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The BUW is a dynamic university with an interdisciplinary teaching and research profile. We demonstrate our commitment to the Wuppertal region's structures and potential by tailoring the content of the courses offered and carrying out numerous research initiatives.
We also have a strong network of international partners with whom we cooperate closely. The number of international cutting-edge research partnerships and the number of international exchange students is growing accordingly.
Our website tells you everything you need to know about teaching, research, and knowledge transfer at our university.
The University of Wuppertal is research-oriented and offers a wide range of subjects, including disciplines and courses such as safety engineering and industrial design offered by no other university in Germany.
Interdisciplinarity, team spirit, and a capacity for innovation all characterize our teaching and research. The BUW's numerous successes are reflected, for example, by its high rankings. Good support facilities and a wide range of services and funding opportunities for students and researchers make the BUW stand out from the crowd and attract many students. The BUW is a university at the heart of Europe. It is part of an international network consisting of more than 220 partner universities worldwide. Regional cooperation is particularly strong in Asia, Latin America, and the USA. These international partnerships foster student and teacher exchange and facilitate joint research projects at the professorship and school level. The BUW is a popular destination for international students, with more than 110 countries represented here.
For all its international profile and connections, the university is firmly rooted in the region. Its active knowledge transfer and intensive cooperation with numerous societal and business partners have developed an outstanding regional network from which graduates, scientists, innovators, and start-ups can benefit.
The University of Wuppertal is a modern, independent university in the Humboldtian tradition. As a university, it is committed to searching for truth in full awareness of its social responsibilities. A cornerstone of its ethics is that free and self-determined persons can only undertake the pursuit of knowledge. Hence, academic teaching's noblest task is to educate people on the responsible acquisition and application of knowledge.
The University of Wuppertal is at the forefront of international research in various fields. Simultaneously, especially in the areas of training and transfer, it is aware of its regional roots. It sees its overall mission in the understanding and shaping society, culture, technology, and nature in their continuously changing forms.
The University of Wuppertal understands university teaching as a process of dialogue between teachers and students. It sets great store on critical reflection, social judgment, and empowerment to act in the service of education. It seeks to educate its employees and students on the highest standards to fulfill their future tasks in a democratic society, teaching and research, and their professions.
In this context, it is a central goal of the university to develop future-oriented research and teaching profiles that are on the one hand based on established strengths in specific fields, especially interdisciplinarity and innovation, and on the other open to the ongoing issues of education, knowledge, and research. The continuous growth of academic and scientific excellence in the framework of the strategic focus areas outlined below entails increasing activity in national and international networks. The university's commitment to such development is based on the conviction that in the wake of increasing globalization, the international exchange of experience, transnational research cooperation, and intercultural competence are of ever-increasing importance.
The establishment of specific research and teaching profiles serves to bundle existing strengths, develop new synergies, and enhance the university's impact across the whole range of its achievements and potentialities. Therefore, all disciplines represented at the university are called upon to adopt a profile in line with their specialties. At the same time, it must be emphasized that the transdisciplinary focus of the university in no way detracts from the distinctive profiles of its constituent faculties.
Reflecting the university's strategic goals and the focus of its teaching and research, the following transdisciplinary profiles are held to be nearly equal in rank and significance:
Fundamental scientific and mathematical research has always played an essential role at the University of Wuppertal. This has been further enhanced by developing research focusing on experimental and theoretical particle physics, scientific computing, and representation theory. In this context, fundamental research interest is the elementary building blocks of matter and the forces operating. Experimental work includes participation in major international projects from particle accelerators to astrophysical observatories. Research on mathematical methods concerned with naturally occurring symmetries opens up theoretical analysis possibilities and the quest for pattern and law. Theory and experiment are accompanied and supported at the University of Wuppertal by numerical simulation and advanced computation, interdisciplinary activities pursued in close cooperation with the international scientific community – currently (among other things) within the framework of a Collaborative Research Center and a Research Training Program, both funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The university's Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Informatics and Scientific Computing coordinates these advanced computing projects and forms an interface with the natural sciences and engineering.
A second transdisciplinary focus is concerned with education and knowledge as decisive social categories. Reflecting that thought, decision, and action always take place in socio-cultural contexts, several university disciplines research educational processes and the relation between education and knowledge, not only in institutionally formalized but also in everyday cultural contexts. Located at the humanities interface with the educational and social sciences, this field invites the combination of different methodological approaches. It offers excellent scope for successful interdisciplinary activity, which in turn not only constitutes a prerequisite for understanding. Hence, complex a subject but also provides an excellent basis for the education of future teachers.
Prevention and movement are the cornerstones of sustained good health, and with it of the ability to work at full capacity, their growing importance to society. Health has long ceased to be the exclusive domain of medicine: in research as in the health sector of the economy, it is seen as a complex phenomenon that many disciplines contribute. Thus at the University of Wuppertal health, health management and public health are approached from the perspective of health psychology, health education in kindergarten and school, sports education, sports medicine and sociology, movement science, work and organizational psychology, safety engineering, health economics and select areas of law. The university aims to draw these various approaches together in interdisciplinary research projects, developing concepts for the strengthening of health competencies about the individual as well as to organizations, and to the locality and region as well as to society at large – a crucial project in the face of social challenges such as demographic change. The Regional Competence Center plays a unique role in this strategy for Health Management and Public Health.
Penetrating our entire world of knowledge, ideas, intentions, narration, and narrative, far from being narrowly literary categories, is omnipresent in how we grasp, structure, interpret and communicate our experience, whether real or imagined. The University of Wuppertal's Center for Narrative Research concentrates the research forces of the Faculty of Humanities on this critical cultural activity, examining structural and contextual aspects of narration under the headings' historical development of literary narration', 'non-literary language narration,' and 'intermedial aspects of narration.' Other cross-departmental areas of humanities research are the theory and practice of textual editing, language acquisition, linguistics, and culture and communications, with its own Interdisciplinary Center for Culture and Communications Research.


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