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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Coordinated DFG programmes promote cooperation and structural innovation by encouraging national and international collaboration in areas of current relevance and by concentrating scientific potential at a university.

Clausthal University of Technology is currently involved in the following coordinated programmes:

Collaborative Research Centres

Collaborative Research Centre 1368

Oxygen-free production

Participating TUC institutes: CZM, IMVT, SWZ

Collaborative Research Centre 1073

Atomic scale control of energy conversion

Participating TUC institutes: ITP

(ended 2025)

Research Units

Research Unit 5044

Periodic low-dimensional defect structures in polar oxides

Participating TUC institutes: IEPT, IMET

Research Unit 2397

Multi-scale analysis of complex three-phase systems

Participating TUC institutes: ICVT

(ended 2025)

Priority Programmes

Priority Programme 2305

Sensor-integrated machine elements pave the way for widespread digitalization

Participating TUC institutes: IMW

Priority Programme 2315

Engineered Artificial Minerals (EnAM) – a geo-metallurgical tool to recycle critical elements from waste streams

Participating TUC institutes: IAAC, IGMR, IMVT, SWZ

Priority Programme 2331

Machine learning in chemical engineering. Knowledge meets data: interpretability, extrapolation, reliability, trust

Participating TUC institutes: ITC

Priority Programme 2364

Autonomous processes in particle technology - Research and testing of concepts for model-based control of particulate processes

Participating TUC institutes: IEI

Priority Programme 2410

Hyperbolic balance laws in fluid mechanics: Complexity, scales, randomness (CoScaRa)

Participating TUC institutes: IfM

Priority Programme 2433

Metrology on flying platforms

Participating TUC institutes: IEI

Priority Programme 2476

Cross-process modelling in production engineering

Participating TUC institutes: IMET