The Universities of Twente (UT) and Münster cooperate in numerous fields. In addition to research collaborations and joint degree programmes, students and staff from both universities regularly study and work at the other partner institution. Now the administrative bodies of both universities wish to take their partnership to a new level. The aim is to intensify their strategic partnership by identifying further potential for cooperation and strengthening existing research alliances.
Joint research – Collaboration Grants
UT-UM Strategic Collaboration Grants
The executive boards of the Universities of Twente and Münster jointly award strategic collaboration grants to researchers at both universities to promote research partnerships.
The deadline for the current call is 15 March 2026.
Collaboration Grants 2022
Model Order Reduction for Discrete Particle Systems:Dr. Stephan Rave, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Institut für Analysis und Numerik, Universität Münster und Prof. Dr. Thomas Weinhart Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering, Universität Twente
Novel tools to study and steer the volume of living cells:Prof. Dr. Bart Jan Ravoo, Organisch-Chemisches Institut und Center for Soft Nanoscience, Universität Münster, Prof. Dr. Jeroen Leijten und Prof. Dr. Julieta Paez beide Faculty of Science and Technology, Developmental Bioengineering Group, Universität Twente
Quantifying and modelling peat breathing with satellite radar data: Prof. Dr. Hanna Meyer, Institut für Landschaftsökologie, Universität Münster und Prof. Dr. Ling Chang, Faculty of Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation, Universität Twente
Role of contacts in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures for solar energy harvesting applications: Prof. Dr. Ursula Wurstbauer, Physikalisches Institut and Center for Soft Nanoscience, Universität Münster und Prof. Dr. Rebecca Saive, Faculty of Science and Technology/S&T, Inorganic Materials Science Group, Universität Twente
“The Twente-Münster high-speed quantum key distribution link”: Prof. Carsten Schuck, Institute of Physics at the University of Münster; Prof. Pepijn W.H. Pinkse, Adaptive Quantum Optics at the University of Twente
“Study of vibrotactile cueing by means of vibrating socks in a virtual environment to mitigate any gait freezing in Parkinson patients”: Prof. Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, Institute of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Münster, Prof. Ciska Heida, Biomedical Signals and Systems at the University of Twente
Collaboration Grants 2020
Scalable Verification of Industrial Embedded Control Systems:Prof. Paula Herber [de] (University of Münster, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Embedded Systems group) and Prof. Dr. Marieke Huisman [en] (UT, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Formal Methods and Tools group)
Microdroplet-based screening for directed evolution: on-chip DNA transcription-translation and fluorescence activated droplet sorting:Prof. Andrea Rentmeister [de] (University of Münster, Institute of Biochemistry) and Asst. Prof. Tim Segers [en] (UT, EEMCS/BIOS lab-on-a-chip group, Max Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics, MESA+ Institute)
Fully biodegradable cubosomes: A new class of mesoporous material with tunable degradation rates for agrochemical release:Prof. Dr. André Gröschel [de] (University of Münster, Institute of Physical Chemistry) and Prof. Dr. Frederik Wurm [en] (UT, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sustainable Polymer Chemistry Group)
Collaboration Grants 2019
Testis-on-a-chip approach to elucidate the impact of environmental plastic pollution on male fertility:Prof. Dr. Stefan Schlatt [de] (University of Münster, Centre of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology (CeRA)) and Prof. Dr. Séverine Le Gac [en] (UT, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Applied Microfluidics for BioEngineering Research)
“The subject of batteries is high up on the international agenda”
Top-level experts from the Universities of Stanford (USA) and Twente (Netherlands) are visiting the MEET Battery Research Centre at the University of Münster from 24 to 26 January as part of a Winter School. About a year ago, a delegation from Münster University – including Rector Prof. Johannes Wessels and Prof. Martin Winter – and one from the University of Twente travelled to Stanford University in California. In the talks they held there, one of the topics discussed was the role of battery research and energy storage as a global challenge in the energy and mobility transition. The collaboration between Münster, Twente and Stanford in battery research is to be expanded to train highly qualified battery researchers. Kathrin Kottke spoke to Martin Winter – the Director of the MEET Battery Research Centre and of the Helmholtz Institute Münster (HI MS) at the Jülich Research Centre – about the scientific importance of the visit and about the next steps being planned in the collaboration.
The North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Economics pledged some 20 million euros until 2024 to finance the establishment and operation of a start-up centre under the aegis of the University of Münster. The result is REACH. The start-up centre provides assistance in the form of essential infrastructure and resources to prospective entrepreneurs at the universities who wish to establish their own start-ups.
