“Since 2007, the University Alliance Ruhr has made a significant contribution to sustainably enhancing our region as an important center for science and research. Our brand-new contract plainly shows how far we have been available in recent years by working closely together and that we are continuing resolutely along our picked path,” say Albert, Bayer and Paul. “Compared to the contract we checked in 2017, you can see the substantial development we have made as the University Alliance Ruhr. Together, we have created many new institutions and cooperations, above all the four proving ground and the college, which are moneyed by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.”
Leading advances over the previous years include, for example:
- The Research Alliance Ruhr, which has actually bundled joint cutting-edge research in four proving ground and a college given that 2021 and makes up 50 extra professorships
- The pooling and growth of programs to foster scientific careers under the umbrella of the Research Academy Ruhr. Around 10,000 early profession researchers now benefit from among the most efficient and largest platforms of its kind in Germany.
- The strengthening of understanding transfer in BRYCK Startup Alliance GmbH through the establishment of UA Ruhr Transfer GmbH. The three universities’ success in the current “Gründungsradar” ranking (Start-up Radar) of the Stifterverband (a joint effort that promotes enhancements in education, science and innovation) motivates the partners to advance their chosen course.
- The three joint Intermediary Workplaces for North America, Latin American and Eastern Europe/Central Asia
- The International Board of advisers with renowned specialists from science and science management
- The Council for Ethics and Obligation
To form the additional development of the UA Ruhr, the cooperation contract imagines numerous new committees. These include:
- The Executive Board, which replaces the previous steering committees and selects a spokesperson as the external agent for the UA Ruhr.
- The UA Ruhr Assembly, in which the Executive Board engages with designated senate members from the 3 universities in order to increase the cross-university involvement of the elected agents.
Following the contract’s entry into force, Professor Barbara Albert, Rector of the University of Duisburg-Essen, was elected as the spokesperson for the Executive Board: “The University Alliance Ruhr is an unique development in the higher education landscape, through which the three universities– as top-class institutions for education and research– can achieve something extremely special. I am pleased that together we are altering the world through science.”
Professor Manfred Bayer and Professor Martin Paul add: “The lots of positive developments in the University Alliance Ruhr also form an outstanding basis for RUB and TU Dortmund University’s joint application as a ‘University Consortium of Quality’. Our idea for a development laboratory for the Ruhr area– Ruhr Innovation Lab– builds on the accomplishments of the University Alliance Ruhr.”
Contact for queries:
Dr. Hans Stallmann
Coordination UA Ruhr
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