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The focus on the Allgäu region has been a long-standing tradition in the Department of Geography Education at the University of Würzburg. Among the various collaborative projects is Dr Markus Pingold’s partnership with the Allgäu Mountain Farmers’ Museum in Diepolz, which, with around 70,000 visitors a year, is the most popular museum in Swabia. Every year, as part of a final-year dissertation, a special exhibition is created which is on display for a year in the museum’s outdoor area.

From nature trails to raised bogs and torrential rain: for a whole week, the municipality of Bad Hindelang was transformed into a real-world laboratory for geography students from Würzburg and sixth-form pupils from Kempten. Together with local experts, they analysed a wide variety of geographical phenomena.

Johannes Mast, a PhD student from Würzburg, has been awarded the Bernd Rendel Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for his original and promising geoscientific research carried out prior to his PhD.

The socio-ecological transformation toward a post-fossil-fuel society is encountering increasing resistance. The causes include geopolitical crises, social and spatial inequalities in the implementation of the energy transition, and the growing influence of political forces that oppose climate protection measures. Consequently, the transformation is a conflict-ridden political process characterized by divergent interests, contradictions, and spatial and temporal differences.

Data from above: the Chair of Remote Sensing at the University of Würzburg has celebrated its 25th anniversary, whilst the EAGLE Master’s programme has marked its tenth. Three generations share their experiences.

Armed with compasses, GPS devices and plenty of a spirit of discovery, the area near Kitzingen Primary School was transformed into an open-air geography laboratory. In the mobile teaching and learning laboratory (mLLL) run by the Department of Didactics of Geography at the University of Würzburg, primary school children explored their surroundings through play, created their own treasure hunts and then designed their first digital map.

Five geography students present the many facets of water in Würzburg in a poster exhibition, covering topics ranging from floods and microplastics to water treatment, availability and supply. The exhibition can be visited until October 2026 in the Geography and Geology Building at the Hubland Süd Campus.

Clara Borman has been awarded the 2026 Wilhelm Lauer Prize by the Wilhelm Lauer Foundation for her outstanding Master’s thesis.

Didactics of Geography meets upper secondary education: Five teacher-training students from the University of Würzburg trialled a virtual reality-based lesson at St Ursula Grammar School.

In 2026 the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg celebrates a quarter century of remote sensing research and teaching. It all started in 2001, when Stefan Dech took up his professorship here.