Review 2011

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In 2011, 18 professors and 1 junior professor worked at our department together with a total of around 200 scientific and administrative/technical staff. One professorship and one junior professorship belong equally to the University of Göttingen and the University of Kassel.

In the winter semester 2011/12, 854 students were enrolled in the Department of Organic Agricultural Sciences. They were distributed across the individual degree programs as follows:

  • Bachelor of Organic Agriculture: 526 (incl. 14 from the old diploma program)
  • Master's in Organic Agriculture: 89
  • Sustainable International Agriculture (SIA, cooperation with the University of Göttingen): 97 (incl. 3 from the old International Organic Agriculture course)
  • International Food Business and Consumer Studies (IFBC, cooperation with Fulda University of Applied Sciences): 85Exchange students: 16
  • Doctoral students: 41

In 2011, students once again organized a successful 19th Witzenhausen Conference from 6-10 December with 250 participants as part of the Event Management module, this year with the title "Valuable - Agriculture a Place for Education and Social Work".

In addition, the "3rd International Student Conference Global" was held on 22.10.2011 the "3rd International Student Conference Global thinking - Local responsibility'' was held with the title "The Future of Food''.

Cooperation project: Trans-Atlantic partnership with College of the Atlantic, Maine, USA and The Organic Research Center Elm Farm, Great Britain: student exchange, e-learning project (Sustainable Food Systems) from 15.9. to 23.12.2011

The department conducted a large number of guided tours and information events for visitor groups. Larger events were held in 2011:

  • Open day in Frankenhausen with the motto "Animals in organic farming" on 26.6.2011
  • Plant market around the tropical greenhouse on 1.5.2011
  • Exhibition "What technology can learn from plants - bionics in botanical gardens", 11 - 19.6.2011
  • Lectures and information stand at the Biofach from 17 - 20.2.2011
  • Lectures and information stand at Agritechnica from 15 - 19.11.2011
  • Study information days on 21.1., 6.5., 17.6. and 18.11.2011
  • Annual conference of the university association on "Where does organic agricultural science stand - 30 years of organic farming at the faculty" on 15.7.2011
  • University day of the department "Animal and environmental protection - what challenges does organic animal husbandry face" on 5.12.2011

In 2011, the Department of Ecological Agricultural Sciences raised a good EUR 5.2 million in third-party funding (provisional figures).

A good 70 articles from our department were published in scientific journals ("peer reviewed") in 2011 (see websites of the individual departments). A total of 19 doctorates were completed.

Of the large number of research projects carried out last year, the projects with several scientific cooperation partners that were completed or started in 2011 should be listed as examples:

Completed cooperation projects

 

Cooperation projects started

The department has received a number of awards, including:

Dr. Uta Dickhöfer by the W.H. Schaumann Foundation for her doctorate on goat husbandry in the oases of Oman (FG Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics)

Katrin Schiffer with the VDI Prize for her Master's thesis on optimizing milking comfort on large dairy farms (Agricultural Engineering Group)

Benjamin Blumenstein, Lutz Bühle and Felix Richter for their business start-up idea for the use of residual materials from agriculture, nature conservation and landscape conservation through the Unikat competition (Business Administration, Grassland Sciences/Renewable Resources group)

3 0.5. - 7.6.2011: "Applied solar technology"; DAAD funding

7. - 13.08.2011: "The Future of Food" (cooperation with the Association of German Scientists; funding: DBU, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Foundation for Environment and Development North Rhine-Westphalia)

6. - 14.11.2011: "Agricultural Technology and Engineering in Developing Countries"; DAAD funding