Rhine-Main Universities

RHINE MAIN UNIVERSITIES
founding	December 15, 2015
place	Germany
Students	102,800 students (winter semester 2019/20)
Professors	1,457 professors (2018)
Website	www.rhein-main-universitaeten.de

The Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) are a strategic alliance between Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Technical University Darmstadt .

Study and teaching

The cooperation courses introduced by the RMU and the RMU course targeted for the 2020/21 winter semester are unique in Germany. The cooperative courses are courses that are offered by two of the partner universities and consist of courses at both universities. This creates courses of study that could not previously have been offered by universities alone. The students are then enrolled at both universities. The RMU course is an extension of an independent course and is intended to allow university students to take part in courses at other universities. Credit points should also be credited . For this purpose, the students are enrolled at all universities.

research

There are around 30 joint research alliances and research networks within the RMU (as of March 2020). The RMU have set up the RMU Research Initiative Fund to promote joint research activities. The RMU Initiative Fund supports projects in two funding lines. Funding line I serves to promote established joint research projects and funding line II is used to initiate joint research projects.

Brief overview

Numbers about the alliance are:

15,600 graduates (winter semester 2018/19)
1,700 doctorates (winter semester 2018/19)
22 non-university research institutions (2019)
526 million euros in third-party funding (2018)
21 Collaborative Research Centers (2019)
14 DFG Research Training Groups (2019)
41 ERC grants (2019)

Individual evidence

^ Rhine-Main universities establish strategic alliance. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
^ ^A ^b ^c Rhine-Main Universities: Alliance. In: Rhein-Main Universities. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
^ Hessenschau de, Frankfurt Germany: University Alliance: Study at three universities at the same time. November 27, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 .
^ Rhein-Main-Universities: Research. In: Rhein-Main Universities. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .

[1] Rhine-Main universities establish strategic alliance. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .

[:0-2] A ^b ^c Rhine-Main Universities: Alliance. In: Rhein-Main Universities. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .

[3] Hessenschau de, Frankfurt Germany: University Alliance: Study at three universities at the same time. November 27, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 .

[4] Rhein-Main-Universities: Research. In: Rhein-Main Universities. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .