We develop science-based solutions for people and entire social systems, now and in the future.
We understand interdisciplinarity as a driver of excellence.
We achieve visibility through participation in high-performing regional, national and international research networks.
We will create critical masses and increase the potential of our research areas.
We exploit the full research potential of our clusters of excellence.
We attract, develop and retain talent.
We create an attractive environment for research.
We increase internationality and interculturality as a prerequisite for cutting-edge research.
We provide our researchers with internationally recognised digital tools for research, collaboration, communication and dissemination.
We promote equality and diversity in all areas of research.
Together with our collaborators, we actively transfer research results into economic and social applications.
We expect our research projects to contribute to environmental, social and economic sustainability.
Our graduates act professionally in a changing world and international work environment and play an active role in shaping it.
Our programmes enable thinking and acting with foresight and meet the highest standards of teaching.
We have a distinctive range of programmes.
We offer the best study conditions and support.
Our programmes are focused on socially relevant issues.
We anticipate social change and adapt our programmes accordingly.
Internationalisation
We educate for a global labour market.
We embrace our role as an international university and ensure the integration and academic success of our international students and staff.
Digitalisation
We combine digital learning opportunities with face-to-face teaching to create space for new things.
We promote individual learning through digital or hybrid teaching-learning scenarios and enable studies for different life situations.
Equality and diversity
We facilitate a heterogeneous student body.
We harness the potential of learner and teacher diversity for individualised learning and teaching.
We widen participation through digital offerings.
Knowledge exchange
We think internationally and act as part of the region.
We make high-quality knowledge from research available quickly and easily and take up impulses from society and business.
Our transfer is based on stable cooperation and active communities.
We develop, implement and evaluate participatory transfer and dialogue formats involving our stakeholders and relevant social communities, and create incentives for individual engagement in transfer.
We will develop a broad understanding of transfer.
We strategically develop our network and relationship management.
We make our transfer structures and activities visible and create incentives for engagement in different transfer activities.
We develop our competencies in technology-oriented transfer.
We promote the transfer-related activities of members of the university.
We increase internationality and interculturality in transfer.
We increase equality and diversity in our transfer activities.
We use digital tools and formats to connect science with our partners in business, society and politics.
We create participation through transfer.
Governance
We have horizontal and decentralised governance.
Processes are guided by a common spirit.
We are committed to transparency in administration and governance.
Professional standard processes are developed further, for example through demand-driven pilot projects and creative model projects.
The principle of subsidiarity applies (ownership).
Administration 4.0
Our university administration is innovative in its structures and processes, its development dynamics and its own constant professionalisation.
It is service-oriented, responsible, sustainable, transparent, cosmopolitan, digital and communicative.
Together, we provide the best service for all performance dimensions and create free spaces.
We make the cultural change we have initiated a success.
We contribute to an attractive working environment.
As a building owner, we continuously modernise our research and teaching infrastructure, taking into account the interests of the entire university.
The administrative staff is characterised by service orientation and agility.
Digitalisation
By 2026, 95% of all administrative processes will be digitised.
We will develop structures that enable decisions based on key figures.
We will achieve resilience of our digital systems and organisational structures.
Internationalisation
Active internationalisation is a matter of course in the administration.
Internationalisation is firmly anchored in the mind-set of the administration and the administration's processes are geared towards internationalisation.
Equality and diversity
Knowledge exchange