Lower Saxony Technical University
| Lower Saxony Technical University | |
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| motto | Cooperation instead of competition |
| activity | January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2015 |
| place | Braunschweig , Clausthal-Zellerfeld and Hanover |
| state | Lower Saxony |
| country | Germany |
The Lower Saxony Technical University ( NTH ) was an alliance of the three universities of TU Braunschweig , TU Clausthal and University of Hanover . It included the natural science and technical subjects and subject groups of the three member universities. These included the MINT subjects in engineering and natural sciences, architecture, computer science and mathematics.
The university was set up on January 1st, 2009 and was initiated by the then Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Culture, Lutz Stratmann , to create a "Lower Saxony University" from these universities. Braunschweig, Clausthal and Hanover had already founded the “Consortium Technicum” in 2000 in order to form research foci. This was given up in the course of planning a technical university in Lower Saxony.
The seat changed every two years in alphabetical order between the participating universities. Most recently, Erich Barke , President of the University of Hanover, chaired the Presidium and Senate of the Lower Saxony Technical University from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2014. He took over the office from his predecessor Thomas Hanschke , President of the Clausthal University of Technology. From 2009 to 2011 Jürgen Hesselbach , President of the TU Braunschweig, held the office of Chairman of the NTH Presidium.
On October 14, 2014, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture announced, after an evaluation by the Lower Saxony Scientific Commission , that it wanted to dissolve the Lower Saxony Technical University on January 1, 2015. The reason given by the ministry was that a top-down structure such as the Lower Saxony Technical University could not effectively use the expected benefits. In the future, research associations are to take their place, which “would be developed out of science” and take into account the autonomy of the individual universities.
On December 18, 2014, the Lower Saxony state parliament decided to suspend the NTH law from January 1, 2015. This also ends all memberships in the organs of the NTH. The Lower Saxony Technical University was dissolved on December 31, 2015.
literature
- Thomas Gawron, Ralf Ramin: The law for the establishment of the Lower Saxony Technical University . In: Journal for Public Law in Northern Germany . Volume 12, Issue 10, 2009, ISSN 1435-2206 , pp 392-396 (free from 2016 online available on the World Wide Web presence of the magazine).
Web links
- Stratmann's visit to Clausthal University of Technology on January 17, 2007
- The Lower Saxony State Parliament today passed the law establishing the NTH - press release by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture dated December 11, 2008
- German Research Foundation funds NTH with five million euros - press release by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture from November 13, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.mwk.niedersachsen.de/master/C28905710_N1206476_L20_D0_I731.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture: Lower Saxony Technical University did not meet expectations. October 14, 2014, accessed October 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Lower Saxony State Parliament, printed matter 17/2530, p. 40 [1]
- ↑ Article 5: Law to repeal the law establishing the Lower Saxony Technical University and dissolving the Lower Saxony Technical University . In: Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt 5321 , Vol. 22 v. December 22, 2015, p. 391, Hanover 2015
