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Research and development is not only aimed at gaining abstract knowledge and increasing the amount of knowledge available, it also takes on the task of solving urgent challenges and current problems of social relevance. Applied science in particular aims to improve and facilitate people's lives, everyday life and work - be it with the help of technological innovations, the optimization of production processes or research into socio-economic phenomena and interrelationships. The tasks of our present and foreseeable future are enormous: digitalization and automation, as well as decarbonization, are intensive transformation processes that our societies have to master. Application-oriented research means identifying and analyzing problems and ultimately finding ways to solve them. In short, it is about understanding, explaining and changing the world.

 

From the macro level of entire economies to the micro processes of 3D printing and the nanotechnology of state-of-the-art computer chips: Research begins with the attempt to understand what is.

Mechanische Hand aus rotem Kunststoff

Research is the search for reasons, justifications and foundations: what are the causes of phenomena, what are the parameters of processes, what are the factors for change?

Apperatur zum Vermessen, metallischer Untergrund

Creating innovation, exploiting potential, initiating change. How can we conserve natural resources, improve working environments and optimize production processes?

Zwei Studierende stehen vor einer Maschnie. Eine Person greift hinein und befestigt etwas auf einer silbernen Plattform

On these pages, Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences aims to present itself in all its diversity as an innovative center of research with its specific understanding of research and its various research focuses and reference projects. In addition, it will focus on the next generation of scientists, both in the context of doctorates and start-ups.

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