Strategic Networks
A New Approach To Sustainable International Networks
International cooperation, multilateral research, promotion of early career researchers - with the Strategic Networks, Universität Hamburg is pursuing the goal of promoting and building sustainable research-oriented networks with strategic and other international partner institutions.
The strategic networks are part of the internationalization dimension of Universität Hamburg's application for excellence.
To promote international cooperation in multilateral networks with strategic partner universities, the University of Excellence Hamburg has set up two funding lines with the Next Generation Partnerships (NGP): The "NGP - Workshops and Conferences" funding line supports thematic workshops and conferences with international partner universities.
The "NGP - Thematic Networks" funding line supports multilateral research collaborations with the aim of preparing a long-term third-party funded project involving young researchers.
Since 2021, the Next Generation Partnerships have been supplemented by the "PhD Connect" funding line for the development of early career researchers in an international networking context and the "Visiting Fellow Program" funding line to attract excellent (early career) researchers from abroad.
In 2022, the "ILLF@home" funding line was also launched to establish digital teaching formats with strategic and potential partners in the long term. 2022 also saw the launch of the annual trilateral staff exchange programme between Universität Hamburg, Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and Northwestern University (USA) for the internationalization of administration.
The Hamburg Networking Conference (HNC), which takes place every two years, offers a forum for networking with international university partners at an administrative level on issues of internationalization in research, teaching and transfer.
