The IHI Zittau - at the center of international and regional networks
IHI Zittau emerged from a trinational network of German, Polish and Czech partners. Today, it sees itself as the center of the "Central European Campus Neisse/Nisa" with TU Liberec and is networked with numerous non-university research institutions in the transformation region of Lusatia within the network "Hi!Lusatia".
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IHI's networks
International Networks:
IHI Zittau emerged in 1993 from a trinational founding consortium of Saxon, Polish and Czech universities (more on our profile and founding history). The then revolutionary founding idea was that students from the partner universities could continue and complete their "national" studies at IHI Zittau with an international, European diploma and possibly a subsequent doctorate. Today, this is a matter of course: Germans, Poles and Czechs study in a common academic "Bologna Area", IHI Zittau, as a Central Scientific Institution of TU Dresden, is part of the Academic Coordination Center of the Euroregion Neisse (ACC) and, together with TU Liberec, forms the unique cross-border "Central European Campus Neisse/Nísa".
To promote mobility measures for both students and academic and non-academic staff, IHI Zittau cooperates with European partner universities within the framework of ERASMUS+ .
Regional Networks:
At the location Zittau/Upper Lusatia, IHI Zittau is connected with numerous institutions and actors:
With the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, we offer the cooperative master's programs "Biotechnology and Applied Ecology" and "International Management".
Joint appointments connect IHI Zittau with the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz. The international courses of study Organismic and Molecular Biodiversity as well as Ecosystem Services are essentially based on this cooperation.
Together with the Leibniz Institute for Ecological and Regional Development (IÖR) in Dresden, IHI Zittau operates the Interdisciplinary Center for Ecological and Revitalizing Urban Environment (IZS) in Görlitz. The IZS is best known for the "Görlitzer Probewohnen" project, but it also hosts high-profile events such as the annual "Denksalon" or the "Europastadt-Gespräche".
Together with numerous regional partners from teaching, research and research-intensive business, the Hi!Lusatia network was founded in 2023, on whose board the director of IHI Zittau is represented.
Partners within TU Dresden:
Secondary memberships connect the professorships at IHI Zittau with the faculties of economics, environmental sciences as well as biology.