Technical University of Dortmund

Technical University of Dortmund
Emil-Figge-Straße 50
44227 Dortmund
Germany
www.tu-dortmund.de

To investigate nature, to educate people, to accept technical challenges and to co-design the resulting cultural and social changes—these are the key tasks of Technische Universität Dortmund.

Technische Universität Dortmund is dedicated to interdisciplinary cooperation between natural/technical sciences and social/cultural sciences and their specialties with regard to research and teaching. The potentials of these specifics are used on a continuous basis to increase orientation competence, cultural competence, innovation power, critical faculties and technological knowledge and therefore ensure an even higher quality of study.

The interdisciplinary cooperation in the university’s three areas—engineering and computer science, natural sciences and social and cultural sciences—opens up innovative synergy potential in research and cutting-edge education.

Technische Universität Dortmund regards the preservation and improvement of its research achievements as the essential basis for its overall development. Basic research and applied research are in balanced proportion to each other.

Technische Universität Dortmund consists of 16 faculties, with approximately 3000 employees, 300 professors, as well as 22,000 students (3300 of them foreign students from over a hundred countries). At the moment, the Technische Universität participates in about 40 projects which are supported by funds of the European Union (31 of them in FP7, 4 of them as coordinators).

Special focus of research of the Faculty of Educational Science and Sociology, the department involved in FAMILYPLATFORM, is on school- and educational research, as well as pedagogy of early childhood. The faculty participates in two major international studies on educational achievement of the international association for the evaluation of educational achievement (IEA) as German a cooperation partner.

Role within FAMILYPLATFORM:

Technische Universität Dortmund is responsible for overall coordination of the project, and communication with the European Commission.

Staff Involved in FAMILYPLATFORM:

Uwe Uhlendorff, professor of social pedagogy at the Faculty of Educational Science and Sociology at the TU Dortmund. He is the main representative and the overall coordinator of the project as well as the lead participant of Work Package 6 (coordination and management).

Matthias Euteneuer is Research Assistant at the Faculty of Educational Science and Sociology at the TU Dortmund. In the context of FAMILYPLATFORM , he fulfils the function of manager and administrative coordinator. He is the intermediary between the participants and the European Commission, also having the responsibility for overseeing all deliverables provided by the consortium

Dorota Pawlucka is the local coordinator of CLIB-Graduate Cluster Industrial Biotechnology and the head of EU project office, involved in the coordination of EU projects and within FAMILYPLATFORM, she is responsible for organisation, communication, and financial management.