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Drei Personen gucken sich eine interaktive Ausstellung im Futurium an. Es ist größtenteils dunkel, aber im Hintergrund gibt es eine große Kugel aus Draht, die blau beleuchtet ist. Die Personen im Vordergrund gucken sich einen Infotisch an.

Photo: Jan Windszus

4 December 2025|CLICCS News

Research “made in Hamburg” at Berlin’s Futurium

Effective immediately, Berlin’s Futurium museum features an exhibit showcasing Hamburg-based climate research. In the game, visitors can estimate for themselves how far society has come in terms of climate protection. Once they’ve set all the dials to what they guess to be the right levels, they can hit the “finished”...

Landscape in Namibia, A sparse bush in the foreground, behind it a wide, uninhabited landscape, only gently vegetated. In the distance, mountains.

Photo: Michael Schnegg

27 November 2025|Publication

Michael Schnegg awarded in New Orleans

At this year's annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in New Orleans, Professor Michael Schnegg received the Stirling Prize for his article "Collective Loneliness." This award recognizes the outstanding significance of the article for psychological anthropology.

Outstanding publication: Michael...

Photo: University of Hamburg / Denstorf

19 November 2025|Campus

The University of Hamburg Still Germany’s Most Sustainable University

The University of Hamburg is once again ranked first among German universities in the latest QS Sustainability Ranking. Internationally, it still ranks in the top 50.

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Zu sehen sind die zwei Master-Stdierende, Katherine Linscott (links) und Clara Harms (rechts), die den Preos von der Wübben Foundation Student Grant gewonnen haben.

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13 November 2025|Studies and teaching

SICSS master’s students honored

For the second half of their master’s degree studies, Clara Harms and Katherine Linscott will receive financial support from the Wübben Foundation. In recognition of their outstanding achievements in the interdisciplinary degree program Integrated Climate System Sciences at the graduate school SICSS and their contributions...

Zu sehen ist eine Person in einem blauen Anzug mit Kopfschmuck. Im Hintergrund ist ein großes COP 30 Zeichen.

Photo: Raimundo Pacco/COP30

10 November 2025|Interview

“Belém is a Signal”

This year, the world is heading to the Amazon for the UN Climate Conference. Sociologist Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse from the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS at the University of Hamburg is originally from Brazil and will attend COP30 in Belém as a researcher. He explains why the conference gives him cautious optimism, what...

Zusehen ist ein Umriss von Deutschland mit verschiedenen Ikons zur Klimawandel in Deutschland

Photo: UHH/CLICCS/A. Linke

5 November 2025|Research

Climate Action: Is Germany backtracking?

Germany is increasingly at risk of failing to meet its own climate targets. A study just released by the University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS) assesses seven key social processes that have to stay the course to achieve effective climate protection in Germany. The...

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