THI Mission Statements

Mission statement of THI

Personalities and innovations - for a future worth living.

We develop personalities for the professional world of the future.

Our students are at the center of everything we do. We develop their talents. We use innovative learning concepts to impart scientific qualifications. In addition to specialist knowledge, we promote social, methodological and personal competence. Our graduates think and act entrepreneurially and responsibly. They design sustainable solutions in a globalized working world.
We create innovations and live sustainability - technology and business are our focus.

With scientificity and pragmatism, we develop intelligent solutions in technology and business.

We see digital transformation as a key task. We shape our focus areas via consistent orientation toward the goal of sustainability: Mobility & Infrastructure, Energy & Environment, Health & Life Sciences, Digitalization, Production & Economy.
We shape the transfer to business and society..

We are committed to our regional environment in business and society.

We create networks and shape social dialog. We support the competitiveness of our cooperation partners through innovations and promote successful spin-offs. We generate added value for society through civic engagement.
We teach, research and work internationally and interdisciplinarily.

Regional roots and international networking are the cornerstones of our work.

Our success is based on interdisciplinary cooperation between our academic departments and successful interaction between teaching, research and administration. We promote performance and act responsibly. We position ourselves in the competition among universities.

We act humanely, passionately and open-mindedly.

Mutual appreciation, tolerance, openness and credibility determine our actions. We welcome cultural diversity and create a family-friendly university. We offer attractive fields of work with broad scope. We passionately pursue our common goals.

Our Claim:

Future in motion

This is to be understood in three dimensions: THI's claim to shape the future, to be continuously on the move and to see change as an opportunity, and to take a leading position in mobility technologies in particular.

Teaching philosophy

Personalities for a future worth living.

Our graduates are cosmopolitan and innovative personalities.

They are highly qualified professionally and convince with their methodical and social competence. They are aware of their social responsibility and prepared for the challenges of the future.

Our teachers support the students in their professional and personal development.

They are committed to the best teaching and continuously improve their professional qualifications in their areas of appointment.
We prepare our students for the challenges of the future.

We foster a spirit of innovation and teach entrepreneurial thinking.

Through interdisciplinary cooperation, we enable our students to develop future-oriented solutions for interdisciplinary challenges. We continuously adapt our courses and technical equipment to future requirements. We qualify our students to help shape social changes such as the digital transformation and technological change. We sensitise our students to the sustainable use of the environment and resources, to socially responsible behaviour and to social commitment.
We enable our students to develop solutions to problems based on scientific findings.

In practical courses, laboratory work and projects, our students acquire applicable problem-solving skills.

Our teachers pass on their practical experience and impart academic knowledge. They are professionally competent, are constantly developing in their subject areas and contribute their research experience to teaching. Students acquire subject, information and methodological competence for practice and research. We thus lay the foundations for lifelong learning and support this through our academic continuing education.
We open up outstanding regional and international perspectives for our students.

Our students gain international experience during their studies and acquire foreign language and intercultural skills.

They make use of our global networks. With our English-language study programmes and international students, we create a cosmopolitan, international campus. Our numerous cooperations with companies in the region enable our students to become active in the working world at an early stage and ensure an optimal start to their careers, both regionally and internationally.  
We teach and learn through personal exchange.

Small groups and seminar-based forms of teaching enable an individual exchange with our students.

We are convinced that universities, as places of encounter, help to develop personalities. Classroom teaching is supported by digital offerings. These create scope for interaction, new opportunities for individualisation and thus contribute to the "shift from teaching to learning". Our teachers are didactically experienced, test new ways of innovative and experimental teaching and develop their didactic competence in further training.
We help all students to discover and realise their individual potential.

We support the diversity of our students and help them to develop their talents and self-competence.

In joint project work, our students gain social competences such as the ability to cooperate and deal with conflict, and leadership skills. We promote performance in an appreciative atmosphere. We meet each other with tolerance and openness and understand diversity as an opportunity to learn from each other and develop further.

Diversity mission statement

We live diversity.

Key objective

We value and recognise diversity as an enrichment for our cooperation and for achieving our common goals in teaching, research and transfer. We support every member of the university family in their diversity and the potential that their individual background opens up. We treat each other with appreciation and respect.

1.Diversity as a guiding principle

We welcome diversity in all its forms and promote it with mutual respect and tolerance in a liberal attitude. In our dealings with one another, we ensure equal participation and take decisive action against all forms of discrimination. We strengthen diversity sensitivity throughout the entire university family. We see diversity of opinion as an incentive to rethink our own attitudes and find new solutions. We promote mutual exchange between members of the university with different personal backgrounds.

2. Gender identity

We promote gender equality and strive to increase the proportion of women among teaching staff and students. We are convinced that a balanced representation of the genders broadens horizons and improves work results. We take gender aspects into account in our research, communication and work organisation.

3. National and cultural diversity

We promote national and cultural diversity. As a cosmopolitan university, we increase our attractiveness for employees and students with an international background. We support international university members with a wide range of offers and welcome the internationalisation of the university family. In particular, we want to further increase the proportion of international teaching staff and researchers.

4. family equity and social background

Success in work, research and study should be independent of marital status, family responsibilities and social background. In particular, we promote flexible work and study organisation as a basis for reconciling family and career. We also use digital media to achieve these goals and create opportunities for social participation and social equalisation.

5. People with disabilities

Employees and students with disabilities participate in university life on an equal footing and enrich the university. We break down barriers - analogue and digital - and create additional opportunities for people with disabilities. We endeavour to increase the proportion of employees and students with disabilities or impairments.