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Sunset at the North Campus © Roland Baege​/​TU Dortmund

News

03/09/2026

More Start-ups – and Faster

TU Dortmund University is establishing a new standard for the transfer of intellectual property to new companies.
Photo: Graphic illustration on intellectual property featuring symbols for ideas, protection, and law.
03/06/2026

250 Years of the USA: Tribute to “Experiment in Democracy”

In the anniversary year of US-American independence, the city and the university offer a varied program of events.
Photo: A group of people stands in Dortmund’s city center holding golden balloons and posters.
03/04/2026

How to Hear and Feel a Ballet Performance

A TU team is helping “Aalto Ballett Essen” to develop special services for blind and partially sighted visitors.
Photo: A male dancer in a shirt and dark trousers and a female dancer in a red dress stand together on stage in the ballet production “Carmen.”
03/03/2026

NRW-Wide AI Competence Network Launched in Dortmund

TU Dortmund University is part of a new consortium that is examining the impact of AI in art and culture.
Photo: People in a blue-lit room.
03/02/2026

Simulating and Understanding Processes in Thunderclouds

Dr. Christoph Köhn has come from Copenhagen to the Department of Physics with funding from the Heisenberg Program of the DFG.
Auf dem Foto sieht man ein Kornfeld und dunkle Gewitterwolken. In der Mitte schlägt ein Blitz ein.
02/27/2026

Sponsors of the Deutschlandstipendium Meet Young Talents

Currently, 233 TU students receive the scholarship which is co-funded by private partners.
Image: Group photo of the donors and scholarship recipients
02/26/2026

First “Digital Humanities Certificate” Awarded to Students

In the new program of the University Alliance Ruhr, students learn about digital methods in the humanities.
Photo: Dr. Stephanie Heimgartner and Prof. Kornelia Freitag from Ruhr University Bochum present a student with her Digital Humanities certificate.
02/19/2026

Understanding Change, Shaping the Future

The new issue of “mundo” shows how TU researchers study, accompany, and drive transformation.
Photo: Two people sit at a table and show the magazine “mundo”.
02/18/2026

An Important Step on the Path Toward Sustainable Heat Generation

With the newly delivered pellet system, part of the campus’s heat energy can in future be generated from wood waste.
Photo: A large technical component is being lifted by a crane through an opening in a concrete building.