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TU Dresden´s Research Profile

As a university of technology, TU Dresden covers a broad scientific spectrum. It is internationally renowned for its research and provides excellent conditions for pioneering interdisciplinary research projects. Our research, which ranges from ground-breaking fundamental research to application-oriented projects with transfer relevance, is concentrated in five strategic Research Priority Areas (RPAs).

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Innovative and excellent: Research at TU Dresden

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Research Priority Areas

Research at TU Dresden focuses on five strategic Research Priority Areas. These represent the currently strongest research fields of our university, which are characterised by a high publication output and third-party funded activities. Three Clusters of Excellence and various Collaborative Research Centres contribute to the research excellence of TU Dresden.
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Excellence

Since 2012, TU Dresden has been one of eleven German Universities of Excellence. With two Clusters of Excellence, the DIGS-BB Graduate School and its Institutional Strategy, TU Dresden was successful in the Excellence Initiative in 2012. In 2018, a further three Clusters of Excellence were approved as part of the successor programme to the Excellence Initiative - the Excellence Strategy.
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Research Profile Determining Projects

TU Dresden is characterised by a high volume of third-party funding. Projects that are shaping the profile of TUD play a major part in third-party funded research. These include projects in the framework of the Excellence Initiative, DFG coordinated projects (CRCs, Research Training Groups), as well as major projects of the EU and the federal and local governments.
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Research Profile of TU Dresden

TU Dresden is a university with a broad spectrum of degree programmes and a strong focus on the engineering and natural sciences. Research at TU Dresden revolves around five interdisciplinary Research Priority Areas (RPAs):

The Research Priority Areas (RPAs) represent our university’s strongest research fields. The focus of the RPAs include the five Clusters of Excellence CARE (with RWTH Aachen), REC2, CeTI, ctd.qmat (with Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) und PoL. In addition, there are numerous research projects such as the Collaborative Research Centres, Graduate Schools and joint projects that shape the profile of TUD and are third-party funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German federal government and the Länder, the European Union and the industry.

The Directorate Research as well as the Project Scouts support TUD scientists through various measures with the realisation of research projects and with the application process.

The key to the exceptional quality of TU Dresden’s research profile is ingrained in the close collaboration with non-university research institutions and Dresden-based cultural institutions as part of the DRESDEN-concept research alliance.