News
The IPU welcomes Prof. Heidi Levitt
Prof. Heidi Levitt will take over the DAAD-funded Horst Kächele visiting professorship during the summer semester.
New English study course: MA Psychology focusing on Organisation
The new, multidisciplinary program explores subjects revolving around transformation processes in work, society and environment. Starting in the winter semester 2022/23.
Events
STICS Summer School "Screening the Scars"
As part of the STICS summer school "Screening the Scars", the IPU, in collaboration with the Kant Kino Berlin, will show five films from 19-23 September 2022 that revolve around social trauma. After the films, talks and panels will be given, for which the films' directors are also present.Event date: 19 – 23 September 2022
In Kandel's Footsteps: Epigenetic and Therapeutic Change
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Juan Pablo Jiménez with a review of the evidence for the impact of early life adversity on the adult brain and psychopathology. It is hypothesised that this impact is mediated through epigenetic mechanisms.Event date: 28 September 2022
Webinar series for the Horst Kächele visiting professorship at the IPU
The IPU has established a visiting professorship in memory of Horst Kächele, which will begin this winter 2021/22 semsester. As part of this, the visiting professors will contribute to a webinar series.Event date: 9 July 2022
The IPU
- The IPU was awarded its institutional accreditation by the German Council of Science and Humanities, the Wissenschaftsrat, effective as of 27 November 2014, and was successfully re-accredited for five additional years in April 2020.
- The IPU has been awarded State recognition as a third level academic institution with university status by Berlin's governing administration, the Berlin Senate.
- All of the study courses at the IPU are recognised and approved by Berlin's governing administration, the Berlin Senate.
- The study courses at the IPU have been accredited by an accreditation council recognised by the State.
- Thus the degrees awarded for successfully completing the various study courses at the IPU are legally equivalent to those from every other German university.
- The Berlin State Office for Health and Social Affairs has confirmed that the IPU's MA Psychology (focusing on clinical psychology and psychotherapy) in combination with the BA Psychology (psychotherapy focus) degree fulfils the qualifications for attending the training to qualify as a psychotherapist.
