International Summer Schools 2013
Table of contents
- "ENTOOL 2013 - Tools and Data for Energy-Optimized Buildings, Neighborhoods, Residential Areas and Cities"
- "Technology Transfer in Life Sciences"
- "Sustainable Energy Systems - Interdependence between Technical Design and Social Acceptance"
- "Digitization and its Impact on Society"
- "Human-Robot-Interaction"
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering:
"ENTOOL 2013 - Tools and Data for Energy-Optimized Buildings, Neighborhoods, Residential Areas and Cities"
June 10-14, 2013
The goals for sustainability and climate protection set by the German government raised the bar for architects, civil engineers and consultants. In order to meet those demands, academic research and education need to respond by fostering cross-disciplinary cooperations beyond the limits of faculties and schools. Accordingly, the Summer School offered the possibility for young scientists from the fields of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Sciences and Economic Science to deepen their knowledge on cross-disciplinary issues dealing with "Intelligent Constructional Engineering and Simulation".
CONTACT:
Prof. John Grunewald / Dipl.-Geogr. Anita Morandell Meißner
Phone: +49 351 463-35259
School of Medicine:
"Technology Transfer in Life Sciences"
September 2-6, 2013
The transfer of technologies is one of the central goals of TUD's Institutional Strategy “The Synergetic University”. Aiming to establish interdisciplinary activities in the field of technology transfer in life sciences in the long run, the School of Medicine for the first time organised an International Summer School in September 2013. Key questions of the program were: How do I identify the commercial potential in my research? How can I protect my inventions? What are the benefits of the licensing or spin-off pathway?
CONTACT:
Astrid Holzhauer
Head of Department for Development and International Affairs
School of Medicine
Tel.: +49 351 458-7535
Boysen TUD Research Training School:
"Sustainable Energy Systems - Interdependence between Technical Design and Social Acceptance"
September 23-28, 2013
The interdisciplinary Summer School responded to the situation that social acceptance plays an important role in shaping future energy systems in addition to technical feasibility. Technical, environmental, social and economic consequences can only be estimated on a high scientific level through the cooperation of different disciplines. The TUD International Summer School on Sustainable Energy Systems aimed at bringing excellent students and young researchers in the broad-based fields of engineering, economic and social sciences together in order to discuss current and future research questions arising with the shaping of our future energy systems.
CONTACT:
Prof. Dr. habil. Dominik Möst / Dipl.-Ing. Kirsten von der Heiden
Phone: +49 351 463-43133 or -39770
School of Humanities and Social Sciences:
"Digitization and its Impact on Society"
September 29 - October 5, 2013
The Summer School provided workshops, lectures, panel discussions and field trips to discuss the aftermath of digitization on society from cross-disciplinary perspectives such as Business and Economics, Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, Educational Science, Law, Sociology and Political Science as well as the State and University Library (SLUB). The Summer School was hosted by the Dresden Center of Digital Linguistics. Main issues, among others, were: copyright and freedom of information in the digital age, digital archive and cultural memory, social networks and ubiquitous media, as well as potentials of digitizing university research and teaching.
► "Digitization and its Impact on Society":
Press Release from September 26, 2013 (in German only)
School of Engineering Sciences:
"Human-Robot-Interaction"
November 18-22, 2013
In the framework of a 7-day-program concluding with a practical training, the Summer School assembled renowned international scientists from the fields of Robotics, Computational Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot-Interaction. Since 2012, TUD's School of Engineering Sciences has been trying to establish ROBOTIK@TUD as interdisciplinary key research area. The Summer School's main goal was to bundle these research activities in order to increase national and international visibility. In addition, the Summer School offered a chance to initiate cooperative and coordinated research projects.
► "Human-Robot-Interaction":
Press Release from November 19, 2013 (in German only)
TU Dresden's Institutional Strategy is funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments.