New Seed Fund initiative launched in 2025

A new online exchange module is strengthening teaching collaboration across seven Unite! universities – with a focus on sustainable mobility in climate-resilient cities. Funded through the Unite! Seed Fund for Teaching and Learning, the Unite! Sustainable Mobility Forum (U!SMF) launched in the summer semester of 2025 and now brings together around 120 master’s students from the Unite! alliance and the EIT Urban Mobility Master School.

2nd Online Matchmaking Event

Unite! Engineering Biology: Online matchmaking event for young researchers. On September 25, 2025, the Unite! Engineering Biology initiative will bring together researchers from all Unite! partner universities to foster collaboration and lay the groundwork for joint project proposals in the fields of biotechnology, biomedicine, biosciences and chemistry.

Aalto University invites to Finland

The XII Unite! Dialogue will take place at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland, from 6 to 9 October 2025. Over 300 participants from the nine Unite! universities of the European University Alliance are expected to attend.

UNITE! launches the Sustainable Mobility Forum

The new UNITE! Sustainable Mobility Forum (U!SMF) will kick off with an online launch event on Friday, July 4, 2025, from 10:00 to 11:00 AM (CEST). The event will take place via Zoom.

New study under leadership of TU Darmstadt published

‘Starter packs’—curated user lists that new users can follow with a single click—played a key role in helping Bluesky grow to over 30 million users, according to a new study.

University members can vote online until 3 July

The university elections started today (23 June 2025) at 12 noon. All eligible voters can cast their votes electronically until 3 July 2025, 12 noon. The members of the University Assembly and the Department Councils, the student members of the joint commissions of the study areas as well as the members of the Student Parliament and the Department Councils will be newly elected.

Researchers show AI art protection tools still leave creators at risk

Artists have an interest in protecting their artworks found on the internet from being used as training data by AI models, which could then learn to imitate artistic styles in a deceptively realistic way. Modern image protection tools promise to prevent this. However, researchers at TU Darmstadt, the University of Cambridge and the University of Texas at San Antonio have now shown that this protection can be circumvented – a wake-up call for the industry.

EU once again provides millions in funding for GSI research on tumor therapy

Professor Marco Durante, Head of the Biophysics Department at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and Professor at the Department of Physics at TU Darmstadt, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, has been granted a prestigious European Union research funding award for established scientists: The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded him the renowned Advanced Grant.

Professor Alexandre Obertelli receives ERC Advanced Grant worth € 2.9 million

Unlike normal atomic nuclei, little is known about so-called hypernuclei, which belong to the category of ‘strange matter’. Nuclear physicist Alexandre Obertelli from TU Darmstadt wants to change that. His project, ‘When antimatter meets strangeness: a new era for precision hypernuclear physics’ (HYPER), is now being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for five years with an Advanced Grant totalling €2.9 million.

Start in winter semester 2025/26 / Online application possible until 15 July

The energy transition brings with it a multitude of complex tasks. For example, new and sustainable materials are needed, but at the same time specialised professionals who can survive in a globalised working environment. TU Darmstadt is facing up to this challenge and is expanding its portfolio of Master's degree programmes in Business Administration and Engineering to include the Technical Specialisation of Materials Science. The Vice Chairperson of Academic Affairs of the department of Law and Economics, Professor Volker Nitsch, explains the special features and opportunities of the new programme.

A new course for the next generation of engineers about energy transition and hydrogen technologies

Are you ready to join the hydrogen revolution? In September 2025 the course “Hydrogen and Safety for Mobile Application” will train the next generation of engineers to navigate the energy transition, by focusing on hydrogen technologies and safety in mobile applications like cars, buses, trains and in the field of aerospace.

Unite! students take the lead

The ESA 2025 will return to the EU Parliament from May 26 to 28, bringing together over 250 students from the European University Alliances. Eda Ceren Tuncer from TU Darmstadt was also present.

Alliance of Rhine-Main-Universities successful with a total of five projects

A major success for Technical University of Darmstadt: two of its research projects will receive funding as Clusters of Excellence. The Excellence Commission in the competition for the prestigious Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments selected the proposals ‘Reasonable Artificial Intelligence’ (RAI) and ‘The Adaptive Mind’ (TAM) from the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences for funding. The commission consisted of an interdisciplinary panel of experts and the federal and state ministers responsible for science. A total of 98 projects were submitted to the German Research Foundation, 70 of which will now be able to call themselves ‘Clusters of Excellence’.

The “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” project receives funding as a Cluster of Excellence

The researchers in the new Cluster of Excellence “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” (RAI) , which is headed by TU Darmstadt, are carrying out research into a new generation of artificial intelligence that can learn in “more reasonable” ways. The project was selected for funding in a multi-stage competition within the Excellence Strategy from the German federal and state governments. This coveted funding once again acknowledges the outstanding research and long-standing expertise in the field of artificial intelligence for which TU Darmstadt has been renowned for many years.

“The Adaptive Mind” project involving TU Darmstadt is awarded funding as a Cluster of Excellence

How can we use computer models to understand changes in human behaviour? Researchers at TU Darmstadt will be investigating this and other questions in the future in the new Cluster of Excellence, “The Adaptive Mind” (TAM). The application submitted by TU Darmstadt and its research partners to the prestigious Excellence Strategy from the German federal and state governments has now overcome some strong competition and has been selected for funding.