With vision and responsibility into the future: The third University Development Plan

With vision and responsibility into the future

Third H-BRS University Development Plan provides direction

As a society, we are faced with challenges such as climate change that require science and research to overcome. This makes it important for teachers and researchers to think ahead in order to meet their social responsibility. And this in turn requires solid concepts and direction, which the University Development Plan (HEP3) provides.

Sustainable and committed to society

HEP3 – which, among other issues, is aligned with the guiding principles of sustainability and social responsibility – enables H-BRS to position itself well for the years 2021 to 2025. “For major challenges, such as the transformation of an entire national economy as climate change necessitates, we need a plan that deploys competences in a targeted manner. With the new HEP, we have created a strategic instrument that does just that for H-BRS,” explains University President Hartmut Ihne.

HEP3 defines seven interwoven fields of action: teaching, research, transfer, internationalisation and diversity, sustainability and social responsibility as well as digitalisation form the inner core. At the highest level, sits the entire administration – governance – as a superordinated field of action.

Good governance is the basis for purposeful research, teaching and work at H-BRS. The management and administrative culture makes science possible, involves employees from all areas of the university and provides support when problems arise. At the same time, governance is a dynamic state for H-BRS. As Chancellor Angela Fischer explains, “For us, a vital component of good governance is that we as an administration remain in a constant process of learning and are constantly adapting to new circumstances”.

Cross-cutting theme of digitalisation

Take digitisation, for example. Driven strongly by the COVID crisis, it is a real cross-cutting issue and cannot be excluded from any of the other fields of action. Clearly, we must always think of digital measures from the user‘s perspective. From the student to the librarian and the professor, all members of the university must be involved. We are implementing new didactic formats in teaching and increasingly digitalising administrative processes. And with the new Digital International General Studies, internationalisation at H-BRS has taken a big step forward.

More: HEP video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA0XANDot8k