Projects and measures
TU Dresden has made tremendous progress over the past decades compared to other universities in Germany and abroad. The peak of this development is marked by the university being awarded the renewed University of Excellence status in 2019. By realising the envisaged projects and measures outlined in the Excellence proposal, TUD aims to reach these primary objectives by:
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Talent
TALENT aims to identify and recruit scientists and scholars who shape their subject area through excellent research and provide them with the best possible space to pursue their curiosity and develop their ideas. This is to be achieved by further professionalising the recruitment processes, for example through expanding active recruitment and optimising appointment processes, and by creating optimal conditions for research and offering personal development opportunities. At the same time, academic staff at all career levels are promoted and supported in the best possible way, for example through the offers and services of the Graduate Academy. Paving the way for talented students to get involved in research at an early stage is a step towards achieving the objective, which also contributes to increasing the attractiveness and academic success rate at TUD. In addition to promoting student projects and giving students access to cutting-edge research, this also includes integrating DRESDEN-concept members into teaching.
Attracting Excellent Professors
To safeguard the strategic orientation and the capacity for renewal of TUD, the University will optimize and reorganize its appointment procedures. To further professionalize the appointment process, a package of interlocking activities will be introduced or rather implemented. At the same time, standardized criteria will become mandatory for all procedures, thus ensuring the quality of the selection process. In the medium term, it is envisaged that, for example, tools for potential analysis and assessment of the appointment committees when selecting professors will be developed. In addition, the fast-track procedure stipulated in TUD’s appointment regulations is to become the standard in order to further streamline the procedures and shorten their duration.
Appointment Officer of the Rector | Head of Academic Recruitment
NameNadja Straube
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In order to attract the brightest minds, TUD is introducing an international active recruitment process that is binding for all appointment procedures. Active recruitment will be carried out in addition to the usual job advertisements and will increase the number of applicants. To this end, TUD also aims to expand its cooperation with the DRESDEN-concept partners. Throughout the entire recruitment procedure, the conception, implementation and evaluation of a program of academic visits for future excellent professors will be made possible. As part of onboarding, the support of junior professorships is to be continued and strengthened, and the teaching hours of first-time appointees reduced. The Dual Career Service supports the partners of new appointees in making the new city their home and in continuing their own professional careers.
Appointment Officer of the Rector | Head of Academic Recruitment
NameNadja Straube
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The Eleonore Trefftz Program – inaugurated in 2013 – is a special format for recruiting female scientists and will be continued within the EXU framework. The program is intended to support the long-term increase in the proportion of women at TU Dresden and to promote the diversity of the research and teaching potential. To this end, highly qualified female scientists are invited by the Faculties or Central Academic Units that are planning appointments in the medium term. In this way, the visiting professors are able to explore interfaces in their research areas for a period of up to 12 months, work together with scientists at TU Dresden and familiarize themselves with Dresden as an attractive science location.
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International Advisor
NameKathrin Tittel
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Promotion of Early-Career Researchers
As the central contact and service point for early-career researchers at TU Dresden, the Graduate Academy (GA) contributes to creating optimal conditions for doctoral candidates and postdocs – based on internationally recognized standards – and also to ensuring the greatest possible scope for development. The support provided by the Graduate Academy comprises consulting and coaching, a writing workshop, networking and career events, support programs with travel grants and short-term scholarships. The GA also offers a wide-ranging interdisciplinary qualification program that includes workshops on academic work and communication, organization and management, and career planning. In this way, the Graduate Academy makes an important contribution to increasing the attractiveness of TUD in the competition for the brightest minds from all over the world.
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Managing Director
NameMs Dr. Katrin Jordan
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Research-Oriented Teaching
Under the FOSTER measure, students and teaching staff can apply for funds to promote research-oriented learning and teaching. Funding is available, for example, for student participation in research competitions or international conferences, for the organization of student research activities (such as research projects, student research conferences, exhibitions of student research, publication of student research results) as well as for the development and implementation of research-oriented teaching and learning formats (modules, summer schools, tutorials etc.). The goal is to create an incentive for student research, to strengthen interdisciplinarity and to familiarise young academics with research culture, in order to ultimately win them over to excellent science at TUD. Funding up to a sum of 1,000 EUR can already be requested at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL); targeted calls and more extensive calls for project will follow shortly. After 2026, the FOSTER program is to be set up permanently.
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Centre for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL)
NameHenriette Greulich
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The Teaching Synergies Program is intended to make systematic use of the competence of DRESDEN-concept members in the teaching at TUD. For this purpose, a coordination office and an experimental laboratory will be set up – in addition to the lectures already being held by institute directors and to the supervision of research work. This is aimed at creating synergies between TU Dresden and DRESDEN-concept in teaching as well as increasing the attractiveness of the courses offered by integrating extramural research excellence. In close cooperation with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL) and the Centre for Continuing Education (ZfW), DRESDEN-concept members also receive individually tailored, needs-based continuing education sessions in didactics for higher education. This measure focuses primarily on junior scientists. It also promotes cooperative teaching, internationalization and the visibility of the DRESDEN-concept alliance at TUD.
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Centre for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL)
NameHenriette Greulich
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The intention of the Teaching Excellence Tracks measure is to integrate attractive research content from the Clusters of Excellence and the Collaborative Research Centres into existing degree programs in the form of elective modules or so-called tracks. These tracks are mostly seminars held in English, internships and projects, and can also be used in new teaching and learning formats that link several Research Priority Areas of TUD in terms of interdisciplinarity. Scientists working at the clusters or the DRESDEN-concept partner institutions carry out these research-oriented events with the (digital) infrastructure of their institutions. In this way, access to cutting-edge research for outstanding students is being embedded in the TUD curriculum. This increases the application-oriented understanding of scientific excellence and its visibility in degree courses.
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Centre for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ZiLL)
NameHenriette Greulich
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Personnel Development
The central unit personnel and organizational development is intended to help attract the brightest minds to TUD, support them in their development, keep them at the University and also successfully accompany change processes. In doing so, its core tasks are promoting careers, potential, continuing education and the work-life balance of all employees, creating good, healthy conditions for working, teaching and research, developing transparent structures and clearly defined responsibilities, supporting team building and networking as well as achieving equal opportunities and the full integration of all employees. In addition, the measures and goals described in the 2020 personnel development concept need to be implemented.
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Head of Unit 7.1 Strategy & EXU Office
NameMarvin Fischer
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Profile
PROFILE includes raising the potential of promising fields of research at TUD to become competitive at the top level of international research. In addition to establishing centres and recruiting renowned professors in selected subject areas, incentives and support tools are to be expanded in such a way as to ensure the university's ability to modernise itself and to develop a broad scientific profile. In this context, the all-encompassing digital turn is an opportunity that TUD wants to seize as an institution and respond to with interdisciplinary research.
Research Promotion
Competitive third-party funding applications are an important key to excellent research at TU Dresden. As part of TU Dresden’s research promotion, the Project Scouts team support scientists in all phases of the application for third-party funding. In this process, the STUDIO formats serve to develop and explore joint project ideas. At the same time, they promote networking and finding relevant project partners within and outside of TU Dresden. The identification of relevant funding measures in connection with text-strategic and formal guidance on the preparation of applications round off the service provided by the Project Scouts.
Further information & services of the Project Scouts
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Health Sciences, Biomedicine and Bioengineering
NameDr. Sacha Hanig
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Collaboration
COLLABORATION aims to advance national and international research cooperations to ahigher level of commitment. TUD is convinced that intensive and strategically focused collaboration between researchers from different career stages, disciplines and institutions is a prerequisite for overcoming pressing challenges in technology, environment, health and society. Central to this is DRESDEN-concept. The long-standing, successful cooperation between the 32 partner institutions is being expanded in all performance areas and areas of activity. By strategically strengthening our research relationships, it is expected that the international visibility of TUD and our attractiveness to excellent researchers will increase even further.
Further Development of DRESDEN-concept
In order to provide scientists with better access to specialised equipment and adequate services, joint technology platforms are being established. The goal is to use investments efficiently and to ensure their planning security in the long term. Through the joint use of equipment and laboratory infrastructure, duplicate purchases are avoided, the costs of servicing and maintenance distributed, and access and availability improved. For a smooth implementation, this paradigm shift from “owning” to “using” is accompanied by communication, standardization and manifestation in target agreements.
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Advisor Technologyplatform
NameDr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Ing. Hannes Schwager
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With the measure “strengthening of coordination and marketing for DRESDEN-concept”, the alliance of Dresden institutions from science and culture, which has existed since 2010, is being further developed in terms of personnel, communication and infrastructure. The results of the cooperation of DRESDEN-concept partners will be documented better and communicated more widely. The science communication of DRESDEN-concept will be streamlined with analogue and digital formats to make the alliance more visible and attractive within society and especially to international (early-career) researchers. In order to increase impact, broadly understood interdisciplinary research will be advanced and the dialogue with policy makers expanded.
Dipl-Ing. Lena Herlitzius
DRESDEN-concept Advisor to the Rectorate
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Expansion of International Collaborations
The internationalization of TU Dresden is to be advanced further in order to enable scientifically synergetic collaborations that have an impact on studying and teaching as well as on transfer. To this end, strategic partnerships are to be expanded both at the central level and at that of the Schools. Funding programs which enable all status groups at TUD to participate in internationalization will be implemented. One goal is for internationality to be reflected in the culture of the University and in the self-image of all University members. Success is made visible, among other things, through joint activities with strategic partners, increased international activities of all University members, and the visibility of internationality: on campus, in research and teaching, in communication and organization.
Further information on the internationalization strategy
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Internationalisation
NameKatharina Schmitt
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The Dresden Fellows program has been attracting leading international researchers to TUD since 2013. Apart from their other scientific duties, Dresden Fellows initiate new research activities together with their TUD hosts and strengthen the cooperation through joint publications and third-party funding applications. In addition, the scientists are also given the opportunity to become involved in teaching and research transfer (e.g. through courses taught in English or research-oriented workshops). Important aspects of the program are networking with relevant colleagues at TUD and DRESDEN-concept and integration into life at the University and in the community.
Further information about the Dresden Fellows Program
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International Advisor
NameKathrin Tittel
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Since 2015, TUD has had a strategic partnership with King‘s College London in the shape of the transCampus, which contributes to excellent research and international visibility. The cooperation with King’s College will be intensified and extended to new research areas. A focus here is on the promotion of early-career researchers. Furthermore, an equivalent cooperation with a further scientifically excellent and preferably non-European partner institution, which is institutionally compatible with TUD’s key areas of excellence, is to be set up. This process will begin in 2020.
Further information about transCampus
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transCampus
NameDr. Maike Heber
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The accelerator program “transCelerator” supports projects emerging from transCampus with regard to optimisation and company start-ups. The goal is to establish Saxon start-ups and SMEs in the marketplace. It was launched in 2018 together with Hebrew University Jerusalem and King’s College London, and is now to be expanded with global cooperation partners from the medical sector. The support includes seed funding and the promotion of entrepreneurial thinking and acting through close cooperation with the Centre for Transfer and Entrepreneurship (CTE). The project initiators are to be enabled to acquire their own financial resources and to receive a positive marketability evaluation from the CTE.
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Prof. Dr. med. Stefan R. Bornstein
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Impact
IMPACT has its focus on strengthening the public outreach of TUD. To achieve this, wewill enhance support for transfer activities, reform our scientific and general communication, and create spaces for exchange with society, cultural institutions and businesses. Extending the innovation chain, including such measures as creating a Centre for Transfer and Entrepreneurship (CTE) and continuing the development of innovative, target-oriented and inspiring science communication are central to reaching this goal.
Strengthening the Innovation Chain
This undertaking is intended to bring together the TUD Transfer Office and also the TUD-related activities of the dresden|exists start-up service under the umbrella of a Centre for Transfer and Entrepreneurship (CTE), and to supplement them with further transfer-supporting measures. The aim is to leverage synergies and improve the services on offer for corporate partners, start-ups and the University members themselves. The new measures include the establishment of innovation managers who support researchers at an early stage in aligning their projects to a later entrepreneurial application, and who are at the same time contact persons for industry regarding the use of research results. There are also plans to introduce entrepreneurial training sessions in degree programs and doctoral studies. This project has already started with filling the executive position and with the analysis of today’s service processes. The next step will be to structure the new services and processes.
Head of Unit
NameDr. Frank Pankotsch
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Public Outreach
In order to continuously adapt the structures, channels and topics of its online communication to contemporary reception habits, TUD will develop and implement a digital communication strategy for its internet presence and the social media channels that are to be expanded. In doing so, style and concerns of scientific communities, (future) students as well as external target groups must be taken into account in order to communicate in a manner appropriate to the addressed audience. The TUD Young Communicators Team that is to be established will support campaign concepts, content marketing and dialog formats with the help of student communication consultants. In addition, high-quality and bilingual video formats are to be expanded.
The Science goes Public program supports early-career researchers in the public presentation and communication of their research work. The goal is to enable researchers at an early stage to successfully communicate their work outside the university context. The program promotes projects in which doctoral candidates and early postdocs enter into dialog with an audience beyond their academic field, for example through videos, newspaper articles or workshops with pupils. Successful applicants receive advice and training as well as technical and financial support for the implementation.
TUD is dedicated to creating spaces for a dialogue-oriented exchange of knowledge with civil society. TUD in Dialog is the measure that will pursue these issues and stimuli. Society’s empirical knowledge and regional contexts form a platform on which scientists can exert an effect in a responsible manner. This two-way exchange promotes an orientation that creates transparency, and is generally met with great interest, as evidenced by the Future Labs and DRESDEN-concept initiatives of the past. As an umbrella brand, this measure can provide access to innovative research work in the region, create interdisciplinary interaction, offer participation for new target groups and stimulate an inter-discursive exchange of knowledge. Participation, limited requirements for taking part and the use of existing infrastructure are key to the appeal of this concept, which is limited until October 2026 for the time being.
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EXU Project Staff
NameRobert V. Härer
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Spirit
SPIRIT focuses on expanding internal and external communication, on interdisciplinary encounters as well as on the continuous development of a shared understanding of TUD’s goals and values. We perceive our university culture as a central success factor and strive to promote it through comprehensive participation, transparent communication and spaces for exchange. It is essential to create opportunities, spaces (e.g. Projekthaus Zukunft) and an inspiring atmosphere for pioneering ideas in all our activities. In line with our ‘Dresden Spirit’, this togetherness results in further strength and innovative ideas being generated for all areas of activity.
Internal Participation and Communication
Internal communication is to be modernized and professionalized, so that a contemporary, accessible and bilingual communication is ensured via all internal channels. Since the University benefits from the diversity of its members, they should be able to participate in shaping TUD and contribute their individual competences - this is part of the ‘Dresden Spirit’. In formats such as the Future Labs, the willingness to get involved has already become apparent. Through the planned dialog platform TUD Impulse, every University member can contribute ideas for the further development of TUD. Innovative and creative suggestions will be discussed and implemented - provided there are enough supporters and resources.
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Coordination Excellence Strategy Communications
NameClaudia Vojta
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The measure “strategy and mission statement” includes the overhaul of the mission statement and planning procedures. In a University-wide process involving all TUD members, TU Dresden will renew its mission statement and come to an agreement on the University’s central values, characteristics and ideas for what constitutes success. The new mission statement will influence strategy development and planning. Gradually, TUD will organize these processes in a cyclical manner, starting in 2020. In this way, sub-strategies, action plans and target agreements can be integrated and developed with continuous feedback from all relevant actors. In the future, an annual planning conference is to contribute to the transparency of the planning process. At this conference, the University Executive Board and the heads of the Directorates, Schools and central units will coordinate goals, measures and resource requirements.
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Head of Unit 7.1 Strategy & EXU Office
NameMarvin Fischer
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The management culture project supports the management culture at TU Dresden as part of personnel and organizational development. The aim is to achieve a professional, value-based and responsible understanding of leadership that is shared by managers at all career levels and in all areas of responsibility. Specifically, continuing education, training, workshops as well as team building and networking measures are on offer.
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Head of Unit 7.1 Strategy & EXU Office
NameMarvin Fischer
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Directorate 7 - Strategy and Communication
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Campus & Project House
The campus development measure pursues the goal of designing the main campus as an expression of the ‘Dresden Spirit’ and connecting the individual buildings and areas more closely with each other. A master plan for campus design forms the conceptual basis for the development of welcoming, high-quality outdoor areas. The future campus includes an easy-access orientation system with uniform, bilingual, visual and haptic routing. In order to make the campus socially and ecologically sustainable, the measure also includes ideas to promote biodiversity and sustainable mobility within the University.
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Director
NameDr. Volkhard Gürtler
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The Project House Future will be erected at the heart of the main campus of TU Dresden. On four floors and covering topics from all Schools, the building will offer both scientists from the EXU programs and Clusters of Excellence and students the opportunity to get talking to each other, advance joint scientific work and present research results. This togetherness will allow new initiatives and project ideas to be developed and put into practice until they are ready for application. To this end, the building will offer spaces for flexible use and an integrated technology platform.
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Director
NameDr. Volkhard Gürtler
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The Diversity Days at TU Dresden, which have been held annually since 2014, are dedicated to different dimensions of diversity, in accordance with the TUD Diversity Strategy 2030. Within the framework of various event formats (e.g. short film night, poster exhibition, panel discussion, poetry slam, workshop), the intention is to address the University-wide public and to increase their awareness of the topic. Furthermore, the event also aims to reach an audience beyond the University. The goal of the Diversity Days at TU Dresden is to show the range of diversity, how it manifests itself at TU Dresden and what special potential is inherent in practised diversity. TU Dresden sees itself as an inclusive university where being different is a matter of course. The special feature and natural focus of the Diversity Days are their easy-access formats, which serve as a model for other events.
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Representative for Diversity Management
NameDr. Cornelia Hähne
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Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Freestate of Saxony under the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Länder