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Research Projects

In this section, you can find a selection of research projects that are funded by national and international sources of funding and are currently managed at Ruhr University. These include, among others, the Excellence Strategy projects as well as the coordinated programmes of the German Research Foundation, ERC projects, joint projects funded by the European Union, projects that are funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF, as well as foundation projects.

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Cluster of Excellence

Ruhr Explores Solvation

Most chemical reactions, important industrial processes, and almost all biological processes take place in the liquid phase. In the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV, scientists work in the field of solvation science.

Cluster of Excellence

Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries

IT security has become a central societal issue since networked devices have permeated our world. This is what the Cluster of Excellence CASA is concerned with.

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Collaborative Research Centres and Transregios

Ruhr Unviersity unites research expertise under one roof that spans the full breadth and width of disciplines and is pretty much unparalleled in Germany. This is reflected in our Collaborative Research Centres.

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EU Projects

The European Union has been supporting outstanding research that aims at developing future innovations with its Horizon 2020 Programme since 2014.

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Funding by Federal Ministries

The BMBF funds numerous projects and networks researching into innovative ideas and state-of-the-art technologies at Ruhr University's institutes.

ERC Grant projects

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ERC Advanced Grants

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ERC Consolidator Grants

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ERC Starting Grants

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia supports universities in a variety of ways.

Funding from state ministries

Since 2019, the state government has realigned its research funding. The aim of the state is to promote promising research projects with regular and open-topic calls. The concept developed for this contains four fields of action in which suitable funding instruments are offered: Research profiles, visions, networking and transfer.

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