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More events"Dare to Design - Spaces of Care" - German Design Graduates 2025
Women scientists and leadership: Ready for the new role II
Workshop "Sales & Marketing for female Founders"
Virtual Couture. Fashion 3D ? Digitised, Animated and Interpreted
Shape the FHP of tomorrow
With the Freiraum project, a comprehensive reform process for organisational development is taking place at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam until 2028.
The aim is to improve internal structures, promote interdisciplinary collaboration and use resources more efficiently.
The University Day 2025 was an important step: over 100 participants discussed specific approaches for a sustainable organisational structure.
All details and results can be found online on the project page.
Departments & Degree Programmes at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
For 30 years, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam has offered a diverse range of courses with a personal working atmosphere in the departments of Social and Educational Sciences, CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Civil Engineering, Design as well as Information Sciences.
Social and Educational Sciences
Department 1 was the first department at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and is also the largest department with approximately 1,000 students.
CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE
The various degree programmes and focal points of department 2 are interlinked via a cultural and (cultural) design claim.
Civil Engineering
Department 3 has been training young people to become civil engineers for 25 years and has seven laboratories that are used for research and study.
Design
Characteristic of department 4 is the close integration of its degree programmes in Interface, Communication and Product Design and European Media Studies.
Information Sciences
Department 5 is known for its study concept of partially integrative training of archivists, librarians and information managers – also called the "Potsdam Model".
Degree Programmes
Find out about our more than 30 Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes and the various study options – from full-time face-to-face studies to dual degree programmes and part-time programmes.
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Retrospective
Criminological insights in London
As part of a study trip from the 18th of June,2025 to the 21st of June, 2025, students of the degree programme Social Work spent a day at the University of Westminster, which enabled them to gain deeper insights into the field of criminology. Here, student Pia Enterlein reports on the study trip.
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Free childcare places available from September 2025
Andrea Britz and Steffi Parlitz look after up to 10 children in the private childcare centre in House 5 on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. This is the right place for families who want their child(ren) to be looked after in a small group, who want direct contact with the…
Interview
30 Years of ZEW: Prof. Dr Susanne Freund on Ways into Archival Science
In this interview, Prof. Dr. Susanne Freund talks about how the master's degree programme "Archive Science" and "Archives in the Information Age" came about at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. She also discusses what makes the programmes unique, and shares some of the success stories she…
Retrospective
Vernissage "Souls of Future Homes" - Time travel through living in the day after tomorrow
On Friday the 25th of July, 2025, students from the Design- and Urban Future degree programmes celebrated the opening of their exhibition "Souls of Future Homes" at BHROX bauhaus reuse at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz in Berlin-Charlottenburg.