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48th Annual Conference of the Society for Plastics in Agriculture (Gesellschaft für Kunststoffe im Landbau e.V)

"Sustainability in horticultural and agricultural processes" is the theme of the 48th Annual Conference of the Society for Plastics in Agriculture, which is hosted this year by FVG Folien-Vertriebs GmbH in Dernbach in Westerwald.

A presentation by Prof. Judith Kreyenschmidt has the title "Intelligent and active packaging - a contribution to sustainable Food production"

Digital Teaching and Learning in Geisenheim Becoming more Visible

The Digital Learning Map in cooperation with e-teaching.org and the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung highlights areas of application for digital media in teaching.

 

The freely-available online database was developed to show innovative projects and good-practice examples Germany-wide. Lecturers can get inspiration and ideas for their own teaching or search for digital solutions to a specific didactic problem.


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Choice of Licence for Stud.IP uploads

With the start of the new semester, here is a reminder of the four different licence options for uploads to Stud.IP:

  • Your own, unpublished work
  • Open-license work
  • Permission or license obtained
  • Work in accordance with §60a UrhWissG

Upon ...

Climate Change Challenges for the Wine Industry

Conference organized by the Geisenheim Institut of Continuing Education highlights challenges in viticulture and winemaking in view of temperature rises and extreme weather events and offers practical management strategies for participants.

Climate change poses many problems for vintners; not only rising temperatures but also increasing numbers of extreme weather. In a conference organized by the Geisenheim Institute of Continuing Education, scientists from Hochschule Geisenheim ...

First conference in the program "Bauen für den Winzer" (Building for the Vintner)
© Roger Baumeister

Successful start of a new program at the Geisenheim Institute of Continuing Education

Whether it is a new construction, conversion or the renovation of existing buildings: sooner or later many wineries are confronted with the topic of "building". The Geisenheim Institute of Continuing Education (GIW) is addressing this topic in its ...

Cooperation Agreement with Leading Partners in the Field of Digitalization
© Photo Cooperation agreement: Hochschule Geisenheim University – from left Tobias Scholl (Weinbau Online), Hochschule Geisenheim University President, Prof. Hans Reiner Schultz, Prof. Simone Loose, Johannes Finze (Euvino)

Digitalization is playing an ever increasing role in Hochschule Geisenheim University's applied research and practice-oriented teaching.

In autumn 2018 the university concluded cooperation agreements with two leading companies in the digital wine industry: Weinbau Online based in Mainz and EuvinoPro in Berlin.


Weinbau Online and its CEO Tobias Scholl provide cloud software for ...

Joint doctorate Adelaide-Geisenheim receives prestigious international awards
Image: Dr. Martin Hirche

Former Geisenheimer, Dr. Martin Hirche is delighted by international recognition of his doctorate in marketing, completed at the end of 2018 at University of South Australia (UniSA).

In August, Hirche received a third international prize for his work, in which he analyzed sales data from almost ten thousand products. The doctoral research was supervised by a team of scientists from UniSA and Prof. Simone Loose from Hochschule ...

Floral Vegetation in Steep-Slope Viticulture
Floral diversity in a new vineyard; Image: Gilbert Laquai

Hochschule Geisenheim University research project aims to show how new terraced vineyards can be efficiently planted with cover crops which also help in nature conservation.

The aim is to plant vegetation on the terraces to prevent erosion and provide habitats rich in species. In 2018 various seed mixtures were sown in new vineyards in the Middle Rhine Valley wine region, and the results are attracting the attention of ...

German wine culture could receive UNESCO cultural heritage status

The German Wine Institute hopes that German wine culture could be listed as an intangible UNESCO cultural heritage in order to raise public awareness as well as acknowledge the efforts of all involved in the area.

Cast your vote here www.deutscheweine.de by September 30, 2019.

New from BAG (Bordeaux-Adelaide-Geisenheim) Alliance:
The signatories: Prof. Markus Herderich, Australian Wine Research Institute; Prof. Manuel Tunon de Lara, President Université de Bordeaux and Prof. Hans Reiner Schultz; in the Background are representatives of the Region Nouvelle Aquitaine, Ludovic Lareynie (left) and Moritz Kummer, Hesse (right); Image: Hugues Bretheau, Univ. Bordeaux

A new cooperation contract is signed and continues focus on sustainable agriculture and adapting to climate change.

Representatives of the BAG Alliance (Université de Bordeaux – Australian Wine Research Institute, Adelaide – Hochschule Geisenheim University) met on June 24, 2019, for their AGM and to discuss future strategies for the research alliance, which has ...