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HCU Supports Young Talent! For the seventh time, the HafenCity University Hamburg, in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the EUROPA-CENTER Uwe Heinrich Suhr Foundation and the Ingeborg Suhr Foundation, Ms. Heinke Sanders, PRISMA Ingenieure, WTM Engineers as well as IB&T Ingenieurbüro Basedow Tornow GmbH and other Donators, will be awarding the "Deutschlandstipendium," a scholarship in the Summer Semester 2018. The "Deutschland- stipendium", each in the amount of 300 euros per month, will be awarded to 44 talented students from all nationalities who show a high level of academic achievement in their studies. Social, professional, and family involvement, international mobility, migration background, and individual educational biography are relevant for the selection process. The scholarship is valid for two semesters. The HafenCity University Hamburg is the University Of The Built Environment And Metropolitan Development (HCU). The education and research at the HCU Hamburg aim to contemplate and concretize what the future of metropolitan areas could and should look like. Coping with this future will, however, require a systematic interdisciplinary as well as a transdisciplinary approach. For this reason, the HCU offers the entire range of disciplines required for understanding and designing the urban environment. The HafenCity University Hamburg was founded by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on January 1, 2006, as a university for architecture and spatial development through four departments from three Hamburg universities. We started a public debate on the pressing questions related to development, design, and the future of our built world. The opportunities offered by the foundation of such a specialized university can be benefited from. We want to get to the bottom of our specialist fields' education and research topics, develop our strengths within these specific fields, define innovative topics and methods for our future interdisciplinary orientation, and develop interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary education and research fields. Together we want to develop new approaches to the problems of our cities in the 21st century. The master programs offer students, ideally after they have gained their first professional experience, the opportunity to acquire more in-depth knowledge of their chosen field of study, which enables them to work independently in their discipline. The master's degree at the HCU Hamburg can also serve as preparation for a scientific career, as the students participate in research processes in their specialist disciplines and integrated research fields of the overall university. We aim to offer various master programs, which exceeds the limits of the previously existing disciplines and enable students to open up new professional fields in an individual and targeted manner in the area of built urban and regional environments. The HafenCity University Hamburg offers bachelor's and master's programs in all of its disciplines. The bachelor programs of HCU Hamburg correspond, in particular, to the current demands for professional education and provide the relevant foundation in the respective field of study. Simultaneously, the growing specialization of careers dealing with the designed environment and its economic, social, and ecological constraints requires graduates to understand and work with a broader range of topics, problems, and protagonists. Thus, students must have a firm foundation in their specific disciplines at the same time; they must, however, be able to deal with the different ways in which other branches of study view, understand, and interact with the world. Due to the wide range of its specific disciplines, HCU Hamburg opens up this unique understanding of the neighboring disciplines involved in the planning, design, and construction within the building and urban development processes. Innovation in the impressive range of disciplines results in innovation in each of our bachelor programs. The Master in Architectural Engineering is a consecutive, postgraduate course for graduates of the associated bachelor program in civil engineering at the HCU Hamburg. The course aims to provide students with scientifically substantiated knowledge and skills in a research-related manner so that the graduates are capable of recognizing the complexity of specialist problems and tasks, as part of a secondary degree with professional qualifications, and independently and autonomously solving said problems and tasks as well as bearing in mind and taking into consideration the subject-specific and social consequences and effects on the environment. Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning (REAP) was the first interdisciplinary research group formed at the HafenCity University by members of different subject areas (Architecture, Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning, Building Physics, Building Materials Technology, Building Construction, Acoustics, Technical Urban Infrastructure Systems, Environmental Planning, and Planning Law). The REAP group specializes in addressing the current and future issues facing our towns and cities. The Master in Urban Planning qualifies students for all spatial planning levels, enabling them to work in a self-reliant manner. They are qualified to work independently and responsibly as urban planners on a scientific basis, taking into account the design, technical, economic, ecological, and design aspects. View full university