A new course at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is starting. In research and development, THM teams create innovations for industrial practice. The university is expanding its international cooperation network, thereby opening up additional opportunities for students to study abroad. A graduate's thesis receives a prize. A new professor has started work. The THM invites you to public lectures. Here you will find news from teaching, research and university life as a whole.
C10 is being revitalized
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When the high-rise of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) opposite the Schwanenteich is completely renovated in autumn 2025, it will provide new insights and will always be green thanks to a vertical garden at the front. Visible preparations for the renovation have been underway since mid-July.
Research completely detached
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Bringing an experiment from Earth to the International Space Station is expensive. That's why many experiments are tested on earth - or better: in the air, during parabolic flights in converted airliners. Researchers from THM and JLU have completed such a flight campaign with variable gravity; they were on board themselves.
A campaign usually consists of three to four days of flying. On each flight day, 31 parabolas are carried out, each with around 22 seconds of reduced gravity. This gives scientists the ability to switch samples, change experiment configurations, and respond directly to the experiment's behavior in microgravity. This makes parabolic flights an ideal test environment. By modifying the flight maneuver, various reduced gravity conditions can be created to create weightlessness or lunar or Mars-like gravity conditions.
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What large department stores can become
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Once full of goods, large department stores now stand empty in many German city centers. Since they are centrally located and often shape the cityscape, the question arises as to how the large buildings can be reused. A group of students from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) from the construction department has now won a competition with ideas for converting such a building.
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Partnership contractually fixed
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Central Hesse and Lahti in Finland are moving closer together: The LAB University and the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) are now officially contractually linked to each other. The active collaboration between the two universities has existed since the Corona pandemic.
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Speed dating of a special kind
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Together, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen and HESSENMETALL Mittelhessen successfully organized a second transfer evening called “ THM connectHESSENMETALL”. This time, THM researchers and HESSENMETALL member companies did not come together in Gießen , but in the rooms of the Business Administration and Engineering department in Friedberg. The exchange meeting gives interested industry representatives the opportunity to find out about the practical application of ongoing research projects in order to benefit from each other.
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Impulse for transformation in the automotive industry
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The automotive industry and its suppliers are in the midst of a historic upheaval that is driven by new technologies. Regional actors received an insight into the research activities of the interdisciplinary competence center for automotive, mobility and materials research (AutoM) at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) on the Friedberg campus.
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Lots of ideas for modern teaching, research and administration
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Under the title “Future. THM “, the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen has been collecting ideas for more than a year on how it would like to position itself for the next decade. At a future conference, 26 mixed teams made up of employees from all areas presented and evaluated ideas, and now it's time to implement them in experimental rooms.
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Three universities are presenting themselves at Optatec
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Laser engravings, components from the 3D printer and a reflective THM logo on glass: There were a number of practical applications for students who visited the stand of the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) in the Department of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Data Processing , you should choose a course of study in the field of optics and photonics.
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Double award at the ZEuUS competence center
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Two employees of the Competence Center for Sustainable Engineering and Environmental Systems (ZEuUS) at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen ( THM ) received awards for their master's theses: Daniel Krahe and Florian Lapp.
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