Structural and development planning

The University of Stuttgart is one of Germany's top nine technically oriented universities (TU9). It is a driving force, located in the middle of Europe's leading high-tech region and very attractive for students and scientists worldwide.

The 2021-2025 structural and development plan builds on the University of Stuttgart's past successes and presents the university's goals and measures for the next five years. It addresses academic and organizational opportunities, challenges, and expectations towards the university.

With its vision of "Intelligent Systems for a Sustainable Society", the University of Stuttgart addresses major challenges of the 21st century. Because many areas (environment, mobility, construction, health, production, communication and many more) require complex, multidisciplinary, and often digitally supported solutions. The University of Stuttgart relies on its strong academic profile, on its responsibility as a research and educational institution, and on new opportunities for exchange with its partners from research, industry, and society. The vision is also to view the university itself as an intelligent system and to adapt operations reliably, efficiently, and sustainably to suit current developments.

The University of Stuttgart aims to provide excellent conditions for its students, scientists, and employees. It aims to provide a home for a wide diversity of ideas and personalities, to promote cutting-edge research, and to inspire cross-disciplinary collaboration beyond subject and structural boundaries. The structural and development plan shows which topics and fields of action play an important role here. It also highlights the University of Stuttgart's greatest strengths and what it wants to focus on in the future.

The university places great emphasis on sustainability. In the structure and development plan, the university has explicitly set itself the new strategic goal "actively committed to sustainable development". Impetus and points of reference are provided by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN).