In addition to providing basic funding for universities and non-university research institutions in Lower Saxony, the state also supports project-based research from the state budget and the Volkswagen Foundation's “zukunft.niedersachsen” program.
A complete list of all projects with the participation of Clausthal University of Technology funded by Lower Saxony would go beyond the scope of this page. The following selection therefore only includes projects of particular strategic importance and size.
CADENCE
Clausthal Approach to Digital ENgineering to boost Circular Economy
KEIKO
Cognitively and Empathically Intelligent Collaborating Robots
TEN.efzn
Transforming the Energy System Lower Saxony
Wissenschaftsraum NaMeKI
Sustainable human-AI collaboration
Zukunftslabor Circular Economy
Digitization of the circular economy
CircularLIB
Circular production and usage of lithium-ion batteries
(ended 2025)