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|students=25,043<ref name="FactsAndFigures">{{cite web |url=http://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/universitaet/ueber-uns/zahlen-und-fakten.html |title=Zahlen und Fakten |language=de |accessdate=2017-04-20}}</ref>▼
| president = Ute Clement<ref name="ExecutiveStaff">{{cite web | url=https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/en/international-service/international-profile/the-university/executive-committee | title=executive committee| language=en | access-date=8 February 2022}}</ref>
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| chancellor = Oliver Fromm<ref name="ExecutiveStaff"/>
| budget = € 333.43<small>''(2021)'' million<ref name="FactsAndFigures"/></small>
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[[File:2020 06 02 Glaskasten Foto Uni Kasselq.jpg|thumb|alt=The university's entrance at its main campus Hollandischer Platz|The university's entrance at its main campus Hollandischer Platz]]
The '''University of Kassel''' ({{lang-de|Universität Kassel}}) is a university founded in 1971 located in [[Kassel]], [[Hesse|Hessen]], in [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/universitaet/ueber-uns.html |title=Universität Kassel: Über uns |publisher=Uni-kassel.de |date= |accessdate=2014-04-23}}</ref> As of October 2013 it had about 23,000 students and more than 2,600 staff, including 307 professors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/universitaet/ueber-uns/zahlen-und-fakten.html |title=Universität Kassel: Zahlen und Fakten |publisher=Uni-kassel.de |date= |accessdate=2014-04-23}}</ref>▼
[[File:University Kassel IMG 9705.jpg|thumb|alt=University of Kassel, Building of the Department of English Literature.|University of Kassel, Building of the Department of English Literature.]]
▲The '''University of Kassel''' ({{lang-de|link=no|Universität Kassel}}) is a university founded in 1971 located in [[Kassel]],
A special unit (Studienkolleg) prepares international students for their period of study (language and academic skills). International students come from over 115 countries.
Each academic year, more than 100 visiting scholars pursue research projects in cooperation with colleagues from the University of Kassel, making a valuable contribution to the academic and cultural life. The newly established International House is located on the campus. It offers [[hostel]]s for international guests and is available for meetings, conferences, and cultural events.
==Precincts==
In addition to the central campus Holländischer Platz, the University of Kassel has the other campuses Heinrich-Plett-Straße, Menzelstraße, Wilhelmshöher Allee and Damaschkestraße in Kassel as well as two campuses in the town of [[Witzenhausen]] (about 40 kilometres east).
==Schools==
[[File:Uni Kassel.JPG|thumb|The central campus]]
A wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate study programmes is offered in the following fields of study. All study programmes are open to German and international students alike. A range of degrees can be obtained, including
* Natural Sciences
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* Fine Arts
Two [[Academy Awards]] (or Oscar) in the area of
==Research==
Interdisciplinary research is a priority for the University of Kassel. This includes research cooperation and dialogue with international research institutions, such as the [[Fraunhofer Society]].
Research fields and cooperation projects also include the [[Brothers Grimm]] who spent their most productive years in Kassel and who wrote their famous fairy tales there, and the [[documenta]], the world's most important exhibition of modern art, taking place in Kassel every five years.
Scientists at the Centre for Environmental Systems Research at the University of Kassel have been investigating how [[Energy in Germany|Germany]] can power itself entirely by [[renewable energy]].<ref>
==Teaching==
The University of Kassel has repeatedly been awarded for its teaching.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://wissenschaft.hessen.de/Studieren/Hochschullehrpreis/Preistraegerinnen-Preistraeger | title=Preisträgerinnen & Preisträger }}</ref>
==Influence on regional economy==
The region's economic revival of the last two decades has been widely attributed to the university and its encouragement of entrepreneurship. Germany's leading weekly paper [[Die Zeit]] called it a role model for universities nationwide.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.zeit.de/2017/24/documenta-kassel-kunstausstellung-kulturhauptstadt | title=ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl }}</ref>
==Library==
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A special focus of the library is the collection of early medieval manuscripts (over 10,000 in the collection) and early prints (mainly from the personal library of the Landgrafen, who devoted themselves to [[natural history]], natural philosophy, [[astronomy]], [[astrology]], and [[alchemy]]). A few of the most important items have been digitized.<ref>{{cite web|title=Digitalisate|url=http://www.ub.uni-kassel.de/633.html|publisher=Universitätsbibliothek Kassel}}</ref>
The two most impressive items of the collection are the ''[[Hildebrandslied]]'' (from c. 830) and the proof copy of the ''[[Children's and Household Tales]]'', the famous [[fairy tale]]s of the [[Brothers Grimm]] (the ''Kinder
The library holds an early medieval text preserved in a manuscript from c. 810 known as the [[Kassel conversations]] (in German: ''Kasseler Gespräche'').
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===Scholars===
* [[Volker Braun]] – Grimm Professor
* {{ill|Heinz Bude|de}} – Professor of
* [[Dieter Kienast]] – Professor of landscape architecture
* [[Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann]] – Sociologist
* [[Paul-Gerhard Klumbies]]
* {{ill|Kristian Köchy|de}} – Professor of [[Bioethics]]
* [[Georg Krücken]]
* [[Ulrich Kutschera]] – Professor of [[Evolutionary Biology]]
*
* [[Winfried Nöth]] – Professor of [[Semiotics]]
* [[Petra Schmidt]] – voice
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* {{ill|Helmuth Schneider (historian)|de|Helmuth Schneider (Althistoriker)|lt=Helmuth Schneider}} – Professor of Ancient History
* {{ill|Alexander Roßnagel|de}} – Professor of law with focus on privacy protection and digital economy
* {{ill|Matthias Söllner|de}} – Professor of [[Business Informations]]
* [[Lutz Michael Wegner]] – Professor of [[Computer Science]]
* [[Christoph Scherrer]]
* {{ill|Aram Ziai|de}} – Professor of Development and Postcolonial Studies
* [[Hans-Jürgen Burchardt]] – Professor of International and Intersocietal Relations
* {{ill|Sonja Buckel|de}} – Professor of Political Theory
===Alumni===
* Günther Cramer – Entrepreneur, [[SMA Solar Technology|SMA Technologie]]
* [[Thomas Stellmach]] (b. 1965) – Filmmaker and winner of the Academy Award for the animated motion picture ''[[Quest (short film)|Quest]]''
* Klaus Stern (b. 1968) – Filmmaker and winner of the [[Grimme-Preis|Adolf-Grimme-Preis]] for ''Weltmarktführer'' (2004), a
* [[Ines Mergel]]
*[[Matthias Berninger]]
*[[Jürgen Osterhammel]] – German historian specializing in Chinese and world history, Professor emeritus at the University of Konstanz
*[[Maja Göpel]] – German political economist, transformation researcher, and sustainability scientist
*Gülay Çağlar – Professor of Political Science, Berlin Free University
*[[Kaya Kinkel]] – politician from Alliance 90/The Greens.
*[[Bernd Upmeyer]] – architect, urbanist and editor-in-chief of the magazine [[MONU]]
== See also ==
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