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Methods Used in Researching the Impacts of Climate Change
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27 participants attended the Summer School on Climate Change Research Methods in Geisenheim

 


From the lecture hall to the vineyard, followed by a brief foray into the lab, before returning quickly to the main auditorium for the final lecture: the varied program of the "Climate Change Research Methods: Preparing for the Future" Summer ...

Practical Research Project VitiFIT launched
The consortium poses with Federal Minister for Agriculture Julia Klöckner at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) Photo credit: BMEL

German Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner handed over a grant amounting to 6.3 million euros to finance a major five-year joint project focusing on vine health preservation in organic viticulture

Berlin, Geisenheim September 10, 2019


The number of organically cultivated vineyards has grown steadily in recent years. An increasing number of winegrowers are interested in this topic and have started to change their practices, and the results are ...

Thousands explore Hochschule Geisenheim University at its Open Campus Day 2019
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Experiencing science with all the senses: a wide range of attractions delights both young and old, experts and laypeople

Around 6,000 visitors availed of the opportunity to experience science with all their senses when they attended Hochschule Geisenheim University's Open Campus weekend on September 7 - 8, 2019. More than 100 exhibits, guided tours and hands-on ...

Botanical Specialities in Hardiness Zone 8a: Park Tours at Open Campus 2019
Professor Alexander von Birgelen in the park at Villa Monrepos

"The parks surrounding the University are basically a huge open-air laboratory", explained Alexander von Birgelen, Professor of Planting Design and head of the park maintenance team at Hochschule Geisenheim University. Last weekend he took interested ...

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)
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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 ...