Welcome to the Ruhr!
The Ruhr Area is not only Germany’s largest academic hub, but also an epicenter of innovation that fosters close interaction between academia and the private sector – and our alliance provides students and researchers from around the world with an open gateway to our region.
More than 120,000 students, of which 19,000 are international, as well as over 9,000 researchers study and work within the UA Ruhr universities (Ruhr University Bochum, TU Dortmund and University of Duisburg-Essen). Together, the three universities have 800 partnerships with universities in over 130 countries and a combined annual budget of close to 1.4 billion euros – which provides our students and researchers with virtually unlimited possibilities for exchange and resources for development. To support our already strong global network of international exchange and collaboration, the UA Ruhr has also created academic liaison offices for North America and Eastern Europe/Central Asia. We invite you to learn more about the UA Ruhr alliance and our universities, and we look forward to welcoming you in the Ruhr Area soon!
UA Ruhr Research Focus
The UA Ruhr is one of the largest and most powerful science locations in Germany and thus serves as a role model for cross-institutional and cross-city cooperation within the Ruhr region and far beyond. The strategic goal of the UA Ruhr is to establish the Ruhr region as an excellent location in the national and international science landscape. To this end, the UA Ruhr bundles its top international research under the umbrella of the Research Alliance Ruhr in four Research Centers and one College:
Research Center One Health Ruhr - From Molecules to Systems
In the Research Center One Health Ruhr, the UA Ruhr universities bring together their top-level research in the fields of molecular biology, water research, molecular cancer research and neuroscience. The vision of the researchers is to develop the topic of health in its significance and interaction of environment and humans as an internationally exemplary lighthouse project.
Research Center Chemical Sciences and Sustainability
In the Research Center Chemical Sciences and Sustainability, the universities combine internationally visible and excellent solvent research to improve the understanding of solvation-guided processes as well as reactions in the liquid phase. The Center integrates expertise from a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines.
Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security
The Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security unites the current, outstanding expertise of the three universities in the fields of social and data sciences and IT security. A unique human-centered research approach covers all interdisciplinary research on trustworthy data analytics, explainable machine learning, and privacy-friendly algorithms.
Research Center Future Energy Materials and Systems
In the Research Center Future Energy Materials and Systems, the universities pool their complementary expertise in the disciplines of materials science, physics, chemistry, computer science, mechanical engineering, process engineering and electrical engineering. The scientists pursue the vision of researching system-capable materials for future-proof energy technologies.
College for Social Sciences and Humanities
The College for Social Sciences and Humanities contributes to an increased visibility of the humanities and social sciences. Through Fellow programs, innovative questions and forms of collaboration can be developed in discussion with international guests. It sees itself as a forum in which established research foci of the UA Ruhr can be further developed with new ones.
In addition, the UA Ruhr merges its complementary strengths in the innovative and promising research areas of metropolitan research and empirical economic research and offers its scientists a platform for collaboration.
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