Mainz University
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz | |
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| Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | |
| Motto | Ut omnes unum sint German: Dass alle eins seien |
| Motto in English | That they all may be one |
| Established | 1477 Re-established 1946 |
| Type | Public University |
| President | Georg Krausch |
| Students | 35,785 (Winter term 2010/11) |
| Location | Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany |
| Colors | red and blue |
| Website | www.uni-mainz.de/eng |
The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is a university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg. With approximately 36,000 students (2010) in about 150 schools and clinics, it is among the ten largest universities in Germany. Starting on 1 January 2005 the university was reorganized into 11 faculties of study.
Forum of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany) covered with snow.
History
The first University of Mainz goes back to the Archbishop of Mainz, Prince-elector and Reichserzkanzler Adolf II von Nassau. At the time, establishing a university required papal approval and Adolf II initiated the approval process during his time in office. The university, however, was first opened in 1477 by Adolf's successor to the bishopric, Diether von Isenburg. In 1784 the University was opened up for Protestants and Jews (curator Anselm Franz von Betzel). It fast became one of the largest Catholic universities in Europe with ten chairs in theology alone. In the confusion after the establishment of the Mainz Republic of 1792 and its subsequent recapture by the Prussians, academic activity came to a gradual standstill. In 1798 the university became active again under French governance, and lectures in the department of medicine took place until 1823. Only the faculty of theology continued teaching during the 19th century, albeit as a theological Seminary (since 1877 "College of Philosophy and Theology").
Statue of Johannes Gutenberg at the University of Mainz.
The current Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz was founded in 1946 by the French occupying power. In a decree on 1 March the French military government implied that the University of Mainz would continue to exist: the University shall be "enabled to resume its function". The remains of anti-aircraft warfare barracks erected in 1938 after the remilitarization of the Rhineland during the Third Reich served as the university's first buildings and are still in use today.
The continuation of academic activity between the old university and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, in spite of an interruption spanning over 100 years, is contested. During the time up to its reopening only a seminary and midwifery college survived.
In 1972, the effect of the 1968 student protests began to take a toll on the University's structure. The departments (Fakultaeten) were dismantled and the University was organized into broad fields of study (Fachbereiche). Finally in 1974 Peter Schneider was elected as the first president of what was now a "constituted group-university" institute of higher education. In 1990 Jurgen Zollner became University President yet spent only a year in the position after he was appointed Minister for "Science and Advanced Education" for the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. As the coordinator for the SPD's higher education policy, this furloughed professor from the Institute for Physiological Chemistry played a decisive role in the SPD's higher education policy and in the development of Study Accounts.
Today
Today the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz has approximately 36,000 students (as of 2010[update]) and consists of over 150 institutions and clinics.
The range of studies is comprehensive; the university lacks some technical studies, veterinary medicine and nutrition science. One can nonetheless study History of books, athletics, music, visual arts, theatre, and film.
The University of Mainz does not currently levy fees or tuition (Studiengebühren) for a regular course of study. Senior citizen students, auditing students, and certain postgraduate students may be subject to fees. The Ministry for Science and Advanced Education introduced "study accounts" (Studienkonten) that were developed jointly with Prof. Zoellner. During the transition period, overdrafts on the account would incur a flat-rate charge of 650 Euro for every overdrawn semester. The Study Accounts allow for a free-of-charge initial course of study as long as it does not exceed 1.75 times the standard period of study. In a second step the accounts will soon be charged according to time actually used. It is still contested as to whether the enormous administrative burden will lead to an actual improvement of academic conditions. **Measurable success is similar by the introduction of long-term tuition in other federal states and its effect on the decline of nominally enrolled students.
Administration
With its efficient and sustainable management of science and research, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has been among the leading universities in German-speaking countries for more than a decade now.Already in 1999, the JGU Central Administration was restructured on the basis of its New Management Model aiming at supporting innovative research. This reform process included the modernization of administrative structures and procedures as well as the restructuring of the faculties in 2005. The national Center for Higher Education (CHE) honored JGU's efforts with its Best Practice award in 2002.
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is organized in ten faculties, the School of Music, and the Mainz Academy of Arts. These are the basic units of JGU. The University Council, the President, and the University Senate are its central administrative bodies.
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is organized in ten faculties, the School of Music, and the Mainz Academy of Arts. These are the basic units of JGU. The University Council, the President, and the University Senate are its central administrative bodies.
Faculties
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) being a comprehensive university offers a wide range of course and subjects to study. Students can choose from almost all fields of higher education: from jurisprudence and economics to social sciences, the humanities, and natural sciences, from human medicine and dentistry up to an integration of music, arts, and sports - an offer that is unique in the German landscape of higher education. The Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies in Germersheim educates translators and interpreters in numerous European and non-European languages. This great diversity of subjects ensures interdisciplinary research and teaching as well as – in the spirit of Johannes Gutenberg himself – an innovative dealing with ideas and technologies.
Central Institutions and Facilities
In accordance with the definition in the University Act, the Central Facilities fulfill tasks in the fields of research including the transfer of research, teaching, studying, information and communication technology, and continuing education, which are dealt with across all the faculties.Here you can find summarized information and links to the homepages of the Central Facilities:- Gutenberg Research College (GRC)
The Gutenberg Research College established by the Senate of Johannes Gutenberg University is a facility dedicated to the advancement of innovative research and interdisciplinary integration between research areas of excellence.
- Gutenberg Teaching Council (GTC)
The Gutenberg Teaching Council supports and continuously develops teaching methods and academic teaching competence as well as study course structures and learning conditions at Johannes Gutenberg University.
- Center for Data Processing (ZDV)
The Center for Data Processing offers scientists and students a range of modern I&C services. It is based on the campus network with more than 10,000 connections and 500 wireless LAN access points.
- University Library (UB)
The University Library is the supply system for information and literature at the University of Mainz and is available to students, teachers, researchers and any other interested parties.
- Studium generale / General Interdisciplinary Studies
The Studium generale offers an extensive program for expanding studies on an interdisciplinary basis and promotes inter-faculty approaches to research and teaching. Many events are organized for the general public.
- Foreign Language Training Center (FSZ)
The Foreign Language Center offers German courses for foreign students and teachers as well as language courses for students of all faculties.
- International Preparatory College Mainz (Internationales Studienkolleg)
The International Preparatory College of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is a preparatory course for foreign and German students with a foreign university entrance certificates.
- Teacher Training Center
The Center for Teacher Training is the interface between the institutions involved in training future teachers, i.e. between university, student seminars and schools.
- Center for Continuing Education (ZWW)
The Center for Continuing Education provides competence and contacts to enable people who have completed initial occupational training, gathered initial experience in working life or completed a phase of family life to supplement the knowledge they have acquired.
- Center for Quality Assurance and Development (ZQ)
The Center for Quality Assurance and Development is responsible for organizing and implementing evaluations at the university and supporting the development of a system of management by objectives.
- Media Center
The tasks assigned to the Media Center include the provision of audio-visual media technology for research and teaching, conceptual advice and support for productions and imparting technical knowledge.
- Collegium musicum
The European Choir Academy (EuropaChorAkademie) was founded by Professor Joshard Daus in 1997 and has as its goal the discovery and presentation of European choir music. Cooperating in this way enables young people from across Europe to come together and overcome boundaries. Different choir traditions meet at the European Choir Academy to create a unique body of sound on this continent.
Departments
The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is divided in ten departments since 1 September 2010.
- Catholic theology and Protestant theology
- Social Sciences, Media and Sport Science
- Law and Economics
- Medicine
- Philosophy and Philology
- Language and Cultural Studies
- Historical and Cultural Studies
- Physics, mathematics and computer science
- Chemistry, Pharmacy and Earth Sciences
- Biology
Then there are the Academy of Music and the Art School, which are as independent art colleges of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. .
Miscellaneous
The University of Mainz is one of few campus-based universities in Germany. Nearly all its institutions and facilities are located on the site of a former barracks in the south west part of the city. The university medical centre is located off campus, as is the Department of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Sciences, which was integrated with the university in 1949 and is located in Germersheim. Also on campus next to the University is the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, and the electron accelerator MAMI, the research reactor TRIGA, the botanical garden, a sports stadium and an indoor swimming pool. Unique in the national higher-education landscape is the integration of the Rhineland-Palatinate Conservatory, the Academy of Visual Arts and College of Athletics at one university.
Since 2007, the university started a web-tv program which also airs its video clips in English. The short videos (two to seven minutes) are specially made for students who are new to the city or university, and do offer information relevant to first year students. This web-tv is unique amongst Germany's universities and can be viewed on a website that is run by students: www.ersti.tv
One of the instruments carried by the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, a miniature Mössbauer spectrometer, was developed at the university.
Research and Technology Transfer
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is one the German universities with a strong focus on research. Around 2,900 scientists, among them some 480 professors, research and teach in ten faculties with more than 150 institutes and clinics, in the Mainz School of Music, or the Mainz Academy of Arts. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is the center of scientific research in Rhineland-Palatinate and is closely connected to regional, super-regional, and international partners from science, culture, business, and industry.
The amount of third-party funds raised is a key indicator of JGU's research achievement. In 2010, these funds amounted to €87 mio. with funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) - especially with eight Collaborative Research Centers, seven Research Training Groups, and ten Research Units - being a major mainstay.
Renowned national and international rankings prove that Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz can measure up to the best universities in various research areas. JGU occupies top positions in the following rankings:
In the 2009 DFG Funding Ranking, JGU came in 5th place for DFG grants in the natural sciences and 1st place in these grants per professor. The natural sciences also have a high number of participations in coordinated programs; JGU placed 4th here. JGU was 9th place overall for grants for DFG Collaborative Research Centers. By placing 6th in the medical research area and 9th in the microbiology, virology, and immunology research area, JGU earned further high marks in important areas of life sciences.
In the 2011 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), JGU's various institutes of physics count among the top 75 research institutions of their kind worldwide. Among German universities, JGU comes in eleventh to fourteenth and is even among the top eight in the area of natural sciences and mathematics.
In the current Leiden Ranking, JGU occupies 1st place among German universities and 4th place among the 250 largest European institutions of higher education in the number of citations per publication.
Being a center for research in Germany, in Europe as well as in the whole word, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is an academic global player par excellence. As it moves into the future, JGU will make every effort to consolidate and expand this position. Mainz University will always remain rooted in the region from which it draws a large part of its potential.
Research Funding
Welcome to the Research and Technology Transfer Administrative Department. We offer services that include advice and support in the following areas:Research funding and project administration
- We give you information and advice on national and international research funding programmes
- We help you file applications and with group and individual projects
- We give you advice regarding the preparation of your funding plans
- We provide administrative support for the establishment, implementation and budget management of third-party funded projects
- We monitor and mentor your research and cooperation contracts until they are signed
- We advise and support you within the framework of intra-university research funding
- We give you advice on the strategic and concept-related planning of technology and knowledge transfer
- We give you advice regarding patents and licenses
- We give you advice and information about individual funding e.g. grants, “Eigene Stelle”
- We give you advice regarding applications to graduate schools or other graduate programmes
- We support you as you plan your scientific career
Information Services, Search Options
The following services will help you during your search for sponsors and projects:
Informationservices for Research Funding
- FIT für die Wissenschaft - Open calls for proposals by the DFG, the BMBF, EU, by foundations and other institutions for research funding, events and contests, sortet by contenct.
- ELFI - more that 30.000 internet-ressources, calls by the EU, the federal- and stateministry, by sponsors, foundations and corporations.
If you are searching for sponsors
- BMBF – current BMBF support programs
- BMWI - current national, federal, and EU support programs
- Cordis - open calls for proposals in the 7th EU Framework Program for Research
- DAAD - international forms of support
- Stifterverband - foundation data base, keyword search possible
- Ost-West-Wissenschaftszentrum - database for support program for East-West cooperation
- VolkswagenStiftung - Founding options by the biggest geman foundation
- Fritz Thyssen- Stiftung - Founding of humanities- and social sciences as welle als medicine
If you are searching for projects
- GEPRIS - DFG-funded projects
- Cordis - EU-funded projects
- Science portal of Rhineland Palatinate - projects at universities in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Department of medicin research database - projects at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Federal founding calatolg - Database with projects by differenct federal ministries
Foundations and Awards
A foundation is an organization that, with the help of financial assets, pursues a specific goal defined by the founder.Foundations can be established in various legal forms and for all legal purposes. Most foundations are set up under private law and for nonprofit purposes. They support scientific research, young academic researchers, as well as education, and they award prizes for outstanding accomplishments.Technology Transfer
From research to final application, from an initial idea to its implementation: researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) cooperate successfully with organizations and institutions of all sizes and from all sectors, regionally, nationally, and globally. Bilateral projects between organizations and individual university institutes as well as participation in joint projects with several partners from research and industry play an important role here.Collaboration with industry offers JGU the opportunity to acquire additional third-party funds. Researchers were thus able to obtain third-party funds amounting to approx. € 17.5 million in 2008, solely due to cooperation with industrial enterprises. In general, these research collaborations involve graduates with the goal of providing them with opportunities to get acquainted with industry-relevant research subjects as well as to get into contact with potential employers.The Research and Technology Transfer staff unit at JGU provides active support during the course of these processes and acts as interface between science and business. It is thus the central point of contact between companies and the university. The tasks and responsibilities of an operating technology transfer include the management of cooperation negotiations between companies, associations, local authorities, academia, and science as well as an active participation in the design and negotiation of individual contracts.Close networking with a large variety of scientific and business institutions, on the regional and national level, as well as with representatives from chambers and associations contributes substantially to the success of technology transfer.Apart from the aforementioned services, technology transfer activities focus on aspects such as support for business founders, trade fairs, and exhibitions, but also on questions regarding patent and copyright issues. In order to make the research results accessible to the general public, JGU regularly exhibits at trade fairs, which are organized and carried out by the Research and Technology Transfer staff unit. In 2009, researchers at JGU presented their largely patent-protected research results at the didacta, CeBit, Hanover Industrial Fair, and Medica. With regard to the utilization of scientific results that can be legally protected, JGU works closely with IMG Innovations Management GmbH, which supports the university in the patenting and marketing of service inventions. In 2008 and 2009, JGU received 60 invention disclosures, of which 30 were unlimited claims and for which patent applications were filed. At the same time, revenues amounting to approx € 800,000 were generated throughout the transfer or out-licensing of existing trade mark rights to commercial businesses.A particularly successful example of close cooperation in the university sector is the Association of Knowledge and Technology Transfer at the Rhineland-Palatinate universities, in which the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, the University of Koblenz-Landau, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Trier University pursue a holistic innovation funding concept, which takes into consideration economic and technological as well as social, political, ecological, and administrative dimensions of social change. The essential aim of this merger is to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of knowledge and technology transfer by means of coordinated actions, joint knowledge, and technology marketing as well as intensive technology and know-how screening, initially focusing on the technology fields of materials sciences and information and communication technology/media.
Contact person:
Tel +49 6131 39-25891
Fax +49 6131 39-24741
 | Dr. Wolfgang StilleOfficer for Technology Transfer - Liaison with industry, industrial organizations, chambers and professional bodies - Contracts with industry - Fairs and exhibitions - Business start-ups - Patent issues, employee invention law Tel +49 6131 39-26866 |
Contact
Research and Technology Transfer
Forum universitatis 2, D 55128 MainzTel +49 6131 39-25891
Fax +49 6131 39-24741
Alumni
Among the notable alumni from the university of Mainz are German politicians Rainer Brüderle (FDP, Federal Minister for Economics and Technology), Horst Teltschik(former Securitiy Advisor of Chancler Helmut Kohl and president of the Munich Conference on Security Policy, Christina Schroeder, Federal Minister of Family and Social Affairs and Franz Josef Jung (CDU, Former Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and former Federal Minister of Defence), as well as sports journalist Béla Réthy, political journalist Peter Scholl-Latour, Dieter Stolte, the former General Intendant of ZDF, the biggest television in Europe, and soprano Elisabeth Scholl. Among the university's notable faculty where theologians like W. Pannenberg, D. Soelle, Herbert Braun, political scientists like Werner Weidenfeld (a foreign politics adviser of Chancler Helmut Kohl, Chemisist Paul J. Crutzen, Nobel-Prize winner 1995, and the economists Klaus Rose, Rolf Peffekoven and Beatrice Weder die Mauro.
Student Organizations
Students have the right and the obligation to become involved in academic self-administration. Student representatives are members of advisory boards to the faculties and the Senate. Additionally, the student body is also represented in the Students' Parliament (StuPa). The StuPa elects the General Students' Committee.
Students' Parliament (StuPa)
The 35 members of the Students' Parliament are elected every summer semester by all students registered at the university. StuPa elects and supervises the General Students' Committee and passes resolutions on the students' budget. Conferences are usually held every Wednesday in the lecture hall (AudiMax). Anyone who is interested is welcome.General Students' Committee
The General Students' Committee represents the interests of all the students at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz towards the university and society (Executive). It is elected by the Students' Parliament and represents, among others, the cultural, technical, economic and social interests of the students. It promotes the formation of student opinions and takes a stand on political issues relating to the university and education. It intends to take an active role in academic reform. The General Students' Committee is divided into various departments according to topic. It is a source of political education, can provide an effective and student-friendly 6-month transit ticket, supports socially disadvantaged students, organizes political and cultural events and offers legal advice free of charge. In a nutshell: the General Students' Committee is the right point of contact for finding a solution to any issue that is causing any student personal or general problems.Photo of University
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