The University of Flensburg (German Universität Flensburg ) is a university in the city of Flensburg, Germany. It was founded in 1994. The University of Flensburg is the northernmost university in Germany, but it is not a "full university" (Latin: Universitas litterarum). The focus is on the training of teachers and other courses in the field of education and social sciences. Among the special features include the German-Danish study courses in cooperation with the University of Southern Denmark Sønderborg, which involves an association with the Fachhochschule Flensburg. The University of Flensburg is young, its name dating only from 1994. The first plans to found a university in the town reach back over 300 years when Flensburg was still part of the Kingdom of Denmark. The founding of the teacher training college in 1946 marks the beginning of the later university. Initially setting out with a 15-month training course for 200 war returnees, the first teacher-training courses started in the winter of 1946/47 with 94 students.