Objectives of holistic development

Vision & Objectives

We develop science-based solutions for the social challenges of the present and future. Our basic research forms the basis for the profitable transfer of research results to society. We see interdisciplinarity and the freedom of research and teaching as indispensable prerequisites for innovation. In our four key research areas Metrology, Mobility, Engineering for Health and Future City, our researchers therefore work on complex research questions across disciplines.

As one of the largest technical universities in Lower Saxony, we are integrated into powerful regional, national and international research networks. By creating excellent framework conditions for research and providing structured support for scientific careers, we promote our position in the competition for particularly talented scientists.

Our goals for the performance dimension of research:

•     We create critical masses and raise the potential in our research areas.
•     We utilise the full research potential of our Clusters of Excellence.
•     We attract, develop and retain talent.
•     We create attractive framework conditions for research.
•     We are developing our strong research region into a scientific ecosystem.

Vision & Objectives

We place the highest demands on the quality of our teaching. Our goal is for our graduates to be able to operate professionally in a changing society and working world and to play an active role in shaping it. As changemakers, they shape the future. Our degree programmes enable them to think and act in a future-oriented way.

We offer our teaching staff an extensive range of further training programmes to ensure that they meet the highest teaching standards. We achieve our quality standards together with our strong facilities, which provide the technical and spatial infrastructure, support services and quality management.

Our goals for the performance dimension of teaching and studying:

•     We have a distinctive study programme.
•     We offer the best study conditions and support.
•     Our degree programmes are geared towards socially relevant topics.
•     We anticipate social change and adapt our study programmes accordingly.

Vision & Objectives

We meet the global challenges of our time with a passion for innovation. We make the high-quality knowledge resulting from our research available to society and the economy quickly and easily, while at the same time absorbing impulses from society and the economy.

In the centre of one of the strongest research regions in Europe, we have strong regional ties with non-university research institutions and are constantly expanding these partnerships internationally. With our transfer activities, we are pursuing a path with the aim of generating impact, i.e. having an effect at the level of civil society, and offering spaces to jointly shape the transformation of the present for a better future. In our Transfer and Innovation Ecosystems (TIES), we are able to accelerate transfer through successful collaborations and partnerships that create added value.

Our goals for the transfer performance dimension:

•     We develop a broad understanding of transfer.
•     We are strategically expanding our network and relationship management.
•     We make our transfer structures and activities visible and create incentives to engage in various transfer activities.
•     We rely on digital tools and formats to network science with our partners from business, society and politics

Vision & Objektives

TU Braunschweig is characterised by horizontal and decentralised governance with associated business processes. We act transparently in the awareness of common goals. This makes decisions comprehensible and builds trust. The principle of subsidiarity applies.

Administration 4.0: Our innovative university administration is state-of-the-art in terms of its structures and processes, its development dynamics and its own continuous professionalisation. The university administration is service-orientated, responsible, sustainable, transparent, open-minded, digital and communicative. Together, we provide the best service for outstanding research, study & teaching and transfer and create freedom in our other performance and cross-sectional dimensions through our activities.

Goals for the performance dimension of governance and administration:

•     We lead the cultural change we have begun to success.
•     We contribute to an attractive working environment.
•     As a building owner, we are constantly modernising our research and teaching infrastructure and incorporate the interests of the entire university.
•     Our administrative staff are characterised by service orientation and agility.

We are actively shaping the digital transformation and using the potential of digitisation in research, teaching and learning, transfer, and governance and administration to act more efficiently and sustainably and to support the diverse life situations of our university members. This transformation is already underway and will fundamentally change the university. Shaping this transformation requires changes to the role and requirement profiles of employees and students, needs-based further and continuing education, context-related control instruments, the willingness to standardise a range of processes, and even the adaptation of teaching and learning content. In addition, digitalised working environments are needed that enable flexible working and learning in terms of time and space and promote a sense of belonging without neglecting personal exchange.

To successfully master the digital transformation, we are investing in the development of digital infrastructures and technologies that benefit both the academic and administrative areas and are aligned with sustainable principles. These include smart building technologies, high-performance central computer servers, resource-efficient technology and the integration of innovative learning platforms that offer students a personalised and interactive learning experience. In addition, digital and AI-based tools and cloud services are designed to facilitate research and promote collaboration across institutional and geographical boundaries.

Our vision of a digitalised university strives to create an inclusive and supportive environment that empowers all members of the university community to achieve their full potential. Furthermore, we place a high value on data protection and IT security to protect our IT systems from attacks and to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of our university's data.

We see ourselves as a cosmopolitan and globally oriented research university that is attractive to students, scientists and staff from all over the world. We experience internationality as an enrichment of our university culture and as a process of mutual learning. We attach great importance to promoting exchange and experiences in an international context for our members and at our university. To this end, we rely on a broad network of international collaborations and, in particular, on close cooperation with our strategic partners, who help us to increase our international performance. We design our partnerships and collaborations to be interest-oriented, competence-based and risk-reflective.

Our central location in one of Europe's most research-intensive regions makes us particularly attractive to international guests and shapes the intercultural study and work environment at our university. Our activities in all performance dimensions always have an international dimension. Internationality is considered at all decision-making levels and in all performance dimensions.

For us, internationalisation is a central component in designing attractive courses of study. Education at the TU Braunschweig offers our students both international content and international networks. This is a prerequisite for successful career paths for our graduates in research as well as in business, politics and other areas of social life. The active and continuously developing internationalisation of our university also creates the basis for successfully attracting attractive cooperation partners, committed students and outstanding scientists.

We are committed to being an equal opportunities and diversity-conscious university: we consciously embrace our social responsibility as an educational institution and a place of personal development, and as a university community, we strive for fair participation for all. We want to be a university that strives for equal opportunities, recognises diversity, reduces discrimination and whose members are committed to fundamental democratic values, an open society and anti-discrimination.

Gender equity stands for equal opportunities for all genders in all our activities. The aim of the legal gender equity mandate is to increase the representation of women in science and in top positions and to ensure equal pay, also to guarantee their equal participation in decision-making processes. TU Braunschweig is constantly developing as a family-friendly university: We take into account the diverse life plans of our members, recognise individual care challenges and support students and employees in combining care tasks with their studies and careers in the best possible way.

Diversity describes the variety of people or groups; diversity management stands for a conscious and appreciative approach to social diversity. This means that the members of our university value each other's individuality and together promote an environment in which everyone can study and work together free from discrimination. Diverse perspectives and personalities enliven and enrich discourse at universities. They are the basis for excellent and innovative research, science and education, as well as the supporting administrative services and structures. Dealing with diversity makes a significant contribution to the holistic development of our organisation and creates the necessary conditions for a future-oriented, competitive and eligible university. Our strategic guidelines can be found in the diversity strategy of the TU Braunschweig.

Knowledge Exchange is an important hallmark of our work and, alongside technology transfer, knowledge transfer and relationship management, describes an essential dimension of our transfer activities. We think transfer circularly: from the university into society and the economy in order to address their needs and expectations, as well as from society and the economy into the university in order to take up relevant issues and impulses and formulate them together. Knowledge exchange refers to any process by which academic ideas and findings are shared and external perspectives and experiences are incorporated and co-constructed into our university work. According to our understanding of transfer, the main actors in an innovation system (science, politics, business and civil society) do not interact with each other in unidirectional push-pull relationships, but are in complex, dynamic, multidirectional exchange. This underlines the role of society as an important stakeholder in innovation systems and the importance of actively involving the public in innovation projects.

Knowledge exchange activities and processes should be to mutual advantage, with the aim of implementing knowledge, ideas and research results in effect and impact. Knowledge Exchange encompasses a range of activities, formats and skills that enable close collaboration between universities and partner organisations. Partners in this context include all conceivable regional, national and international actors with whom we cooperate, e.g. companies, NGOs, cultural institutions, research institutions, foundations, social economy, associations, religious communities, as well as actors from politics and the community. The aim is to significantly increase the scope of our work in the performance dimensions by integrating knowledge exchange tools.