Third-party funding for a hundred projects
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10.6 million euros for research
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Products from 3-D printers at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences: the motto is research for applications.
Photo: Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences
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Mönchengladbach Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences has raised a substantial amount of third-party funding for research and transfer. As a result, the institution was able to further expand its position.
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Last year, the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences acquired 10.6 million euros in third-party funding for research and transfer. “We were able to further expand our strengths in research and transfer in 2019,” says Prof. Alexander Prange, Vice President for Research and Transfer at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. The total is spread over 105 projects and a large part (9.4 million) comes from publicly funded projects. The donors for these 35 projects are the European Union, the federal government or the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Private sector partners contributed 1.2 million euros to a further 70 projects. According to the university, such private research projects are more likely to be carried out with larger companies; small and medium-sized companies would mainly work in publicly funded projects with the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. According to the university, the largest individual project acquired was a collaborative project to improve power plants using artificial intelligence.
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The funding in the millions strengthens the research focus of the university: With 3.5 million euros, the most money flowed into the area “Social and Economic Innovations”, the area “Innovative Product and Process Development” was supported with 3 million euros. 1.3 million were in the “Functional Surfaces” area and one million in “Applied Health and Nutrition Research”. The remaining third-party funds went to projects that lie outside the university’s defined research focus.
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In addition to the 10.6 million euros for research and transfer projects, the university also acquired 800,000 euros in teaching. This should benefit the more than 14,000 students in Mönchengladbach and Krefeld. In addition to the projects, there were 73 ongoing cooperative doctorates, two patents and 16 invention reports, according to the university. Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences is one of the largest German universities of applied sciences.
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