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January

01.01.2021

+++ In the starting blocks +++

At the beginning of the year the university’s new president, Professor Enrico Schleiff, takes up office. His vision for Goethe University Frankfurt: to be an excellent, international university in the digital age. Schleiff, a molecular biologist, replaces economist Birgitta Wolff after six years in office.

01.01.2021

+++ Film partners +++

The international collaborative project “Digital Cinema-Hub” (DiCi-Hub) brings together the RMU partners Frankfurt and Mainz with the University of Marburg. They are developing new conceptual principles and methods for film and media studies.

01.01.2021

+++ Data storage +++

The HeFDI project – Hessian Research Data Infrastructures – within which eleven Hessian universities are working together, enters the second funding phase. At Goethe University Frankfurt, this means the start of an institutional storage system for research data (GUDe).

15.01.2021

+++ Labour market East Asia +++

Together with partners, East Asian Studies researchers from the universities in Frankfurt are examining the competition for qualified specialists in East Asia. For this purpose, the junior research group is receiving over €2 million from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the “Small Disciplines” funding initiative.

February

01.02.2021

+++ Excellence Strategy +++

New cutting-edge research projects on trust in conflict, neutron stars and disease mechanisms: researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt are working on these topics in cooperation with other universities and scientific institutions. The cluster projects ENABLE, ELEMENTS and ConTrust are receiving funding of €20.7 million from the State of Hesse and the same amount from Goethe University Frankfurt and other partners involved and are supporting the university’s preparation for the next round of the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments. In addition, Goethe University Frankfurt is participating in two other cluster projects (“3AI”, TU Darmstadt, and “The Adaptive Mind”, University of Giessen).

03.02.2021

+++ Clusters4Future +++

The PROXIDRUGS cluster coordinated by Goethe University Frankfurt is developing active substances that break down disease-relevant proteins in the body. The project has been successful in the federal government’s Clusters4Future competition and is receiving up to €15 million in funding.

15.02.2021

+++ Elected +++

The extended Senate elects the new vice-presidents of Goethe University Frankfurt: the education scientist Professor Christiane Thompson, the physician Professor Bernard Brüne and the physicist Professor Michael Huth are voted in. They replace the previous vice-presidents Professor Manfred Schubert-Zsilavecz, Professor Roger Erb and Professor Rolf van Dick.

23.02.2021

+++ Anniversary +++

The Master’s degree programme “Curatorial Studies – Theory – History – Criticism” celebrates its tenth anniversary. With its combination of academic research, curatorial practice and theoretical reflection in cooperation with Städelschule and five museums in Frankfurt, the degree programme is regarded as a new phenomenon in Germany’s university landscape.

March

10.03.2021

+++ Digitalised culture +++

Within the strategic alliance of the Rhine-Main Universities, the CEDITRAA research project at the universities of Frankfurt and Mainz is looking at the consequences of digitalisation for cultural production in Africa and Asia.

12.03.2021

+++ Climate change +++

The volume of water in rivers worldwide has changed. An international research team with the participation of Goethe University Frankfurt is able to prove that climate change plays a crucial role.

24.03.2021

+++ Black hole +++

55 million light years in view: astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration – among them researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt led by astrophysicist Professor Luciano Rezzolla – are making magnetic fields at the edge of the black hole M87* visible.

April

08.04.2021

+++ Permaculture +++

For the new permaculture gardens on Westend Campus and Riedberg Campus, students have joined forces with the Goethe’s Green Office initiative, the Science Garden, the Students’ Union and the “PermaCultureIslands” working group of “Vegetable Heroes Frankfurt” and the Frankfurt Food Council.

13.04.2021

+++ Media prize +++

The Goethe Media Prize for science and university policy journalism, initiated by Goethe University Frankfurt, goes to three outstanding teams of authors or individual authors.

14.04.2021

+++ Honey in Africa +++

A 3,500 years old pot of honey: archaeologists at Goethe University Frankfurt, in collaboration with chemists at the University of Bristol, have produced the oldest direct evidence for the use of honey in Africa, using beeswax residues in prehistoric pottery from the West African Nok culture.

May

10.05.2021

+++ Coronavirus networks +++

Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt have compiled guidance notes on numerous SARS-CoV-2 proteins in cooperation with 36 partner laboratories in 17 countries. The threads of the worldwide network come together at Goethe University Frankfurt under the auspices of Professor Harald Schwalbe.

10.05.2021

+++ Saving without a bank +++

A project by the Frobenius Institute at Goethe University Frankfurt is looking at informal savings and insurance practices in the Ethiopian diaspora.

15.05.2021

+++ Contact with bacteria +++

US microbiologists Bonnie Bassler and Michael Silverman are awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize: their discovery of how bacteria communicate with each other has paved the way for a new class of antibiotics.

25.05.2021

+++ Collaborative research +++

The German Research Foundation awards the new CRC Transregio (TRR) 326 “Geometry and Arithmetic of Uniformised Structures” funding of €9.2 million. CRC 1039 on medical signalling pathways enters its third funding phase and receives €9.6 million. Also funded are two TRRs in which Goethe University Frankfurt is a partner: TRR 211 “Strong-Interaction Matter under Extreme Conditions” and TRR 301 “The Tropopause Region in a Changing Atmosphere”.

31.05.2021

+++ Two prizes +++

Die Auszeichnungen »Hochschullehrerin des Jahres« und »Studierende des Jahres« vom Deutschen Stifterverband und dem Deutschen Studentenwerk gehen beide an die Goethe-Universität: Die studentische Initiative TechAcademy erhält den Preis für Gratis-IT-Seminare für Studierende, die Virologin Prof. Sandra Ciesek für ihre exzellente Vermittlung von wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen in der Corona-Pandemie.

June

01.06.2021

+++ Checked +++

A study by economists is awarded the “2020 Best Paper Award” by the “Journal of the Association for Information Systems”. The study describes machine learning models that test the credibility of the social profiles of brokers and investment consultants.

08.06.2021

+++ Initial support +++

Unibator, the university’s start-up centre, has provided initial financial support, and the three new entrepreneurs are now a step closer to their goal: their start-up “WeProfit” helps companies looking for software developers.

30.06.2021

+++ Unique +++

During a state visit, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s Federal President, presents Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel, with a document from the university’s archives: the degree certificate of his father, Yosef Yoel Rivlin, who completed his doctoral degree at the University of Frankfurt in 1927.