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University of Wuppertal (UW)
Institution
Section overview
Description
Founded in 1972, the University of Wuppertal (UW) is still young. Its twin goals are academic excellence in its individual disciplines and the consistent development of the interface between these disciplines and the world of practical experience – in a word, the transfer of knowledge and technological know-how. With a combination of disciplines that is somewhat unconventional for a German university, UW offers interesting possibilities – for example in subject combinations for teaching degrees, in interdisciplinary cooperations between the Faculties of Engineering and Economics, or in the field of Safety Engineering, where UW's degree program is unique in Germany. The university's reputation as a force in business and industry goes beyond its role in regional economics. Its business startup and marketing program provides young entrepreneurs with a first class springboard that once again in 2007 – as in 2005 – won Wuppertal number one position in the German university rankings.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
Coordinated projects
- BonaRes (Modul A, Phase 2): InnoSoilPhos - Innovative solutions towards a sustainable phosphorus soil management - subproject F
- Collaborative project: Smart sensor electronics to capture and evaluate ecosystem performance - subproject B
- Drainage of extreme precipitation events in urban areas: basic legal and economic analyses of wastewater drainage in urban street space
- Drainage of extreme precipitation events in urban areas: limiting the swallowing capacity of road inlets through relocation and pollution
- Drainage of extreme precipitation events in urban areas: performance of street inlets
- Research Group: Lipid-modified hydroxy carboxylic - new blocks for detergents, cosmetics and polymers
- Studies on the elimination of bacteria in the effluent of sewage treatment plants by means of Tetrahymena Work carried out at the semi-technical sewage treatment plant in Neuss
- The change of village life in 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012, sub-project childhood
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Analysis and bioengineering of the metabolic pathways of terpenes in the energy crops switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) improving its drought stress resistance
- Assessment of lung health of pigs from different ecological and farming systems by means of BAL Lungenhistologie
- Collaborative project: Botanical, zoological and geographic identification of honeydew honey (BoogIH) - subproject 2
Involved in research projects
- Changing Living Conditions in Rural Areas 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012. Subproject coordination
- Development of processes to convert chemical pulps into dissolving pulps
- Innovative solutions to sustainable soil phosphorus management
- Mechanistic investigation of the influence of potential ED in the model organism C. elegans
- Unravelling the potential of neglected crop diversity for high-value product differentiation and income generation for the poor: The case of chili pepper in its centre of origin
Contact
University of Wuppertal
(UW)
Gaußstraße 20
42119 Wuppertal
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: +49 202 439-0
Email: webmaster(@)uni-wuppertal.de