One new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) and three already existing ones, which will be funded for an additional four-year period – that’s TU Dortmund’s extremely successful outcome of the current grants procedure of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). “TU Dortmund will thus get additional research funds totaling to 20 million Euros for the next four years”, states TU-Rector Prof. Ursula Gather. “That is a huge success which strongly strengthens our profile areas”. The new CRC “Availability of Information through Analysis under Resource Constraints” (CRC 876) is coordinated by the Faculty Computer Science.
Good news from the DFG for the responsible researchers at TU Dortmund: Three CRCs were granted.
In addition to that, CRC 708 (Faculty Mechanical Engineering) and CRC/TRR 10 (Faculty Mechanical Engineering) will be funded by DFG for another four years – proof of the high quality research in these projects. Overall, TU now is Speaker University of four CRCs and one CRC/TRR.
Goal of CRC 876 is, to gain information from a continuously growing volume of data in a prompt, local and resource-efficient way. For this purpose, the Faculties Computer Science, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering and Physics are working together with two chairs of Universität Duisburg-Essen, the Leibnitz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften (ISAS) and the Dortmund Company B&S Analytik. As speaker Katharina Morik, Professor for Artificial Intelligence at TU Dortmund, coordinates the 12 individual projects of the new CRC which involves 19 professors and about 60 academic employees. Initially, DFG funds CRC 876 with approx. seven million Euros for the next four years.
Surface coating of forming tools is the focus of CRC 708 which will now be funded with 7.8 million Euros for another four years. The coating is to protect forming tools against wear as the processing of high-strength metal sheets demands a lot from the tools.
TRR 10 is a major research project in which TU Dortmund, TU München and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology take part. Since 2003 scientists from the three universities are doing research on designing integrated process chains for the production of lightweight structures. In Dortmund all individual projects are coordinated. Speaker is Prof. Erman A. Tekkaya from the Institute of Metal Forming and Lightweight Construction. The third grant period is now funded by DFG with approx. 9 million Euros until 2014. From this money, 5 million Euros go to TU Dortmund.