Children sit in the Audimax and listen at the KinderUni

KinderUni Bayreuth: Explore and discover

What is a city doing on a volcano? What am I allowed to do on the internet? How do the police catch criminals? And am I allowed to buy, say, 1,000 sweets with my pocket money? As a child, you have many questions. 

Fortunately, there are adults who know the answers – for example, our professors at the University of Bayreuth. They will answer your questions at KinderUni, which takes place annually in cooperation with the City of Bayreuth. All pupils from 2nd to 6th grade from Bayreuth and the surrounding area are most welcome! Admission is free, registration is not required.


The dates of the KinderUni 2024 will be announced soon.

These were the children's lectures at the KinderUni 2023:

June 21, 2023, 5:15 p.m., Audimax: Chemical experiments from the smallest cauldron in the world - Prof. Dr. Anna Schenk, Physical Chemistry

Physics makes noise, poster

With exciting experiments we dive into the world of tiny nanoparticles with crazy properties. Although these "dwarf" particles are invisible to the human eye, we encounter them everywhere in everyday life. We will produce nano-particles ourselves in our "witch's cauldron" and let gold shine in all colors. We also want to make the tiny particles visible and explore the mysterious forces that are at work in the nano-cosmos.

June 28, 2023, 5:15 p.m., Audimax: About radio connections through solar storms and mysterious codes - Prof. Dr. Sascha Kurz, business mathematics

Electric Eel

How to steer a Mars rover when solar storms disrupt radio communications? How can astronauts talk to Earth thousands of kilometers away? Why can you still hear a CD even if there are small scratches on it? What does the scanner at the supermarket checkout actually "read"? You'll see how mysterious codes and a bit of math can help spot and even correct errors in messages.


July 5, 2023, 5:15 p.m., Audimax: Sport is murder? How exercise affects your body - Prof. Dr. Othmar Moser, Exercise Physiology and Metabolism

Kids doing sports

In this lecture we will discuss why people who exercise regularly do not die earlier but, on the contrary, live longer. At the same time, we will discuss whether there will soon be a pill that will replace exercise according to the motto: I watch TV and don't move, take a pill and my body "believes" that it's exercising.


July 12, 2023, 5:15 p.m., Audimax: Never clean up again! – Robbie does it - Prof. Dr. Nicola Bilstein, Marketing & Service Management

Poster lecture Kinderuni shows a math puzzle

Should a robot clean your room? How can you tell if he did well? What happens if the robot makes a mistake? When is room cleaning a service and why are you constantly surrounded by services in your everyday life, for example when you take the bus to school, call friends on your cell phone, post on TikTok or go to the doctor?

To bridge the time, we recorded three KinderUni lectures:

You can watch it here (in German):


Professor Dr Heike Feldhaar, Animal Ecology, pictured with children's reporter Lisa, on the topic of "Insect decline  – is it bad?"

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Junior Professor Georg Herink, Experimental Physics - Ultrafast Dynamics, on the topic "Laser swords – now it's getting dangerous".

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The KinderUni with Professor Birgit Weber is also still available online.

You can watch it here (in German):

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Accessories and Blu-Rays

Each year, the University’s KinderUni lectures are recorded. They can be purchased on Blu-Ray for you to enjoy the lectures over and over again at home. The latest Blu-Ray from 2019 costs 10 euros. The Blu-Rays from 2018 and 2017 are also still available.

Are you a fan of KinderUni and would like to have a souvenir? The KinderUni owl is available for 8 euros. In addition, there are other accessories, such as colourful T-shirts (10 euros). Booklets on the lectures are available for 3 euros. Travel mugs in lively colours are the latest addition to our collection. They are made of porcelain and are on sale for 15 euros.

The KinderUni accessories are available all year round from Press, Marketing & Communications, ZUV Building, Room 3.08 (phone: 0921 / 55-5324; pressestelle@uni-bayreuth.de).

Special thanks to our partners and sponsors:

Logo of the city of Bayreuth
Logo of the Bayreuther Verkehrs- und Bäder-GmbH
Logo of the Family Alliance Bayreuth
Logo of the Sparkasse Bayreuth

Organization of KinderUni

Ursula Küffner

Ursula Küffner KinderUni, Media Relations, Editing

+49 (0)921 / 55-5324
E-mail: ursula.kueffner@uni-bayreuth.de, pressestelle@uni-bayreuth.de
Office: Room 3.08, Building Central University Administration (ZUV), Universitätsstraße 30, 95447 Bayreuth

Further members of the KinderUni team

  • Vice President Prof. Dr. Martin Huber
    Project management and scientific responsibility
  • Christian Göppner
    Design of print materials
  • Markus Barnick, Anne Schraml und Christopher Reimelt
    Programming and design of the KinderUni homepage
  • Dr. Bernhard Winkler
    Media technology, video recording, and data processing
  • Dominik Schramm
    Video editing and Blu-Ray creation, Blu-Ray covers

Topics of the previous KinderUnis since 2007