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The University of Osnabrück is a public university located in the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony, Germany. Higher education began in 1632 in Osnabrück with the foundation of the Academia Carolina Osnabrugensis, but this institution was closed a year later as Swedish troops occupied Osnabrück during the Thirty Years' War. The government of the state of Lower Saxony decided to set up a university in Osnabrück in 1970, and by 1973 had laid down the legal basis for such an institution. The university opened for the summer semester in 1974 as a successor institution to the Adolf Reichwein Teachers' College, which had occupied the former palace of the Prince-Bishopric since 1953. In 2010 it was attended by 9,298 students. In 2009, the staff of 1,570 consisted of 214 professors, 662 additional academic personnel (lecturers without professorships, post-doctoral researchers and post-graduate assistants) and 694 non-academic personnel [1]. The university is known for a large number of interdisciplinary degree programmes, some of them rare or even unique among German universities, including European Studies, Applied Systems Science and Cognitive Science. Notably, the university is well-known for its research in cognitive science, peace and conflict studies, democratic governance, among many others. The current President of Germany, Christian Wulff, is one of the most famous alumni of the university.

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