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Master’s open days

March 18-20, 2025

Ready to focus? Find out more about the master’s degree programs! Exchange ideas with students and lecturers, receive tips, and explore the university on site or online. Register for the master’s info days today!

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Better Science Initiative

“Rethinking excellence”

Excellence at the University is to be rethought to make it easier to reconcile an academic career and a family. This is what the “Better Science Initiative” demands, explains Heike Mayer, co-initiator and Vice-Rector of the University of Bern.

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Office for Equal Opportunities

Action week against racism

The University of Bern is taking part in the 15th Action Week against Racism of the City of Bern and organizing workshops for university members with and without experience of racism. The aim is to address racism in the university context and develop strategies to combat it.

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“Bern is a city of science”

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Studies

Admissions Office (ZIB)

Spring semester 2025

Changes at the Language Center 

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People

Scientist portrait

How the gut microbiome affects our health

Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg investigates how the gut microbiota can influence the human immune system, as many diseases are associated with changes in the gut microbiota. In the video, she talks about her research and the challenges of doing science as a mother of young children.

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Scientist portrait

«I am like a molecular architect»

Eva Hevia is researching chemical compounds that combine metals and organic components. Her aim is to develop new molecules in a more sustainable manner. In the video, she talks about the challenges of her role as a professor.

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Animal research

A “thank you” to animal caretakers

Researchers and animal caretakers got to know each other at a breakfast at the University of Bern. The aim is to intensify personal contact and make the mutual appreciation of their joint work visible.

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Scientist portrait

Fighting parasites with animal experiments and cell cultures

Britta Lundström-Stadelmann studies the dog and fox tapeworm, which is dangerous to humans. In the video, she talks about what makes her work as a researcher and co-director of an institute so special.

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Scientist portrait

Understanding Islamophobia and anti-Judaism

Katharina Heyden is researching the “co-production” of Christian, Jewish and Islamic traditions. Islamophobia and anti-Judaism, she says, can only be understood through the history of their stereotypes and fears.

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Scientist portrait

“As a young foreign woman, I wasn't taken seriously”

Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera investigates the impact of climate change on health. In the video, she speaks about the challenges that she has faced in her career.

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Dürrenmatt Guest Professor

“Enthusiastic resistance remains necessary”

Marlene Streeruwitz has written an essay about her time in Bern: about the urban world of Bern and its reflection in literature, but also about the New Right, Trump and how the students helped her after his re-election. 

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Research

Research at a glance

Biodiversity

The newly discovered fish species have a name

In a survey, the public had a say in the names of the two fish species discovered by researchers from the University of Bern. The names have now been finalised – the Barbatula species are called "fluvicola" and "ommata".

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Engaged UniBE

Call for transdisciplinary projects

Engaged UniBE supports innovative projects that promote climate protection in accordance with the university's Climate Roadmap 2030 and involve the community in the Bern region in new and effective ways.

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Podcast “GeschlechterDifferenzen”.

“Oestrogen or testosterone?”

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This is Bern

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The University of Bern is closely associated with the Swiss capital city of Bern. Academic excellence has earned Bern an international reputation. A large variety of education, sport and cultural opportunities as well as high living and environmental standards make Bern an attractive place for undergraduates, researchers and doctoral students.

International exchange opportunities

The University of Bern has over 300 partner universities all over the world. Find out from two of our students why they loved studying abroad.

University of Bern Internationals

13th day of teaching

Assessment Impossible? Proof of competence and artificial intelligence

Conducting examinations in the age of AI poses new challenges for universities. How should proof of competence be designed in the age of AI? On the 13th Teaching Day at the University of Bern, we will take stock of the current situation and look for answers to the question of how competence-oriented assessment can be carried out with and despite AI.

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Share your future at the University of Berne

Continuing education program 2025 – Ready for something new? Shape your future at the University of Bern: the new 2025 continuing education program is here!

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War in Ukraine

Information and support

The University of Bern strongly condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine and supports Ukrainian students and researchers.

War in Ukraine

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