Key Projects

Although today’s society is more advanced than ever before, many fundamental questions are still unanswered: How will we satisfy our growing demand for energy in the future? How do we deal with the demographic change in our society? How does our brain work?

Mastering these complex challenges not only requires visionary and excellent researchers, it also requires interdisciplinary teams of experts from different fields and the allocation of sufficient resources of time and money. IMTEK researchers are integrated in five key projects, either as leaders or partners.

Excellence Initiative / Excellence Strategy
The German federal government and states launched an excellence initiative in 2005 and 2019  to support outstanding research at German universities.

• Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS) / Contact: Prof. Jürgen Rühe, Department of Microsystems Engineering
  

• BrainLinks–BrainTools

• BIOSS – Centre for Biological Signalling Studies
• FRIAS School of Soft Matter Research

• PlanOS – Planar Optronic Systems
  
• Research Training Group Soft Matter Science: Concepts for the Design of Functional Materials
• Cooperative graduate program: "Decentralized sustainable energy systems" (DENE)
  Contact: Prof. Dr. Leonhard Reindl, Department of Microsystems Engineering
• Cooperative graduate program "Mechanisms of Microstructure Generation" (GEnMik II)
  Contact:: Prof. Dr. Holger Reinecke, Department of Microsystems Engineering

• MicroTEC Südwest
• Concluded: DFG Priority Programme Active Micro-optics
• Concluded: Research Training Group Micro Energy Harvesting
• Concluded: Research Training Group Embedded Microsystems
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