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The 2023 Graduation Ceremony
Let’s celebrate, and honor YOU, dear 2023 graduates of the Faculty of Economics and Management. Everyone, who has graduated in the timeframe of 2022 November - 2023 November is invited to join us at 1:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall 5 in building 16. Does it applies to you? Then first of all, congratulations on the awarded bachelor's, or master's degree! Don't hesitate and let’s celebrate with your fellow students, friends, family, faculty and staff.
Registration is open now until November 10th, and just via e-mail: fww-dekanat@ovgu.de
The faculty’s graduation ceremony is free of charge. For further details, please refer to the official invitation of the faculty’s Dean.
Graduates, who wish to join the OVGU graduation party in the evening at the AMO Kulturhaus Magdeburg have to register: here.
An Anniversary Video - 30 Years of FEM (FWW)
A highlight of the celebrations during the 30th anniversary of the Faculty of Economics and Management in June 2023 was for sure the premiere of the anniversary video. Presented at the Festung Mark with a great opening. Following the philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel: The sacrifice (terrible missing something) creates a value ... the video is shown just on special occasions. The video trailer is now available. Take a look, and you will ask for more.
Video: idea, author, and director by Prof. Dr. Joachim Weimann, production Dr. Sönke Hoffmann.
New Marketing Chairholder at FEM - Welcome Prof. Dr. Marcel Lichters!
A warm welcome to the new Marketing Professor, Prof. Dr. Marcel Lichters. He came from the TU Chemnitz to join our faculty at OVGU Magdeburg. Just in time for the start of the WiSe 2023/24, he started his teaching and research once again in Magdeburg. We are sure he will enrich the portfolio of our school with exciting topics and approaches ever way in teaching and research. Settling in at should become comparatively easy, as Marcel Lichters is already well known. He did his doctorate at FEM, and later on, he was appointed as the Junior Professor of Consumer Behavior. Then, in 2021, he accepted a call of a W3 professorship at the TU Chemnitz. We are happy to announce that Prof. Dr. Marcel Lichters returned to FEM after succeeding in very competitive application process with numerous excellent competitors. All the best for the new start at FEM and many ambitioned research projects and teaching! Have a great time in Magdeburg!
Studying at FWW = Studying at a "High Level”
The renowned German Center for Higher Education Development (CHE) has published his current university ranking in the field of Business Administration/ BWL. The corresponding surveys and analyses included fact and data checks, departmental and student surveys, etc., and led to a quiet pleasant rating in the range of German higher institutions and universities.
Appropriate a dozen of categories distinguished by the CHE, the study programs offered by the faculty are ranked in the so-called "top range" of all universities: "General study situation", "Support at the beginning of studies", "Support during studies", "Study organization", "Support by lecturers", "Support for study abroad" etc. Results, details are published and can be found at the following website here
The Faculty of Economics and Management is very pleased about the good rating given by the participants of the CHE. Furthermore, about the feedback of students about open possibilities of improvement, and new challenges, projects, which we have to take to make sure the quality of teaching and research is still high during the next CHE survey. We would like to thank all CHE survey participants for they support in this way! Thank you!
"What is it like to start over in away from home - abroad?" - Mohamad Alhussein Saoud’s Interview in the uni:magazine
"Already in Syria, Mohamad Alhussein Saoud," research assistant at the FEM, Chair of Applied Economic Research, "did his bachelor’s and afterward a master’s degree in Economics at the University of Aleppo. Today, he is working on his doctorate - in Magdeburg. After his arrival in Germany in 2015, he started immediately to take passionately care of other refugees. Now, he is teaching students at the University of Magdeburg. However, that does not means that Saoud is new in research and science. Through various scholarships he also acquired a master's degree in democratic governance, as too several further academic trainings in the field of human rights and democratization in Italy, Lithuania and Turkey. In 2015, his path leads him to Germany when the country officially opens its borders to Syrian refugees. But what exactly was his path to Magdeburg? [...]."
Is continued at …. uni:magazin ...