Federal and State Excellence Initiatives

The Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments is intended to strengthen the long term reputation of Germany as a center of scientific and academic excellence and to improve its competitiveness in world rankings. It provides additional funding for top research at German universities and is divided among three funding lines: Institutional Strategy, Excellence Cluster, and Graduate Programs.

Excellence Cluster "CASE"

Kaiserslautern University of Technology has passed the first round of the Excellence Initiative sponsored by the German federal and state governments (Phase 2: 2012-2017) with the CASE (Kaiserslautern Center for Advanced Spin Engineering) Cluster of Excellence concept. CASE was selected along with 26 other applications from various fields of expertise from among the 107 new applications to compete in the major application phase together with existing Clusters of Excellence.

Graduate Program "MAINZ"

The Graduate Program for Materials Science in Mainz (MAINZ) was among the winners of the first phase and received funding for the next five years of approximately eleven million euros. In collaboration with Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz, TU Kaiserslautern has submitted an application for the continuation of the program.