International exchange continues: 9 students from the USA are currently visiting universities in the Ruhr University Alliance as Ruhr Fellows. 3 of them are undertaking research placements at the UDE.

Unlimited power politics and unrestrained violence are shaking the international order. The Peace Report 2026 outlines ways to counter the erosion of the global order. Germany’s leading peace research institutes, including INEF, have just presented the analysis in Berlin.

The RESOLVE project aims to investigate the underlying processes of chronic pain and develop a treatment that mitigates pain-exacerbating mechanisms. The EU is funding the project with €1.2 million for an initial period of two years.