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Learning creates enjoyment: Answers for tomorrow’s world

The exhibition stand of Hochschule Geisenheim University – Stand 4B52 – at the INTERVITIS INTERFRUCTA HORTITECHNICA trade fair, invites visitors to stop and chat and get a glimpse of the future of viticulture and horticulture.

 

How will wine taste in the year 2050? What influence do rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have on our plants, soils, microorganisms and insects – and thus on vines and horticultural crops, too? And how can the anticipated extreme ...

Welcome event for first semester students 2018: Now you’re “Geisenheimers”

Representatives from Hochschule Geisenheim University, the university town and the region give a warm welcome to the new first semester students at the start of the winter semester 2018/19.

Lots of new faces, some looking rather nervous, to be seen in the university town of Geisenheim: On Monday October 15, 2018 around 360 new students gathered in the Rheingau atrium for Hochschule Geisenheim University’s official welcome event for the ...

Hochschule Geisenheim University awards DAAD-Prize 2018 to Qiuyue Cheng

Young Chinese woman receives the 1000 Euro award for good academic performance coupled with her social commitment in the university town of Geisenheim.

Hochschule Geisenheim University presented Qiuyue Cheng with the DAAD-Prize 2018 during the welcome event for first semester students held on Monday October 15, 2018. The prize of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is endowed with 1000 Euros ...

Professor Müller-Thurgau Prize 2018 award for Dr. Franz Josef Jung and Ingmar Jung
Das Verwaltungsgebäude auf dem Campus der Hochschule Geisenheim © Winfried Schönbach

The prize, which is awarded jointly by the “VEG” – the Geisenheim Alumni Association e.V. – and Hochschule Geisenheim University, honours outstanding contributions to research and teaching at the Geisenheim institution. On November 10 2018 the Rheingau will welcome the Federal Minister for Agriculture Julia Klöckner, who will be presenting the award.

The winners of the Professer Müller-Thurgau Prize 2018 have been announced: this year the panel, consisting of the executive committee of the “VEG” – Geisenheim Alumni Association e.V. and the President’s Council of Hochschule Geisenheim University, ...

HGU Quiz – the Duel

Interactive quiz supports eLearning launch at Hochschule Geisenheim University and gives students the opportunity to practice exam questions.

Every launch is as good as the communication accompanying it! To accompany the publication of the first digital learning modules for the “Information Technology” course, Hochschule Geisenheim University’s Didactics and eLearning department have ...

“Zierpflanzentag Südwest” (ornamental plant symposium) focuses on plant protection and „Blütenbesucher“ ( flower-visiting insects)
Source: Winfried Schönbach

The symposium took place on September 12 at Hochschule Geisenheim University

Plant protection is one of the central topics in ornamental plant cultivation. Our products have to be perfect, unblemished and healthy and we cannot tolerate leaf damage and other damages. At the same time, we sell the products intact and in full ...

Large crowds at the Geisenheim “Grape Variety Days” 2018
Source: Tina Kissinger

Spotlight on PIWIs, Riesling types, Burgundy variations and climate change

Once again the Geisenheim Grape Variety Days 2018 held at Hochschule Geisenheim University offered the interested public an exciting program, this time devoted to the grape varieties of the future – and, as usual during the two-day event, there was ...

Change of leadership at the Department of Beverage Research
Source: Flüssiges Obst

Privatdozent Dr. Ralf Schweiggert succeeds Prof. Dr. Helmut Dietrich.

After 28 years as Head of the Department of Wine Analysis and Beverage Research, Prof. Dr. Helmut Dietrich hands over the reins to PD Dr. Ralf Schweiggert, who took up his duties at our university on 1. September 2018.


35-year old Dr. Schweiggert ...

Yeasts and Jests
Prof. Dr. Manfred Grossmann during this year´s graduation ceremony on July 13

Prof. Dr. Manfred Grossmann, Head of the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry and former Vice-President for Research at Hochschule Geisenheim University retires.

On July 13, during this year’s graduation ceremony, the President of Hochschule Geisenheim University, Prof. Dr. Hans Reiner Schultz paid tribute to Prof. Dr. Manfred Grossmannon the occasion of his retirement.


“The optimist saddles the future and ...

Geisenheim logistics experts cooperate with top American universities

Prof. Dr. Andreas Holzapfel, Professor for Logistics Management at Hochschule Geisenheim University, and Dr. Michael Sternbeck, adjunct instructor in retail management at Geisenheim, visit the University of North Carolina.

For more than half of the products they sell, retailers often have no correct data on the quantities available in the stores. Cashier errors and theft are only two of the many reasons why discrepancies occur between the actual quantities in the store ...