15.10.2024
Research Professor Tahani Nadim Investigates Memory Cultures in Digital Transformation
With Tahani Nadim, Ruhr University Bochum and the College for Social Sciences and Humanities have gained a versed sociologist of science with a strong interdisciplinary profile for a research professorship in digital humanities.
11.10.2024
International Advisory Board Visits the Ruhr Area
The International Advisory Board of the UA Ruhr has now met for the first time in person and visited the UA Ruhr universities. The path for the future was set in extensive consultations with a high-profile international committee.
07.10.2024
Success for drug researchers at the UA Ruhr
Prof. Dr. Daniel Rauh and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Bauer and their teams have licensed out a promising substance against the rare cancer “gastrointestinal stromal tumor”.
01.10.2024
FEMS researcher investigates safe hydrogen storage from solid materials
Prof. Dr. Christian Liebscher from the Research Center Future Energy Materials and Systems is investigating how metal powders can safely store green hydrogen at room temperature and low pressure.
01.10.2024
UA Ruhr researchers heavily involved in accompanying scientific research for the Startchancen program
UA Ruhr universities are involved in the research network “Scientific support and research for the Startchancen program” and support the federal and state governments in implementing the Startchancen program in an evidence-based and needs-based manner.
Shaping the future together
At the universities of the UA Ruhr, 14,000 scientists conduct research and pass on their findings to 110,000 students. This makes the UA Ruhr one of the largest and most powerful university alliances in Germany. The academic community at Ruhr University Bochum, TU Dortmund University and the University of Duisburg-Essen stands for innovation, excellence and a living partnership in research, teaching and administration. Strategic management is carried out by the rectors: “We are delighted that the University Alliance Ruhr is continuing to act as a unit in new areas, launching initiatives and sharing common values and views. Together we are shaping the future.”
Research Alliance Ruhr
The UA Ruhr’s top-level international research on pressing issues of the future has been consolidated under the umbrella of the Research Alliance Ruhr since 2021. With four research centers and a college for social sciences and humanities, the Research Alliance is a beacon within the knowledge metropolis Ruhr and serves as an attractive research environment for outstanding scholars.
Research Academy Ruhr
In the Research Academy Ruhr, RUB, UDE and TU Dortmund University have combined their extensive programs for supporting early career researchers since 2017. The more than 10,000 young researchers within the UA Ruhr are supported through transferable skills qualification opportunities and benefit from a diverse range of networking options throughout their career path.
International network
The UA Ruhr universities cooperate with universities and research institutes around the globe. In order to expand their international relations, the three universities set up their first joint liaison office in New York as early as in 2004. A wealth of programs promote international exchange, while the number of degree courses taught in English is also rising.
Excellent together
The UA Ruhr will enter the Excellence Strategy competition with four full proposals for Clusters of Excellence in August 2024. The RESOLV cluster receives further impetus for continuing research on solvents through the Research Center Chemical Sciences and Sustainability, while the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security strengthens the CASA cluster in the field of cybersecurity. The Research Center One Health Ruhr won favor with its REASONS draft proposal on water ecology. Furthermore, a draft proposal from the field of particular physics is still in the contest. The aim of the UA Ruhr is to be “excellent together as an alliance”.
Cluster of Excellence RESOLV
Most chemical reactions, important industrial processes and almost all biological processes take place in the liquid phase. The team of the Ruhr Explores Solvation (RESOLV) Cluster of Excellence strives to understand the role solvents play in controlling, mediating and regulating chemical reactions. More than 200 researchers from chemistry, physics and engineering collaborate to achieve this.
Cluster of Excellence CASA
Nowadays, many cyberattacks on organizations or critical infrastructure are carried out by large-scale attackers and, in particular, by public or semi-public organizations. The focus of the Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries (CASA) Cluster of Excellence is on effective countermeasures. Its research is based on an interdisciplinary approach combining computer science, mathematics, engineering and psychology.
MERCUR
Together with the Stiftung Mercator, the UA Ruhr provides funding for joint research projects in the form of MERCUR grants. The Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR) has been supporting our unique cooperation since 2010 and has already made €60 million available for collaborative research projects, which have formed the basis for our current cutting-edge research in the Research Alliance and the Clusters of Excellence.
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