University of Duisburg-Essen

The University of Duisburg -Essen (short: UDE, or previously in the Internet domain from Uni DuE ) was established on 1 January 2003 by a merger of the Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg and the University - University of Essen. It has around 39,000 students from 130 nations to the - according to student numbers - ten largest German universities. It has a broad, internationally oriented range of subjects. It is a center of nano science and biomedical research, as well as teacher training in NRW and offers more than 100 bachelor's and master's degree programs.

2.1 Main research areas
2.2 German Research Foundation

3.1 Central research facilities
3.2 Central service facilities
3.3 Affiliated Institutes

4.1 high school teachers
4.2 Students and graduates
4.3 Former Employees
4.4 guest lecturers 4.4.1 Mercator professors
4.4.2 Poets in Residence
4.4.3 Other guest lecturers

History

History of the University Duisburg

Duisburg is a university town since the year 1655. The Old University Duisburg took on October 14, 1655 and teaching started on, after an opening ceremony in the presence of Prince John Maurice of Nassau- Siegen, governor of the Elector of Brandenburg in the Duchy of Cleves. Even 90 years ago, the Duchy had received permission from the Pope, and in 1566 the privilege of the Emperor Maximilian II to found the University in 1564.

1818, the old university was closed with the university seal was handed over to the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, which it continues to this day.

Between 1818 and 1891 there was no university in Duisburg. 1891 moved the Rheinisch- Westfälische hut School of Bochum to Duisburg, which was subsequently developed into the " Royal Prussian engineering and metallurgical school" and in 1938 was renamed " State School of Engineering ."

Following a decision by the state government of 1960 the Pedagogical Academy ( ev ), 1962 College of Education, from the nearby Kettwig relocated in 1968 (from 1975 district of Essen ) to Duisburg and belonged to the " Ruhr College of Education ".

The university and the aforementioned mechanical engineering and metallurgy school, which was founded in 1971 temporarily renamed " engineering school for college entrance " and after the integration of a Department of Economics in "Fachhochschule Duisburg ", formed the basis of establishing the " Comprehensive University of Duisburg " in 1972. Founding rector of the opened on August 7, 1972 was University Professor Helmut Schrey.

The founding of the total high school in Duisburg was a part of the concept of the North Rhine-Westphalian government to regionalize the national higher education landscape and to enable with the help of integrated courses with practical orientation to students from non-academic families study. In 1980, the university called " Comprehensive University School Duisburg ".

In 1994, the University Senate decided under Prof. Dr. Gernot Born ( Rector 1986-1995 ) renamed the " Gerhard- Mercator-University " in appreciation of the merits of Gerhard Mercator. This was a lecturer at the Academic Gymnasium in Duisburg, the forerunner of today's Landfermann High School and the Old University of Duisburg is.

History of the University of Essen

The University - University of Essen was founded in 1972 as the Polytechnic of North Rhine- Westphalia. She was aware - as the same time as other start-ups - created as a measure in the course of structural change in the Ruhr region from the coal and steel production site to the service center.

Was built in the University - University of Essen as building square to a green campus around the northern edge of downtown on a previously demolished part of the traditional working-class district Segeroth, today Essen-Nord district. Due to the settlement near the city center and in a working-class district, and by the distribution of student residences throughout the city, a tight integration of academics in the urban population should be achieved.

Was incorporated into the newly founded University of the University Hospital Essen in Holsworthy district. The 1909 built City Hospital Essen in 1963 had been raised to the second medical Faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. In 1967 the hospital became part of the newly founded Ruhr- University Bochum. In 1972 it was finally transferred to the University - University of Essen. Food was so beside Dusseldorf as the only newly established NRW university a university hospital.

Was also incorporated into the College of Education Food in the district Ruettenscheid whose buildings were reused, the College of Engineering at the Schützenbahn and the College of Civil Engineering in Moltkeviertel. During the building of the College of Education have now been pulled free, the site Schützenbahn remains one of the merged university.

Many of the original concepts of reform from the founding period attacked for various reasons, not as desired or were not implemented in the college. The university has developed over the decades in most characteristics to a normal college. As successful of the total higher education reform ideas is considered the opening of the University for graduates of the second chance, from which acquired many thousands of university degrees in food alone - with ebenbürtigem success compared to high school graduates, as evidenced by supporting scientific research.

Merger and joint development

The merger of two previously independent universities was first proposed jointly by the two rectors of the universities of the state government to bundle potential and to realize synergies. The discussion on the way to the restructuring, however, was disputed. The discussion of the legal regulation with the state government was often in dispute, the merger but was always supported by the University of Duisburg; Essen University, she has rejected in the final stages of discussion. The merger was finally approved on 18 December 2002 by the NRW state parliament by law and with Secretary Heiner Kleffner used a founding officer. Actions of the Essen Rector of this law were rejected by the Supreme Administrative Court .. In the start-up phase of the new, merged university was struggling intensely to the division of the subjects on the individual sites.

With the merger, the hope was joined by the state government to save costs and to come by concentrating compartments inventory to larger departments at a respective location, which should have plenty of potential for specialization and for effective participation in the international scientific debate. After the start-up phase only one of the four major subject groups ( Geistes-/Gesellschafts-, natural sciences, engineering sciences and medicine) is actually concentrated in one location: The medicine remained in Essen Hospital. The entire teacher training, with the exception of individual occupational specializations will now be held in Essen, while disciplines like physics to Duisburg are drawn. According to decision of the university committees but are the subjects of sociology and politics still to profile "Technical University " of the site Duisburg, civil engineering remains, although the Faculty of Engineering associated with their degree programs are offered mainly at the Campus Duisburg, Essen location. In addition, there are still parallel study programs in computer science, mathematics and economics at both campuses. For students, this may mean by combination of subjects having to commute between the two places; this one every hour forming shuttle was set up.

The University Library is represented at both sites, their holdings are spread over the current six specialized libraries.

The University of Duisburg -Essen has no formal seat, the country has not committed in the merger, which city is the seat of the university. The university itself has since also avoided laying down on a seat. According to the Administrative Court Gelsenkirchen in an action brought against tuition fees can be performed without a finding of the seat no legal proceedings against the University, although it has been defined in the Act as establishing jurisdiction food.

In March 2007, the three universities of Dortmund, Bochum and Duisburg -Essen University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr ( UAMR ) was founded. This is intended to strengthen the cooperation between the teaching and research activities of the universities involved and give the universities a better position than an excellent location in the national and international science and study landscape. One of the first projects of the UAMR RuhrCampusOnline promotes university -wide teaching between the three Ruhr universities using blended learning.

In December 2008, the building was inaugurated in Essen S07, the new building for the Department of Chemistry has nearly 100 modern laboratories. The Essen location (old PH) in the Henry Dunant Road 65 was abandoned in exchange for the new building on campus. As part of the store is closed, the Botanical Garden moved to the Grugapark.

The University of Duisburg -Essen is the university with the most RISE (Research Internship in Science and Engineering ) DAAD university fellows from the United States in Germany. (July 2008)

The university has Germany's first Vice President's Office for Diversity Management ( DIM ), which aims also to enable educationally disadvantaged strata access to a university education. The cultural diversity is an enormous potential, so the diversity of students and staff should be fully taken into account in teaching and research.

With the establishment of a university-wide mentoring system in the winter semester 2009/10 the first time UDE offers students of all faculties systematic personal advice and support throughout the entire course of study at. Students should be strengthened and supported in their personal, professional and strategic skills that they can master their studies successfully and their study satisfaction increases. These personal contacts are established and a possible support and needs to be identified in time.

Research

Main research areas

In research, the University has five main research areas:

Nanoscience
Biomedical Sciences
Urban Systems
Transformation of contemporary societies
Empirical Research in Education

Achieving CHE Research Ranking 2009

Business Economics ( Faculty of Economics ),
The Education ( Faculty of Education ) and
Mathematics (Faculty of Mathematics )

A placement as " strong research subjects". You will find yourself in the ranking for their subject nationwide in the top group.

With the neighboring Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems is since its inception numerous collaborations in many interdisciplinary courses.

German Research Foundation

At the university there is a whole series of special research areas, several graduate colleges and priority programs.

Faculties and Institutes

The university is organized into the following faculties:

Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Political Science NRW School of Governance

Paluno - The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology

Central Research Facilities

"With the changing conditions and the upheaval of the German higher education, which led to a ' paradigm shift ', - significant is the example of ' Excellence Initiative ' - grow, the demands on support for the scientists to carry out their achievements in teaching and research continue to maintain and during the competition may even increase.

Research funding and research management, implemented as a service for researchers in the central institutions of the universities for targeted support, seem more important than ever.

The University of Duisburg -Essen has taken a first step towards the fulfillment of these requirements with the establishment of the Science Support Centre. Here the scientists are to receive the best possible 'Support', which allows you excellent implement their research activities. "

The following facilities are declared as central research facilities of the University of Duisburg -Essen:

CCSS - Center for Computational Sciences and Simulation
CENIDE - Center for Nano integration of Duisburg-Essen
Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Essen College of Gender Studies
Institute for Experimental Mathematics (IEM )
Institute of computer science and business computer science ( ICB)
Kate Hamburger Kolleg / Research Centre for Global Cooperation
Institute of East Asian Studies
Culture Institut Essen ( joint sponsorship with the Universities of Bochum and Dortmund)
Centre for Logistics and Transportation
Centre for Medical Biotechnology
Centre for Water and Environmental Research

Central service facilities

Academic counseling center studies and career ( ABZ)
High School Sports ( HSP)
Institute for Optional Studies ( IOS)
University Library ( UB)
Centre for Higher Education and Quality Development ( ZfH )
Center for Information and Media Services ( ZIM)
Center for Teacher Education ( ZLB )
Science Support Centre (SSC )

Affiliated Institutes

German Textile Research Centre North-West eV
DST - Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems eV
Research Institute for Economic developments in the Pacific eV
Institute for Energy and Environmental Technology
IMST GmbH - Institute for Mobile and Satellite Radio Technology
Institute for Prevention and Health Research
Institute for Science and Ethics eV
GGmbH IWW Rhenish- Westphalian Institute for Water Research
Rhine - Ruhr Institute for Social Research and Policy Consulting eV
Salomon Ludwig Steinheim- Institut e for German - Jewish History V.
Centre for Fuel Cell Technology ZBT GmbH

People

University teacher

University teachers Duisburg Campus
University teachers Campus Essen

Students and graduates

Andreas Gursky, Photographer
Heinz Hilgert, CEO of WestLB AG
Hannelore Kraft, Prime Minister of North Rhine -Westphalia
Hans -Werner Gessmann, German psychologist, Russian university teachers
Armin Krenz, German social worker, psychotherapist and author heilkundlicher
Gerhard Moms, economist and president of the University of Ansbach (2003-2012)
Ralf Michalowsky, politicians
Werner Müller, Federal Minister A.D.
Karl-Thomas Neumann, CEO Adam Opel AG since March 2013
Dieter Noor, comedian
Jan- Michael Richter aka Jamiri, cartoonist and author
Paul Wan, painter
Ludger Stratmann, aka Dr. Stratmann, comedian
Adolf Sauerland, mayor of the city of Duisburg aD
Tobias Voss, professional boxers and Thai Boxers

Former Employees

Norbert Bolz, media and communications theorist, 1992-2002 Professor at the University of Essen

Guest lecturers

Mercator professors

"With the Mercator Professorship the scientific legacy of the famous cartographer Duisburg and polymath to be kept awake from the 16th century. The main criterion for the award of the Mercator Professorship is open-mindedness and vision for the important time questions " Since 1996, the following individuals were previously owner of a Mercator Professorship (until 2003 at the Gerhard - Mercator University Duisburg).:

Poets in Residence

" The establishment of the poet -in-residence is a lack of any university in the United States. In Germany, the University of Duisburg -Essen was the first and for a long time the only university that followed the American example and the present author / inn / s as guest lecturer / inn / s fetched for readings and seminars at the university. 1975 held the first poet in residence Martin Walser 's poetry lectures in food. "

Since the summer semester 2000, the following individuals at the University of Essen were (later Duisburg -Essen) worked as a poet -in-residence:

Ss 2000: Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Ws 2000/ 01: Kirsten Boie
Ss 2001: Volker Braun
Ws 2001/ 02: Robert Gernhardt
Ss 2002: Mike Nicol
Ss 2003: Friedrich Christian Delius
Ws 2003/ 04: Brigitte Burmeister
Ss 2004: Georg Klein
Ws 2004/ 05: Andreas Steinhofel
Ss 2005: Yōko Tawada
Ws 2005/ 06: Dagmar Leupold
Ss 2006: Friedrich Ani
Ws 2006/ 07: Hans -Ulrich Treichel
Ss 2007: Terézia Mora
Ws 2007/ 08: Zafer Şenocak
Ss 2008: Jürgen Lodemann
Ws 2009/10: Klaus Händl
Ws 2010/11: Judith Kuckart
Ss 2011: Norbert Hummelt
Ws 2011/12: Norbert Scheuer
SS 2012: Guy Helminger
Ws 2012/13: Reinhard Jirgl
Ss 2013: Antje Strubel Rávic

Prior to that, since the winter semester 1975/76, an engagement as a poet in residence had already held, inter alia, Jurek Becker, Wilhelm Genazino, Günter Grass, Günter Herburger, Rolf Hochhuth, Heinar Kipphardt, Cees Nooteboom, Peter Rühmkorf, Martin Walser and Dieter Weller Hoff.

Other guest lecturers

Bruce N. Ames, cancer researchers
Robert Huber, chemist, Nobel Prize winner
Jette Joop, jewelry and fashion designer
Kai Krause, software pioneer and musician
Yehudi Menuhin, violinist and conductor
Stefan Aust, journalist, former editor in chief of the mirror, " Visiting Professor of Political Management of the Mercator Foundation " at the NRW School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen

See also: Category: Higher education teachers ( University of Duisburg- Essen, Campus Duisburg) and Category: High school teacher ( University of Duisburg- Essen, Campus Essen)

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