Volkswagen Foundation and the Young AcademyTWIST is one of “Best Research Environment 2026”


