 In 2001 the Federal State of Bavaria decided to concentrate its competences in renewable resources in Straubing. For basic research the Straubing Centre of Science was founded as cooperation of Technische Universit�t M�nchen (TUM) and the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf (HSWT). Meanwhile, further universities became members, among them the Deggendorf Institute of Technology, the Universit�t Regensburg, the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, and finally in 2012 as sixth member the University of Applied Sciences Landshut. Due to the intersectoral and multidisciplinary character of biogenic resources colleagues of different scientific disciplines work closely together. These disciplines comprise natural sciences, engineering, ecosystem sciences and economics in order to cover the wide range of aspects along the whole value chain from the molecule, along the plant and energetic use and material use up to the marketing of the finished product. In academic education the Straubing Center of Science offers a bachelor and master degree program �Renewable Resources� as well as PhD theses. The Straubing Center of Science has currently eleven professors and will have more than 30 in the near future. Staff is currently about 100 employees and will rise to about 250. There are 250 students right now and will grow up to 1000. Available room is about 4.400 m� and with the invest of 50 million Euro more than 15.000 m� will be realized. The professorships:
The professorships of Technische Universit�t M�nchen belongs to the faculty "Science Center Weihenstephan". The Straubing Center of Science is also closely related to the project group BioCat of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, which started in 2011 and is led by Prof. Sieber. It has a new building next to the Campus and was extended by the project Chemical Energy Storage in 2012. Image movie |
