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RWTH Aachen University is a place where the future of our industrialized world is thought out. The University is proving to be a hotspot with increasing international recognition, where innovative answers to global challenges are developed. The Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments provided a massive boost to the targeted development of RWTH Aachen by providing € 180 million of funding in the first approval phase. The institutional strategy on which the successful Excellence Initiative application was based has, in the meantime, been expanded to form a long-term strategy to strengthen all the areas of the University and enhance their profiles. In the process, it has gained significant momentum, which can be seen, among other things, in the extensive building activities. Visible evidence of this is the RWTH Aachen Campus being developed in close cooperation with industry and forming one of the largest research parks in Europe. Students and employees of RWTH Aachen will benefit equally from these developments and are expressly invited to get involved in shaping the individual initiatives. The many exciting ideas already impact the whole urban region of Aachen and the entire tri-border area of Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. An innovative knowledge community is evolving closely networked with some of the world's leading research and industry partners. This brochure will give you a brief overview of RWTH Aachen as a major driving force behind this development and its prospects. At the same time, it also shows that Aachen, as a liveable and lovable city at the crossroads of three cultures, provides an ideal environment for creative exchanges. With over 100 courses of study, the nine RWTH Aachen faculties offer you a comprehensive engineering sciences program, natural sciences, geosciences, business and economics, humanities, and medical subjects. Since winter semester 2012/2013, RWTH Aachen has converted all of its study courses to the Bachelor-Master structure. Medicine and dentistry are two exceptions. Other courses of study with the Diplom and Staatsexamen degree can only be studied in higher core semesters. RWTH Aachen University is the largest employer in Aachen City Region. Thirteen thousand employees in research, teaching, and administration make sure that our University is one of Europe's most renowned educational institutions. The University as a workplace is exciting and multifaceted, and its lively academic landscape continually keeps up with the times. RWTH Aachen University relies on its outstanding and diversely qualified staff to face and accomplish daily challenges. University employees can grow and expand their abilities through comprehensive staff development opportunities. RWTH Aachen is certified as a family-friendly university. It particularly encourages the careers of women and cares for the concerns of disabled employees. The Family Services Center supports all university members in improving the compatibility of work and family life by providing information and advice and assisting with securing places in the university-run Königshügel childcare center. As part of its family friendliness efforts, RWTH Aachen aims at improving the compatibility of work and family by changing how work is managed. This goal should help make it easier for employees to manage their life plans as part of everyday work life. This represents an essential contribution to equal treatment and opportunities. RWTH Aachen offers the models "Home Office "and "Situative Mobile Work. " Both types of work are explained in a brochure, which can be found in the intranet. You can also find contact persons and various forms there. RWTH Aachen University employs both academic and non-academic staff in many varying professions. The University also trains in many vocations. The individual University institutions assume the announcement and filling of open positions, for example, Central University Administration divisions or institutions in the faculties. Current job openings are updated daily in the RWTH Aachen jobs database. You should send applications directly to the institution mentioned in the job posting. If your application is successful, the Department of Human Resources will take over the hiring process. Salaries and wages are paid by the Landesamt für Besoldung und Versorgung Nordrhein-Westfalen. We want you to be able to find your way straightaway, so we've put together information by the target group. This information is an essential tool for a successful start at our University and in Aachen. Our service-oriented guides help you quickly find the correct contacts in the "jungle" of services for your questions and concerns. We're happy to welcome you as a new professor. The team of the Welcome and Dual Career Service for Professors is your central contact and helps you orient yourself in your new working and living environment. It puts together a mentoring package with you, effectively adapted to your situation. We offer our researchers with a doctorate a creative and lively environment with attractive framework conditions. We've put together information on the following pages relevant to your academic career at RWTH and life in Aachen as a postdoc, someone pursuing professorship, or as a junior group leader. Regardless of whether you have enrolled in a doctoral program or are coming to RWTH Aachen for a short research stay, we have collected links for services relevant to your initial time at the university and in Aachen. You can also always directly contact the respective contact person and seek advice personally. More... Many technical and administrative employees ensure that our University is among the most renowned educational institutions in Europe. We guide new colleagues to the information and services necessary for entering the work-life at RWTH Aachen. If you are new to Aachen, there are also aids for starting in a new living environment. View full university

With more than 14,000 students, almost 2,000 graduates a year, ten faculties, more than 70-degree programs, nine in-house, and three affiliated institutes as well as four competence platforms, the FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, with its Aachen and Jülich locations, is one of the biggest and most important universities of applied sciences in Germany. Around 250 professors and approximately 900 employees work here in teaching, research, and administration. The FH Aachen offers its students a first-rate course of study that superbly prepares them for jobs in modern and trendsetting professions. Apart from traditional MINT subjects, such as mathematics, informatics, natural sciences, and technology, the university's range of courses also includes business studies and design. In line with market requirements, more than 70 Bachelor's and Master's degree programs are not just offered as full-time courses of study; there is also an ever-increasing number of dual study programs. The university focuses on modern teaching, guided by the latest didactic insights, and utilizes up-to-date methods such as e-learning. Students are provided with individual personal support, which allows for an intense exchange of knowledge and experiences with the teaching staff. The incorporation of current research and development findings optimally prepares students for their professional careers after graduation. When it comes to research, the FH Aachen strives to be among the strongest universities in Germany's applied sciences. The competencies are mainly in the future areas of energy, mobility, and life sciences. The latest research results are directly incorporated into teaching. Through close cooperation with regional businesses, the university and business enterprises collaborate on developing products and methods that provide added value directly in the region. The FH Aachen trains and educates young women and men who assume responsibility in regional businesses and contribute to the development of the local trade and industry by applying their research-related expert knowledge and methodological skills. The expansion of regional, national and international networking in teaching and research is an essential part of the FH Aachen's plans for the future, especially about the campuses' euro regional location in Aachen and Jülich, in immediate proximity to Belgium and the Netherlands. A further decisive step is offering international degree programs. Here, the language of instruction is English, which is meant to attract more foreign prospective students. In this context, the cooperation with numerous and significant foreign partner universities of the FH Aachen is particularly attractive. The FH Aachen's Freshman Institute prepares students from all over the world for further study in Germany. Imparting language skills and content competence in a highly focused manner enables students to commence a Bachelor's degree program in North Rhine-Westphalia seamlessly. The FH Aachen is one of the most research-intensive universities of applied sciences in Germany. The scientists of our faculties and institutes are first and foremost in the future topic areas energy, mobility, and life sciences. Additionally, outstanding experts work in the fields of design, architecture and civil engineering, mechanical engineering, economics and logistics, electrical engineering, information technology, and production engineering at the FH Aachen. Research at the FH Aachen is innovative, practice-oriented, and interdisciplinary. This also becomes obvious when considering the framework for an interdisciplinary understanding of research and development, adopted in 2011, to guarantee common standards. This is why you will find the best conditions for future cooperations here. As the Innovation Transfer department of the FH Aachen, we are looking forward to contacting you. To bundle, distinguish and permanently establish the participating universities' research activities, competence platforms have been created within the framework of platform funding from the Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Research of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Competence platforms serve as elements helping to build structures and shape different profiles at the universities of applied sciences; they are supposed to boost research and teaching. The Data Processing Centre is your first contact point for setting up FH Aachen network services. Service changes and new features will be published on the DVZ pages and notifications of possible malfunctions. Which university and which field of study suit me the best? "A Good Academic Start in Engineering" (Guter Studienstart in Ingenieurbereich) offers prospective students the opportunity to gain insight into a course of study at the FH Aachen and RWTH Aachen University and to attend the first seminars and lectures. The registration for the "zeroth semester" is now open. On Research Day ("Tag der Forschung"), the FH Aachen will present its diverse research and development activities in the fields of mobility, energy, life sciences, digitalization, and timber construction, to name just a few. The event will be held on Thursday, March 15. The presentation of the FH Aachen's Research Award and the FH Aachen's Lumileds Young Talent Award will be highlights of the event. View full university