Office of the Rectorate

Think tank and networker

The Office of the Rectorate provides advice and support for the Rectorate of the University in its corporate planning and decision making processes and, in doing so, contributes to a professional and targeted university management.

Ideas and Concepts

The strategy team is a part of the Office of the Rectorate and functions as the university’s think tank. It gives impulses, embraces ideas from inside as well as outside of the university and produces new concepts. It accompanies their implementation and change processes and identifies unused potential amongst the academic staff of the university. The Office of the Rectorate is responsible for developing strategies and measures that contribute to increasing the attractiveness and competitiveness of the university.

Exchange of information and ideas

The Office of the Rectorate maintains a constant exchange of information and ideas with scientists as well as central university institutions. It adopts ideas, identifies where there is need for action and feeds the information into the Rectorate as well as from the Rectorate to the faculties and institutes. As “networkers”, the staff of the  Office of the Rectorate also supports the university management by nurturing contacts with external partners from science, business, politics and culture.

Initiatives and Projects

Increased competitiveness in research and education frequently produces initiatives and calls for proposals that need a strategic approach in order to be successful. This makes comprehensive coordination imperative especially when a number of institutes, organizations and partners are involved.

The Office of the Rectorate accompanies, facilitates and initiates proposals and applications that stem from the university management. The permanent coordination of projects with major strategic importance lies with the Office of the Rectorate. Examples of this are the third-party funded projects like QuaLIKiSS [de] or support of the resarch campus ARENA2036 [de].

 

Projects

ARENA2036

ARENA2036 (Active Research Environment for the Next Generation of Automobiles) is one of the winners of the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) competition “Research Campus – Public-Private Partnership for Innovation”. The Office of the Rectorate was responsible for preparing and coordinating the ARENA 2036 proposal and now the management of the ARENA project is also located in the Office of the Rectorate.

Research factory

Over the next 15 years or more, ARENA2036 will conduct an innovative, unprecedented cooperation between science and industry under one roof in a common research factory (completion end of 2016) on the campus of the University of Stuttgart. Researchers from science and industry will cooperate in synergy on the subject of “flexible, versatile production and intelligent lightweight construction”. They will be researching the fundamentals of intelligent lightweight construction and will develop novel and competitive production models for the automobile factory of the future.

Contact
Dr. Michael Waldbauer
Office of the Rectorate, University of Stuttgart
Phone +49 711 685-81000

Peter Froeschle
CEO ARENA2036
Phone +49 711 685-68360

ARENA2036

Contact

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Michael Waldbauer

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Head of Office of the Rectorate

 

Office of the Rectorate

Azenbergstr. 16,

70174 Stuttgart

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