What position does Technische Universität Berlin adopt on issues of relevance to society and how does it perceive itself? The University’s identity is founded upon its regulations and guidelines as well as the decisions passed by the various committees regarding core issues. These represent the means by which the University aligns itself as part of society and assumes its share of the responsibility for shaping a free and democratic community. The regulations and guidelines are the rules the University has imposed upon itself and form the binding basis for its administrative activities. Unlike laws and ordinances, regulations and guidelines have no legal character.
This mission statement serves as a permanent inspiration for standards in teaching at TU Berlin, and, as a kind of “constitution”, forms the basis for all regulations, guidelines and strategies governing teaching at our University. All study and examination regulations, curricula and quality management measures for studying and teaching need to reflect the content of this mission statement.
The University Strategy establishes TU Berlin’s objectives for the coming eight years.
University Strategy (only in German)
The Structural Plan 2015 establishes Technische Universität’s areas of scientific focus and its development goals. It provides information about the further development of the defining areas of focus in research and teaching, professorships established in the TU budget, and the degree programs offered. Structural plans enable the Berlin universities to agree on their individual scientific profiles and their development plans, thus ensuring a broad-based, complementary spectrum of scientific disciplines in teaching and research in Berlin.
Structural Plan 2015 (only in German)
In December 2019, TU Berlin unanimously adopted these principles in its Diversity Strategy - Equal Opportunities at Technische Universität Berlin in the Academic Senate, thus starting the process for diversity mainstreaming - a systematic integration of equal opportunities and freedom from discrimination in all fields of action of the University.
Diversity, inclusion and anti-discrimination will be systematically integrated into the steering mechanisms, regulations and (university-wide) strategy processes as guiding principles.
TU Berlin carries out basic and application-oriented research at top international level and promotes cross-faculty research activities and networks with external actors as well as knowledge and technology transfer between the university and practical applications. To this goal, TU Berlin forms strategic alliances with companies as well as university and non-university research facilities. With the Research Data Policy TU Berlin wants to provide its current and future researchers with an orientation for handling research data.
In its Mission Statement, the Technische Universität Berlin commits to research and teaching that is based on social, ethical and humanist grounds. It is particularly important to TU Berlin that research findings are sustainably disseminated, accessible and visible.
In order to achieve this, TU Berlin supports the research political request for Open Access to scholarly knowledge as laid out in the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”. TU Berlin's Executive Board and Academic Senate strongly recommend that the university's members publish their research results Open Access.
TU Berlin's Open Access Policy
These guidelines cover protection against sexual discrimination as disparagement based on the gender of a person, sexual harassment in the form of verbal, visual, written and/or physical abuse of a sexual nature, and sexual violence in the form of sexual assault and rape. They apply to all members of the University as well as all other persons researching, teaching, or studying at Technische Universität Berlin, and visitors to the institution.
Guidelines on Protection against Sexual Discrimination, Harassment and Violence
Through the environmental guidelines, University management and staff from all status groups pledge their commitment to an environmentally friendly development of the University. Work and decisions carried out on a daily basis throughout the entire University should reflect the essence of the guidelines. The protection and preservation of natural resources as part of a sustainable development is a leading goal of the University in its research and teaching activities as well as its operation. By applying these guidelines, the University seeks to fulfill its function as a role model for society.
Environmental Guidelines for the Technische Universität Berlin