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RAI researchers recognised by renowned ELLIS network
2024/12/17
Four scientists honoured as Scholars and Fellows
The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) has accepted four researchers from the “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” (RAI) cluster project as ELLIS Scholars and Fellow of its network. RAI is one of three projects involving TU Darmstadt that are in the running for a Cluster of Excellence.
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12 Million Euros for AI Center hessian.AI
2024/12/11
Center combines the competence and expertise of 13 universities
Hesse supports the exploration of artificial intelligence as a field of the future: Science Minister Timon Gremmels, together with Digital Minister Prof. Dr. Kristina Sinemus, handed over a funding notice worth twelve million euros to hessian.AI, the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence, at the Hessian Ministry of Science, Research, Art, and Culture. Discussions also focused on current and future developments of the center. hessian.AI combines the competence and expertise of 13 universities and, with its scientific excellence, is a key component of the hessian.AI ecosystem.
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Bild: Peter PulkowskiBild: Peter Pulkowski
Abenteuer Exzellenzstrategie
2024/12/02
Sechster Tag der Rhein-Main-Universitäten
Wir schwärmen für die Zukunft – unter diesem Motto stand der sechste Tag der Rhein-Main-Universitäten (RMU), der am 27. November 2024 auf dem Campus der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) stattgefunden hat. Rund 230 RMU-Mitglieder aus Mainz, Frankfurt und Darmstadt sind der Einladung gefolgt, beim diesjährigen Tag der RMU die mögliche gemeinsame Bewerbung als Verbund in der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und der Länder sowie die Zukunft der RMU mitzugestalten.
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Support for Cluster of Excellence TAM
2024/11/29
New LOEWE Start professorship at the University of Gießen
Perception researcher Dr Katharina Dobs has been awarded a LOEWE start professorship at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen. Around 1.9 million euros in LOEWE funding will be provided over a total of six years for her research in applied computer science with a focus on cognitive systems. This will also help Hesse to strengthen the full proposal for the ‘The Adaptive Mind’ research network, in which the Technical University of Darmstadt is also involved, for the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments.
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New video on planned TAM Cluster of Excellence
2024/11/27
Leading scientists of the cluster project ‘The Adaptive Mind’ (TAM) have presented their research in a new video. TAM is in the running for a Cluster of Excellence in the prestigious Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.
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Understanding and shaping the formation of structures in soft matter
2024/11/18
DFG Research Training Group 2516 with the participation of TU Darmstadt extended
The German Research Foundation is funding the Research Training Group ‘Control of the structural formation of soft matter at and by means of interfaces’ (GRK 2516) under the leadership of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) for a further four and a half years. Other members include the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, the Technical University of Darmstadt, and the University of Stuttgart. Leading researchers of the GRK are also significantly involved in CoM2Life, with which JGU and TU Darmstadt are applying for funding as a Cluster of Excellence.
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The decisive phase for the Cluster of Excellence proposals has begun
2024/11/15
Evaluation by experts has started
The evaluation phase for the Cluster of Excellence proposals has begun: the first Hessian cluster projects were evaluated by experts in Bonn. The projects under the leadership or participation of the TU Darmstadt ‘RAI’, ‘TAM’ and ‘CoM2Life’ will have the opportunity to convince the reviewers in January.
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Successful concepts with biomaterials ryon Summer School under the motto ‘From idea to start-up’
2024/11/04
The 2nd ryon Start-Up Summer School took place in Darmstadt in October 2024. Participants had the opportunity to take a look into the future of synthetic biology. Over five varied days, the international participants learnt a lot about business models and how to develop a business model from an idea into a professional pitch deck in just a few days. This year's event focussed on the topic of biomaterials in the context of the ‘CoM2Life’ cluster project, which is in the running for a top cluster in the renowned Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.
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Picture: Fraunhofer IMTEPicture: Fraunhofer IMTE
Microrobots for drug transport
2024/10/28
LOEWE Start Professorship: Anna C. Bakenecker receives two million euros
Dr Anna C. Bakenecker has been awarded a LOEWE Start Professorship at TU Darmstadt. The expert in medical physics is working on the development, control and monitoring of nano- and microrobots that are designed to transport drugs to their target sites in the body. The LOEWE research funding programme of the state of Hesse is providing around two million euros over a period of six years.
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“Let's shape the future together”
2024/10/18
6th RMU Day on 27 November 2024 at the Gutenberg Campus Mainz
The Presidents of the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) cordially invite you to the 6th RMU Day. This year, the Rhine-Main Universities Day will focus on the RMU’s joint proposal as a consortium in the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.