Institutional strategies – advancing top-level university
research
An institutional strategy aims to strengthen a university as
a whole so that it can play in the champions league of
universities. It comprises all aspects of a university as an
institution. »The Excellence Initiative provides funding for
institutional strategies that are aimed at developing top-level
university research in Germany and increasing its
competitiveness at an international level. The funding covers
all measures that allow universities to develop and expand
their areas of international excellence over the long term and
to establish themselves as leading institutions in
international competition. This will make a significant
contribution to strengthening science and research in Germany
in the long term and increasing the visibility of current
research excellence. «, as it is defined by the DFG (German
Research Foundation).
The Dresden master plan for the institutional strategy
The institutional strategy made for TU Dresden is a master plan
for the next years to which the development of the university
will be aligned to. It sets out a series of measures that will
now be kicked off and can be further advanced with the funds
that may be used from 2012. During the last two decades, TU
Dresden has gone through a dynamic development process and can
now benefit from the high level attained for its further
advancement. Funding through the excellence initiative would
definitely facilitate this process.
On 15 December 2010, the managing bodies of TU Dresden started
up 15 teams that worked on the institutional strategy. Their
task was either to work out the planned measures in further
detail and also to start executing the first steps of their
realisation. Three main fields of work had been defined:
structures and processes within the university and outside with
external institutions, the close networking with external
partners in research, teaching and infrastructure and also
measures that will make TU Dresden even more attractive for the
best brains.
the institutional strategy of TU Dresden "The
Synergetic University"
Please find the institutional strategy of TU Dresden "The
synergetic university" on our internal web pages:
"The Synergetic
University"
pressestelle@tu-dresden.de