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Wind turbines learn how to swim

Large offshore wind parks in the North and Baltic Sea will produce hundreds of megawatt of energy in the near future and are, together with the onshore turbines, the basis of the energy revolution. The winds are stronger, more consistent and more predictable further away from the coast. However, common fixed-bottom offshore wind turbines are too expensive at high water depths. Scientists at the Stuttgart Chair of Wind Energy (SWE), University of Stuttgart now do research on floating offshore wind turbines that can be installed in water depths of more than 40 meters. Mehr...

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Hidenori Takagi is new Alexander von Humboldt Professor

The solid-state physicist Hidenori Takagi from Japan, nominated by the University of Stuttgart together with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, has been selected as new Alexander von Humbold Professor. Takagi is regarded as an excellent researcher worldwide as well as being a researcher with an extensive international network for modern solid-state research and materials science. The German research prize, endowed with up to five million Euros, is being awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and financed by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. Mehr...

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Greenpeace Study: University of Stuttgart investigates damage to health due to coal-fired power plants in Germany

Microscopically small fine dust particles from German coal-fired power plants annually cause around 33,000 years of life lost in Germany and Europe. These were the findings of a current study conducted by the University of Stuttgart on behalf of Greenpeace. The pollutants spread for thousands of kilometres throughout Europe. Mehr...
Image source: Paul Langrock/Zenit/Greenpeace

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Cooperation contract between Institute for Aircraft Design and Daimler AG

In future researchers from the fields of business and science will be working in the ARENA2036 Research Campus project at the University of Stuttgart on topics related to "flexible production and function-integrated lightweight construction". The aim of the consortium is to dovetail product-oriented lightweight construction development with production research right from the outset. Alongside six institutes at the University of Stuttgart and Daimler, numerous further representatives from the worlds of business and science in Baden-Württemberg are involved in the long-term Campus, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Mehr...

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