Past press releases

Pia Olligschläger and Katrina Jordan accept the glass clapperboard from Ministers Judith Gerlach and Hubert Aiwanger. Image credit: University of Passau

The city of Passau has been serving as filming location for German public broadcaster ARD’s ‘Passau Krimi’ crime movies since last year. On 22 January, Passau won the ‘filming location of the year 2019’ award. The…

As part of the ‘Hightech Agenda Bayern’ initiative, Bavaria’s government has committed to funding 23 new professorships and 30 new staff positions and investing a further 5.4 million euros in equipment, facilities and…

The University of Passau was among the first higher education institutions to have signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the cooperation of higher education institutions within the framework of Netzwerk…

Group photograph of the participants and organisers of the ZLF Autumn School

Student exchange is one of the pillars of the University’s partnership with Zhejiang International Studies University in Hangzhou, China. Twenty-two teacher education students and four lecturers from the Chinese partner…

Minister-President Markus Söder has launched the Bavarian high-technology initiative ‘Hightech Agenda Bayern’. The University of Passau will stand to benefit from this initiative in three ways: 1) construction of the…

Past press releases

University delighted that Passau has won the ‘Filming location of the year 2019’ award

A leap forward

University of Passau commits to cooperating with other Bavarian universities to promote sustainability

International teacher education: Chinese students attend the Autumn School of the Teacher Education Centre

Hightech Agenda Bayern: project group ‘Passau Medical Campus’, International Centre for Scholarship and Science and more study places in computer science