Strategic Partnerships within Schools
An important aspect within TUD's Internationalisation Strategy is establishing strategic partnerships at our university.
Due to the Institutional Strategy, a number of strategic partnerships have been established and centrally funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments:
Partner Universities/Institutes within Schools
► SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES:
According to the QS World University Ranking, the Delft University of Technology occupies an excellent 16th place in the field of Engineering and Technology and can boast equally outstanding positions in a global comparison of disciplines related to civil and environmental engineering. Furthermore, it is a member of the “IDEA League”, a prestigious strategic alliance of four of Europe’s leading universities in the fields of technology and science.
For this reason and on account of the overlapping of strategic orientation and bilateral links at the professorial level, the TU Delft is excellently suited as a strategic university partner.
Within this partnership, complex collaborations have been initiated and established at three of TU Delft’s eight faculties: Aerospace Engineering, Architecture and the Built Environment as well as Civil Engineering and Geosciences.
Activities are currently focused on the following aspects:
- Setting up structured programmes for the regular exchange of scientific and administrative staff
- Comprehensive supervision and exchange of PhD candidates
- Joint conferences and other event formats
- Announcement of a joint PhD award
- Joint research applications, projects and collaborations
- Studying and teaching collaborations
In July 2015, after numerous visits involving individuals and delegations, it was possible to adopt a binding Memorandum of Understanding and also Statements of Work, to be updated annually.
Further information on the partnership with Delft University of Technology can be found at:
https://tu-dresden.de/bu/internationales/kooperationen/strategische-hochschulpartnerschaften/index
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SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING:
NameDanny Klotzsche
International Affairs Advisor
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► SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES:
There have been scientific and academic links between TU Dresden and the University of Trent since 1995.
With the expansion into a strategic partnership, contacts in the field of research are to be extended in particular (exchange of lecturers, bilateral research collaborations, programmes for junior researchers).
Measures in 2014 and 2015 included initiation visits of lecturers from Trent and Dresden, a tandem lecture as part of the series “Gender-PartnerSCHAFFT Brücken” (gender partnerships build bridges) and the Summer School “Language, Culture and Society. The Challenges of Transformation in Europe" in Trent from August 31 to September 4, 2015.
You can find more information on this partnership at:
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/internationales/partnerschaften/universitaet-trient?set_language=en
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Head of Office
NameMs Dr. Karoline Oehme-Jüngling
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A university agreement was already concluded between TU Dresden and the Uniwersytet Wrocławski as early as 1997. To date, eight faculties at TU Dresden and the Biotechnology Center BIOTEC have collaborations with the University of Wrocław.
With the expansion into a strategic partnership, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences wishes to utilise and strengthen the “local internationality”, which, in particular, will consist of increasing the exchange of students and lecturers, initiating bilateral research collaborations and creating joint programmes for junior researchers.
Measures in 2014 and 2015 included research visits of junior researchers to Dresden and Wrocław, the colloquium “Transformationen – Dresden und Wrocław 25 Jahre nach der Wende“ (Transformations – Dresden and Wrocław 25 years after the political change) and the conference "Borderlands" with scholars of English and American Studies at TU Dresden and the University of Wrocław.
You can find more information on this partnership at:
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/internationales/partnerschaften/universitaet-breslau?set_language=en
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Head of Office
NameMs Dr. Karoline Oehme-Jüngling
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► SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES:
The strategic partnership between the School of Engineering Sciences and the CDHK (Chinesisch-Deutsches Hochschulkolleg ‒ Chinese-German University College) at Tongji University in Shanghai can look back on several years of successful co-operation, but is only one part of the collaboration with different Schools at Tongji University.
To breathe life into the partnership, delegations of Chinese professors visited the School of Engineering Sciences in July of both 2014 and 2015. A return visit of the professional colleagues from TU Dresden followed in November 2014, crowned by the signing of a dual degree programme. Four of Tongji University’s Schools and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering will offer a dual degree/Master’s degree programme.
The first Chinese students to take part in this programme are expected in the summer semester 2016. April 2016. Currently, talks are taking place regarding joint research projects. Visits of working parties took place in July 2015 in Dresden as well as in November 2015 in Shanghai. Currently, work is progressing on joint applications for third party funding.
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SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES:
NameDr. Claudia Müller
International Affairs Advisor
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► SCHOOL OF SCIENCE:
The strategic partnership between the School of Science and Osaka University extends across several research areas in Physics, Mathematics, Biology and Chemistry.
The collaboration has many facets – including joint research experiments and the exchange of empirical data, publications, guest lectures and lectureships as well as a variety of continuing education formats for young researchers.
In order to make the collaboration sustainable, work is currently being carried out to set up a Joint Master’s Programme in Physics. A regular mutual exchange of Master’s students and non-academic staff will also take place in future.
As a result of the partnership contacts with Osaka University, it has been possible to create additional connections with the universities of Kansai, Kobe, Kyoto and Saga.
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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE:
NameMaria Richter-Babekoff
International Affairs Advisor
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There are a number of reasons why this partnership is considered strategically important: on the one hand, it allows TUD scientists unusually open access to a country with immense biodiversity, which on account of the long civil war, has scarcely been explored. At the same time, it offers numerous opportunities for Angolan students, graduates and scientists to continue their education and carry out research in Dresden. The newly established international degree programme “Biodiversity Collection Management” is particularly suited to this purpose.
The collaboration has many facets and is supported by the DAAD programme “Hochschulpartnerschaften mit Entwicklungsländern” (university partnerships with developing countries) and by the AvH Stiftung (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, as part of the researcher alumni funding programme).
Ongoing activities in the co-operation with the Senckenbergische Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden (Senckenberg Natural History Collections) and the Naturkundemuseum (Natural History Museum) Görlitz, which have been taking place since 2012, are related to setting up a botanical garden and the necessary infrastructure for research in the natural sciences at both the Uíge and the N´Dalatando locations of Kimpa Vita University. They also include cataloguing and describing the local agricultural and medicinal plants and monitoring the biodiversity as the basis for creating a future conservation area in the province.
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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE:
NameMaria Richter-Babekoff
International Affairs Advisor
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► SCHOOL OF MEDICINE:
The focus of the strategic partnership between TU Dresden and King's College London (KCL) is on the main research topic “Regenerative Therapies”. Islet cell transplantation constitutes a particularly important research area.
Work is constantly being carried out on joint publications and applications for funding – an International Research Training Group is currently in the application phase. The joint TransCampus promotes the exchange of professors and offers medical students the opportunity to spend part of their studies doing practical work at the partner university. The KCL is also involved in the annual International Summer School in the framework of TUD's Institutional Strategy on "Technology Transfer in Life Sciences".
Link to the TransCampus: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/research/transcampus/index.aspx
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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE:
NameAstrid Holzhauer
Unit for Development and International Affairs (parental leave)
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An interdisciplinary team from Dresden and Wrocław is working on the project “Oral Health and Quality of Life in Old Age – A Cross Sectional Study in Germany and Poland” which deals with the links between (oral) health and quality of life in older people living in the two neighbouring countries. A first pilot study shows clear differences between Germany and Poland concerning health, quality of life and the interrelation between these. It is the long-term goal of the project to develop effective and lasting therapies and care strategies for the “70+” generation within a European context.
The project is part of the collaboration between Wrocław Medical University and the UniversitätsZahnMedizin (University Dentistry Centre) Dresden. The results gained from these investigations feed back into graduate and post-graduate curricula on Gerodontics that are in preparation, and into the postgraduate Master’s Programme "Oral Medicine and Gerodontics".
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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE:
NameAstrid Holzhauer
Unit for Development and International Affairs (parental leave)
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► INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE ZITTAU:
This partnership combines a collaboration that has existed for years, between the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History) Görlitz and Mongolian partners in the field of biodiversity, with one of the central research areas at the IHI Zittau: biomonitoring.
In 2015, a scientist from IHI carried out biomonitoring projects together with junior researchers at the NUM in Mongolia and a return visit lasting several weeks of the Mongolian partners to Zittau also took place.
The long-term goal is to combine the biomonitoring approaches of both research facilities with those of the Senckenberg partner.
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For a number of years already, there has been close contact between IHI Zittau and UAM in the area of questions relating to business ethics. This will now be complemented by the partnership between the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden and the UAM in Poznań.
The IHI Zittau and IOER jointly run the Interdisciplinary Center for Ecological and Revitalizing Urban Transformation in Görlitz, which also includes a joint professorial appointment. The aim of the partnership with the UAM is to link ecological research approaches and those involving urban and regional planning with topics relating to sustainability and stakeholder management – a cluster of topics that in this form would constitute a worldwide innovation.
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► CENTRAL ACADEMIC UNIT BIOTEC/ZIK B CUBE:
The researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University are pursuing a similar conceptual approach to that of the researchers at Dresden’s Center for Research Innovation, B CUBE – Center for Molecular Bioengineering, which was founded in 2008, to investigate natural phenomena on a molecular level with the aim of translating ensuing knowledge to methods, materials and technologies, in this way promoting innovation in the field of engineering sciences.
For this reason, both institutes intend to promote synergies in joint research interests through the strategic partnership and to carry out scientific events.
This is exemplified in the conference “Engineering Life 2015: Synthetic Biology meets Bioinspired Materials“, which took place in Dresden from September 29 to October 1, 2015.
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TU Dresden's Institutional Strategy is funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments.