Excellent and International: Knowledge for Development, Sustainability and Equity
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The Federal State Excellence Commission has named RMU an Excellence Alliance – Goethe University, JGU Mainz and TU Darmstadt will receive multi million euro funding starting in 2027. Read the RMU press release and watch video reactions from the three university presidents and the science ministers of Hesse and Rhineland Palatinate.
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Three new fellows have begun their research at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS). They are part of the SCALE (SubCellular Architecture of LifE) Cluster of Excellence, a research consortium of Goethe University involving the Max Planck Institutes for Biophysics and Brain Research, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Saarland University, and FIAS. #RMU
Peter Kiefer
This Saturday, around 20 stations welcomed visitors to Frankfurt’s second Science Festival, bringing science to life for people of all ages.
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Mapping and Cataloguing Nineteenth-Century Music Collections in the RMU Libraries
How do students enrolled in an RMU joint degree program balance their studies across two campuses? Two students at different stages of their academic journey share how the experience has shaped their studies – and their future plans.
“RMU-EXCITE - Excellent. Collaborative. Transformative.”, the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU), of which Goethe University Frankfurt is a part, are applying as a University Excellence Consortium.
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Enrico Schleiff
|President of Goethe University Frankfurt
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Jürgen Lecher
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Students, researchers, and staff share what inspires them, drives them, and connects them to Goethe University.
Uwe Dettmar
Geography Field Trips
Events on Sustainability
World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026
Exhibition at the Giersch Museum of Goethe University (MGGU) from October 2 to 18, 2026 | The exhibition explores painter and graphic artist Johannes Heisig (b. 1953)’s artistic engagement with the work of writer Wolfgang Hilbig (1941–2007).
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