University of Wuppertal

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The BUW is a dynamic university with an interdisciplinary teaching and research profile. We demonstrate our commitment to the structures and potential of the Wuppertal region by tailoring the content of the courses offered and carrying out numerous research initiatives.
We also have a strong network of international partners with whom we cooperate closely. The number of international cutt...ing-edge research partnerships and the number of international exchange students is growing accordingly.
Our website tells you everything you need to know about teaching, research and knowledge transfer at our university.
The University of Wuppertal is research-oriented and offers a wide range of subjects, including disciplines and courses such as safety engineering and industrial design that are offered by no other university in Germany.
Interdisciplinarity, team spirit and a capacity for innovation all characterise our teaching and research. The BUW"s numerous successes are reflected for example by its high rankings. Good support facilities and a wide range of services and funding opportunities for students and researchers make the BUW stand out from the crowd and attract large numbers of students.
The BUW is a university at the heart of Europe. It is part of an international network consisting of more than 220 partner universities worldwide. Regional cooperation is particularly strong in Asia, Latin America and the USA. These international partnerships not only foster student and teacher exchange, but also facilitate joint research projects at professorship and school level. The BUW is a popular destination for international students, with more than 110 countries represented here.
For all its international profile and connections, the university is firmly rooted in the region. As a result of its active knowledge transfer and intensive cooperation with numerous societal and business partners, it has developed an outstanding regional network from which graduates, scientists, innovators and start-ups can all benefit.
The University of Wuppertal is a modern, independent university in the Humboldtean tradition. As a university, it is committed to the search for truth in full awareness of its social responsibilities. A cornerstone of its ethics is that the pursuit of knowledge can only be undertaken by free and self-determined persons, and hence the noblest task of academic teaching is to educate people to the responsible acquisition and application of knowledge.
The University of Wuppertal is at the forefront of international research in various fields. At the same time, especially in the areas of training and transfer, it is aware of its regional roots. It sees its overall mission in the understanding and shaping of society, culture, technology and nature in their continuously changing forms.
The University of Wuppertal understands university teaching as a process of dialogue between teachers and students. It sets great store on critical reflection, social judgment and empowerment to action in the service of education. It seeks to educate its employees as well as its students to the highest standards, so that they can fulfill their future tasks in a democratic society, in teaching and research, and in their individual professions.
In this context it is a central goal of the university to develop future-oriented research and teaching profiles that are on the one hand based on established strengths in specific fields, especially interdisciplinarity and innovation, and on the other open to the ongoing issues of education, knowledge and research. The continuous growth of academic and scientific excellence in the framework of the strategic focus areas outlined below entails increasing activity in the development of national and international networks. The university’s commitment to such development is based on the conviction that in the wake of increasing globalization the international exchange of experience, transnational research cooperation, and intercultural competence are of ever-increasing importance.
The establishment of specific research and teaching profiles serves the purpose of bundling existing strengths, developing new synergies, and enhancing the impact of the university across the whole range of its achievements and potentialities. All disciplines represented at the university are, therefore, called upon to adopt a profile in line with their own specialties. It must at the same time be emphasized that the transdisciplinary focus of the university in no way detracts from the distinctive profiles of its constituent faculties.
Reflecting the university’s strategic goals and the focus of its teaching and research, the following transdisciplinary profiles are held to be essentially equal in rank and significance:
Fundamental scientific and mathematical research has always played an important role at the University of Wuppertal, and this has been further enhanced by the development of research focuses in experimental and theoretical particle physics, scientific computing and representation theory. A key research interest in this context is the elementary building blocks of matter and the forces operating among them. Experimental work includes participation in major international projects from particle accelerators to astrophysical observatories. Research on mathematical methods concerned with naturally occurring symmetries opens up possibilities of theoretical analysis and the quest for pattern and law. Theory and experiment are accompanied and supported at the University of Wuppertal by numerical simulation and advanced computation, interdisciplinary activities pursued in close cooperation with the international scientific community – currently (among other things) within the framework of a Collaborative Research Center and a Research Training Program, both funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The university’s Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Informatics and Scientific Computing coordinates these advanced computing projects and forms an interface with the natural sciences and engineering.
A second transdisciplinary focus is concerned with education and knowledge as decisive social categories. Reflecting the fact that thought, decision and action always take place in socio-cultural contexts, a number of university disciplines undertake research into educational processes and the relation between education and knowledge, not only in institutionally formalized but also in everyday cultural contexts. Located at the interface of the humanities with the educational and social sciences, this field invites the combination of different methodological approaches and offers outstanding scope for successful interdisciplinary activity, which in turn not only constitutes a prerequisite for understanding so complex a subject but also provides an excellent basis for the education of future teachers.
Prevention and movement are the cornerstones of sustained good health, and with it of the ability to work at full capacity – hence their growing importance to society. Health has long ceased to be the exclusive domain of medicine: in research as in the health sector of the economy it is seen as a complex phenomenon to which many disciplines contribute. Thus at the University of Wuppertal health, health management and public health are approached from the perspective of health psychology, health education in kindergarten and school, sports education, sports medicine and sociology, movement science, work and organizational psychology, safety engineering, health economics and special areas of law. The university aims to draw these various approaches together in interdisciplinary research projects, developing concepts for the strengthening of health competencies in relation to the individual as well as to organizations, and to the locality and region as well as to society at large – a crucial project in the face of social challenges such as demographic change. A special role in this strategy is played by the Regional Competence Center for Health Management and Public Health.
Penetrating our entire world of knowledge, ideas and intentions, narration and narrative, far from being narrowly literary categories, are omnipresent in the way we grasp, structure, interpret and communicate our experience, whether real or imagined. The University of Wuppertal’s Center for Narrative Research concentrates the research forces of the Faculty of Humanities on this key cultural activity, examining structural and contextual aspects of narration under the headings ‘historical development of literary narration’, ‘non-literary language narration’, and ‘intermedial aspects of narration’. Other cross-departmental areas of humanities research are the theory and practice of textual editing, language acquisition, linguistics, and culture and communications, which has its own Interdisciplinary Center for Culture and Communications Research.