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Hesse's Higher Education Pact 2021 to 2025 Signed: 11.2 Billion Euros for Universities
The Presidents of Hesse's Universities with Volker Bouffier, Angela Dorn and Dr. Thomas Schäfer © Hessische Staatskanzlei/Thomas Lohnes

Together with the presidents of 14 state universities, Hesse's state premier Volker Bouffier, the Minister for Higher Education, Research and the Arts, Angela Dorn and Finance Minister Dr. Thomas Schäfer signed the Higher Education Pact for 2021 to 2025

More money than ever before, more reliable than ever before and more precise objectives for better education and research than ever before: this is the outcome of the negotiations on the financing of universities in Hesse for the period 2021 to 2025. ...

Hesse's State Wineries and Hochschule Geisenheim University Ensure Cultivation of Ecologically Important Steep-Slope Vineyards
Professor Ilona Leyer with Professor Manfred Stoll (right) and Dieter Greiner © Hessische Staatsweingüter GmbH Kloster Eberbach

Finance Minister Dr. Thomas Schäfer: "Transforming steep-slope vineyards into cross-terraces has a model character, represents an important contribution to environmental conservation and offers advantages for viticulture".

Diggers in the vineyards could be seen on March 10, 2020 at the Höllenberg in Assmannshausen and will continue to be seen in the coming weeks in other vineyards in the Rheingau and Hessische Bergstrasse. "Together with Hochschule Geisenheim ...

GoodBerry Partners Attend FRUIT LOGISTICA 2020 in February
Dr. Erika Krüger (photo credit: Klaus Eimert)

For its final symposium, GoodBerry was present at Fruit Logistica 2020 on February 5 to 7, in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition with a focus on the fresh produce business was held over three days and attracts around 3,200 exhibitors and 78,000 trade visitors every year. The exhibition program was rounded off by presentations subdivided in different categories.

As part of the GoodBerry consortium, Annika Haugeneder (Technische Universität München), Dr. Dorota Jarret (James Hutton Institute), Dr. Erika Krüger (Hochschule Geisenheim University), Peter Melis (Proefcentrum Hoogstraten) and Arne Stensvand ...

Fourth Culinary & Wine Tourism Conference (CWTC) at Hochschule Geisenheim University Postponed
Luftbild von terassenförmig angelegten Weinbergen. © Hochschule Geisenheim

The reasons for postponing the conference are the cancellations of the ITB Berlin and ProWein Düsseldorf trade fairs. The third Rheingau Conference will go ahead as planned on March 9.

Following the cancellations of the ITB, the world's leading tourism trade fair in Berlin, and the international ProWein exhibition in Düsseldorf, the organizers of the Fourth Culinary and Wine Tourism Conference (CWTC) have today decided to postpone ...

A Biosphere Reserve Offers Real Opportunities for Science and Society
The winegrowing area in the Rheingau would also stand to gain from a UNESCO biosphere reserve.

Hochschule Geisenheim University welcomes the positive outcome of feasibility study

"A label that represents a major step forward for the region". With these words, the President of Hochschule Geisenheim University, Professor Hans Reiner Schultz, expressed his support for the proposal by Hesse's Minister of the Environment to ...

Hochschule Geisenheim University to Present a Wide Range of Topics from Research and Practice at ProWein 2020

As well as the student advisory service at Hochschule Geisenheim University's stand C71 in Hall 14, experts will be on hand to provide information in a range of formats on such topics as start-ups, climate change and how transport can affect wine.

The impact of climate change on the global wine industry is the focus of the current ProWein Business Report, for which experts from Hochschule Geisenheim University polled more than 1,700 industry insiders from 45 countries on international wine ...

KULT Representatives Visit Lviv Polytechnic National University
Urheberin: Irena Kazymyra

KULT representatives were hosted by Lviv Polytechnic National University

Dr. Martin Reiss und Dr. Jörn Schultheiss from the Center of Excellence, Cultivated Landscapes (KULT) met colleagues from the Viacheslav Chornovil Institute of Sustainable Development at Lviv's Polytechnic National University on February 11, 2020. ...

Study Info Day at Schloss Hansenberg Boarding School
[Translate to English:] Bildquelle: Prof. Dr. Gergely Szolnoki

Hochschule Geisenheim University's first visit to the school, where it introduced itself to high school students

Together with around 20 other participants, Hochschule Geisenheim University took part in a study information day at Schloss Hansenberg boarding school for the first time on January 18, 2020. Professor Gergely Szolnoki, who is responsible for ...

Geisenheim Food Safety Students Produce Cheese

During the 2019/20 winter semester, third-semester students produced butter as well as ricotta and a type of Feta-like cheese as part of the "Animal Food Products II - Milk and Dairy Products" module.

Which is faster: a hand-held mixer, a butter churn or a whisk? In the Animal Food Products II - Milk and Dairy Products module in the 2019/20 winter semester, students studying Food Safety at Hochschule Geisenheim University not only acquired the ...

Graduation Ceremony and Doctoral Degree Award at Hochschule Geisenheim University

162 students of Hochschule Geisenheim University graduated with Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the graduation ceremony on February 14, 2020, which was held in the Laiendormitorium at Eberbach Monastery. Professor Annette Reineke, Vice-President of Research, also presented Holger Linck with his doctoral degree.

Once a Geisenheimer – always a Geisenheimer. An important chapter in the lives of 162 graduates of Hochschule Geisenheim University came to an end on February 14, 2020, when they received their degree parchments in a graduation ceremony marking the ...