University Alliance Ruhr
| University Alliance Ruhr | |
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| founding | 2007 |
| place | Bochum |
| state | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| country | Germany |
| Students | approx. 120,000 |
| Professors | approx. 1,300 |
| Website | www.ua-ruhr.de |
The University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr) was founded in 2007 as the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr (UAMR). It is a strategic merger of the University of Duisburg-Essen , the Ruhr University Bochum and the Technical University of Dortmund . Common profile focuses are Materials Chain and the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV. In 2017, the joint competence field metropolitan research was established.
profile
The three universities of the alliance cooperate - wherever it makes sense - in order to become more efficient by bundling competencies and strengths. Through the expansion of compatible profile areas at the individual partner universities as well as through diverse cross-university cooperation in the areas of research, teaching and administration, the UA Ruhr is constantly being further developed with the aim of making the Ruhr Metropolis an excellent location in the national and international science and study landscape establish.
Brief overview
- approx. 120,000 students
- almost 16,000 graduates annually
- more than 1,000 doctorates per year
- approx. 1,300 professors
- approx. € 1.4 billion annual budget volume
- approx. € 320 million third-party funding per year and
- 14 Collaborative Research Centers (SFB) of the DFG with speaker function
- Common profile focuses: Materials Chain and the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV
- Common field of competence: metropolitan research
- over 570 courses
Cooperations
The three universities cooperate in 53 projects and have established numerous joint institutions.
Cultural Studies Institute Essen
The Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) is the interdisciplinary research college of the UA Ruhr for humanities and cultural sciences in the tradition of international advanced study institutes.
AREA Ruhr
AREA Ruhr is the name of the joint scientific institution founded in 2016 by the Faculty of East Asian Studies (OAW) of the Ruhr University Bochum and the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) of the University of Duisburg-Essen.
UA Ruhr liaison offices
The three liaison offices of the Ruhr University Alliance (UA Ruhr) carry the strengths of the Ruhr area as a research and study location all over the world. The three Ruhr area universities have now gained a foothold in North and South America (UAR Liaison Office New York; UAR Liaison Office Latin America) and in Russia (UAR Liaison Office Moscow).
Mercator Research Center Ruhr
The Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR) pursues the goal of promoting the strategic cooperation of the universities connected in the UA Ruhr and thus strengthening the Ruhr area as a scientific location in the long term.
Cooperation of IT supply facilities
On January 27, 2010, an agreement between the chancellors of the three universities established the cooperation between the central IT supply facilities.
With the agreement, the creation of three competence centers was decided:
- UA-Ruhr-Center for distributed data management and data backup at the University of Duisburg-Essen
- UA Ruhr Center for the operation of high-performance computers and grids at the Technical University of Dortmund
- UA Ruhr Center for (Server) Virtualization at the Ruhr University Bochum
Web links
- Strategy paper June 10, 2013 (accessed March 11, 2016)
- Facts and Figures 2011 (accessed March 11, 2016)
- UAMR Annual Review 2013 (accessed March 11, 2016)
- UA Ruhr Annual Review 2014 (accessed March 11, 2016)
- UA Ruhr Annual Review 2015 (accessed March 11, 2016)
- The Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://materials-chain.com
- ↑ Nina Winter: Cluster of Excellence RESOLV (EXC 1069). In: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Retrieved April 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Homepage Competence Area Metropolitan Research. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Cooperations (as of April 13, 2019).
- ↑ http://aktuell.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pm2016/pm00017.html.de
- ↑ http://www.mercur-research.de
- ↑ Agreement between the Ruhr University Bochum, the Technical University of Dortmund and the University of Duisburg-Essen on focus areas and comprehensive IT services for the UAMR , accessed on April 13, 2019.