Workshop process
The Rectorate has paved the way for a broad participatory process. While the paper defines the overarching strategic goals and systematizes existing or planned measures to achieve these goals, the participatory development and implementation process, which has now begun and will last several months, serves to jointly work out which steps are necessary to achieve the overarching content-related and institutional goals and to further develop research and its framework conditions at TU Dortmund University in line with the goals.
At the heart of the implementation process will be a series of workshops, three of which will run in parallel over a period of six months. In the workshops launched in 2024, representatives from science and administration will jointly develop measures to optimize research conditions at TU Dortmund University and a roadmap for implementation. Places in the workshops are limited and will be distributed according to status groups; the Rectorate therefore reserves the right to select individuals in order to enable the participation and representation of all groups.
News from the individual workshops
12.01.2024: In the opening workshop, the participants discussed potential indicators for evaluating outstanding research
02.02.2024: The participants continued their work and now focused mainly on measures to promote excellent research.
14.02.2024: The workshop will continue in April. Until the next meeting, the participants will continue to work out the measures in small groups.
18.01.2024: In the kick-off workshop, Prof. Dr. Tessa Flatten, Vice-Rector for Research, and Thomas Oeldemann, Advisor to the Rectorate in the area of internationalization, gave an insight into the status of international research at TU Dortmund University. Building on this, the participants discussed indicators for measuring internationalization.
16.02.2024: In the second workshop, the participants have developed measures to strengthen international research at TU Dortmund University. The will continue their discussions in April.
19.01.2024: At the beginning of the workshop, the participants discussed the integration of the "Evaluation and Monitoring" area in connection with the six substantive objectives of the research strategy along the functions of learning, steering and legitimizing. They derived various fields of action from these considerations.
16.02.2024: In the second workshop, the participants continued their discussions and systematically organized potential indicators for evaluation and monitoring using a matrix. The workshop will resume at the end of April.
Start of the first workshops
The first workshop strands started in January 2024 and cover a wide range of topics based on the objectives of the research strategy. The workshop phase in the first half of 2024 is dedicated to the goals of "Strengthening excellent basic and application-oriented research, their systematic combination and interdisciplinary cooperation", "Expanding internationalization in research" and "Continuously providing systematic monitoring and evaluation".
Details: https://www.tu-dortmund.de/detail/tu-weite-workshops-zur-forschungsstrategie-gestartet-39232/?tabindex=1&cHash=f9aebba254d813891f37fdf1b41f1e0a (in German)
Kick-off event
Around 150 TU members were present when the Rectorate presented TU Dortmund University's new 2023-2027 research strategy to the university public at an information event at the end of November. With this, Vice-Rector for Research Prof. Nele McElvany also gave the starting signal for the broad participation process, which will run from January 2024 to June 2025: Stakeholders from research, teaching and administration as well as students are invited to participate in shaping the goals presented.
Details: https://www.tu-dortmund.de/nachrichtendetail/auftakt-fuer-die-neue-forschungsstrategie-37843/