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Since 13 April 2026, Prof. Dr. Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF).

A total of ten European universities have formed the “MultiLAwa – Multilingual Language Awareness in the European Digital Society” network. It is funded with EUR 4.35 million under the EU’s “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions” program.

Since 1 April, the professor of Sociology and Societal Comparisons and former director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) has been a member of the independent, interdisciplinary body that provides research-based policy advice.

Researcher Eirliani Abdul Rahman, who holds a doctorate from Harvard University, transferred to the University of Mannheim in early March thanks to funding from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung. The program for international academic freedom is supporting her with around EUR 1.8 million, enabling a ...

Mannheim psychologist Professor Olga Stavrova and her colleagues have investigated how supporters of winning or losing parties experience election results and what changes in well-being and personality can be observed until up to four months later.

In the winter semester of 2025, students at the University of Mannheim not only analyzed European identity theoretically but also actively contributed to the public dissemination of knowledge. As an alternative examination format, they wrote and revised Wikipedia articles on key aspects of European ...

In 2024, the University of Mannheim was granted EUR 712,000 for measures to promote equal opportunity and to partially fund three permanent W3 professorships as part of the competitive “Professorinnenprogramm 2030” (program for women professors 2030). Thanks to this decision, the university could ...

In Mannheim, the waiting time for psychotherapy is between three and six months. Thanks to two new psychotherapeutic outpatient clinics founded at the University of Mannheim, anyone affected — adults as well as children and adolescents — can now profit from additional care services. The ceremonial ...

The professor of Sociology, Societal Comparisons at the University of Mannheim and former Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) has won the Landesforschungspreis Baden-Württemberg 2026 (research award of the Land of Baden-Württemberg 2026).

Younger and older adults alike are able to adopt new socio-emotional behaviors. Even older adults benefit from a personality intervention aimed at handling stress and challenging social situations better. This is the conclusion of a psychological aging research study conducted by researchers from ...