Cooperation partners

Scientific and industrial cooperation partners in the framework of the doctorate.

Doctorate process at the THI always takes place in cooperation with a German or foreign university. You will be supervised by a THI professor as well as a professor from the cooperation university.

Here you can find information about the general cooperative doctorate procedure.

Cooperative universities in current and completed doctorate procedures

Bavarian universities

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
TU München
Universität Bayreuth
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Universität Regensburg

German-wide universities

Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Brandenburgisch Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg
Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
TU Bergakademie Freiberg
TU Berlin
TU Braunschweig
TU Chemnitz
TU Dortmund
TU Dresden
Universität Bremen
Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg
Universität Paderborn
Universität des Saarlandes
Universität Rostock
Universität Stuttgart
FernUniversität in Hagen

International universities

De Montfort University Leicester (UK)
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh (UK)
University of Warwick (UK)
Aston University (UK)
RMIT Melbourne (AUS)
TU Delft (NLD)
TU Gleiwitz (PL)
JKU - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (A)
Universität Salzburg (A)
UCLM - Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha (E)
Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) (BRA)
Stellenbosch University (ZAF)
Halmstad University (SWE)
Comenius University in Bratislava (SVK)
University of Žilina (SVK)

Strategic industrial partnerships

THI research is primarily applied research. Post-graduate researchers normally work closely with industry partners on their research projects. The following businesses finance doctorates in FORTEC projects: