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By car

The most convenient highway exits are on the B 1/A 40 (Dortmund-Barop) (closer to the North Campus) and on the A45 (Dortmund-Eichlinghofen). The university is signposted at both exits. In the local road network you will find signs to Campus Nord, where the Campus Treff is also located. From Emil-Figge-Strasse, entrance no. 18 and from Vogelspothsweg entrance no. 23 lead to parking spaces near the venue.

By train

From Dortmund main station, take the S-Bahn "S1" in the direction of Solingen on track 7 to the stop "Dortmund-Universität" (price level A). The S-Bahn runs every 15 minutes during peak hours on weekdays and takes about 6 minutes. From Düsseldorf, the S-Bahn runs every 30 minutes. Directly at the S-Bahn station you will find the CDI building, which houses the Center for Research on Education and School Development.

The H-Bahn

One of the university's landmarks is the H-Bahn, which has two terminuses on the North Campus. One is located directly above the S-Bahn station and is easily accessible from it by elevators. The other is located in the center of Campus North at the bridge between the University Library and the Mensa, right next to the Audimax. The H-Bahn runs from here to the South Campus and the Eichlinghofen district.

By plane

Dortmund has an airport connected with some destinations in Central Europe. There are regular flights, for example, to Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, Katowice, Krakow, Leipzig-Halle, London, Munich, Nuremberg, Paris, Poznan, Stuttgart, Vienna and Zurich. For the approximately 20 kilometers from the Dortmund airport to the campus, you can take the bus to the main train station and from there the S-Bahn. Faster is usually the use of a cab. Far more international flight connections are offered by the Rhine-Ruhr Airport in Düsseldorf, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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To overview

Location & approach

By car

The most convenient highway exits are on the B 1/A 40 (Dortmund-Barop) (closer to the North Campus) and on the A45 (Dortmund-Eichlinghofen). The university is signposted at both exits. In the local road network you will find signs to Campus Nord, where the Campus Treff is also located. From Emil-Figge-Strasse, entrance no. 18 and from Vogelspothsweg entrance no. 23 lead to parking spaces near the venue.

By train

From Dortmund main station, take the S-Bahn "S1" in the direction of Solingen on track 7 to the stop "Dortmund-Universität" (price level A). The S-Bahn runs every 15 minutes during peak hours on weekdays and takes about 6 minutes. From Düsseldorf, the S-Bahn runs every 30 minutes. Directly at the S-Bahn station you will find the CDI building, which houses the Center for Research on Education and School Development.

The H-Bahn

One of the university's landmarks is the H-Bahn, which has two terminuses on the North Campus. One is located directly above the S-Bahn station and is easily accessible from it by elevators. The other is located in the center of Campus North at the bridge between the University Library and the Mensa, right next to the Audimax. The H-Bahn runs from here to the South Campus and the Eichlinghofen district.

By plane

Dortmund has an airport connected with some destinations in Central Europe. There are regular flights, for example, to Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, Katowice, Krakow, Leipzig-Halle, London, Munich, Nuremberg, Paris, Poznan, Stuttgart, Vienna and Zurich. For the approximately 20 kilometers from the Dortmund airport to the campus, you can take the bus to the main train station and from there the S-Bahn. Faster is usually the use of a cab. Far more international flight connections are offered by the Rhine-Ruhr Airport in Düsseldorf, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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IFS Virtual Keynote Series with Jutta Heckhausen and Kaspar Burger

01/24/2023 -

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Collage der Veranstaltung IFS-Virtual Keynote Series mit den Startfolien der beiden Vorträge, sowie Porträts der zwei Vortragenden.

As part of the IFS Virtual Keynote Series on "Agency and Structures in Education and Development across the Lifespan", two internationally renowned researchers delivered instructive keynotes. In the first keynote, Professor Jutta Heckhausen, PhD (UC Irvine) addressed individual agency and the social structuring of life courses and social mobility in her presentation on "Individual Agency and Societal Structuring of Life Course and Social Mobility". To do so, she analyzed, among other things, specific motivational and regulatory challenges that require certain skills such as goal setting, commitment and adaptation, and learning from experience. According to the professor, this opens up a broad field for collaboration between developmental, motivational and educational psychologists and sociologists working on life courses.

In his lecture on "The Interplay of Agency and Structure in Educational Trajectories: Evidence from different Cohorts and Contexts", Professor Dr. Kaspar Burger (University of Zurich) dealt with the influence and interplay of "agency" and "structure". He emphasized that there is a recurring debate on this in philosophy, sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, and environmental science. In his presentation, he was able to present very different insights for the complex interplay between Agency and Structure from his research, which also suggest changes regarding the interrelationships over the course of history.

The two keynotes were followed by a lively discussion on the influence and interplay of structure and agency; while psychologists gave more weight to individual "agency", for sociologists "structure" was more crucial. However, the presentations and related discussions suggested that this depends on the specific environmental conditions. Many thanks to all for participating!