Involved Institutions

The Universität Hamburg is the largest institution for research and teaching in Northern Germany. As one of the largest universities in the country, it offers a wide range of study programs and excellent research opportunities. The university has numerous interdisciplinary projects in a wide range of fields and an extensive partner network of leading regional, national and international higher education and research institutions. The Universität Hamburg is committed to sustainability in research and teaching. The university was founded in 1919 by citizens of the region. Nobel Prize winners such as the physicists Otto Stern, Wolfgang Pauli and Isidor Rabi taught and researched at the university.

DESY is one of the world's leading accelerator centres. Researchers use the large-scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its diversity - from the interaction of tiny elementary particles to the behaviour of novel nanomaterials and biomolecular processes that are essential for life. The accelerators and detectors that DESY develops and builds are unique research tools. The facilities generate the world's most intense X-ray light, accelerate particles to record energies and open completely new windows on the universe. This makes DESY not only a magnet for more than 3000 guest researchers from over 40 countries every year, but also a sought-after partner for national and international collaborations.

The founding principles of the TUHH are unique in Germany: research priority, interdisciplinarity, innovation, regionalism and internationality are obligatory foundations for our actions. At the heart of research, teaching and technology transfer is the guiding principle of developing technology for people. The TUHH is a competitive, family-friendly and sustainable university with high performance and quality standards, which strives for excellence in basic research and its fields of competence. It is an internationally oriented university in the Hamburg metropolitan region committed to Humboldt's ideal of education. It contributes to the development of the technical and scientific competence of society by training young engineers with modern teaching and learning methods and by promoting technology transfer and the establishment of companies.