EU Projects

Numerous collaborative projects and individual research projects at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum are funded by the European Commission.

Collaborative Projects coordinated at RUB

The EU project PRIMED aims to utilise previously unused biomass resources.

A new propulsion technology could make it possible to take a plane trip with a clear conscience

Das Projektteam will Einsamkeit in Europa besser verstehen und Empfehlungen für wirksame Maßnahmen gegen Einsamkeit entwickeln.

Forschende wollen biologische Prozesse in einzelnen Organen im Detail simulieren und damit Erkrankungen besser verstehen und behandeln.

Current participation in EU joint projects
  • AMHYCO – Towards an Enhanced Accident Management of the Hydrogen/CO Combustion Risk
    Funding since 2020
    Prof. Dr. Marco K. Koch, Fakultät für Maschinenbau
  • AutoPiX – IMAGING FOR PATIENT BENEFIT IN ARTHRITIS
    Funding since 2024
    Prof. Dr. Xenofon Baraliakos, Medizinische Fakultät
  • CARMINE – Climate-Resilient Development Pathways in Metropolitan Regions of Europe
    Funding since 2024
    Prof. Benjamin Bechtel, Fakultät für Geowissenschaften
  • Circular Foam – Systemic expansion of territorial CIRCULAR Ecosystems for end-of-life FOAM
    Funding since 2021
    Prof. Dr. Michael Roos, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft
  • CLAIMS – Clinical impact through AI-assisted MS care
    Funding since 2023
    Prof. Dr. Carsten Lukas, Medizinische Fakultät
  • CO2NSTRUCT – Modelling the role of circular economy construction value chains for a carbon-neutral Europe
    Funding since 2022
    Prof. Dr. Martina Flörke, Fakultät für Bau- und Umweltingenieurwissenschaften
  • CONVOLVE– Seamless design of smart edge processors
    Funding since 2022
    Prof. Dr. Tim Güneysu, Fakultät für Informatik
  • COREu – CO2 Routes Across Europe
    Funding since 2024
    Prof. Dr. Roland Span, Fakultät für Maschinenbau
  • DEFENDER – Identification of novel viral entry factors and development of antiviral approaches
    Funding since 2025
    Prof. Dr. Eike Steinmann, Medizinische Fakultät
  • DiCE – Digital health in Circular Economy
    Funding since 2022
    Prof. Dr. Christian Meske, Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft
  • DWARC – Dealing with a Resurgent China
    Funding since 2022
    Prof. Dr. Jörn-Carsten Gottwald, Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaft
  • EASI-SMR – Ensuring Assessment of Safety Innovations for SMR
    Funding since 2024
    Prof. Dr. Marco K. Koch, Fakultät für Maschinenbau
  • enCRYPTON – Twinning towards excellence for Privacy Enhancing Technologies leveraging Homomorphic Encryption
    Funding since 2022
    Prof. Dr. Amir Moradi, Fakultät für Informatik
  • FrontSeat – Fostering Opportunities Towards Slovak Excellence in Advanced Control for Smart Industries
    Funding since 2022
    Prof. Dr. Martin Mönnigmann, Fakultät für Maschinenbau
  • INDIGO – Integration and Digital Demonstration of Low-emission Aircraft Technologies and Airport Operations
    Funding since 2023
    Prof. Dr. Francesca Di Mare , Fakultät für Maschinenbau
  • MaxH2DR – Maximise H2 Enrichment in Direct Reduction Shaft Furnaces
    Funding since 2022
    Prof. Dr. Viktor Scherer, Fakultät für Maschinenbau
  • MeBattery– MEDIATED BIPHASIC BATTERY
    Funding since 2022
    Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schuhmann, Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie
  • PUSH-IT – Piloting Underground Storage of Heat In geoThermal reservoirs
    Funding since 2023
    David Bruhn, Fraunhofer IEG
  • RealizeD – Comprehensive methodological and operational approach to clinical trials in rare and ultra-rare diseases
    Funding since 2025
    Prof. Dr. Holger Dette, Fakultät für Mathematik
  • RECONNECTED – A complex systems approach towards REsilient and CONNECTED vulnerable European communities in times of change
    Funding since 2023
    Prof. Dr. Silvia Schneider, Fakultät für Psychologie
  • SASPAM-SA – Safety Analysis of SMR with PAssive Mitigation strategies - Severe Accident
    Funding since 2022
    Prof. Dr. Marco K. Koch, Fakultät für Maschinenbau
  • SOCRATES – Assessment of Liquid Source Term for Accidental Post Management Phase
    Funding since 2024
    Prof. Dr. Marco K. Koch, Fakultät für Maschinenbau
  • SOLARUP – Advanced Strategies for Development of Sustainable Semiconductors for Scalable Solar Cell Applications
    Funding since 2022
    Prof. Dr. Silvana Botti, Research Center Future Energy Materials
  • SpinDataCom – SPIN-V(E)CSELS FOR ULTRAFAST AND HIGHLY-EFFICIENT SPACE AND EARTH DATA COMMUNICATIONS
    Funding since 2025
    Prof. Dr. Nils Gerhardt, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
  • STAGE – Stay Healthy Through Ageing. An Integrated Life-Course Approach for Person-Centred Solutions and Care for Ageing with Multi-morbidity in the European Regions
    Funding since 2024
    Prof. Dr. Stefan Berger, Institut für Soziale Bewegungen
  • STORCITO – Sustainable Transformation Of Rural Communities via Technical, social and Organizational innovations
    Funding since 2025
    Prof. Dr. Andreas Löschel, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft
  • TAICo – Teacher-AI Complementarity
    Funding since 2025
    Prof. Dr. Nikol Rummel, Fakukltät für Philosophie und Erziehungswissenschaft
Completed collaborative projects under Horizon Europe
  • TRANSFORMER: Designing long-term systemic transformation frameworks for regions – Accellerating the shift to climate neutrality
    Funding: 2022-2024
    Prof. Dr. Matthias Kiese, Faculty of Geosciences

ERC Projects

Ein Forschungsgerät mit vielen einzelnen Kammern

Numerous researchers who have been awarded a Grant by the European Research Council are conducting research at Ruhr University.

MSCA Doctoral Networks

Junge Forscher mit Büchern und Laptops

By enabling researchers to gather experiences outside the world of academia, the EU-funded Innovative Training Networks communicate innovative ideas and skills that are valuable in the labour market.

Good to Know

The EU projects at Ruhr University Bochum form part of the Horizon 2020 programme. The European Union thus supports outstanding research since 2014. The projects are intended to yield innovations for the future. In this way, the EU is also strengthening it’s research landscape and bringing science, industry, and society together for productive developments from Europe.

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