Research focus

With the help of the focus areas, the department intends to sharpen its profile in comparison to other university civil and environmental engineering faculties in order to improve its attractiveness for prospective students beyond the region and to increase its volume of third-party funding.

To this end, the faculty uses a large number of laboratories and research facilities.

Current and completed research projects can be researched in detail via the central research portal of the University of Kassel (CONVERIS information system).

Climate change and environmental protection, technological competition and demographic development create high demands on research and development. The University of Kassel assumes responsibility here and contributes to problem-solving from basic research to application. The department has taken up these issues and broken them down to the level of civil and environmental engineering in order to anchor itself in the university's research profile with its main areas of research. It focuses primarily on the areas of materials technology, climate protection and socio-technical systems for a networked life.

In view of the very broad range of disciplines in civil and environmental engineering, the profiles of the five institutes in the department already represent focal points.