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Manuscripts for a special issue of the scientific Journal Sustainability can be submitted until 31 July 2025. Prof. Petra Schneider from the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany, and Mohammad Mozumder from the NOVIA University of Applied Sciences, Finland, are guest editors.

Manuscripts for a special issue of the scientific Journal Land can be submitted until 31 July 2025. Prof. Petra Schneider from the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany, is guest editor.

Beavers as climate protectors? A practical training course at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences demonstrated the potential and challenges of peatland revitalisation. Experts explained, using the example of Rathsbruch in Saxony-Anhalt among others, how natural processes and targeted measures work together to restore these valuable ecosystems.

Qing came from China to study the unique master’s programme “Ecological Engineering” at the University of Applied Sciences in Magdeburg. He wrote his master's thesis at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Magdeburg and completed his studies in 2018. Since his heart continued to beat for aquatic ecology, he applied for a PhD position in Wageningen, where he received his doctorate in November 2023. Since December 2023 he has been a postdoc at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research on the island of Texel. Congratulations on such a research career!
By the way, he won the Otto von Guericke Scholarship in Magdeburg in 2018, which is awarded to particularly committed foreign students.

On 9 November, experts of the Department of Water, Environment, Construction and Safety welcomed a Nepalese delegation from the Nepalese Department of Mining and Geology and employees of G.E.O.S. Freiberg, Germany, for a topic day at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. The focus was on research on natural hazards such as landslides, earthquakes and dam breaches.

International project on reuse and disposal options for radioactive residues from titanium placer mining in Vietnam