To investigate nature, to educate people, to accept technical challenges and to co-design the resulting cultural and social changes—these are the key tasks of Technische Universität Dortmund.
From the beginning Technische Universität Dortmund has been dedicated to interdisciplinary cooperation between natural/technical sciences and social/cultural sciences and their specialties with regard to research and teaching. The potentials of these specifics are continually to be used to mutually increase orientation competence, cultural competence, innovation power, critical faculties and technological knowledge and therefore ensure an even higher study quality.
Technische Universität Dortmund does not solely focus on the strengths of its single disciplines but also on the interdisciplinary network among its disciplines. That implies more profile-building features with regard to teaching offers and interdisciplinary research. The interdisciplinary cooperation in the university’s three areas—engineering and computer science, natural sciences and social and cultural sciences—opens up innovative synergy potential in research and cutting-edge education.
Technische Universität Dortmund regards the preservation and improvement of its research achievements as the essential basis for its overall development. Basic research and applied research are in a balanced proportion to each other.
Technische Universität Dortmund especially promotes its four profile areas, which produce a wide variety of interdisciplinary research achievements on an internationally outstanding level: