In future, the Adenauer School of Government (ASG) will combine cutting-edge research with innovative teaching. The establishment of the ASG is made possible by a comprehensive and long-term partnership with the Alfred Landecker Foundation.

The university adopts a holistic transfer strategy that strengthens both application-oriented research and knowledge and technology transfer and actively promotes dialogue between research and society.

Rankings among colleagues in hospital teams may motivate some doctors to perform better, but can also have a demotivating effect on others. A behavioural economics experiment shows that choosing the 'right' design for a ranking system can eliminate the demotivating effects and improve patient care.

A new study focussing on depression shows how digital games can be used to learn about mental illness

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a new Transregional Collaborative Research Centre at the University of Cologne: Together with scientists at the Universities of Hamburg and Münster, the researchers will study the control processes in the kidney filter.

Combination therapy with two cancer drugs prolongs the life of mice

The university has again received the HR Excellence in Research Award from the European Commission. The reviewers particularly emphasized the comprehensive HR strategy and the research-friendly working culture

The interplay of different ideas shapes how students learn and understand specific concepts in biology. A new study has investigated how a scientific understanding of evolution can be promoted / publication in ‘Science Education’

A representative study taken in thirty European countries shows that women with low socio-economic status in particular are less satisfied with their lives than childless women in the same social situation. In Northern European countries, parenthood is associated with the highest levels of satisfaction and meaning / publication in the “Journal of Marriage and Family”

Five proposals for Clusters of Excellence win funding in the federal competition / Clusters in the fields of aging research, astrophysics, plant sciences, quantum research and economics will receive funding