Overview
In addition to the faculties, there are other academic institutions that assume specific functions.
The facilities for promoting young researchers - from the university-wide Research School to graduate schools and colleges to the various junior research groups - make RUB an internationally renowned hotbed for young talent.
With five interdisciplinary research focuses, the Ruhr-Universität pursues the goal of tackling central scientific issues across faculties in so-called Science Hubs. Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität can realize their projects in the five research buildings with the help of excellent infrastructures.
In central scientific facilities, researchers investigate precisely defined subject areas without being assigned to a specific faculty. The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen works in the tradition of an international advanced study institute. This interdisciplinary central scientific institution for the humanities and cultural sciences is supported by the University Alliance Ruhr.
Affiliated institutes are legally, organizationally and economically independent academic institutions that are recognized as RUB institutions and cooperate with RUB. This does not affect the independence of the institution.