Excellent equipment (laboratories, equipment/instruments for field exercises, libraries, IT). Courses and supervision involving laboratory and field exercises take place in small groups, students are involved in research projects at an early stage (research-oriented teaching) and benefit from the wide range of both examination and course formats and the large selection of key competences in the narrower sense.

Excellent equipment (laboratories, equipment/instruments for field exercises, libraries, IT). Courses and supervision involving laboratory and field exercises take place in small groups. Students are involved in research projects at an early stage (research-oriented teaching) and benefit from the wide range of both examination and course formats and the large selection of key competences in the narrower sense.

Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, Frankreich; Queen´s University, Belfast, Großbritannien; Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienzia", Rom, Italien; Göteborgs Universitet, Göteborg, Schweden; Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spanien; University of Latvia, Riga, Lettland; University of the Aegean, Lesbos, Griechenland; Universität Bern, Bern, Schweiz; University of Iceland,Reykjavik, Island; Charles University in Prague; Prag, Tschechien

"State of the art" laboratories in all areas of geosciences with high standards (organic/inorganic geochemistry, geo(micro)biology, sedimentology, environmental geology, hydrogeology, stable/radiogenic isotopes, crystallography, mineralogy, structural geology); Very good selection of large-format equipment.; Campus-wide WiFi; Open workspaces and study rooms (with PC equipment) for students who want to study privately; CIP cluster; extensive library and map collection.

Full-spectrum of research in the basic principles of the Geosciences. Organo-/biomineralisation, biodiversity, palaeoclimate, ice/gas hydrates, textural analysis, mineral and rock physics, rheology of melts, vulcanism, fluids, isotope tracers, cosmochemistry, age dating, groundwater resources, transports of reactive substances in groundwater, geothermics, active tectonic fault lines, sediments as geoarchives, alternative coastal protection concepts.