News from Konstanz, campus and the world – a student perspective on the issues that matter.
120 years of history, six faculties and the orange “Scientists”: a portrait of the university on the Seerhein and its campus life.
Cheese at the pasta bar is now portioned out. A diner also reports no second helping with the Seezeit-Teller and a drinking-water tap that has been out of order for semesters.
Twenty-seven years after Belarusian opposition figures disappeared, a St. Gallen court has convicted Juri Garawski in the case of Anatoly Krasovsky and imposed a two-year suspended prison sentence. Two acquittals stand; the judgment is not yet final.
Between buildings G and H, the Campus Gemüse Konstanz student group tends a garden. Vegetables, herbs and berries have been growing there for years, right in the middle of campus.
The shop at the university entrance closed on 30 July. A notice said Seezeit would announce the reopening date and format once decided. It remains closed in late October, and no new timetable is publicly listed.
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After finishing second in the first round, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins the runoff with 51.79% of valid votes. Flávio Bolsonaro receives 48.21% and, according to AP, calls for the result to be annulled.
The Student List is well ahead in Serbia’s snap parliamentary election. The official partial count gives it 52.33% of votes; a projection assigns it 141 of 250 seats. The final result is still pending.
Russia’s war against Ukraine tests international law, European security and global economic ties. The stakes reach far beyond the battlefield, while Kyiv remains a country with agency and limits.
With its new security decree, the Meloni government is responding to violent unrest. Italy’s approach raises a fundamental question for Europe: how can public order be restored without endangering the freedoms the state is meant to protect?
From Ukraine and NATO to sanctions on Moscow: how the US president’s decisions affect Russia’s strategic position.
From unrest in France to articles in Die Weltwoche: how Russia exploits the weaknesses of European democracies—and why Switzerland has long been part of this conflict.
The movement began in suburbs shaped by immigration and grew into a nationwide protest wave. That does not prove most suspects are Muslim. France must still debate openly the failures of integration and immigration policy.
The Left, Greens and SPD want to extend voting rights after five years of residence. The proposal would bypass citizenship as a condition for political participation and could open new avenues of influence for radical forces.
An analysis of the gap between political solidarity and the speed of aid to Ukraine, focusing on weapons, energy policy and immobilised Russian assets.
If the last cash-enabled machine fails, visitors are left with card payment. PBW should keep cash as a reliable option and protect payment privacy.
Experienced professionals and students at the start of their degree can apply until 30 November 2026. What matters for students in Konstanz.
A parking machine whose cash function was removed speaks up. It misses its coin changer, cash safe and the chance to show off its mathematical skills.
A CHF 360 fine and a total bill of almost CHF 1,000: what the comparison with Geneva’s proposed blowjob café tells us – and what it does not.
Seezeit is expanding its canteen support. Eligibility depends on individual circumstances, application windows and available funds.
A replacement building is intended to make room for renovation, Forum Konstanz to open up the campus, and a large heat pump to use Lake Constance water. The projects will change the Gießberg in different ways.