page_title: RWTH Aachen University
section_title: Recent developments
hierarchical_section_title: RWTH Aachen University / History / Recent developments
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick über de:Aachen aus dem de:SuperC. Zwischen dem de:Aachener Rathaus links und dem de:Aachener Dom rechts stand im September 2008 auf dem de:Katschhof ein Riesenrad
context_page_description: RWTH Aachen University or Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen is a public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 45,000 students enrolled in 144 study programs, it is the largest technical university in Germany.
  In 2011, the university accounted for the highest amount of third-party funds of all German universities in both absolute and relative terms per faculty member. In 2007, RWTH Aachen was chosen by the DFG as one of nine German Universities of Excellence for its future concept RWTH 2020: Meeting Global Challenges and additionally won funding for one graduate school and three clusters of excellence.
  RWTH Aachen is a founding member of IDEA League, a strategic alliance of five leading universities of technology in Europe. The university is also a member of TU9, DFG and the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network.
context_section_description: In December 2006, RWTH Aachen and the Sultanate of Oman signed an agreement to establish a private German University of Technology in Muscat. Professors from Aachen aided in developing the curricula for the currently five study-programs and scientific staff took over some of the first courses.
  In 2007, RWTH Aachen was chosen as one of nine German Universities of Excellence for its future concept RWTH 2020: Meeting Global Challenges, earning it the connotation of being a "University of Excellence". However, although the list of universities honored for their future concepts mostly consists of large and already respected institutions, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research claimed that the initiative aimed at promoting universities with a dedicated future concept so they could continue researching on an international level. Having won funds in all three lines of funding, the process brought RWTH Aachen University an additional total funding of € 180 million from 2007–2011. The other two lines of funding were graduate schools, where the Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science received funding and so-called "clusters of excellence", where RWTH Aachen managed to win funding for the three clusters: Ultra High-Speed Mobile Information and Communication (UMIC), Integrative Production Technology for High-wage Countries and Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass (TMFB).
  RWTH was selected to receive funding from the German federal and state governments for the third Universities of Excellence funding line starting 2019. RWTH's proposal was called "The Integrated Interdisciplinary University of Science and Technology - Knowledge. Impact. Networks." and has secured funding for a seven-year period.
  2019 Clusters of Excellence
  The Fuel Science Center (FSC) Adaptive Conversion Systems for Renewable Energy and Carbon Sources
  Internet of Production
  ML4Q – Matter and Light for Quantum Computing
  
  RWTH was already awarded funding in the first and second Universities of Excellence funding lines, in 2007 and 2012 respectively.
caption: View towards the city of Aachen from SuperC, a central building for students next to the main building at the midtown campus
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