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. 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
January 12, 2024: In the opening workshop, potential indicators for assessing outstanding research were discussed by the participants.
February 2, 2024: The participants continued their work, now focusing mainly on measures to promote excellent research.
April 12, 2024: New ideas for measures to strengthen research at TU Dortmund emerged from the discussions of the participants during the third workshop. There was a particular focus on the thematic areas of "Innovation" and "Research Framework Conditions."
May 17, 2025: The fourth workshop serves as an exchange between the three workshop groups and provides the opportunity to reflect on and optimize measures ideas mutually.
January 18, 2024: In the opening workshop, Prof. Dr. Tessa Flatten, Vice Rector for Research, and Thomas Oeldemann, Representative of the Rectorate for Internationalization, provided insights into the state of international research at TU Dortmund. Building on this, the participants discussed indicators for measuring internationalization.
February 16, 2024: In the second workshop, participants designed measures to strengthen international research at TU Dortmund and will further develop them in the next workshop at the end of April.
April 19, 2024: New ideas for measures to strengthen the internationalization of research at TU Dortmund emerged from the discussions of the workshop participants. A particular focus of the third workshop was on the thematic areas of "EU research funding" and "research collaborations."
May 17, 2025: The fourth workshop serves as an exchange between the three workshop groups and provides the opportunity to reflect on and optimize measures ideas mutually.
January 19, 2024: At the beginning of the workshop, the participants discussed the integration of the "Evaluation and Monitoring" area in relation to the six thematic goals of the research strategy along the functions of learning, steering, and legitimizing. From these considerations, they derived various fields of action.
February 16, 2024: In the second workshop, the participants continued their discussions and systematized possible indicators for evaluation and monitoring using a matrix.
April 19, 2024: A jointly developed differentiated target system and further ideas for measures to systematically and transparently advance monitoring and evaluation were at the center of the third workshop.
May 17, 2025: The fourth workshop serves as an exchange between the three workshop groups and provides the opportunity to reflect on and optimize measures ideas mutually.
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/