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the opening on Tuesday, 14 May 2024, that this was already the second Europe Week to deal with war. " I think it is clear that such challenges are also linked to the question of what role universities

1948. James Prescott Joule was born on Christmas Eve 1818 as the second son of a prosperous brewer in Manchester, England. Young Joule was a delicate child, and was not sent to school. His early educa- [...] They found the heat generated by a body moving at one mile per second through the air sufficient to account for its ignition. The phenom- ena of "shooting stars" were explained by Mr. Joule in 1847 by

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• The hard work of experimenting James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.

which materials he should use to clothe the army. The goal of his second experiment was to create the most cost-effective and nutritious soup to feed the mili- tary and the workers in the clothing-production [...] tical glass bottles. He filled one bottle halfway with wa- ter, a second bottle with an equal amount of wine, and a third with mercury. After sealing the bottles, he added weights to make them all exactly

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• Rumford and nutrition
• Rumford and calorics

entanglement of knowledge regimes in a lively and critical manner. A second panel explored the European comparative dimension. Dr. Marian Zăloagă examined Roma music ensembles at world fairs and their reception

using a new registration system that will be introduced for the second time this year. Please make sure to activate your university email address and to access the EUF Portal with your new access data

process, students first reflect on their own energy use. In the second step, they engage in conversations with local residents as part of their on-site project. The goal is to identify the residents’

them. 2) Social, performative and metaphorical boundaries The second working group will broach the topic of age limits in the intergenerational contract, boundaries between genres, classes, linguistic

, preparing staff for face-to-face encounters and networking. Secondly, this process will be accompanied by scientific research. In addition to researching cases of right-wing populist/extremist attacks

Achievements, Unanswered Questions, and Future Directions". In a second keynote, Prof. Dr. Martin Daunton (University of Cambridge) will explore the issue of "Colonial Taxation and Public Finance in the

of the final phase of the "Partners in Mobility" project, the second funding phase of which will be completed at the end of 2024. The project, which has been supporting international mobility in teacher