Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences

Supplying a growing world population with healthy food while at the same time reducing the negative environmental impact of agricultural production is one of the key challenges for agricultural and nutrition research.

The provision of energy and food security for an estimated 9 billion people in 2030 is a major challenge for global agriculture. The limited availability of arable land and resources such as water make it essential to farm sustainably and thus give future generations a chance of survival.

Thanks to the unique combination of agricultural, nutritional and food sciences with geodesy, the Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences (AEI) has ideal opportunities to develop the scientific basis for a sustainable supply of energy and food to meet demand and to support its implementation in practice.

For the AEI, top scientific qualifications and professional skills are equally important educational goals. Graduates must not only acquire theoretical and practical specialist knowledge, but also methodological and social skills and the ability to think critically and interdisciplinarily. We meet the requirements of the job market with research-oriented Bachelor's and Master's degrees.

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News & Events

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Experiments on Wheat, Knowledge Rally and Renewable Resources

“You’re in luck—somebody is just about to leave. There’s still one spot to the left of the sign!” One thing was immediately clear, even before you’d parked your car: heavy rain earlier that Sunday morning hadn’t dampened interest in the open house at Klein-Altendorf Campus.For this year’s event, Klein-Altendorf Campus of the Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional, and Engineering Sciences co-presented with the bio-innovationpark Rheinland in honor of its tenth anniversary. As always, there was also a tractor taxi and tours of the experimental fields and orchards.

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Cluster of Excellence of the University of Bonn in cooperation with FZ Jülich receives continued support⁹

Great news for the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob – Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production at the University of Bonn and the Forschungszentrum Jülich: The Excellence Commission of the German Research Foundation (DFG) has selected the project for a second funding phase. With this decision, PhenoRob enters its next phase, will receive funding until 2032, and will further strengthens its role as an internationally visible center for cutting-edge research in sustainable crop production driven by advanced technologies.

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PhenoRob cluster of excellence receives further funding¹⁰

It is a huge success for the University of Bonn: in the nationwide excellence competition, all six of the university's existing Clusters of Excellence were selected for further funding on 22 May 2025 and, in addition, both newly applied Bonn cluster initiatives will also receive funding. Among the clusters to receive further funding is the PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence of the Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences - the only cluster in Germany in the field of agriculture.

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Tilo Freiherr von Wilmowsky Honorary Award for Prof. Matin Qaim¹¹

Prof. Dr. Matin Qaim has received the Tilo Freiherr von Wilmowsky Honorary Award from the “Verbindungsstelle Landwirtschaft-Industrie” (VLI). Since 2012, the association has presented the award annually to individuals who have rendered outstanding services to German agribusiness. The prize has now been awarded at the VLI spring conference in Frankfurt.

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Agri-PV enjoys comparatively high acceptance¹²

Photovoltaic systems are increasingly being installed not only on roofs but also on open land. This does not always meet with citizens’ approval. What is known as agrivoltaics (Agri-PV), however, is viewed more favorably, as researchers at the University of Bonn have now been able to show. In this case, the solar cells are installed in spaces used for agriculture – such as on pastures or as a canopy over grapevines. According to a survey of almost 2,000 people, this form enjoys much higher acceptance than normal solar parks. The study has been published in the journal “Land Use Policy.”

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Climate change is lifting South Africa out of the ocean¹³

South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water – by up to two millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed up to now that this phenomenon was due to mantle flow in the Earth’s crust. However, a study carried out by the University of Bonn now provides another explanation: Droughts and the associated water loss are the main reason for this land uplift. The results have now been published in the “Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.”

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DynamoBot - a PhenoRob Startup¹⁴

At the PhenoRob and University of Bonn Start-Up DynamoBot, we are building the next generation of precision farming and precision weed management for farmers.

Monday Jun 23, 2025

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Fortbildungsreihe: Nachhaltigkeit im Labor¹⁵

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09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit gewinnt auch in Laboren zunehmend an Bedeutung. Die Arbeit in unseren Laboren ist für exzellente Forschung unverzichtbar, aber auch ...

Wednesday Jun 25, 2025

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Forschungskommission (FoKo)¹⁶

Dekanat

12:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Die Sitzungen der Forschungskommission (FoKo) finden im Fakultätssitzungszimmer statt. Die unter "Weitere Informationen" angegebenen Links sind nur für ...

Wednesday Jun 25, 2025

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Finanz-, Immobilien-, Personal- und Strukturkommission (FIPS)¹⁷

Dekanat

02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Die Sitzungen der Finanz-, Immobilien-, Personal- und Strukturkommission (FIPS) finden im Fakultätssitzungszimmer statt. Die unter "Weitere Informationen" ...

Wednesday Jun 25, 2025

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ILR Food and Resource Economics Seminar x PhenoRob Seminar Series¹⁸

Zoom-Meeting (Link see ...

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

We are pleased to invite you to our ILR Food and Resource Economics Seminar x PhenoRob Seminar Series. The seminar will take place via Zoom. Please feel free ...

Friday Jun 27, 2025

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PhenoRob | PhD Graduate Talk¹⁹

Zoom (Link see below)

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

We are pleased to invite you to our PhenoRob PhD Graduate Talk Series. The event will take place via Zoom.

Friday Jun 27, 2025

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Promotionsfeier der Fakultät²⁰

wird noch bekannt gegeben

03:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Save the date: Dieses Jahr findet die Promotionsfeier der Agrar-, Ernährungs- und Ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Fakultät am 27. Juni 2025 statt. Nähere ...

Tuesday Jul 01, 2025

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USL Workshop Wasser und Landwirtschaft im Klimawandel²¹

Landwirtschaftskammer ...

09:45 AM

Der globale Klimawandel beeinflusst zunehmend die Wasserressourcen und deren Nutzung, was auch bereits in unserer Region erkennbar wird. Der Workshop zielt ...