Annual Academic Celebration 2025
Dear members and relatives, alumni and alumnae, friends and supporters of Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
it gives me great pleasure to invite you to this year's Academic Anniversary Celebration:
26. Academic Annual Celebration
on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
at 5 p.m. in the Audimax of Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Our celebration this year is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Ruhr-Universität under the motto "RUB 60 - built to change since 1965". I am delighted to welcome NRW Science Minister Ina Brandes MdL as a special guest to our celebrations to mark our anniversary.
I am also delighted that we have been able to secure a RUB alumnus as this year's keynote speaker , who has played a key role in shaping the debate on educational equality and equal opportunities in Germany from the perspective of migration and educational sociology:
Prof. Dr. Aladin El-Mafaalani
Department of Sociology of Migration and Education
Dortmund University of Technology
Further program items
- WELCOME Ina Brandes MdL, Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- WELCOME Jörg Lukat, designated Lord Mayor of the City of Bochum (inquired)
- SPEECH Prof. Dr. Martin Paul, Rector of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- RUB 60: Alumni and alumnae provide insights into their student days
- AWARDING of the Lore Agnes Vision Award
- RECOGNITION of outstanding academic achievements
The event will again be accompanied musically by Prof. Dr. Ivan Habernal and his jazz septet.
Following these diverse impulses, we cordially invite you to a get-together in the coffee bar. You can look forward to personal discussions with many old and new acquaintances!
Yours
Prof. Dr. Martin Paul,
Rector
Please register bindingly by 05.11.2025:
Registration Academic Anniversary Celebration
Childcare will be offered from 16:30. Please register your requirements by 27.10. at the latest. The Academic Year Celebration will be held in German.