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Cooperation and interaction are valuable assets

At the end of 2022, an extensive transfer project at our university – the “Campus to World” project – came to a close. From 2018 to 2022, it was funded by the federal-state initiative “Innovative Hochschule” (“Innovative University”) with a sum of nine million euros. The project‘s motto was “Ideas and knowledge in exchange with business and society”. In a total of seven sub-projects, we extended and further developed cooperation with companies, institutional and municipal partners. We promoted interaction between ourselves and our citizens on scientific issues and significantly expanded our transfer instruments and understanding of transfer. Now all of this must be consolidated outside of the project, further intensified and prepared for the upcoming responsibility and opportunity in the context of the German Agency for Transfer and Innovation (DATI).

We are also opening up a new page of cooperation in the international context. With the DAAD-funded project “Take-Off4Internationalisation” (TOFI), representatives of all departments visit our most important university partners to gauge the extent to which these partnerships can be expanded in breadth and depth. The goal is to establish strategic cooperation partnerships with which we would like to increasingly intensify cross-university connections over the next few years in order to be better prepared for future challenges. This benefits not only the exchange of students, but also joint research and teaching, international transfer and university administration.

Cooperation and interaction with non-university actors at the national and the international level are valuable assets for us. They motivate us, especially in democratically fragile times, to foresee and master the great challenges of our future together.

Prof. Dr Michaela Wirtz, Vice President for Transfer, Innovation and Sustainability

Prof. Dr Jürgen Bode, Vice President for International Affairs and Diversity