Competition for the best students takes place worldwide: The TU9 members put in a joint appearance on the international education market, making use of synergical effects. Whether in Bejing or Buenos Aires, in Moscow or Hanoi - TU9 is present on nearly all continents to provide individual advice on studying at our member universities.

Since 2005 the TU9 universities have been offering a special informational service for graduates of German Schools Abroad (Deutsche Schulen im Ausland).

Self-Assessment means to evaluate oneself. SelfAssessment international therefore offers interested international students worldwide the opportunity to find out about the requirements for undertaking technical studies at the TU9 Universities, as well as to explore their own strengths and weaknesses in the regard to such studies.

Studieninteressierten aus Deutschland bietet die RWTH Aachen ein Orientierungs-Assessment sowie ein Self-Assessment in ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Fächern und Psychologie. Weitere Fächer werden im Frühjahr folgen.

Auch wenn der Frauenanteil unter den Studierenden in den ingenieurwissenschaftlichen und naturwissenschaftlichen Fächern in den letzten Jahren an den TU9 Universitäten gestiegen und inzwischen erfreulich hoch ist, schlagen nur wenige Frauen in diesen Fächern eine wissenschaftliche Karriere ein. Frauen sind bei den Promovierenden und Habilitierenden, auch im Vergleichen zu den Studentinnenzahlen, noch immer stark unterrepräsentiert. Um das weibliche Potenzial nicht zu verlieren, gibt es seit einiger Zeit an den TU9 Universitäten zahlreiche Frauenförderprogramme.

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are the premier technical institutions in India. During 29.11.2008 - 02.12.2008, IIT Madras and TU9 (Coordination: Professor Balthasar Novák, ILEK/University of Stuttgart) will organise a workshop on Earthquake Engineering for Sustainable Structures to which top class experts are contributing.

Rankings finden allgemein große Beachtung, wobei jedoch die die wenig befriedigende Datengrundlage mancher Rankings wenig berücksichtigt wird. TU9 setzt sich für einen sensibleren Umgang mit dem Thema Ranking ein, das außerdem die besonderen Belange der Ingenieurwissenschaften berücksichtigt.

The technical universities united in TU9 lobby strongly for research in the field of sustainable usage of energy. Together they devised nine recommendations for sustainable usage of energy and its supply.

TU9 German Institutes of Technology believes that, in order to solve the global water problem, water research must be further intensified at German universities. The TU9 network is taking an integrative approach, which will lead not only to the safeguarding of drinking water supply and sanitation but also to a high standard of hygiene in water management as a whole and to the protection of natural resources. A significant feature is also the development of implementation strategies that take into account the climatic, economic, political, cultural and also religious circumstances in the respective regions.

The TU Berlin has taken over the auspices in regard to this TU9 lead project: For three years the project-team at the TU Berlin is working at the quality ensurance program for subjects of study, "QS2".

Does the European education of engineers at universities need the bachelore-degree? This important question was one of the topics at the conference "Bachelore/Master in der Ingenieurausbildung an Technischen Universitäten".