University of Fribourg

The University of Fribourg is a place where learning, research, employment and events all happen at the same time. Its innovative force makes it an important mover in the commercial and cultural life of the region. Since it attracts students and researchers from every part of Switzerland and from all over the world it has shaped life in the bilingual city of Fribourg since it was founded in 1889.

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ADOLPHE MERKLE INSTITUTE

Polymers to give early warning signs

Researchers at the University of Fribourg's Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) and Hokkaido University in Japan have developed a method to tailor the properties of stress-indicating molecules that can be integrated…

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CHEMISTRY

Caution: corked! Sensor for cork taint in wine developed

The presence of the molecule responsible for cork taint in wine can now be clearly identified: with the recently developed sensor even slight traces of the most common wine fault can be detected. Further…

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ERC ADVANCED GRANT

€2.5 million funding to help find order among chaos

The Adolphe Merkle Institute's chair of Soft Matter Physics at the University of Fribourg, Professor Ullrich Steiner, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council.…

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Course offerings 2018-2019

Course catalog

Consult the course schedules.

Timetable

Mobility

Each year many students from Fribourg leave to study for one semester or two in a foreign country.

Study abroad

Late application

Autumn semester 2019

The late application for the autumn semester 2019 is open until 31st August 2019.