Archive: News of Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Strong coordination from European Commission needed to advance European Degree, says higher education consortium
2024/04/22
ED-AFFICHE, a leading higher education consortium piloting the European Degree, is calling on the European Commission to take a proactive role in coordinating collaboration between all major actors across the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) to make
ED-AFFICHE is a powerhouse consortium of 51 higher education institutions (HEIs) from six European Universities alliances (Una Europa, 4EU+, CHARM-EU, EC2U, EU-CONEXUS, Unite!). In consultation with higher education ministries, quality assurance agencies, students and employers, the consortium has spent the past year co-developing a vision for the European Degree and identifying concrete steps towards its realisation as an instrument to overcome existing legislative and administrative obstacles to developing transnational joint degrees in Europe. Now, the consortium calls on the European Commission to develop processes to support the continuation and scaling up of the close collaboration initiated under ED-AFFICHE and all European Degree pilot experimentation projects.
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Major step forward in AI research
2024/04/22
New Aurora-M AI model focusses on safety
Computer science doctoral student Felix Friedrich is involved in the development of a new AI model that focuses on security in addition to free accessibility and multilingualism. Friedrich is conducting research as part of the TU project “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI)”, which is in the running for the title of Cluster of Excellence in the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.
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TU Idea Competition 2024 launched
2024/04/16
HIGHEST seeks business ideas and research results / Application deadline June 3, 2024
The innovation power of TUDa lies in many forward-thinking ideas: as research results, business ideas, or simply as whims on campus. HIGHEST, the innovation and startup center of TU Darmstadt, aims to unearth this potential and is once again hosting the TU Idea Competition, TU-Ideenwettbewerb, #DeineIdee2024 this year!
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Aluminium for the energy transition
2024/04/11
Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for Professor Christian Hasse
Professor Christian Hasse from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU Darmstadt has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). His research project A-STEAM is investigating the use of aluminium as an energy carrier and will receive funding of around 2.5 million euros over a period of 5 years.
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Unite! PhD Fellowships
2024/04/08
PhD fellowships in three Unite! focus areas
The University of Lisbon (ULisboa), in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and together with Unite!, is awarding 10 PhD fellowships in three Unite! focus areas for the third time, other areas are not excluded. The third call for applications runs until April 30, 2024.
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Smart search strategies for random targets
2024/04/02
Researchers at TU Darmstadt present new approaches to a problem of statistical physics
Whether bacteria in search of food or microrobots that automatically collect toxins or waste, again and again this is a problem in statistical physics that has not yet been clarified satisfactorily: how does an “agent” have to move in order to collect randomly distributed targets as skilfully as possible? Researchers at TU Darmstadt have now presented an approach in the renowned journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that can be used to systematically determine efficient search strategies. It could help to intelligently design tasks such as the search for cancer cells or environmental rehabilitations in the future.
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Focus on female scientists at TU Darmstadt
2024/03/20
Portraying researchers and their work
Women play an essential role in research and science, carry out cutting-edge research and contribute to a comprehensive understanding of scientific problems and their solutions. But it is also a fact that the further along the scientific qualification path, the fewer women are represented. This week, we present some of the female scientists who research and teach at TU Darmstadt. We give a glance at their excellent research content and achievements.
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Finding the right partner
2024/03/18
Seed Fund virtual matchmaking event
103 participants from all 9 universities met to present their ideas for Seed Fund projects and look for the right partner to submit their proposals.
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Picture: TU Darmstadt / Klaus MaiPicture: TU Darmstadt / Klaus Mai
How one scientist is challenging the laws of physics
2024/03/08
Radostina Zidarova is carrying out research into unstable atomic nuclei
Radostina Zidarova has already achieved a lot in her almost four years at TU Darmstadt. The young physicist is carrying out research into neutron-rich atomic nuclei at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (IKP) by analysing them using gamma-ray spectroscopy.
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New Emmy Noether group investigates explainable AI for image and video analysis
2024/03/04
Extending XAI to dense visual tasks
The German Research Foundation has accepted Dr. Simone Schaub-Meyer into its Emmy Noether Programme. Together with her new junior research group, Dr. Schaub-Meyer aims to research and develop methods that increase the understanding of widely used models of artificial intelligence (AI) in image and video analysis and improve their robustness. The funding for the first three years amounts to around 1.1 million euros, and includes the funds for two doctoral positions as well as 8 high-quality graphics processors.
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Let´s Unite! in Graz
2024/02/23
Livestreams for the Unite! Dialogue
The Dialogues are meant to be for the whole community to meet and discuss – even virtual. TU Graz has put together livestreams for a selection of meetings.
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1,000 atomic qubits and rising
2024/02/15
A new record for atom-based quantum computers
Making quantum systems more scalable is one of the key requirements for the further development of quantum computers because the advantages they offer become increasingly evident as the systems are scaled up. Researchers at TU Darmstadt have recently taken a decisive step towards achieving this goal. The results of their research have now been published in a prestigious publication.
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Guest professors at TU Darmstadt
2024/02/09
Unite! visiting professorship program
The Unite! visiting professorship program aims to attract outstanding international talents to promote interdisciplinarity in teaching and didactic innovation through international experience. It is open to all subjects represented at TU Darmstadt. Up to 13 visiting professorships are to be financially supported. The target group are primarily experienced postdocs. The deadline for applications is March 31st, 2024.
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Successful next step in the Excellence Strategy
2024/02/02
Successful next step in the Excellence Strategy TU Darmstadt has the chance of establishing three Clusters of Excellence
Huge success for the Technical University of Darmstadt: In the prestigious Excellence Strategy from the German federal and state governments, TU Darmstadt has reached an important milestone. It has been selected and invited to prepare full applications for the outline proposals “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” (RAI), “The Adaptive Mind” (TAM) and “CoM2Life” in fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science and biomaterials and submit them for funding as part of the Cluster of Excellence funding line. The selections were made by an international panel of experts. A total of 143 outline proposals were submitted to the German Research Foundation (DFG), of which 41 have now been invited to submit full applications for the second round of the Excellence Strategy funding programme.
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A revolution with biomaterials
2024/02/02
The cluster project CoM2Life
Researchers in the CoM2Life project at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and TU Darmstadt are conducting research into biomaterials that will enable medical innovations such as tissue repair or the development of artificial organs.