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The 14th edition of the student-run 6Glasses1Bottle roundtable last Sunday centered on the Nahe region and once again showed the energy, diversity, and expertise found in Hochschule Geisenheim University's unique combination of theory and praxis. Originating as a digital project during COVID-19…

On March 21, 2025, Hochschule Geisenheim University held a graduation ceremony to bid farewell to the 166 graduates who completed their degree programs in the last eight months. This was the first time that this special event could be held in the university's newly inaugurated lecture hall building.…

The last week of February saw the return of the foundational ‘School of Pruning’ course offered by Simonit&Sirch in cooperation with Hochschule Geisenheim University. In addition to the standard German-language course, an English version was also available for international students of the…

During the last semester break, students at Hochschule Geisenheim University had the chance to take part in a competition organized by the town of Rüdesheim am Rhein, in collaboration HGU. Their task was to develop an attractive and contemporary design for the central island of a roundabout that is…

On February 13–14, the third event in the viSiOONWALD series took place, this time with a focus on water retention within the context of practical forestry. Over 60 stakeholders, mainly comprising practitioners in the field of forestry, came together from across Germany to take part in the event.

GEISENHEIM/KOBLENZ. As part of a joint teaching project between Hochschule Geisenheim University, Koblenz University, and Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, around 50 students have developed ideas on how the region’s universities could participate in the 2029 Bundesgartenschau, Germany’s…

A number of Geisenheim students recently worked together to build a historic dry stone wall in the ‘Krähennest’, an old terraced vineyard situated below the Niederwald monument in Rüdesheim. This undertaking was part of a collaborative project between the Rüdesheim Forestry Office, the Zweckverband…

THE INAUGURAL LECTURES HAVE BEEN POSTPONED TO THE BEGINNING OF 2025. A NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON.

Report on the 2024 BDO Conference: ‘The wine industry – quo vadis? Dream or nightmare?’