TU Hamburg's successful course gets a new boost
Senate adopts concept for second growth phase
18.06.2024
Hamburg University of Technology (TU Hamburg) is entering its second growth phase with a tailwind. At its meeting today, the Hamburg Senate approved a comprehensive concept for this and earmarked additional funding of up to 10 million euros per year. Under the motto “Engineering to Face Climate Change”, TU Hamburg is building on its successful first development phase and continuing its research into technical innovations to tackle climate change and its consequences.
The focus of the second growth phase is on five strategic objectives for a sustainable future: circular economy, energy efficiency, sustainable mobility, adaptation of infrastructures and the digital world. All five objectives are bundled in research, teaching and transfer in order to develop concrete technical innovations for a sustainable future. Following a positive assessment by an external commission, the second growth phase is building on the successful development of recent years.
Science Senator Katharina Fegebank: “The TU Hamburg is making great strides and is at the forefront of the race of technical universities in Germany. In the second development phase, the TUHH can continue its successful momentum, further sharpen its unmistakable profile, inspire talented minds from all over the world to study in Hamburg and contribute to solving the major challenges with excellent research. I am delighted that we can continue to advance the TUHH on its successful path. This is an important step for the university and for Hamburg as a location for innovation and science as a whole.”
University President Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Timm-Giel: “We are very pleased that the Senate's decision enables us to continue the strategic development of TU Hamburg. In this way, we are keeping the drive from the first growth phase and our goal firmly in sight: With the leitmotif “Engineering to Face Climate Change”, we want to develop TU Hamburg into an internationally visible beacon for engineering solutions to climate change and its consequences within the next five years. The core elements are our unique CampusLabs: they combine research and teaching and, together with our start-ups, bring science to life. In this way, we are strengthening Hamburg's scientific landscape and supporting regional industry to meet the global challenges of the future.”
Background
The first development phase of the TU Hamburg was evaluated by an external commission of experts on behalf of the Authority for Science, Research, Equality and Districts (BWFGB). The commission came to the conclusion that the TU Hamburg has consistently exploited its development opportunities in all dimensions and recommended a continuation of the growth process without reservation. The TU Hamburg's most recent achievements include success in the first round of the current nationwide excellence competition with a research project in the field of materials science, the approval of a second collaborative research center funded by the German Research Foundation and the acquisition of a research training group working in a North German research network led by the TUHH. Just recently, a United Nations University Hub was established at TU Hamburg, the first in the world with a focus on climate change and the second hub ever.
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