Excellence: Guiding Principle of University Development
TU Dresden is one of eleven German Universities of Excellence, which have received funding within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments since 1 November 2019.
The Excellence title confirms the potential of one of Germany‘s largest technical universities. At the same time, however, this award is a great responsibility and an incentive to stay and become even more “excellent“.
© Robert Lohse
The Exzellence Strategy at TU Dresden
TU Dresden was successful in both funding lines of the Excellence Strategy:
1st funding line: Clusters of Excellence (Funding since 1 January 2019)
Centre for Tactile Internet (CeTI)
Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter (ct.qmat)
Physics of Life (PoL)
2nd funding line: Universities of Excellence (Funding since 1 November 2019)
Projects and Measures
With the approval of three Clusters of Excellence in September 2018, TU Dresden also qualified for the competition for the funding line of Universities of Excellence. With its application "TUD 2028 - Synergy and Beyond", TU Dresden was able to convince. The decision of the Excellence Commission in July 2019 (TUD press release), enables TUD to continue to play in the top league of universities in Germany. TU Dresden already has been bestowed with the title "University of Excellence" since 2012 – since its success in the predecessor programme of the Excellence Strategy, the Exzellence Initiative.
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Saxony as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Government.