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Unite! presents its Faculty & Staff Training Catalogue, now accessible via Unite! website. Designed to enrich the professional journey of professors, researchers, administrative and technical staff across the alliance, this initiative aims to equip participants with the essential tools and resources necessary for success. The catalogue is the result of the work done by the expert community 6.6: Compile a Unite! annual training programme for staff.

Research team suggests new process

A new nucleosynthesis process denoted the νr-process has been suggested by scientists from GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Technische Universität Darmstadt, and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. It operates when neutron-rich material is exposed to a high flux of neutrinos. The theoretical proposal, which was recently published in “Physical Review Letters”, may be the solution to a long-standing issue related to the production of a group of rare isotopes present in the solar system but whose origin is still poorly understood, the so-called p-nuclei.

New Research Training Group approved

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for the new “Organising architecture” Research Training Group (GRK) involving Goethe University Frankfurt and TU Darmstadt. The GRK will investigate architectures as symptoms and tools of modern institutions, networks and discourses and will receive funding over a period of five years. Co-spokesperson is TU Professor Sybille Frank.

The DFG extends the “MatComComMat” Research Training Group

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has announced that it will fund the “MatComComMat” Research Training Group (GRK), in which TU Darmstadt is participating, for a further four and a half years. The DFG approved a budget of more than four million euros for the second funding period from 1 October 2024 to 31 March 2029.

ELLIS researchers involved in "RAI”

ELLIS – the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems – is a pan-European AI network of excellence which focuses on fundamental science, technical innovation and societal impact. Researchers from ELLIS are also involved in the TU project “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI)”, which has submitted a full application for the Cluster of Excellence funding line as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

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.

The UNITE.H2020 project hands over the baton to the new Unite.Widening initiative

The first phase of the UNITE.H2020 project financed by the Horizon2020 programme and coordinated by the Politecnico and created with the aim of planning the future of Research and Innovation collaboration has come to an end. The aim of the project was precisely to develop a shared, integrated and long-term R&I strategy in synergy with the educational dimension of Unite!, by organising pilot initiatives in various fields to develop new ways of research collaboration and thus promote the institutional transformation of the Alliance partners.

TU bundles research in the profile topic Cognitive Science

What makes human agency so intelligent and adaptive has become one of the key research questions of our time. Possible answers will change what we know about human beings and are likely to revolutionize how new technologies will be developed. TU Darmstadt has bundled research in this area in the profile topic Cognitive Science.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.