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Faculties totally fuTUre fit: Performance agreements for 2025–2028 finalised

With these performance agreements, the Rectorate and the faculties have defined plans and projects within the framework of the overall fuTUre fit strategy: with transparency, a strong commitment to cooperation and continuous progress monitoring.

group picture: von links nach rechts: Christian Bauer (Dekan der Fakultät für Maschinenwesen und Betriebswissenschaften), Wolfgang Kastner (Vizerektor Digitalisierung und Infrastruktur), Norbert Görtz (Dekan der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik), Ronald Blab (Dekan der Fakultät für Bau- und Umweltingenieurwesen), Ute Koch (Vizerektorin Personal), Jens Schneider (Rektor), Andrei Pimenov (Dekan der Fakultät für Physik), Gertrude Kappel (Dekanin der Fakultät für Informatik), Norbert Trolf (Studiendekan der Fakultät für Architektur und Raumplanung) (left to right)

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from left to right: Christian Bauer (Dean Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering), Wolfgang Kastner (Vice Rector Digitalisation and Infrastructure), Norbert Görtz (Dean Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology), Ronald Blab (Dean Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Ute Koch (Vice Rector Human Resources), Jens Schneider (Rector), Andrei Pimenov (Dean Faculty of Physics), Gertrude Kappel (Dean Faculty of Informatics), Norbert Trolf (dean of studies Faculty of Architecture and Planning)

group picture Marko Mihovilovic (Dekan der Fakultät für Technische Chemie), Wolfgang Kastner (Vizerektor Digitalisierung und Infrastruktur), Andrei Pimenov (Dekan der Fakultät für Physik), Norbert Görtz (Dekan der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik), Christian Bauer (Dekan der Fakultät für Maschinenwesen und Betriebswissenschaften), Jens Schneider (Rektor), Ute Koch (Vizerektorin Personal), Ronald Blab (Dekan der Fakultät für Bau- und Umweltingenieurwesen), Hans-Berndt Neuner (Studiendekan der Fakultät für Mathematik und Geoinformation), Norbert Trolf (Studiendekan der Fakultät für Architektur und Raumplanung)

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from left to right: Marko Mihovilovic (Dean Faculty of Technical Chemistry), Wolfgang Kastner (Vice Rector Digitalisation and Infrastructure), Andrei Pimenov (Dean Faculty of Physics), Norbert Görtz (Dean Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology), Christian Bauer (Dean Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering), Jens Schneider (Rector), Ute Koch (Vice Rector Human Resources), Ronald Blab (Dean Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Hans-Berndt Neuner (Dean of studies Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation), Norbert Trolf (Dean of studies Faculty of Architecture and Planning)

To this end, the Rectorate team negotiated specific goals, projects and budgets for the period 2025–2028 together with the deans. The performance agreements signed in the summer serve as a framework for projects focused on strategic priorities such as promoting young talent, innovation, digitalisation, sustainability and science communication.

Interdisciplinary projects: Cookbooks and Junior Research Groups

Staff from all eight faculties are collaborating on two university-wide projects. The TU Cookbooks provide researchers and students with interactive Jupyter notebooks that simplify data analysis, AI methods and machine learning. The ‘Data as API’ approach is intended to make analyses faster, more efficient and more visualisable, as the first example, ‘Earth Observation Data Science,’, opens an external URL in a new window already shows. At the same time, each faculty participates in the Junior Research Group programme, which supports 24 pre-docs over a period of three years, promoting international visibility and the integration of research and teaching.

Faculty-specific projects: examples

  • The Faculty of Architecture and Planning, for example, is pooling its expertise in the new Centre AI | APE and, with the open.transformation.hub, is launching a platform for sustainable transformation processes in cities and regions.
  • The Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering is promoting digital manufacturing in construction and expanding its international network, while
  • the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology is promoting its public visibility and student recruitment through outreach measures.
  • The Faculty of Informatics is pooling its activities in the field of artificial intelligence and intensifying its cooperation with companies.
  • The Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation is focusing on teaching quality, and
  • the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering is modernising its degree programmes and promoting cooperation with industry partners.
  • The Faculty of Physics is converting its Master's programmes to English and establishing a doctoral school, and
  • the Faculty of Technical Chemistry is launching an apprenticeship programme and planning the EULIST Campus Hainburg as an external campus for research in green technologies.

One Mission – One Vision

These projects are examples of the implementation of the performance agreements and highlight the enormous importance of the interlocking of organisational structures and processes for the functioning of a visionary university. In line with the vision: TU Wien – where we dare to reason. The creative urban tech university. Unlimited.

The performance agreements can be viewed by TU members after logging in here.