Doctoral Network “Unite!Energy” receives funding as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action

Research for the energy transition: The international Doctoral Network “Unite!Energy”, with the participation of TU Darmstadt, is investigating the use of hydrogen for chemical energy storage. The network is being funded by the EU for four years with around 3.2 million euros. For the first time, all partners of the university alliance Unite! are involved in a joint doctoral network.

Ocean sustainability in the sights of ULISSES

ULisboa is holding the 5th edition of the project and applications are open from 15 November to 15 December. Under the motto ‘Ocean without Plastics’, the initiative aims to creatively develop innovative technological solutions to characterise and mitigate the pollution of the oceans by plastics, guaranteeing biodiversity and the sustainable reuse of these materials in applications with economic value.

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.

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.

Frank Weber, mechanical engineering alumnus of TU Darmstadt, is developing a new generation of electric cars as a board member at BMW

His passion for cars began in his garage at home. He completed his mechanical engineering degree at TU Darmstadt in ten semesters and later rose through the ranks at Opel and now at BMW, where he is responsible for the development of new technologies and models. His studies were the foundation, he says today. ‘You become good when you know what fascinates you.’

Intercomprehension workshop for staff members of all Unite! universities

Intercomprehension is the competence or strategy to understand languages that we haven’t learned yet, but that are part of the same language family of a language we already know. In the workshop, intercomprehension as a strategy will be explained and tested. The workshop will take place in December 2024 and January 2025, apply by 30. November.

Expertise of all nine Unite! Universities

The first cohort of PhD candidates has officially begun their studies within this collaborative framework and are already benefitting from a common training offer from the 9 Partner Universities and the most advanced educational programs. Discover the catalogue.

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.

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.

Long-sought measurement to determine the timescale of the Sun’s birth

Have you ever wondered how long it took our Sun to form in its stellar nursery? An international collaboration of scientists is now closer to an answer. They succeeded in the measurement of the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionised thallium (205Tl81+) ions at the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) of GSI/FAIR. This measurement has profound effects on the production of radioactive lead (205Pb) in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and can be used to help determine the Sun’s formation time. The results have been published in the journal Nature.

Awards presented for international students

This year's German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) prize for outstanding achievements by international students at TU Darmstadt goes to Anna Klyushina, at the time of nomination a student on the Master's degree programme in Mechatronics with a specialisation in Robotics. The award, endowed with 1,000 euros, was presented at a ceremony at which the recipients of international scholarships from TU Darmstadt were also honoured.

Rapid team from TU Darmstadt successfully participates in rocket competition

The university group TU Darmstadt Space Technology e.V. (TUDSaT e.V.) made an extraordinary debut with its rocket ‘FRoDO-M’ in the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC) competition. At the event, which brought together student teams from across Europe in Ponte de Sor, Portugal, the Darmstadt group secured third place among 26 participating teams in the ‘Three kilometres with a commercial rocket motor’ category with its precise flight performance.

How to use

The Unite! Metacampus is designed for the realisation of courses and lectures within the framework of Unite! in which several Unite! partners work together collaboratively. It enables collaboration in a single system with simple and exclusive access for all Unite! members. A video explains how to get started with the Unite! federated digital learning management system (LMS).

Discover Unite!'s Best Practices Guide

Download the best practices and explore a comprehensive guide to improving work-life quality across the Unite! Alliance, offering inspiration and actionable examples from our nine universities.

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.