1. August '24
A group of people stands together in a lecture hall at Hochschule Coburg, posing for a photo. Some are smiling, while a presentation slide is displayed in the background. The hall features rows of wooden desks and crisp white walls.
A group of people stands together in a lecture hall at Hochschule Coburg, posing for a photo. Some are smiling, while a presentation slide is displayed in the background. The hall features rows of wooden desks and crisp white walls.
(Press Office)The Scientific Colloquium for Electrical Energy Technology and Electromobility (WiKE3) of the universities of Aschaffenburg, Nuremberg, Würzburg-Schweinfurt and Coburg took place this time at Coburg University of Applied Sciences. Energy technology and electromobility are fundamental topics of the energy transition – topics on which science in northern Bavaria is working intensively.
Since 2013, doctoral students and their supervisors from the universities of Aschaffenburg, Nuremberg, Würzburg-Schweinfurt and Coburg have been meeting to conduct research in the fields of energy technology and electromobility.
At the end of each semester, an active exchange of ideas takes place alternately at the university locations with lectures, poster sessions, laboratory tours and evening events.
The meeting in Coburg was also special this year due to a legal innovation: Bavarian universities have been granted the right to award doctorates in research-intensive areas.
Doctoral candidates can now choose doctoral supervisors, so-called first supervisors, from their own university and are no longer necessarily dependent on cooperative doctorates with universities.
Because the participating universities now have independent doctoral rights in the research-intensive doctoral center “Sustainable and Intelligent Systems (NISys)”, there are further future options for the universities and their students in research and teaching.
From specialist colloquium to doctoral center
The nucleus of the NISys doctoral center was the WiKE3 scientific colloquium, whose 18 professors have raised over 15 million euros in third-party funding since 2018 and have published over 175 specialist publications on their topics in the scientific community.
22 of their doctoral students have since successfully completed their degrees.
Four have since become professors themselves.
The basic idea of creating a professional exchange forum for young scientists has made a valuable contribution to scientific exchange and is also an important component of the now institutionalized doctoral center.
WiKE3 and NISys illustrate how intensively universities are currently expanding applied research and the transfer of research achievements to society and the economy.
This year’s host university is deepening its scientific research profile and, with the independent doctoral center ‘Analytics4Health’ and the doctoral center NISys in cooperation with the TH Würzburg-Schweinfurt and the TH Aschaffenburg, offers a wide range of opportunities to earn a doctorate.
Study
If you are interested in a promising course of study at Coburg University of Applied Sciences, you can currently register for the winter semester here.
