Test of quantum electrodynamics circumvents insufficient knowledge of nuclear structure

Many atomic nuclei have a magnetic field, similar to that of the Earth. However, directly at the surface of a heavy nucleus such as lead or bismuth, it is trillions of times stronger than the Earth's field and more comparable to that of a neutron star. Whether we understand the behaviour of an electron in such strong fields is still an open question. A research team led by TU Darmstadt at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research has now taken an important step towards clarifying this question. Their findings have been published in Nature Physics. The results confirm the theoretical predictions.

TU Darmstadt contributes cognitive expertise to the international SCENE programme

Participation in the newly founded Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) marks an important success for cognitive science at TU Darmstadt. Over the next ten years, the internationally networked SCENE research programme will promote interdisciplinary projects investigating the connection between perception and action – a core topic of the Centre for Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt and the research cluster The Adaptive Mind (TAM), with which TU Darmstadt is currently competing in the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments.

Unite! Round Table on 29 April 2025

TU Uniter members will meet on Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 11:00-13:00, Building S1/01, Karolinenplatz 5 (Room 707) for their regular Round Table. This time, the event will take place in two parts, hybrid and in person.

Projekt „MagCycleAM“ von VolkswagenStiftung mit rund 1,1 Millionen Euro gefördert

Die VolkswagenStiftung hat neue Projekte in der Förderinitiative „Zirkularität mit recycelten und biogenen Rohstoffen“ bewilligt: Vier Jahre lang und mit rund 1,1 Millionen Euro wird das von TU-Professor Oliver Gutfleisch geleitete Projekt „MagCycleAM – Resource and Energy Efficient Recycling and Additive Manufacturing of Nd-Fe-B Magnets“ gefördert. In Kooperation mit der Fraunhofer-Einrichtung für Wertstoffkreisläufe und Ressourcenstrategie IWKS Hanau und The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot forscht ein Team an der Herstellung nachhaltiger Dauermagnete.

Digital event for Master students

Are you curious how it is to be a researcher? Are you considering doing a doctoral degree? Meet researchers who have taken this path as they share what motivated them to pursue a doctoral degree and how research has shaped their careers. On April the 8th you can meet with researchers from the Unite! universities who will tell you about their doctoral studies, what made them decide to pursue a PhD, what it is like to be a researcher and what opportunities might open up for you after your doctoral studies.

Four Universities and Futury Launch the Future Factory

The Rhine-Main startup ecosystem is gaining momentum: Four leading universities – Technical UniversityDarmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management – together with Futury, are launching the Future Factory, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at fostering academic entrepreneurship in the region. This initiative strengthens the link between academic research, education, and entrepreneurial practice, ensuring that promising innovations are successfully translated into market-ready business ventures.

Seed Fund Initiative

The Cities in Times of Drought or Abundance project, funded by Unite! Seed Fund and led by UPC, aims to create a joint academic course exploring architectural and urban solutions to mitigate climate impacts.

Time to Put Inclusion into Action

After three years of dedicated collaboration, the IDEM project has come to a successful close. Funded from 2022 to January 2025, IDEM brought together five Unite! universities – TU Darmstadt (coordinator), UPC Barcelona, Aalto University, Universidade de Lisboa, and Grenoble INP-UGA – with Politecnico di Torino as an associate partner. Their shared mission: to make student mobility more inclusive and equitable.

Seed Fund project on developing a Joint Master’s Programme focusing on Games for Health

Although Serious Games have demonstrated their value in improving health outcomes, the current deficit in knowledge and educational programs poses a significant challenge that must be overcome. The Seed Fund initiative “Unite! Games4Health” aims to establish an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Programme (EMJM) focused on the development and application of Serious Games for health, known as Games for Health (G4H). It seeks to bridge this gap by fostering collaboration between game developers and healthcare experts. By bringing together these two fields, they aim to create a comprehensive understanding of how Serious Games can be effectively utilized in various healthcare settings. Serious Games are designed not only for entertainment, but also to achieve specific goals such as enhancing learning, promoting behaviour change and supporting health prevention and rehabilitation.

Apply now until April 7

The applications are now open until April 7! This fall 30 Unite! students will be heading by train from Darmstadt to Graz, focusing on entrepreneurship, sustainability, and multicultural collaboration. This year, the train trip will be organised by TU Graz and TU Darmstadt, taking participants from Darmstadt in central Germany to Graz in southern Austria.

A Recap

Under the motto “Unite! students: our soul, our core,” over 500 participants from the nine Unite! universities gathered at UPC from February 25 to 28 to advance a more connected and innovative European higher education system.

Register via the Metacampus space until March 17th, 2025.

Improve your speaking skills in Spanish, Catalan, German, Italian, French, Swedish, Finnish, Portuguese, Polish, or English with another student from the Unite! community, discover their culture, and expand your international network. Register via the Metacampus space for virtual language tandems until March17th, 2025.

Humanoid robot TALOS at TU Darmstadt for research into human-like learning

The Technical University of Darmstadt is expanding its portfolio of large-scale interdisciplinary research equipment with a special addition: the state-of-the-art humanoid robot ‘TALOS’. There are currently only five other research centres in the world with such a robot, and Darmstadt's TALOS is the only one in Germany. Its arrival today also marked the launch of the new Laboratory for Humanoid Robotics.

Webinar series for studentsCafé

In compact 20-minute sessions, Unite! presents various opportunities for students. Topics include summer schools, multicultural and multilingual programmes, the U!Train – a course that enables a study tour through Europe – and exchange study programmes. The webinar series will take place on 12 March 2025, with the registration deadline on 10 March 2025.

Unite! guest professors at TU Darmstadt for the first time

In the winter semester 2024/2025, four Unite! guest professors will be teaching and researching at TU Darmstadt for the first time. The Unite! Guest Professorship aims to attract outstanding international talent to promote interdisciplinary teaching and didactic innovation through international experience. We introduce the visiting scholars and their research. The next call for applications is already open, with the deadline for submissions being 31 March 2025.