TU KAISERSLAUTERN (Germany)
 The Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (TUK) is a medium sized university founded in 1970 and hosts departments of natural sciences, engineering, and social sciences. It has about 14,000 students from nations world-wide, approx. 4000 of whom are remote study students. The university has received excellence awards for developing teaching concepts, concepts of work-family-life-balance, and is scientifically recognized as center of prestigious coordinated research consortia . TUK is a part of a dynamically evolving alliance of universities at the border between France, Belgium, Luxemburg, and Germany (Universität der Großregion, UniGR) cooperating in research, teaching, and development. The university conducts a number of international collaborations, successfully participated in projects funded under several EU Framework Programs and has gathered comprehensive experience both as coordinator and partner in research networks and projects. Besides projects with national funding, TUK is also very active in the field of international research. In this context, the funding instruments available in the EU Framework Programmes play an important role. |
| TUK is partner or coordinator to 11 projects (as of 01/2020) conducted under Horizon 2020. Four further individual projects funded by ERC are being also co-ordinated by researchers at TUK. The numerous individual fellowship grants and career integration grants won from Marie Curie prove the focus that the university places on the support for and career promotion of young scientists. TUK has been well established, and provided good service as the host institution for young and experienced scientists alike. |
| TUK continuously and successfully participated in individual and coordinated research and training programs funded by DFG(Graduiertenkollegs,Sonderforschungsbereiche, Schwerpunkt-programme, Forschergruppen), EU and partners from industry etc. TUK was partner in 8 and coordinated further 4 Research or Initial Training Networks during FP 5, FP6, FP 7 or Horizon 2020 and is currently partner in two Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) and one European Master programme (Erasmus+). Additionally, TUK co-ordinates the ITN-ETN Re-CITY (GA-No. 813803, start 10/2018) and the European Master in Embedded Computing Systems (Erasmus+). |
