HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU)

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HCU Supports Young Talent! For the seventh time, the HafenCity University Hamburg, in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the EUROPA-CENTER Uwe Heinrich Suhr Foundation and the Ingeborg Suhr Foundation, Ms Heinke Sanders, PRISMA Ingenieure, WTM Engineers as well as IB&T Ingenieurbüro Basedow Tornow GmbH and other Donators, will be awarding the „Deutschlandstipe...ndium", a scholarship in the Summer Semester 2018. The „Deutschland- stipendium", each in the amount of 300 euros per month, will be awarded to 44 talented students from all nationalities who show a high level of academic achievement in their studies. Social, professional and family involvement, international mobility, migration background as well as the individual educational biography are relevant for the selection process, too. The scholarship is valid for two semesters.
The HafenCity University Hamburg is the University Of The Built Environment And Metropolitan Development (HCU). The education and research at the HCU Hamburg are aimed at contemplating and concretising what the future of metropolitan areas could and should look like. Coping with this future will, however, require a systematic interdisciplinary as well as a transdisciplinary approach. For this reason, the HCU offers the entire range of disciplines required for understanding and designing the urban environment.
The HafenCity University Hamburg was founded by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on January 1, 2006 as a university for architecture and spatial development through the merger of four departments from three Hamburg universities.
We started a public debate on the pressing questions, which relate to development, design and the future of our built world so that the opportunities offered by the foundation of such a specialised university can really be benefited from. We want to get to the bottom of the education and research topics of our specialist fields, develop our own strengths within these specific fields, define innovative topics and methods for our future interdisciplinary orientation as well as develop interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary education and research fields. Together we want to develop new approaches to the problems of our cities in the 21st century.
The master programmes offer students, ideally after they have gained their first professional experience, the opportunity to acquire more in-depth knowledge of their chosen field of study, which enables them to work independently in their discipline. The master"s degree at the HCU Hamburg can also, however, serve as preparation for a scientific career, as the students participate in research processes in their specialist disciplines as well as in integrated research fields of the overall university. Our aim is to offer a variety of master programmes, which exceeds the limits of the previously existing disciplines, and to thus enable students to open up new professional fields in an individual and targeted manner in the area of built urban and regional environments.
The HafenCity University Hamburg offers bachelor and master programmes in all of its disciplines.
The bachelor programmes of HCU Hamburg correspond, in particular, to the current demands for a professional education and provide the relevant foundation in the respective field of study. At the same time, the growing specialisation of careers dealing with the designed environment and its economic, social and ecological constraints requires graduates to be able to understand and work with a wider range of topics, problems and protagonists. It is thus important that students have a firm foundation in their specific disciplines; at the same time, they must, however, be able to deal with the different ways in which other branches of study view, understand and interact with the world. Due to the wide range of its specific disciplines, HCU Hamburg opens up this special understanding of the neighbouring disciplines involved in the planning, design and construction within building and urban development processes. Innovation in the special range of disciplines results in innovation in each of our bachelor programmes.
The Master in Architectural Engineering is designed as a consecutive, postgraduate course for graduates of the associated bachelor programme in civil engineering at the HCU Hamburg.
The aim of the course is to provide students with scientifically substantiated knowledge and skills in a research-related manner so that the graduates are capable of recognising the complexity of specialist problems and tasks, as part of a secondary degree with professional qualifications, and independently and autonomously solving said problems and tasks as well as bearing in mind and taking into consideration the subject-specific and social consequences and effects on the environment.
Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning (REAP) was the first interdisciplinary research group formed at the HafenCity University by members of different subject areas (Architecture, Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning, Building Physics, Building Materials Technology, Building Construction, Acoustics, Technical Urban Infrastructure Systems, Environmental Planning and Planning Law). The REAP group specialises in addressing the current and future issues facing our towns and cities.
The Master in Urban Planning qualifies students for all levels of spatial planning, enabling them to work in a self-reliant manner. They are qualified to work independently and responsibly as urban planners on a scientific basis taking into account the design, technical, economical, ecological and design aspects.