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Students design new rooms

The TU Darmstadt has a large number of buildings that are basically suitable for the implementation of the sponge city concept, i.e. to use water as efficiently as possible, to feed it into the natural water cycle as far as possible, and to at least mitigate the effects of heavy rainfall events.

digital info event on Wednesday, 21.6.2023

With the start of the current examination regulations (PO 2021), changes have occurred that you have already adopted well for your studies. Nevertheless, there are always unanswered questions that we would like to answer in an information meeting for you and your fellow students.

Options for financing your studies

Speakers from both universities and the social counseling of the Studierendenwerk will inform international students and prospective students from non-EU countries about the possibilities of financing their studies on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 from 4:00 – 6:00 pm.

The team of the research project Participatory Energy Transformation (PaEGIE), consisting of staff members of the Institute of Political Science, the department of Land Management and the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), presented the results of the project on Tuesday, March 14, 2023.

To our master students

We are pleased that you are starting your Master's degree programme at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and would like to welcome you. We would like to inform you about the first organizational and subject-related topics in your studies.

Students design new rooms

The IPBU project “Design Built Cabin” was carried out this winter semester between Prof. Ulrich Knaack of the Institute of Structural Analysis and Design (ISM+D) at the TU Darmstadt and Prof. Lars Uwe Bleher, Emerging Design Technologies Department of the Faculty of Architecture at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

To all students: For our elective area we collect advertising material for events, which we summarize for you in a website. The site is dynamic – we are always adding content.

Win a trip to Lisbon with the Unite! student video contest

The Unite! student video contest calls on all students of the Unite! partner universities to make short films (max. length 3 minutes) showing their everyday life as students and thus the diversity and interculturality that makes up the student body of Unite! and its nine partner universities. The film should shed light on the students' personal lives and habits, thus arousing curiosity about Unite! Application deadline is April 9, 2023.

Students conduct interdisciplinary research on new bridges

In recent decades, extreme precipitation events in Central Europe have led to several floods with considerable economic damage and, unfortunately, also with deaths and injuries. The prolonged heavy rainfall event in July 2021 and the resulting extreme flooding of rivers and streams, particularly in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, have made it clear that despite all the technical facilities and preparations for such events, such floods cannot always be contained.

The writing center provides assistance with scientific writing

The final thesis is a challenging time for everyone – students and supervisors alike. The SchreiCenter has recently begun offering support options specifically designed for this stage of study.

Paper and cardboard as sustainable building materials are currently the subject of research and testing. They can be produced inexpensively, are made from renewable raw materials and are completely recyclable.

The Prof. Sorin Huss Fund. Apply by March 1

The final event GPEK I took place on 09.02.2023. In the form of a vernissage, the concepts of the urban framework plans were evaluated by the students, mentors and BFE partners.

A video report on www.planet-wissen.de with (among others) an interview with Prof. Lackner

What we carelessly flush down the toilet is a treasure. Toilet wastewater contains nutrients for fertilizing, lots of energy and water as a resource. But how do we get our hands on these raw materials?

Insight into practice and networking at digitalBAU

At the digitalBAU this year, 270 exhibitors presented their ideas and solutions for the digitization of the construction industry at the Cologne exhibition center. In order to get an insight into practice and to establish contacts with leading digital companies, scientific research assistant Maximilian Gehring visited the fair on behalf of the IIB.

DVGW-Hochschulgruppe Darmstadt

Dir ist das theorielastige Studium zu trocken und du möchtest dich in einer Gruppe junger Studierender engagieren? Du möchtest dein berufliches Netzwerk und deinen Lebenslauf erweitern? Du möchtest dich mit anderen Studierenden und Experten aus der Branche über aktuelle Themen austauschen? Dann bist du bei uns sehr gut aufgehoben!

HessenHub OER Award 2022 for Pascal Mosler

Pascal Mosler, research assistant at the IIB, was awarded the first OER Prize of the HessenHub. Pascal Mosler received the prize for creating explanatory videos for the course “Geometric Modelling and Visualisation I”. The HessenHub is a network for digital university teaching in Hesse that awards educational resources under free licence (Open Educational Resources) with the OER prize.